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U.S. Turns To Unlikely Ally To Take Down Syria Regime

nytimes.com | Posted 05.27.2012

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...

Ban On Syria: There's No Plan B

AP | ZEINA KARAM | Posted 05.26.2012

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'Syrian Prisons Are Human Slaughterhouses'

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...

Car Bomb Targets Security Agencies

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...

Europe Adopts New Syria Sanctions

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...

Opposition Blames Bombings On Al Qaeda, Regime

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...

Annan: Peace Plan 'Only Remaining Chance'

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...

Army Opens Fire On Protesters

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...

Rights Group Accuses Syrian Troops Of War Crimes

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...

Suicide Bomber Strikes Syria Capital

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...

Annan: Situation Continues To Be Unacceptable

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...

UN Observers Visit Tense Damascus Suburb

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...

Observers Visit Homs

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 ...

Assad and NATO

Jeff Danziger | Posted 04.20.2012

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'The Annan Plan Is The Last Chance'

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 ...

Syrian Protesters Test Fragile Ceasefire

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...

Envoy: Syria Promises To Cease Fire On Thursday

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...

Assad Putin

Jeff Danziger | Posted 04.09.2012

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U.S. On Syria: 'We Are Not Hopeful'

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...

Washington's "No-Policy" Policy Trend

Raghida Dergham | Posted 04.06.2012

Raghida Dergham

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.

Syrian Regime Claims Troop Pullout

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 ...

Following The Assad Regime's Year-Long Crackdown

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...

Red Cross Presses For Syria Access

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...

Kofi Annan On Syria: 'THE DEADLINE IS NOW'

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...

Relentless Clashes In Northern Syria

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...