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: 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: 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 — 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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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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BOYNUYOGUN REFUGEE CAMP, Turkey: Syrian troops are tightening their grip on villages near the Turkish border, setting up checkpoints and arresting dozens in an attempt to staunch the flow of residents fleeing into Turkey, activists said (...)
BOYNUYOGUN, Turkey (AP) — Syria's government suggested Wednesday it was preparing to step up its crackdown on a northern town, even as it called for the return of thousands of refugees who fled to Turkey to escape violence.
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BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian tanks have sealed off the entrances to a restive northern town ahead of what activists say will be an all-out assault in the area near the Turkish border.
The military operation in the mostly deserted town of Jisr al-Shughour (...)
BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian army has begun operations in a restive northern town near the Turkish border, deploying troops and tanks to the outskirts, the government and a reporter accompanying troops said Friday.
Syrian state television said the (...)
BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian city that was bombed into submission three decades ago after a crushed uprising has become a new center for protest and violence, as activists said troops opened fire on a crowd of thousands and killed at least 34.
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