After projecting herself as a caring, human rights activist whose heart bled for victims of violence, Syria’s glamorous First Lady Asma, who met her husband while she was holidaying in Syria, has made

Armoured forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad thrust deeper into the central city of Homs on Wednesday, firing rockets and mortar rounds to subdue opposition districts, activists said, a day afte

The United States closed its embassy in Syria and pulled out all its staff on Monday, but President Barack Obama shied away from talk of military intervention and vowed to pursue diplomatic means.

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At least 15 civilians and four soldiers were killed on Tuesday in the besieged central Syrian city of Homs, which has been undergoing heavy shelling by government troops, activists said.

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Syrian forces on Monday pounded powderkeg Homs with rockets and mortars, killing 17 people and wounding dozens amid growing outrage over a Russia-China veto of a UN resolution to stop the violence.

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Western and Arab powers have reacted angrily to Russia and China's veto of a Security Council resolution on the Syria crisis, but Moscow and Beijing insisted the text had needed more work.

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US ambassador to the UN Susan Rice said she was ‘disgusted’ by the Russian and Chinese veto on a UN Security Council resolution on Syria that urges President Bashar al-Assad to step down.

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Mortar fire killed 105 people and left hundreds more injured in a ‘massacre’ in the central Syrian city of Homs late on Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

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More than 200 people were killed in shelling by Syrian forces in the city of Homs, activists said on Saturday, as the U.N. Security Council prepared to vote on a draft resolution backing an Arab call

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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