AMMAN: Heavily armed forces loyal to President Bashar Al-Assad pounded the southern city of Deraa with anti-aircraft fire on Wednesday, reasserting control over rebel strongholds a year after the start of the Syrian revolt.
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AMMAN: Syrian artillery pummeled rebel-held areas of Homs on Monday before an expected government announcement that a vote - decried as a sham by the opposition and the West - has approved a new constitution proposed by President Bashar (...)
AMMAN/BEIRUT: Twin bomb blasts hit Syrian military and security buildings in the northern city of Aleppo on Friday, killing 25 people in the worst violence to hit the country's commercial hub in the 11-month uprising against President Bashar (...)
AMMAN: Syrian forces renewed their bombardment of Homs on Tuesday as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Damascus for talks aimed at pressing President Bashar Al-Assad to end a bloody crackdown on a popular revolt and carry out (...)
AMMAN: Troops seized eastern suburbs of Damascus from rebels late on Sunday, opposition activists said, after two days of fighting only a few kilometers from the centre of power of President Bashar Al-Assad.
"The Free Syrian Army has made a (...)
AMMAN: Protests against President Bashar Al-Assad erupted in several Syrian cities on Friday, activists said.
Security forces killed one demonstrator in the northwestern town of Idlib, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
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AMMAN: Syrian authorities arrested a blogger on Sunday who was traveling to Jordan to attend a conference on freedom of the press in the region, her friends said.
Razan Ghazzawi, 30, is the latest among scores of bloggers and journalists arrested (...)
AMMAN: The Arab League said on Sunday it had rebuffed a request by Damascus to amend plans for a 500-strong monitoring mission to Syria, after President Bashar Al-Assad vowed to continue his crackdown and said he would not surrender to outside (...)
AMMAN: Syrian army defectors attacked an intelligence complex on the edge of Damascus early on Wednesday in a high-profile assault that highlights how an eight-month popular uprising against President Bashar al-Assad risks sliding into armed (...)
AMMAN: Syria called on Sunday for an emergency summit of Arab League heads of state, in an apparent attempt to thwart its decision to suspend Damascus for violently cracking down on protests.
But a day after the League suspended Syria and said it (...)
DEAD SEA: The popular uprisings that have swept the Arab world this year have slowed economies across the region, and jobs, better governance and investment are needed, speakers at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Jordan said on (...)
DEAD SEA: Arab politicians and financiers at the World Economic Forum in Jordan called on Saturday for a huge injection of cash to narrow the inequalities that led to the Arab Spring revolts against authoritarian regimes across the region.
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AMMAN: Thousands of Syrian troops backed by armor opened fire in the resort town of Zabadani on the border with Lebanon on Sunday, a day after heavy fighting in the area between army defectors and loyalist forces, residents and activists (...)
AMMAN: Syria's main opposition groups joined together on Sunday to call on the international community to take action to protect Syrian people facing a violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
A statement issued in Istanbul on behalf of the (...)
AMMAN: Syrian tanks pounded a town on a strategic highway overnight, injuring at least three people during a military crackdown on dissent in the central region of Homs, activists and residents said on Monday.
Homs has become a major flashpoint (...)
AMMAN: Syrian forces shot dead six villagers when they stormed a town near the city of Hama looking for army defectors and seeking to prevent regular pro-democracy demonstrations after Friday prayers, local activists said.
"They raided Hilfaya at (...)
AMMAN: Syrian protesters called on Friday for international protection from a military crackdown on nearly six months of nationwide demonstrations demanding an end to President Bashar Al-Assad's rule.
Activists said large crowds marched in the (...)
AMMAN: The European Union decided to impose sanctions on Syrian oil exports on Friday, piling more pressure on President Bashar Al-Assad, whose security forces, activists said, shot dead six more protesters.
"The sanctions have been agreed," an (...)
AMMAN: Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad fought gun battles overnight near a northeast Damascus suburb with army defectors who had refused to shoot at a pro-democracy protest, residents said on Sunday.
Five months into a popular (...)
ISTANBUL: Leading Syrian opposition figures, encouraged by international support for their cause, met in Istanbul on Saturday to nominate a council that could aid in a transition of power if President Bashar Al-Assad is toppled by an uprising (...)
AMMAN: Syrian forces shot dead six protesters on Friday despite President Bashar Al-Assad's pledge that his military crackdown on dissent was over, as thousands marched across the country spurred on by U.S. and European calls for him to step (...)
AMMAN: Syrian tanks opened fire on poor Sunni districts in Latakia on Tuesday, residents said, in the fourth day of a military assault on the northern port city aimed at crushing protests demanding an end to 41 years of Assad family (...)
AMMAN: Syrian forces shelled residential districts in Latakia on Monday, residents said, the third day of an assault on Sunni neighborhoods of the port city which had seen mounting protests against President Bashar Al-Assad's autocratic (...)
AMMAN: The Syrian navy shelled the main Mediterranean port city of Latakia on Sunday, residents said, as President Bashar Al-Assad broadened a military offensive to crush street protests against his rule.
Since the beginning of the fasting month (...)
AMMAN: Syrian forces fired live ammunition at protesters coming out of a main mosque after Friday prayers in the besieged city of Deir Al-Zor, witnesses said, as demonstrations against President Bashar Al-Assad resumed elsewhere in the (...)