Beirut: Peace envoy Kofi Annan said on Friday he was "frustrated and impatient" a week after a massacre in Syria of 108 people shocked the world, and there were signs Russia might be moving closer to the West's position on tackling the crisis. President Vladimir Putin denied that Russia, which has a base in Syria and supplies it with weapons, was providing the government with the means to crush rebels,...
01:45 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Beirut: Syria on Thursday blamed up to 800 rebel fighters for the massacre in central Syria last week that killed more than 100 people, nearly half of them children, in its most comprehensive explanation to date of the bloodshed. The narrative starkly contradicted accounts of witnesses who blamed "shabiha" or the shadowy gunmen who operate on behalf of President Bashar al Assad's regime. The UN also said it had strong...
03:21 AM, Jun 01, 2012
Beirut: As UN officials cited eyewitness accounts of shadowy gunmen slaughtering whole families in their homes, Western nations expelled Syrian diplomats on Tuesday in a coordinated move against President Bashar Assad's regime over the massacre of more than 100 people. UN special envoy Kofi Annan met with Assad in Damascus to try to salvage what was left of a peace plan, which since being brokered six weeks ago has failed...
03:22 AM, May 30, 2012
Beirut: Western powers sought to isolate the Syrian regime on Tuesday with a co-ordinated expulsion of senior diplomats from several nations as Kofi Annan, the UN and Arab League envoy, warned that the crisis had reached a "tipping point". Several countries including the US, Canada, Australia, the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy said they would expel senior Syrian diplomats after Friday's killing of 108 civilians in Houla, a cluster...
12:12 AM, May 30, 2012
Beirut: In his first interview since December, Syrian President Bashar al Assad insisted on Tuesday his regime is fighting back against foreign mercenaries who want to overthrow him, not innocent Syrians aspiring for democracy in a yearlong uprising. The interview with Russian TV showed Assad is still standing his ground, despite widespread international condemnation over his deadly crackdown on dissent. "There are foreign mercenaries, some of them still alive," Assad...
02:43 AM, May 17, 2012
United Nations/Beirut: The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a Russia-European drafted resolution on Saturday that authorizes an initial deployment of up to 300 unarmed military observers to Syria for three months to monitor a fragile week-old ceasefire. The vote came hours after UN ceasefire monitors visited the Syrian city of Homs on Saturday after months of bombardment. Opposition activists in Homs, epicenter of the 13-month-old revolt against President Bashar al-Assad,...
01:37 AM, Apr 22, 2012
Beirut: Syrian troops fired tear gas and bullets on thousands of protesters who spilled out of mosques after noon prayers on Friday, activists said. State media reported that bombs and shootings killed 17 soldiers as the latest diplomatic efforts failed to halt more than 13 months of bloodshed in the country. Opposition activists reported that at least 11 Syrian civilians were killed in regime shelling and other attacks on Friday,...
04:46 AM, Apr 21, 2012
Paris: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called for a new UN resolution authorising an arms embargo and other stronger measures against Syria if it fails to abide by UN-backed cease-fire aimed at ending the bloodshed on its soil. Hillary spoke on Thursday at a meeting of top Western and Arab diplomats in Paris. She stopped short of calling for outside military intervention in Syria but said the time...
02:36 AM, Apr 20, 2012
Beirut: A United Nations mission to oversee an end to violence in Syria may need to bring in its own aircraft and deploy more troops to ensure that a firm ceasefire takes hold throughout the country, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday. A six-day-old truce has held in some parts of Syria since President Bashar al-Assad pledged to enforce it last week. But in strong opposition areas such...
02:18 AM, Apr 18, 2012
Beirut: Syrian troops began pulling out on Tuesday from some calm cities and headed back to their bases a week ahead of a deadline to implement an international cease-fire plan, a government official said. The claim could not immediately be verified and activists near the capital Damascus denied troops were leaving their area. They said the day regime forces withdraw from streets, Syria will witness massive protests that will overthrow...
06:42 AM, Apr 04, 2012
Beirut: President Bashar al Assad said on Thursday Syria would spare no effort to ensure the success of international envoy Kofi Annan's peace mission but warned it would not work without securing an end to foreign funding and arming of rebels opposing him. Assad is under international pressure to call his troops and tanks back to their bases, a year into a popular revolt against his rule. Fighting between troops...
03:44 AM, Mar 30, 2012
Baghdad: Arab leaders gathering in Baghdad on Thursday will call for Syria to implement a ceasefire, but there's little faith that President Bashar al Assad will do anything to halt his crackdown on the year-old uprising. That could set the stage for Gulf Arab nations, eager to see Assad's downfall, to take stronger action on their own. Arab governments are divided over how strongly to intervene to stop the bloodshed...
04:23 AM, Mar 29, 2012
London: Owing to security concerns, Britain has withdrawn all diplomatic staff from its embassy in Syria and suspended its services in the violence-torn country. The "deteriorating security situation" had put British staff posted there in danger, Foreign Secretary William Hague informed Parliament on Thursday. In a statement, he said British Ambassador Simon Collis and other diplomatic staff left Syria on Wednesday. Hague said, "British nationals who remain in Syria despite...
08:08 PM, Mar 01, 2012
New Delhi: After Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, the West's war eyes are now firmly fixed on Iran and Syria. International reportage on the Syrian crisis has drastically changed its character over the last fortnight or so. The entire discourse on the urgency to "stop the brewing humanitarian crisis' has changed tracks. The new discourse as outlined by the West and its lackeys in West Asia and North Africa now is...
07:43 AM, Feb 29, 2012
Geneva: The United States criticised Syria's envoy for storming out of an emergency UN meeting on the crisis in his country on Tuesday, saying the walkout and a fiery speech that preceded it demonstrated the "delusional" nature of President Bashar al Assad's regime. Syria's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Fayssal al-Hamwi, had accused members of the UN Human Rights Council of promoting terrorism and prolonging the crisis in...
01:53 AM, Feb 29, 2012
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