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Syria gets new premier
7 Jun 2012 7:59 AM ISTRussia and China will together push forward special envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan for Syria, Russia's foreign minister said on Wednesday, calling for...
Arabs urge UN action amid civil war fears
4 Jun 2012 7:48 AM ISTArab leaders called for UN action on Sunday as at least 27 people were killed in Syria amid growing concern that Kofi Annan's peace plan is failing...
Obama discusses Syria with leaders
1 Jun 2012 9:35 AM ISTUS President Barack Obama has held video conference with the leaders of France, Italy and Germany and discussed the worsening situation in Syria,...
Scramble for Syria
31 May 2012 7:26 AM ISTAs expected, Kofi Annan has returned empty handed from Syria. He was visiting the embattled Arab Republic to impress upon the government of president...
Syrians killed with 'bullets in the head'
31 May 2012 6:31 AM ISTA total of 98 people, including 61 civilians, were killed in fresh violence in Syria, as clashes raged between regime troops and rebels, monitors...
19 killed in fresh violence in Syria
30 May 2012 7:05 AM ISTAt least 19 people were killed in violence on Tuesday in Syria, where clashes between regime troops and rebels raged, monitors said, as envoy Kofi...
Syria govt denies blame for Houla killings
28 May 2012 2:07 PM ISTThe Syrian government is 'not at all' responsible for the massacre of at least 92 people in the central town of Houla which has sparked an...
Report blames army for Syria woe
25 May 2012 7:56 AM ISTThe Syrian army and security forces have been responsible for the majority of the serious rights abuses committed since March this year as they hunt...
G-8 leaders support Kofi plan for Syria
21 May 2012 1:19 PM ISTAppalled by the loss of life, humanitarian crisis, and serious and widespread human rights abuses in Syria, the G-8 leaders have backed the Kofi Annan...
Car bomb kills 19 in Syria
20 May 2012 2:33 PM ISTA suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden car outside security headquarters in Syria's biggest eastern city of Deir Ezzor on Saturday, killing...
'Syria haunt for illicit arms'
18 May 2012 11:12 AM ISTA Security Council diplomat says a report by an expert panel monitoring UN sanctions on Iran concluded that Syria continues to be the main destination...
Troops kill three in Syria
17 May 2012 9:49 AM ISTRegime troops opened fire on a refugee camp in southern Syria on Wednesday, killing at least three people including a child, the Syrian Observatory...