Former United Nations chief Kofi Annan, on a difficult peace mission to Syria, prepared to hold more talks with President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday as Syrian forces pursued a drive to crush rebel bast

Kofi Annan, the UN-Arab League special envoy for Syria, is set to meet President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus to press for an immediate end to violence that has killed thousands of people in the countr

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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Russia is still not flinching in the face of Western and Arab pressure to change its stance on the Syria conflict and its defiance may yet increase as Vladimir Putin heads back to the Kremlin.

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US President Barack Obama has said it would be a 'mistake' to think that America could take unilateral military action in Syria, and that there was a simple solution to the crisis there.

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Senator John McCain, an influential Republican, called Monday for US air strikes on Syrian forces to protect population centers and create safe havens for opponents of the regime.

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Defeated Syrian rebels abandoned their shattered stronghold in Homs, giving way to a 26-day army assault on a city that had become a symbol of the year-long revolt against President Bashar al-Assad.

The Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad could be regarded as a 'war criminal' given the number of innocent people being killed every day in Syria, the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told lawmaker

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.

Mohammed al-Shaar also told a news confer

Syria is expected to announce a vote of approval for constitutional changes on Monday when it announces the result of a referendum dismissed as a sham by opponents of President Bashar al-Assad.

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