
Beirut: Syria's opposition called for widespread protests on Friday to test the regime's commitment to an internationally brokered cease-fire that the UN chief described as so fragile it could collapse with a single gunshot. Regime forces halted heavy shelling and other major attacks in line with the truce that began at dawn on Thursday, though there were accusations of scattered violence by both sides. The government ignored demands to pull...

02:48 AM, Apr 13, 2012

Beirut: Syria promised to observe a UN-backed ceasefire starting on Thursday, but its forces kept up fierce attacks on opposition neighbourhoods in the hours before the deadline. A Syrian defence ministry source quoted on state television on Wednesday said the army would halt operations on Thursday morning, but would confront "any assault" by armed groups. The report made no mention, however, of withdrawing troops from urban areas - something that...

02:58 AM, Apr 12, 2012

Sanaa: Saudi Arabia has brokered a fresh truce between a powerful Yemeni tribal federation and forces loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a Saudi source said on Saturday, and a tribal leader said his followers were abiding by it. A Saudi-brokered truce agreed a week ago held for only a day before fresh street battles broke out in the capital Sanaa, leading to the most intense fighting there since the...

12:08 AM, Jun 05, 2011

Tripoli: Muammar Gaddafi is ready for a truce to stop the fighting in his country, visiting South African president said on Monday after meeting the Libyan ruler, but he listed familiar Gaddafi conditions that have scuttled previous cease-fire efforts. The South African president. Jacob Zuma, said Gaddafi is ready to accept an African Union initiative for a cease-fire that would stop all hostilities, including NATO airstrikes in support of rebel...

07:10 AM, May 31, 2011

Sanaa: A sense of calm returned to Yemen's embattled capital on Sunday hours after armed tribesman and President Ali Abdullah Saleh's forces reached a truce to halt clashes threatening to plunge the state into civil war. Pedestrians and cars returned to Sanaa streets where pitched battles in nearly a week of fighting killed at least 115 and raised global worries over the impoverished country perched next to a crucial shipping...

02:15 PM, May 29, 2011

The Naxals had asked the Home Ministry to call on the number on February 25. ...

04:41 PM, Feb 25, 2010

Sydney: After five failures in as many matches during the ongoing CB series, former Australia captain Ricky Ponting was on Monday dropped for the team's next two matches. Ponting has scores of 2,1,6,2 and 7 so far against India and Sri Lanka who are the two other two teams in the tri-series competition. The 37-year old flopped once again in the tournament on Sunday when he managed just seven (26...

06:42 PM, Apr 25, 2008

In a speech posted on an Islamic website, the leader of al-Qaida-linked insurgents in Iraq offered US troops a one-month truce. ...

11:16 AM, Dec 23, 2006