| Fri, 27 Jan 2012 Syrian families 'slaughtered', 74 dead
| Two days of bloody turmoil in Syria have killed at least 74 people, including small children, as forces loyal to President Bashar Assad shelled residential buildings and fired on crowds in a dramatic escalation of violence, activists said yesterday. | Video posted onl... | Furore over slaughter of women and children in Homs
| Beirut: Armed forces loyal to President Bashar Al Assad barraged residential buildings with mortars and machine-gun fire, killing at least 30 people, including a family of women and children during a day of sectarian killings and kidnappings in the besieged Syria... | Heading towards showdown
Saudi Arabia's decision to recognise the Syrian National Council as the 'official representative' of the Syrian people will have a dual impact. | It is likely to boost the Syrian opposition and undermine President Bashar Al Assad's legitimacy and standing among the regi... | No appetite for intervention
For 10 months, the world has watched in horror as Bashar Al Assad's regime carries out regular massacres against unarmed civilians across Syria in a bid to quell the unrest gripping the country. | No doubt inspired by the successes of their Arab brethren elsewhere, thou... | Syria violence kills 37, UNSC to meet
Amman: Security forces killed 37 people in Syria on Friday, activists and residents said, as people in Homs mourned 14 members of a family they said were slain by militiamen in one of the worst sectarian attacks in a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad. | The UN Se... | Battlefield of the future
| A secret war is being waged that is changing the nature of conflict. The internet is the new combat zone, where nation strikes against nation, spy against spy and corporation raids corporation. Phil Taylor reports | Late last year Australia and the United States decla... | West needs to consider league's solution for Syria
| DICTATORS and autocrats seeming to promote democracy should be treated with scepticism. But as an Arab League delegation heads to New York to brief the United Nations on its latest pitch for peace in Syria, it needs to be heard - carefully. | Think tanks are circulati... | Syrian make-over awaits league's next peace pitch
| WASHINGTON: Dictators and autocrats seeming to promote democracy should be treated with scepticism. But, as an Arab League delegation heads to New York to brief the United Nations on its latest pitch for peace in Syria, it needs to be heard - carefully. | Think tanks ... | Syria violence kills 37, U.N. Security Council to meet
| AMMAN (Reuters) - Security forces killed 37 people in Syria Friday, activists and residents said, as people in Homs mourned 14 members of a family they said were slain by militiamen in one of the worst sectarian attacks in a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad. S... | UN Security Council discusses Syrian crisis
| The U.N. Security Council on Friday was discussing an Arab League-backed plan to respond to the crisis in Syria, diplomats said as they headed into the closed-door consultations. | French Ambassador Gerard Araud said council members expected a presentation by the Moro... | >Pentagon Confused By Its Own ‘Subs vs. Terrorists’ Plan
| The Pentagon has a dream that it won’t give up: blasting any target on the planet with a submarine’s missile. Nothing seems to stop it, not even years of protest that the project could accidentally spark a nuclear war. But now, the Pentagon swears, it̵... | Ex-President Bush Lied To FBI Director About Warrantless Surveillance: Book
| Former President George W. Bush lied to FBI Director Robert Mueller in the Oval Office to protect White House programs that secretly eavesdropped on Americans, according to an upcoming book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tim Weiner. | In "Enemies," the former Ne... | New U.N. draft resolution gives Syria 15 days to comply
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE | The Cable has obtained a copy of on Syria currently being discussed inside the U.N. Security Council. It calls on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to hand over power to his deputy and says additional measures would be tak... | Steve Hunegs
| Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 | The United Nations International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust commemorates the Red Army's liberation of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945. | In the end, it was only the might of the ... | Damascus Battles Risk Tipping Capital Into Chaos
By NOUR MALAS | Syrian dissident soldiers said Friday they are teaming up with armed civilians to temporarily occupy neighborhoods on Damascus's outskirts, a new phase of Syria's conflict that holds the potential to move the long-quiet capital toward chaos. | For the fi... | |
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