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Syrian rebels have blocked army reinforcements advancing towards the town of Maaret al-Numan which has been under rebel control for nearly a week.
The UN's envoy on Syria is meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to discuss the 19-month Syrian civil war.
Syrian rebels killed 14 soldiers in an attack on an army post in Daraa province on Friday, a watchdog said, a day after the army suffered 92 losses, its highest daily total in the conflict.
A Syrian plane detained by Turkey en route from Moscow to Damascus because of suspicions it was carrying military equipment was carrying no Russian weapons, says a Russian source.
The field of possible winners for this year's Nobel Peace Prize is wide open, with observers saying it could go to Eastern European activism or the Arab Spring.
Dozens of people have been killed in a double suicide attack on a military security branch in Harasta, just northeast of the capital Damascus, says an NGO.
Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney says as if elected he would keep Iran in check, chase terrorists in Libya, put conditions on US aid to Egypt and help arm Syrian rebels.
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has again warned Syria on it will pay a big price for further attacks, after a deadly cross-border shelling.
Syria has admitted its shelling killed five civilians on Turkish soil, has apologised, and promised the incident will not be repeated, Turkey's deputy prime minister says.
Turkish troops have pounded targets in Syria morning in reprisal for cross-border fire that killed five Turkish civilians the previous day, says a security source.
The Israeli military says dozens of armed men have gathered on the Syrian side of the frontier in the Israel-controlled Golan Heights.
Syria's army has rained shells on rebel bastions in and around Damascus and has sent extra troops to second city Aleppo.
Shelling and air raids have killed dozens of Syrian civilians, including children, says a watchdog, while rebels and loyalists fight close-quarter battles in Aleppo's main souk.
Fires that have gutted a vast mediaeval market have broken out in other areas of the Old City of Aleppo as rebels and government forces fight for Syria's biggest city, say activists.
Fighting on an "unprecedented" scale has shaken Syria's second city Aleppo, where rebels have declared a decisive battle, residents and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights report.
A Syrian rebel commander has accused the West of being complicit in the "massacres" committed by President Bashar Assad's forces by refusing to arm the rebels with anti-aircraft weapons.
A reporter for Iran's Press TV has been killed by a sniper and the Damascus bureau chief for Iran's Al-Alam has been wounded in the Syrian capital, their employers in Tehran say.
Western and Arab leaders have ramped up the pressure on Syria and Iran at the United Nations, with US President Barack Obama vowing to keep Tehran from getting its hands on nuclear weapons.
Mortar rounds fired from Syria have hit the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in a spill-over from the conflict in the Arab country.
Peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi says there is no end in sight for Syria's war as President Bashar Assad clings to power, while his forces have reportedly pounded rebels, killing at least seven children.
Mass detention and torture of Syrian children are among the atrocities that have left thousands of children dead and many more traumatised, says a report by a UK charity.
President Bashar Assad says Syrian rebels will not be victorious in their fight against his government although the "door to dialogue remains open".
Syria's state-run TV says that a military helicopter that crashed near Damascus had clipped the tail of a passenger jet with 200 people aboard.
A helicopter has crashed in the town of Douma east of the Syrian capital Damascus, says a report.
The Syrian regime plans to deploy chemical weapons against its own people "as a last resort", the former head of Syria's chemical arsenal has said in an interview.
Syrian troops have shelled a number of districts in Aleppo and clashed with entrenched rebels, say residents.
Serious human rights violations have soared dramatically in number, pace and in scale in Syria in recent weeks, the head of a UN commission tasked with probing the abuses says.
President Bashar Assad has called for dialogue among Syrians during a meeting with international peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, a report says.
Syria is showing "contempt" towards the UN atomic watchdog by refusing to co-operate over a suspected undeclared reactor destroyed by Israel in 2007, says the US envoy to the agency.
Syrian rebels have advanced into the contested central Midan district of the country's commercial capital Aleppo, witnesses and military sources say.
Western countries are not considering military intervention in Syria while Russia and China oppose such action, British Defence Secretary Philip Hammond says.
Protesters in Egypt and Libya have attacked US diplomatic missions in a spasm of violence that led to the death of a State Department officer at the consulate in Benghazi.
Bombardments by troops have seen fighting grind to a standstill in Syria's second city Aleppo, says a watchdog, amid reports a civilian refuge has been targeted in the same province.
Syrian warplanes have blitzed a string of opposition-held districts in Aleppo, says a watchdog, a day after rebels killed dozens including soldiers in an attack on state buildings.
An explosion outside a mosque in Syria's capital has killed five security personnel and wounded several others, says state television.
New UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has said the death toll in Syria is "staggering" and the destruction "catastrophic" and called for a united stance from the international community.
More than 100 000 Syrians have sought refugee status during the past month in what the UN describes as an eye-popping escalation in the pace of departures.
Gulf Arab states accusing Iran of meddling in their internal affairs are trying to deflect attention from civil movements protesting for more rights, says an Iranian official.
A planned Catholic church in Bahrain — meant to showcase the country's traditions of religious tolerance in a conservative Muslim region - has turned into a point of tension.
New international peace envoy in the Syrian conflict Lakhdar Brahimi says his mission is "nearly impossible".
Damascus and Cairo have clashed angrily at a Non-Aligned summit in Tehran with rebels claiming to have shot down a MiG warplane over northwest Syria.
Syrian rebels are claiming that they have destroyed five helicopters at a military airport between the northern cities of Aleppo and Idlib.
Egypt's newly elected president has met with China's future leader on a visit that seeks to deepen ties despite Beijing's uneasiness with the Arab Spring revolution that helped bring him to power.
A rebel Free Syrian Army group says it has shot down an army helicopter in Damascus and that the pilot has been killed, a spokesperson says.
Over 4 000 people in Syria have been killed in the last month, a watchdog says, amid increasing macabre reports of dozens of bodies found bound and shot in the head.
An increase in Kurdish rebel attacks close to the Turkish-Syrian border is ringing alarm bells in Ankara, as Turkish experts and media say it might point to a spillover from Syria.
Russia says Western powers are "openly instigating" Syrian opposition groups to take up arms in their fight to unseat President Bashar Assad.
The United States has expressed deep scepticism about suggestions by Syria's deputy prime minister that the regime is open to discussing Syrian President Bashar Assad's resignation.
Faced with a bloody 17-month conflict, many Syrians have opted for humour as a weapon to mock both Bashar Assad's regime and their own daily struggles.
Syrian activist groups say fighting between rebels and regime forces has killed six people, including two children and two women, in the southern city of Daraa.
Violence in Syria has killed at least 33 082 people, most of them civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group says.
Turkey has scrambled a fighter jet after a Syrian helicopter shelled the Syrian town of Azmarin near their common border, an official say.
UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi's has arrived in Saudi Arabia for talks with officials amid rising tension between Syria and Turkey.
The Us has sent military troops to the Jordan-Syria border to help build a headquarters in Jordan and bolster that country's military capabilities in the event that violence escalates along its border with Syria.
Nato is ready to defend alliance member Turkey amid artillery and mortar exchanges with Syria, its top official says as Ankara sent additional fighter jets to reinforce an air base close to the Syria border.
More than 2 000 Hezbollah supporters have gathered in Lebanon to bury one of their fighters who a security source said was killed in the border area with Syria.
Egypt's new Islamist president has strongly defended his performance in his first 100 days in office, facing down criticism that little has been achieved.
Syrian warplanes and artillery have pounded the central city of Homs, subjecting the rebel stronghold to its heaviest bombardment in months, activists say.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has urged Syria to state publicly that a mortar bomb attack on the Turkish border was accidental and would not be repeated, says a report.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has expressed outrage after a mortar bomb fired from Syria killed five people in southeastern Turkey.
Four blasts have ripped through a government-controlled district in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, killing at least 40 people and wounding more than 90, say activists.
Syrian President Bashar Assad is visiting the city of Aleppo to take a first-hand look at the fighting and has ordered 30 000 more troops into the battle, says a report.
Syria's chemical weapon stockpiles are a "great concern" but the solution to the conflict there remains political, not military, says Nato head Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
Libya's newly appointed leader has apologised at the United Nations for the crimes of ousted dictator Muammar Gaddafi and has told critics that supporting the Arab Spring was worth it.
Two bombs have struck the Syrian army headquarters in the heart of Damascus, while US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has appealed for the UN Security Council to find a way to end the conflict.
With his finger on the trigger, a 14-year-old recruit orders a vehicle to pull over on the road from the Niger border to Gao in northern Mali, now under control of Islamist armed groups.
French President Francois Hollande has urged the global community to help defuse a crisis in Mali by giving United Nations backing to a West African-led military intervention.
Syrian television says two "terrorist" explosions have targeted an army staff building in the capital Damascus.
Syria's extraordinary archaeological heritage has fallen prey to the fighting ravaging the country for more than 18 months, with destruction, theft and systematic looting on the rise.
Mali has asked the United Nations to approve an "immediate" mandate for an international force to help it recover northern parts of the country controlled by Islamist militants and drug traffickers.
Indonesian police have arrested 9 more Islamic militants suspected of plotting terror attacks.
Western powers trying to rein in Iran's nuclear programme have accused Tehran of shipping arms to Syria in violation of UN sanctions and ignoring demands to open nuclear facilities to inspectors.
Four countries have abstained from a UN Security Council vote on children and armed conflict over concerns that the UN envoy can probe any conflict, not just those before the council.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has warned that the Syrian government and rebels seem intent on fighting to the bitter end, with opposition fighters having seized a crossing on the Turkish border.
South Africa's democratic governance has suffered declines from the increasing dominance of the ANC and the government's efforts to limit media freedom, says a US report.
UN human rights investigators say they have drawn up a new secret list of Syrians and units suspected of committing war crimes who should face criminal prosecution some day.
International mediator Lakhdar Brahimi has said after talks with Syria's President Bashar Assad that the escalating conflict in the country poses a global threat.
International peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has warned after meeting President Bashar Assad that the worsening conflict in Syria poses a threat to the region and the world at large.
Syrian regime air strikes have targeted rebel-held police stations inside Aleppo city, ahead of talks between visiting peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi and opposition groups.
The Obama administration must stay the course in Arab Spring countries and help them thwart rising militancy, say experts, even as the deaths of four diplomats seems to be reversing gains.
Jordan's King Abdullah II has warned of a spillover of the Syrian turmoil into the countries it neighbours, saying the risk is "looming closer", in an interview.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon says that the new UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi will meet Syrian President Bashar Assad when he travels to the conflict-ravaged country.
Egypt's foreign minister is hosting envoys from Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Iran in a new push by regional heavyweights to help find a resolution to Syria's civil war.
EU foreign ministers have agreed on the need to beef up sanctions against Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime at talks in Cyprus, says Cypriot Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis.
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has reiterated his call for the Syrian regime to step down, telling a meeting of the Arab League that a resolution to the crisis is an Arab responsibility.
Witnesses say Egyptian security forces have clashed with dozens of protesters in front of the Syrian Embassy in Cairo, chanting against the Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Red Cross chief Peter Maurer has held a 45 minute meeting with President Bashar Assad during which he expressed concern over the humanitarian situation in Syria, says an official.
Red Cross chief Peter Maurer is in Damascus for talks with President Bashar Assad and other officials on ways to get aid to Syrians caught up in the civil war, says a spokesperson.
A Syrian warplane has bombed a building in the northern rebel-held town of Al-Bab killing 18 people, including two children, says a watchdog.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has told Syria's prime minister in Tehran that fighting must stop in Syria "with the primary responsibility resting on the government to halt its use of heavy weapons".
Iran's showdown with the UN Security Council over its nuclear activities, and clashing speeches over the bloody conflict shaking Syria have dominated the opening of a summit in Tehran.
Syria needs more time to end the conflict raging across the country, President Bashar Assad has said in an interview.
About 10 000 Syrian refugees are waiting on the Syrian side of the border as Turkey rushes to build more camps to accommodate the influx, Turkish officials say.
Evidence is mounting of a new massacre in Syria, with at least 320 killed in the past several days.
More than 200 000 Syrians have poured into neighbouring countries during the conflict, already surpassing the projection of 185 000 set out by the UN refugee agency.
Syrian civilians are facing "horrific" violence as the battle for the commercial capital Aleppo rages, says Amnesty International, lashing out primarily at regime troops.
Syrian forces have killed dozens of civilians in a raid on a Damascus suburb, says a watchdog, reporting that many of the victims were summarily executed and others killed at a funeral.
Syrian regime loyalists have captured two journalists in the northern city of Aleppo, where they were working for the Arabic-language Al-Hurra television station, a senior rebel says.
US President Barack Obama has warned Syria of "enormous consequences" if it resorts to chemical weapons, while a reporter has been killed while covering the conflict.
The myriad rebel groups that have sprung up against the Bashar Assad regime are riven by infighting about funding, weapons and even how to wage their war.