Arab League foreign ministers meet on Sunday to discuss whether to ask the U.N. to help their mission in Syria, which has failed to end a 10-month-old crackdown on unrest that has killed thousands. Qatar proposes inviting U.N. technicians and human rights experts to help Arab monitors judge whether Syria is honouring its pledge to [...]
A bomb tore through a crowded neighborhood in Damascus on Friday, killing 26 people and wounding dozens more, unleashing scenes of chaos and underlining the growing confusion and complexity of the Syrian uprising, officials and residents said. The bombing was the second in two weeks in the fortified capital, though no one has claimed responsibility [...]
Activists in Idlib say that Syrian army hid tanks as a team of Arab League observers visited the province. Arab League peace observers, inspecting hotspots across Syria, have called on the government to remove “immediately” snipers from rooftops of buildings, a source close to the delegation told dpa on Saturday. “The observers saw the snipers [...]
Civil rights activists say Syrian government forces loyal to President Bashar Assad killed at least 22 people, most of them shot dead during the anti-government demonstrations across the country. In the largest protests Syria has seen in months, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets Friday to show an Arab League observer mission [...]