AP – Top U.S. intelligence officials pointed to al-Qaida in Iraq on Thursday as the likely culprit behind recent bombings in Syria, the deadliest attacks against the Syrian government in the 11-month uprising. View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories ...
AP – The U.S. closed its embassy in Syria and Britain recalled its ambassador to Damascus on Monday in a new Western push to get President Bashar Assad to leave power and halt the murderous grind in Syria — now among the deadliest conflicts of the Arab Spring. View full post on Yahoo! News: Top ...
AP – Syrian forces unleashed a barrage of mortars and artillery on the battered city of Homs for hours before dawn on Saturday, killing more than 200 people in what appeared to be the bloodiest episode in the nearly 11-month-old uprising, activists said. View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories ...
AP – Two days of bloody turmoil in Syria killed at least 74 people, including small children, as forces loyal to President Bashar Assad shelled residential buildings and fired on crowds in a dramatic escalation of violence, activists said Friday. View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories ...
AP – Tens of thousands of defiant Syrian protesters thronged the streets of Homs Tuesday, calling for the execution of President Bashar Assad shortly after his army pulled its tanks back and allowed Arab League monitors in for the first time to the city at the heart of the anti-government uprising. View full post on ...
AP – Syria’s foreign minister has attacked the Arab League following its suspension of Damascus and says the organization is being used as a “tool” to take the Syrian crisis to the U.N. Security Council. View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories ...
AP – Syrian security forces opened fire Friday on protesters and hunted them down in house-to-house raids, killing about 30 people in the deadliest day in weeks in the country’s 7-month-old uprising, activists said. View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories ...
AP – The EU says it is imposing an embargo on oil imports from Syria amid continuing violence in that country. View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories ...
AP – Syrian forces shelled a town in the country’s restive north and opened fire on scattered protests nationwide, killing at least 32 people on Friday, activists said. Hundreds of Syrians streamed across the border into Turkey, trying to escape the violence. View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories ...
AP – Thousands of soldiers backed by tanks and snipers moved in before dawn to the city where Syria’s anti-government uprising began, causing panic in the streets when they opened fire indiscriminately on civilians and went house-to-house rounding up suspected protesters. At least 11 people were killed and 14 others lay in the streets — ...