Associated Press
Syria's conflict is the most violent to emerge from last year's Arab Spring. The protests started peacefully but prompted a brutal crackdown by President Bashar Assad's government. The fighting has escalated into a civil war that has killed at least...
Channel NewsAsia
Two bombs struck the Syrian army headquarters in the heart of Damascus on Wednesday, as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appealed for the "paralyzed" UN Security Council to find a way to end the conflict. The attack on the heavily guarded site...
Russia Today
Lavrov speaks at a United Nations Security Council meeting on peace and security in Middle East on September 26, 2012 in New York City. (Michael Nagle/Getty Images/AFP) (31.0Mb) embed video Trouble in the Muslim world took center stage in the UN...
United Press International
Security Council Wednesday fledgling Middle East democracies need "champions, not fair-weather friends." Clinton said the violent protests of the past two weeks in the Arab Spring states "exposed deep rifts within new democracies and volatility that...
Al Jazeera English
42 The US and Russia have offered starkly differing assessments of the situation in Syria at the UN Security Council session, underscoring the global body's inability to unite around a strategy to end the Arab country's civil war.
The independent
Suggested Topics David Cameron charged China and Russia with blocking international efforts to halt the war in Syria and even suggested they had "aided and abetted" President Bashar al-Assad's "reign of terror". While Mr Cameron, in an address to the...