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More than 100,000 dead in Syrian war
27 Jun 2013 4:17 AM ISTMore than 100,000 people have been killed in Syria since the beginning of the country’s uprising in March 2011, the Syrian Observatory for Human...
Syria rebels seek arms, no-fly zone to avert crisis
21 Jun 2013 6:02 AM ISTSyrian rebels urged friendly world powers on Thursday to provide them with heavier weapons and to impose a no-fly zone over parts of the country they...
Obama approves arms for rebels
15 Jun 2013 7:06 AM ISTThe US will supply direct military aid to the Syrian opposition for the first time, the White House announced on Friday. President Barack Obama made...
UN says nearly 93,000 killed in Syrian conflict
14 Jun 2013 5:49 AM ISTThe United Nations’ human rights office said Thursday that almost 93,000 people have been confirmed killed in the Syrian conflict, but the real number...
Syrian army pounds Aleppo airbase: NGO
12 Jun 2013 6:06 AM ISTSyria’s army launched multiple attacks on rebel positions Tuesday in the northern province of Aleppo, including insurgent-held areas of a key airbase,...
Rebel Tweets: Syria’s online troops wage cyber war
10 Jun 2013 6:30 AM ISTSometimes, attacks in Syria’s bloody civil war start not with a bullet or a bomb blast, but with an innocuous-looking email.A message pings into an...
Annan quits as UN envoy for Syria
3 Aug 2012 7:38 AM ISTThe United Nations and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan has resigned from his post as international envoy for Syria after trying in vain for six months to...
Chemical weapons only against foreign attack: Syria
24 July 2012 6:36 AM ISTSyria will only use chemical weapons in case of a foreign attack, foreign ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi said on Monday and also rejected an Arab...
9,000 refugees reach Iraq
23 July 2012 6:09 AM ISTIraq’s Kurdish region has received up to 9,000 Syrian refugees looking to flee their homeland following ongoing violence, Xinhua quoted a Kurdish...
‘Assad will use chemical weapons if cornered’
18 July 2012 7:03 AM ISTNawaf Fares, the first Syrian ambassador to defect, said in an interview on Monday that the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will use chemical weapons...
‘West using blackmail over Syria’
17 July 2012 4:12 PM ISTRussia on Monday accused Western powers of using ‘blackmail’ to get its backing for possible UN Security Council sanctions against Syria over the...
Syrian troops kill 200 in Hama
14 July 2012 7:21 AM ISTSyrian government troops using tanks and helicopters massacred more than 150 people in the central province of Hama, the Syrian Observatory for Human...