Idlib

WATCH: Footage Purportedly Shows UN Observer Under Fire In Syria

Posted 05.17.2012

New footage uploaded to YouTube purportedly shows a UN observer under attack in Idlib, Syria. The convoy of a team of UN observers came under attac...

Syria: War Crimes in Idlib During Peace Negotiations

Human Rights Watch | Posted 05.02.2012

Human Rights Watch

Executions, Destruction of Property, and Arbitrary Detentions (New York) – Syrian government forces killed at least 95 civilians and burned or d...

UN Sending Food Aid For 500,000 Syrians

AP | Posted 04.24.2012

GENEVA -- The U.N. food agency says it will soon deliver help to 500,000 people in Syria, a tenfold increase since December. Even after the increase,...

Bloodshed In Damascus And Hama As Monitors Visit Douma

AP | BEN HUBBARD | Posted 04.25.2012

BEIRUT — Syrian troops heavily shelled a suburb of the capital Tuesday, and satellite imagery showed that Syria has failed to withdraw all of it...

WATCH: For Many Syrians, Field Hospitals Only Hope For Medical Care

Eline Gordts | Posted 04.23.2012

With public hospitals inaccessible to anyone suspected of participating in Syria's uprising, field hospitals are many Syrians' only hope of medical ca...

Syria: Government Uses Homs Tactics on Border Town

Human Rights Watch | Posted 05.22.2012

Human Rights Watch

Indiscriminate Shelling, Sniper Killings, Attacks on Fleeing Residents (New York) – Syrian security forces are committing serious abuses in the...

Wounded Opposition Recount Tank Assault Horror

Reuters | Posted 05.21.2012

By Jonathon Burch REYHANLI, Turkey, March 21 (Reuters) - Like most demonstrators in the crowd, Syrian university student Muaz Jaban w...

Security Forces Press Offensive On Idlib

Reuters | Posted 05.16.2012

By Crispian Balmer BEIRUT, March 16 (Reuters) - Syrian forces pressed their military offensive in the northern province of Idlib, dr...

A Year Of Bloodshed In Syria

Reuters | Posted 05.15.2012

By Crispian Balmer and Dominic Evans BEIRUT, March 15 (Reuters) - Syria marked the first anniversary on Thursday of an increasingly bl...

Deadly Attack On Another Syrian City

AP | BEN HUBBARD | Posted 05.14.2012

BEIRUT — Syrian forces fired mortars and heavy machine-guns Wednesday in an attack on the southern city where the anti-government uprising began...

Syrian Security Forces Intensify Assaults

Reuters | Posted 05.14.2012

By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN, March 14 (Reuters) - Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad attacked rebel strongholds...

Defectors Reportedly Kill Syrian Soldiers In Ambush

Reuters | Posted 05.13.2012

Syrian government forces killed dozens of people in the northern city of Idlib, dumping their bodies in a mosque, while some 22 soldiers died in two s...

WATCH: Second Syrian City Under Siege

Posted 03.12.2012

"Idlib's residents knew the attack by their government was coming, just not when." Syrian security forces launched an assault on the city of Idlib...

Clinton Slams Assad Over New Attacks

Reuters | Posted 05.12.2012

NEW YORK, March 12 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday of cynically launching new...

BLOODY ASSAULT: Families Flee As Syrian Troops Batter Town

AP | By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY | Posted 05.10.2012

By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY, Associated Press BEIRUT -- Syrian troops pushed ahead with a new assault on the northern region of Idlib on Saturday, shel...

Live Updates On The Crisis In Syria

Posted 04.30.2012

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Syria Arrests Prominent U.S. Born-Blogger

AP | BASSEM MROUE and ZEINA KARAM | Posted 02.12.2012

BEIRUT — Syrian authorities have charged a U.S.-born Syrian blogger with trying to incite sectarian strife, activists said Tuesday, while regime...

5,000 Killed In Syria's Bloody Crackdown

Reuters | Khaled Yacoub Oweis | Posted 02.12.2012

(Reuters) - More than 5,000 people have been killed in nine months of unrest in Syria, the U.N. human rights chief said, as an insurgency began to ove...

Syria: Major Battle Stokes Fears Of Civil War

AP | ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY | Posted 02.11.2012

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Was Friday a Turning Point for Syria?

James Miller | Posted 09.23.2011

James Miller

In Syria, there were massive demonstrations in every major region and in every major city.

Human Rights Group: Syrian Forces Kill At Least 63 Civilians In Effort To Crush Friday Protests

Reuters | Mariam Karouny | Posted 08.03.2011

June 4, 2011 1:45:57 AM By Mariam Karouny BEIRUT, June 4 (Reuters) - Syrian forces killed at least 63 civilians in attacks to crush pro-demo...