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23 May 2013, 18:04
Syria's main opposition group has opened key talks in Istanbul to debate whether to agree to negotiate with the regime on ending the two-year civil war under a new US-Russia peace initiative.
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23 May 2013, 12:03
Syria's main opposition group has gathered for a landmark conference in Turkey, to discuss peace talks with the regime.
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23 May 2013, 08:15
US Secretary of State John Kerry has called on Syrian President Bashar Assad to make "a commitment to find peace in his country".
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22 May 2013, 15:08
Backers of the Syrian uprising are to meet in Amman to discuss a US-Russian proposal for peace talks, as the brutal two-year conflict escalates close to the border with Lebanon.
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21 May 2013, 18:13
Dozens of people have been killed in ongoing battles for the Syrian town of Qusayr, a watchdog says, as Hezbollah sent new elite fighters to the rebel stronghold.
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Tuesday, 21 May 2013
21 May 2013, 11:02
Israeli soldiers patrolling the disputed Golan Heights along the border with Syria have fired back after coming under fire overnight, an Israeli Defense Forces statement says.
Monday, 20 May 2013
20 May 2013, 09:34
Shots fired from Syria have hit the central Israeli-occupied Golan Heights overnight, a military spokesperson says, causing no harm or damage.
20 May 2013, 11:59
Syrian troops backed by Lebanon's Hezbollah have entered Qusayr, a strategic rebel stronghold linking Damascus to the coast.
Friday, 17 May 2013
17 May 2013, 08:58
US President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan have insisted Bashar Assad must step down amid a flurry of moves to organise peace talks.
17 May 2013, 14:37
Torture equipment found in Syrian security buildings in rebel-held Raqa show detainees have been tortured.
Thursday, 16 May 2013
16 May 2013, 16:47
Fighters of the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front in Syria executed 11 men they accused of taking part in massacres by President Bashar Assad's forces.
16 May 2013, 18:32
Syria's internet started working again on Wednesday evening, a US web tracking firm said, and residents reported phone lines were back up.
Wednesday, 15 May 2013
15 May 2013, 09:21
A Syrian rebel, who was filmed apparently cutting out and eating the organs of a soldier, has defended his actions as revenge for regime atrocities.
15 May 2013, 10:53
The United States has denounced the actions of a Syrian rebel filmed cutting out and eating the organs of a dead soldier.
15 May 2013, 16:06
The Free Syrian Army has pledged to punish atrocities amid outrage over a video showing the mutilation of a corpse.
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
14 May 2013, 14:48
Human Rights Watch and the Syrian opposition have condemned a gruesome video apparently showing a Syrian rebel fighter cutting out the heart of a regime soldier and eating it.
Monday, 13 May 2013
13 May 2013, 11:36
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Damascus of trying to drag his country into the Syrian "quagmire".
13 May 2013, 18:04
Syrian troops have taken full control of a town near the highway linking the capital Damascus with Jordan, says an activist group.
Friday, 10 May 2013
10 May 2013, 12:35
The Obama administration is treading cautiously on Syria after what it sees as Washington's past errors in the Iraq invasion, Vice President Joe Biden says.
10 May 2013, 15:00
Syria has threatened an immediate response to any new Israeli strike, with its militant ally Hezbollah saying Damascus will provide "game-changing" weapons.
Thursday, 09 May 2013
09 May 2013, 08:53
Syria's internet appears to have been restored after a two-day blackout, residents and state media said.
Wednesday, 08 May 2013
08 May 2013, 08:00
An armed group has abducted four UN peacekeepers in the Golan Heights, which has been hit by a mounting spill over from the Syrian civil war.
08 May 2013, 11:03
US President Barack Obama says he has both a moral and a national security obligation to stop the slaughter in Syria.
08 May 2013, 12:41
Syria was cut off from the internet, according to US tech firms monitoring web traffic and the State Department.
08 May 2013, 13:04
In his first response to Israel's weekend airstrikes, President Bashar Assad says Syria is capable of facing Israel.
Tuesday, 07 May 2013
07 May 2013, 06:47
US Senator Robert Menendez, has introduced a bill that would provide weapons to some vetted groups of Syrian rebels.
Monday, 06 May 2013
06 May 2013, 06:26
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has appealed for restraint to avoid an escalation in the Syrian conflict, expressing "grave concern" over Israeli air strikes.
06 May 2013, 09:21
Activists say Syrian rebels have shot down a military helicopter in the country's east, killing eight government troops on board.
Friday, 03 May 2013
03 May 2013, 07:44
Syrian activists say regime troops backed by pro-government gunmen have killed dozens of people, including women and children, in a village near the Mediterranean coast.
03 May 2013, 14:10
Syria's regime and rebels fighting to overthrow it have killed, arbitrarily arrested and tortured scores of journalists, rights group Amnesty International says.
03 May 2013, 16:48
Syria's main opposition group has accused President Bashar Assad's regime of committing a "large-scale massacre" in a Sunni village, killing at least 50.
Thursday, 02 May 2013
02 May 2013, 15:35
Regime forces have been tightening the noose on rebels holed up in a key area of the central city of Homs, the Syrian Observatory for Human rights watchdog says.
02 May 2013, 17:41
Fierce clashes between troops and rebels have erupted for the first time in a Sunni Muslim village in the Alawite-majority coastal region of Banias in northwest Syria.
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
30 April 2013, 08:35
A former Israeli defence minister has alleged that Syria's chemical weapons are "trickling" to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
30 April 2013, 13:47
President Barack Obama has stepped up pressure on Russia over Syria, telling President Vladimir Putin of his concern about the reported use of chemical weapons by the Damascus regime.
30 April 2013, 16:49
Syrian state TV and residents of Damascus say a powerful explosion has hit the country's capital.
Monday, 29 April 2013
29 April 2013, 11:07
Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons could be a greater threat after that nation's president leaves power, lawmakers have warned.
29 April 2013, 13:53
10 Syrian seamen have gone missing after 2 cargo ships collided off southern Greece.
29 April 2013, 13:53
Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons could be a greater threat after that nation's president leaves power, lawmakers have warned.
29 April 2013, 16:09
Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi has escaped an assassination bid, surviving a blast that targeted his convoy in Damascus, Syrian state television has reported.
Friday, 26 April 2013
26 April 2013, 09:51
The United States has said for the first time that Syria likely used chemical weapons against rebel forces.
26 April 2013, 16:16
Fresh fighting has broken out on the edges of Damascus as troops take on rebels in the north, south and east, backed in some areas by tanks and militia, says a watchdog.
Thursday, 25 April 2013
25 April 2013, 18:01
Syrian government troops have captured a strategic town near Damascus, says state media and activists.
Friday, 19 April 2013
19 April 2013, 11:08
Nearly seven million people need humanitarian assistance in Syria, a senior United Nations official says, criticising Damascus for hampering aid distribution.
Monday, 15 April 2013
15 April 2013, 13:32
Sectarian tensions in the Syria conflict have spilled over to neighbouring Lebanon, where Hezbollah fighters support President Bashar Assad's regime.
Friday, 12 April 2013
12 April 2013, 10:56
Western nations have "hard evidence" that chemical weapons have been used at least once in the Syrian war, diplomats say.
Thursday, 11 April 2013
11 April 2013, 09:16
Air strikes have hit bakeries and hospitals among other civilian targets in Syria, a watchdog reports, accusing the regime of killing thousands in such raids.
11 April 2013, 13:08
US Secretary of State John Kerry and other G8 foreign ministers are holding a second day of talks in London focused on Syria.
11 April 2013, 15:13
The head of Syria's jihadist al-Nusra Front has pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
10 April 2013, 16:29
Al-Qaeda in Iraq has confirmed long-held suspicions that it is behind jihadists fighting in Syria.