
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: Syrian security forces, undaunted by the presence of Arab League observers, have killed at least 12 protesters as hundreds of thousands demonstrated against the government of President Bashar al-Assad, opposition activists said. Five members of the security forces were also killed in a shooting in the city of Homs, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday. Assad, 46, has signed up to an Arab League plan...

08:49 AM, Dec 31, 2011

Beirut: Syrian troops going house to house have detained more than 3,000 people in the past three days in a rebellious town that government forces recently retook in some of the worst fighting of the 6-month-old uprising, activists said on Monday. The activist group Local Coordination Committees said fighting has stopped in the central town of Rastan, which the government retook on Saturday. The military operation there left dozens dead...

01:56 AM, Oct 04, 2011

Search efforts now focused on recovering the black box flight recorders. ...

08:18 AM, Jan 26, 2010

New Delhi: Shane Warne, the best captain that Australia never had, is also a spinner the team still misses. At the age of 41, Warne has shown in the fourth edition of the Indian Premier League that he can dominate batsmen and make breakthroughs regularly, something that his replacements in the Australia team can't seem to match. Australia has the likes of Jason Krejza, Xavier Doherty and Steven Smith in...

04:36 PM, Jan 16, 2008

Industry experts say that tourism will rebound only after the political situation calms down in Lebanon. ...

04:15 PM, Oct 30, 2006

Lebanese families are returning home, but relief at ceasefire has turned to horror as they survey the destruction. ...

06:56 PM, Aug 17, 2006