U.S. Turns To Unlikely Ally To Take Down Syria Regime
WASHINGTON -- In a new effort to halt more than a year of bloodshed in Syria, President Obama will push for the departure of President Bashar al-Assad...
WASHINGTON -- In a new effort to halt more than a year of bloodshed in Syria, President Obama will push for the departure of President Bashar al-Assad...
AP | ZEINA KARAM | Posted 05.26.2012
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AP | JAMAL HALABY | Posted 05.22.2012
AMMAN, Jordan -- A prominent Palestinian writer who was jailed in Syria for nearly three weeks described the facilities as "human slaughterhouses," sa...
AP | BASSEM MROUE | Posted 05.20.2012
BEIRUT — A car bomb in the parking lot of a Syrian military compound killed at least nine people Saturday, the latest in increasingly frequent b...
AP | SLOBODAN LEKIC | Posted 05.14.2012
BRUSSELS — The European Union imposed visa bans and asset freezes Monday on three new people associated with Syrian President Bashar Assad's reg...
AP | Posted 05.12.2012
By MALCOLM FOSTER, Associated Press TOKYO -- The head of Syria's main opposition group said Friday the twin suicide car bombings that killed 55 peo...
AP | JOHN HEILPRIN | Posted 05.08.2012
GENEVA — World powers share a "profound concern" that Syria could descend into civil war, international envoy Kofi Annan said Tuesday, but natio...
Reuters | Posted 05.04.2012
By Mariam Karouny DAMASCUS, May 4 (Reuters) - Syrian forces killed at least five people on Friday when they fired at demonstrations ca...
AP | ZEINA KARAM | Posted 05.03.2012
BEIRUT — Syrian government forces clashed with army defectors in the country's north on Wednesday, causing casualties and further enflaming an a...
AP | By ALBERT AJI and BASSEM MROUE | Posted 04.28.2012
DAMASCUS, Syria -- A suicide bomber blew himself up across the street from a mosque in the Syrian capital Friday, killing at least 10 people and wound...
Reuters | Posted 04.26.2012
By Oliver Holmes BEIRUT, April 25 (Reuters) - Syrian security forces shot dead four civilians on a bus in the northern province of Idl...
AP | BEN HUBBARD | Posted 04.24.2012
BEIRUT — A day ago, crowds in the Syrian city of Hama welcomed a U.N. team sent in to observe a shaky truce. On Monday, government troops opened...
AP | KARIN LAUB | Posted 04.22.2012
BEIRUT — Five unarmed U.N. truce monitors toured the battered city at the heart of the Syrian uprising on foot Saturday, encountering unusually ...
AP | BEN HUBBARD | Posted 04.19.2012
BEIRUT — Syrian security forces opened fire Wednesday on anti-regime demonstrators surrounding the cars of a U.N. team meant to monitor a shaky ...
AP | ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY and ZEINA KARAM | Posted 04.14.2012
BEIRUT — Syrian forces used live fire, tear gas and clubs to beat back tens of thousands of protesters who took to the streets across the countr...
AP | BASSEM MROUE and KARIN LAUB | Posted 04.12.2012
BEIRUT — A deadline for a U.N.-brokered cease-fire passed without reports of major violence at dawn Thursday, opposition activists said, just ho...
AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 04.09.2012
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is expressing outrage that Syrian troops fired into a refugee camp in neighboring Turkey. It says the cro...
Raghida Dergham | Posted 04.06.2012
The danger of relying on the "no-policy" policy from now until the month of November does not lie only in its regional repercussions in the Middle East, but also in what the United States might inherit.
AP | BEN HUBBARD | Posted 04.05.2012
BEIRUT — Syrian artillery pounded the rebellious city of Homs and tanks and troops stormed towns in the north and south on Wednesday, deepening ...
Eline Gordts | Posted 04.09.2012
In March 2011, protesters in Syria took to the streets to demand greater freedoms and political reform. One year later, more than 9,000 Syrians have l...
AP | BEN HUBBARD and ALBERT AJI | Posted 04.04.2012
BEIRUT — Syrian troops began pulling out Tuesday from some calm cities and headed back to their bases a week ahead of a deadline to implement an...
AP | JOHN HEILPRIN | Posted 03.30.2012
GENEVA -- U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan is urging the Syrian government to lay down its weapons first in order to immediately end the nation's cri...
AP | ZEINA KARAM | Posted 03.31.2012
BEIRUT — Clashes and protests broke out across many parts of Syria Friday, further complicating a peace mission by U.N. envoy Kofi Annan who urg...
nytimes.com | Posted 05.27.2012