Syria News

Syria News From AOL News

IAEA Chief: Syria Tried to Build Nuclear Reactor

PARIS -- The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency on Thursday said for the first time that a target destroyed by Israeli warplanes in the Syrian desert in 2007 was a covertly built nuclear reactor, appearing to counter assertions by Syria that it had no atomic secrets to hide. Previous reports by the...

Tanks, Reinforcements Sent to Besieged Syrian City

BEIRUT -- The Syrian army sent more tanks and reinforcements into Daraa on Wednesday as part of a widening crackdown against opponents of President Bashar Assad's authoritarian regime, and gunfire and sporadic explosions were heard in the tense southern city. In addition to the unrest in Daraa - where the uprising began...

Hundreds Detained After Bloody Syrian Crackdown

CAIRO -- Syrian forces heaped more punishment Tuesday on residents of restive towns, detaining hundreds in raids or at checkpoints, firing on people trying to retrieve the bodies of anti-government protesters and even shooting holes in rooftop water tanks in a region parched by drought, witnesses said. In the southern...

Enormous Statue of Powerful Pharaoh Unearthed in Egypt

CAIRO -- Archaeologists unearthed one of the largest statues found to date of a powerful ancient Egyptian pharaoh at his mortuary temple in the southern city of Luxor, the country's antiquities authority announced Tuesday. The 13 meter (42 foot) tall statue of Amenhotep III was one of a pair that flanked the northern...

US Urges Americans to Leave Syria Amid Violence

WASHINGTON - The State Department on Monday told American citizens to leave Syria as soon as they can and ordered some personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Damascus to depart the country, as the Syrian government steps up a brutal crackdown against pro-reform demonstrators. In a new warning, the department urged Americans to...

Syria News From AOL

THE HUFFINGTON POST

Syria Crisis: UN Draft Resolution Considers Referring Houla Killings To International Criminal Court

The U.N.'s top human rights official warned Friday that all-out civil war could engulf Syria unless countries back international envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan and calls for an independent probe into the killing of more than 100 civilians last week in the Arab country.

AOL MONEY & FINANCE

Putin visits Berlin, Paris amid divide over Syria

BERLIN -Vladimir Putin can expect to face pressure from the leaders of Germany and France for a change of heart on Syria when he visits Berlin and Paris on Friday â but there's little sign that the Russian president is prepared to tighten the diplomatic screws on Bashar Assad.

THE HUFFINGTON POST

Syria Crisis: Assad's Shabiha Gunmen Cause Of Fear In Syria

The swaggering gunmen operate as hired muscle for the Syrian regime, clutching rifles and daggers as they sweep through towns and villages, sometimes after regular military troops have pulled back.

THE HUFFINGTON POST

Syria Houla Massacre: Child Witness Played Dead To Survive Massacre

When the gunmen began to slaughter his family, 11-year-old Ali el-Sayed says he fell to the floor of his home, soaking his clothes with his brother's blood to fool the killers into thinking he was already dead.

THE HUFFINGTON POST

Syria Violence No-Win Situation For Obama, Mitt Romney In 2012 Election

Escalating violence in Syria has become the ultimate no-win political situation for President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney: The deepening crisis is impossible for their campaigns to ignore but too complex for them to articulate an easy solution.

Syria News From the Web

06/01/12 UN rights chief warns of full civil war in Syria Source: The Progress-Index - Petersburg VA The U.N.'s top human rights official warned Friday that all-out civil war could engulf Syria unless countries that have backed international envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan rally around calls for an independent probe into the killing of more than 100 civilians last week.
06/01/12 Clinton: Russia hinders actions on Syria Source: United Press International (UPI) U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Russia's stance against taking strong action against Syria could help push the country toward civil war.
06/01/12 Trudy Rubin: Spreading peril as the Syrian violence... Source: The Merced Sun-Star - Merced CA Indeed, if the Syrian uprising drags on for a second year without any resolution, it could trigger explosions inside neighboring countries - sparked by Assad's machinations.
06/01/12 Russian Press - Behind the Headlines, June 01 Source: RIA Novosti - Russia CSTO Secretary General Bordyuzha said that the Collective Rapid Reaction Force of the member countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) could help settle the Syrian conflict under a UN Security Council mandate.
06/01/12 New Massacre Reported in Syria Source: The New York Times - New York NY The meetings coincided with activist descriptions of 11 factory workers executed in the town of Qusair, the third mass killing reported in a week.

Background on Syria

Syria ( ; ' or '; ; ), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ), is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest.

more at wikipedia »