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Russia has said the crisis in Syria resembles "a civil war". President Bashar al-Assad's government forces are engaged in an increasingly violent s...
Members of the Free Syrian Army have attacked a military base outside Damascus. The rebel force, which is mostly made up of defectors from Presiden...
The European Union is to extend sanctions on the Syrian government over a brutal crackdown on protesters in which upwards of 3,500 have been killed. ...
King Abdullah of Jordan has become the first Arab leader to publically state that Syrian President Bashar al Assad should step down. In an intervi...
Syria has reacted angrily to the Arab League's decision to suspend its membership, calling the move “illegal” and warning that it was a “dangero...
Thousands of supporters of the beleaguered Syrian regime took to the streets over the weekend to protest against the Arab League's decision to suspend...
Britain gave firm backing to the decision of the Arab League to suspend Syria's membership until the regime ends its brutal repression of anti-Governm...
At least 3,500 people have been killed in Syria since protests against President Bashar al-Assad's government began, the UN has said, as activists rep...
More than forty people are reported to have been killed as Syrian security forces cracked down on protests after Friday prayers in the cities of Homs,...
It has been a tense weekend for the Israeli government as they sought to contain the fall-out from the killing of five Egyptian policemen last week. B...
Every serious analysis of the Syrian situation I read these days does have a reference to the two most dreaded words in Syria "Al Baath and Al Shabbiha". In my view these are the twin evils of Damascus.
The foreign secretary William Hague has ruled out any possibility of western countries taking military action in Syria, despite the human rights atroc...
The European Union will freeze the assets of the Syrian Central Bank to further pressure President Assad's regime to stop violence against civilians, ...
