BEIRUT: An advance team of UN observers was negotiating the ground rules with Syrian authorities Monday for monitoring the country's 5-day-old cease-fire, which appeared to be rapidly unraveling as regime forces pounded the opposition stronghold of (...)
BEIRUT: Loud explosions reverberated across the central Syrian city of Homs and clashes were reported in several areas across the country Wednesday, just hours after the government said it has started to withdraw troops from some cities in (...)
CAIRO: Scores of Egyptian soccer fans were crushed to death while others were fatally stabbed or suffocated after being trapped in a long narrow corridor trying to flee rival fans armed with knives, clubs and stones, in the country's worst ever (...)
BEIRUT: The UN chief demanded Sunday that Syria's president stop killing his own people and said the "old order" of one-man rule and family dynasties is over in the Middle East.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, delivering the keynote address at a (...)
BEIRUT: Syrian army defectors killed six government troops in heavy fighting Sunday in the country's rebellious central region, activists said, in the latest sign that the nation's uprising may be shifting toward civil war.
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BEIRUT: Syria said Sunday that it is negotiating with the Arab League to allow observers into the country, as Arab leaders prepare to tighten sanctions slapped on the regime for its crackdown on an 8-month-old uprising.
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BEIRUT — Attacks by army defectors are transforming the Syrian uprising into an armed insurgency that threatens to spiral into civil war. The Free Syrian Army holds no territory, appears largely disorganized and is up against a fiercely loyal and (...)
BEIRUT (AP) — Tens of thousands of Syrian government supporters poured into the streets Sunday to protest an Arab League vote to suspend the country's membership, as Turkey sent planes to evacuate diplomatic staff and their families after a night of (...)
BEIRUT - Angry Syrian protesters pelted a group of opposition leaders with eggs outside Arab League headquarters in Cairo on Wednesday, preventing them from entering the building for talks with the organization's chief about the violence in (...)
BEIRUT: The UN human rights office on Tuesday raised the death toll from the eight-month Syrian uprising to 3,500, as activists on the ground reported that fresh attacks by Syrian troops killed two people in a rebellious central city where the (...)
BEIRUT — Syrian security forces killed 13 people Friday in strikes against thousands of protesters who took to the streets to test whether President Bashar Assad's regime would abide by an Arab League plan to end violence, activists said.
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BEIRUT: Senior Arab officials visiting Syria pressed President Bashar Assad on Wednesday to start a dialogue with the opposition, hours after tens of thousands packed a Damascus square to show support for their embattled leader, state TV (...)
BEIRUT: A key Syrian opposition group on Tuesday called for international monitors ahead of a visit to Damascus by senior Arab officials probing ways to start dialogue in the country gripped by a months-long uprising against the regime.
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CAIRO: A senior prison officer was killed by his subordinates as he tried to stop mass prison breaks during Egypt's popular uprising against President Hosni Mubarak, an Egyptian rights group said Monday.
The case of Mohammed El-Batran is key to (...)
BEIRUT — The Arab League has called an emergency meeting Sunday to discuss whether to suspend Syria, officials said, ramping up the pressure on Damascus to end its bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters.
Suspension is unlikely to have a (...)
BEIRUT: Arab foreign ministers have called an emergency meeting Sunday to discuss whether to suspend Syria from the Arab League, officials said, ramping up the pressure on Damascus to end its bloody crackdown on anti-government (...)
BEIRUT (AP) — More than 50,000 mourners marched through the capital of Syria's Kurdish heartland in a funeral procession for one of the country's most prominent opposition figures a day after his assassination. Security forces fired into the crowds, (...)
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian troops going house to house have detained more than 3,000 people in the past three days in the rebellious town of Rastan, which saw some of the worst fighting of the 6-month-old uprising recently, activists said.
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BEIRUT — Syrian dissidents formally established a broad-based national council designed to overthrow President Bashar Assad's regime, which they accused of pushing the country to the brink of civil war. Syrians took to the streets in celebration, (...)
BEIRUT — A Lebanese security official says the army is questioning an Israeli Arab who turned up on a beach in south Lebanon after swimming from Israel.
The official says the man showed up in a diving suit on a beach in Naqoura after having swum (...)
BEIRUT — The MBC media conglomerate has canceled a show by a popular Lebanese presenter known in the Arab world for hosting the Arabic version of "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?" because of support of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
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BEIRUT:Syria's fragmented opposition took steps toward forming a national council Tuesday, but serious divisions and mistrust among the members prevented them from presenting a unified front against President Bashar Assad's regime more than five (...)
BEIRUT — Thousands of anti-government protesters took to the streets across Syria Monday after a televised appearance by President Bashar Assad, shouting for him to step down and chanting "Gadhafi is gone, now it's your turn Bashar!"
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BEIRUT: Syria's government has endorsed a draft law that it says will allow the formation of political parties alongside President Bashar Assad's ruling Baath Party, part of a series of promised reforms that the opposition has dismissed as largely (...)
Syria's embattled president said Monday his regime would consider political reforms, including ending his Baath Party's monopoly in politics, as he clings to power in the face of a growing, nationwide protest movement that refuses to die.
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