Twin bombings in the Syrian capital early on Saturday killed police and civilians, state television said, without giving any immediate breakdown, as fears mounted Al-Qaeda is trying to exploit the yea

Former UN chief Kofi Annan held crux talks in Damascus on Saturday with the hopes of the world pinned on his bid to prevent a nearly year-old uprising spiralling into all-out civil war.

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Syria's deputy oil minister resigned on Thursday, becoming the most senior official to join the rebel ranks, as Washington revealed it is mulling non-lethal aid to the insurgency.

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A hospital worker has provided video evidence showing medical staff torturing patients under their care in Homs, Syria.

The footage of the Homs military hospital shows wards full of wounded men, bli

Syrian authorities have found the bodies of US journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik in the Baba Amr district of powderkeg Homs on Thursday after rebels retreated, the foreign mi

Almost 90 per cent of voters approved Syria's new constitution brought in after 11 months of anti-regime protests, the interior minister announced on Monday.

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Efforts to evacuate foreign journalists from the rebel-held Baba Amr district of the flashpoint city of Homs failed on Monday, a Western diplomatic source in the Syrian capital said.

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The death toll in the Syrian government crackdown is now 'certainly well over 7,500', a top UN official said on Tuesday, adding that more than 100 civilians are now often killed each day.

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Two Western journalists were more than a dozen people killed on Wednesday as Syrian forces pounded the rebel city of Homs, activists said, while calls mounted for a truce to allow in humanitarian aid.

At least 26 civilians were killed in Syria on Friday as tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to demand President Bashar al-Assad's ouster, a watchdog said.

"The toll of martyrs from