AMMAN: Syrian forces killed at least 54 people on Friday as they sought to quell demonstrations against President Bashar al-Assad before a peace mission by...
AMMAN: Syrian tanks fired on opposition districts in Homs Friday, killing four people, activists said, ahead of a mission by U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan...
AMMAN: Syrian forces shelled opposition strongholds, killing at least 25 people, on Tuesday and a wounded British photographer was smuggled out of Homs into...
AMMAN: Prominent members of the main Syrian National Council formed a splinter organization on Sunday, exposing the most serious rift among President Bashar...
AMMAN: Syrian artillery pummeled rebel-held areas of Homs on Monday before an expected government announcement that a vote - decried as a sham by the...
AMMAN/BEIRUT: Syrian tanks pushed into a rebel stronghold in the battered city of Homs on Thursday and U.N. investigators accused President Bashar Assad's...
AMMAN: Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces, trying to hammer the city of Homs into submission, on Wednesday killed 19 more people including two Western...
WASHINGTON/AMMAN: The United States appeared to open the door to eventually arming Syria's opposition, saying that if a political solution to the crisis...
AMMAN/BEIRUT: China accused Western countries of stirring civil war in Syria and two Iranian warships docked at a Syrian naval base, underscoring rising...
AMMAN/BEIRUT: Police and militia patrols fanned out in the Syrian capital's Mezze district on Sunday to prevent a repeat of protests against...
AMMAN/BEIRUT, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Syrian security forces fired live ammunition to break up a protest against President Bashar Assad in Damascus on Saturday,...
AMMAN/BEIRUT: China said on Saturday it backed President Bashar Assad's plans for a referendum and multi-party elections to resolve the Syria crisis, a...
AMMAN/BEIRUT: Syrian government forces, disregarding U.N. condemnation, renewed their bombardment of the opposition stronghold of Homs on Saturday as a...
AMMAN/BEIRUT: Syrian President Bashar Assad prepared to welcome a senior Chinese official to Damascus on Friday, a show of support from one of the few foreign...
AMMAN: Syrian troops Thursday attacked rebel strongholds in Deraa where the uprising against President Bashar Assad erupted nearly a year ago, and the U.N....
AMMAN: Syrian government forces attacked the opposition strongholds of Homs and Hama on Wednesday and also raided a district of Damascus in the closest...
AMMAN/BEIRUT: Syrian government forces attacked opponents of President Bashar al-Assad on several fronts on Tuesday, sending residents fleeing from one town...
AMMAN/UNITED NATIONS: The U.N. human rights chief blamed disagreement in the Security Council Monday for encouraging the Syrian government to step up attacks...
AMMAN/BEIRUT: Sporadic rocket and gunfire broke a respite in Syrian government attacks on opposition-held districts of Homs city on Sunday as Arab League...
AMMAN/BEIRUT: Traumatized residents straggled from their homes in Homs city on Sunday after Syrian forces eased a week-long bombardment that has killed...
AMMAN/BEIRUT: Syrian forces bombarded districts of the city of Homs Saturday in their drive to crush a revolt against President Bashar Assad, whose ally...
AMMAN/BEIRUT: At least 28 people were killed in two bomb attacks in Syria's second city Aleppo on Friday while in besieged Homs, opposition neighborhoods...
AMMAN/BEIRUT: Syrian forces bombarded opposition-held neighborhoods of the city of Homs with rocket and mortar fire on Thursday, activists said, as divided...
AMMAN: Militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad shot dead at least 20 civilians when they stormed the homes of three unarmed families on the edges of...
AMMAN: Syrian forces thrust into the rebellious city of Homs on Wednesday, killing as many as 100 civilians by the accounts of opposition activists, and...