Syria on Sunday brushed off the threat of a civil war and looming Arab League sanctions after a deadline for the regime to stop its lethal crackdown on protesters expired with 24 more people killed.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad defiantly vowed to fight and die if needed as an Arab League deadline for his government to stop its lethal crackdown on protesters expired with 17 more people killed

An Arab League deadline for Damascus to stop its lethal crackdown on protesters expires on Saturday, a day after Syrian security forces killed at least 12 civilians including two children.

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Syria freed more than 1,000 prisoners on Tuesday in an apparent last-ditch bid to placate Arab leaders as Turkey and the United Nations warned President Bashar al-Assad to stop killing his own people.

Syrian army defectors attacked a military intelligence base on Wednesday in one of the most daring raids in eight months of unrest as the Arab League chief said everything must be done to end the viol

The Arab League is to hold a fresh meeting on Syria on Wednesday, officials said, amid signs of cracks in the resolve of the 22-member bloc to suspend Damascus over its lethal crackdown on protests.

The Arab League on Saturday suspended Syria until President Bashar al-Assad implements an Arab deal to end violence against protesters, and called for sanctions and transition talks with the oppositio

At least 23 people were killed in violence in Syria on Friday, most of them civilians in the restive city of Homs, as Human Rights Watch accused the regime of crimes against humanity.

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's departure was 'inevitable,' a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday, while earlier in the day troops shot dead eight pro-democracy protesters and wounded 25 at a fu

More than 3,500 people have been killed in the Syrian regime's brutal crackdown on dissent, the UN human rights office said on Tuesday, deploring the slaughter that went on despite a peace plan.

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