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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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

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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Gunmen assassinated an army general in Damascus on Saturday in the first killing of a high ranking military officer in the Syrian capital since the uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime beg

Fresh bloodshed swept Syria as the West and Arab League kept up their push for quick UN action to stop the regime's 'killing machine,' but holdout Russia vowed to veto any 'unacceptable' proposal.

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An estimated 400 people, an average of 40 a day, have been killed in Syria in the days following the arrival of the Arab League monitors in the country, a top UN official has said.

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A suicide bomber killed 26 people and wounded 63 in Damascus, Syria's interior minister said, vowing an 'iron fist' response to Friday's carnage in the heart of the capital after similar attacks two w

Heavy gunfire in Syria's flashpoint central city Homs killed 13 people on Monday in the Sunni district of Baba Amro, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in a statement.

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Syrian troops and army defectors have fought one of the biggest battles in Syria's nine-month uprising while a protest strike shut businesses in a new gesture of civil disobedience, residents and acti