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Bashar al-Assad's mother has fled Syria, US ambassador claims
Bashar al-Assad's mother and other members of his inner circle have fled Syria as rebel continue to push closer towards Damascus, according US ambassador to Syria.
25 Jan 2013
Assad shown at ceremony for Prophet Mohammed's birthday
Bashar al-Assad shown attending prayers at a mosque in Damascus to mark Prophet Mohammed's birthday.
24 Jan 2013
Syrian girls 'sold' into force marriages
Syrian women and girls, some as young as 14 years old, are being 'sold' into forced marriages or prostitution after becoming refugees, aid workers and religious charities have said.
23 Jan 2013
Russia accuses Syria's opposition of prolonging violence
Russia on Wednesday accused the Syrian opposition of hindering efforts to end the violence in Syria with its "obsession" for toppling President Bashar al-Assad.
23 Jan 2013
Syria: Russia lashes out at 'obsession' with toppling Bashar al-Assad
Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, lashed out at the Syrian opposition for its "obsession" with toppling President Bashar al-Assad which he said was holding up peace efforts in the country.
23 Jan 2013
Russia to evacuate citizens from Syria
Russia will on Tuesday land two planes in Lebanon to evacuate more than 100 of its citizens from Syria, in a significant blow to the credibility of Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
21 Jan 2013
Syria hit by car bombs and rockets
A rocket attack in Aleppo, fighting at a Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus and two car bomb explosions south of the capital have marked the conclusion to one of the bloodiest weeks in the Syrian civil war.
18 Jan 2013
Families burnt and hacked to death in fresh Syria massacre
Entire families have been burnt or hacked to death in a small farming village in central Syria, activists have reported, in a grim manifestation of the sectarian hatred fomenting within the country.
17 Jan 2013
'100 civilians killed by Syrian army'
A Syrian army assault killed more than 100 civilians, including women and children, on farmland on the outskirts of Homs, according to a rights group.
17 Jan 2013
Shelterbox gives refugees of Syrian civil war a chance to go back to school
The charity has stepped in to avert a humanitarian crisis, reports Sally Williams
17 Jan 2013
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Syria Homs attack 'may have included use of chemical weapons'
An attack on a rebel neighbourhood in the Syrian city of Homs may have included the use of chemical weapons, according to a disputed study by American diplomats.
16 Jan 2013
'More than 80 killed' in Syria university blasts
82 reportedly killed and more than 160 wounded in attack that targeted students on their first day of exams in Aleppo.
15 Jan 2013
Aleppo university devastated by blasts
Footage from Syrian state television captures the aftemath of what are said to have been twin explosions at the main university in the northern city of Aleppo, which are reported to have killed over 80 people.
15 Jan 2013
Fear of rape 'driving Syria refugee crisis'
Rape is being used as a weapon of war in the Syrian conflict to such an extent that many refugee families are citing it a as a primary reason to flee, according to a new report.
14 Jan 2013
Syrian air strike near Damascus 'kills 8 children and 5 women'
An air strike on Monday on several houses in the rebel-held town of Moadamiyat al-Sham southwest of Damascus killed at least eight children and five women, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
14 Jan 2013
Syria: 'Biased' UN envoy to meet US and Russia
Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN-arab League envoy, is to meet top US and Russian officials to discuss the Syrian conflict, a day after the Bashar al-Assad regime denounced him as "biased".
11 Jan 2013
Britain to urge EU to amend Syria arms embargo
Britain will urge the EU to “amend” its arms embargo on Syria to allow equipment like body armour and chemical detectors to be given to the rebel alliance, according to William Hague.
10 Jan 2013
Bashar al-Assad rebuked by Syrian peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi
President Bashar al-Assad was rebuked by the UN-backed mediator on the Syrian crisis on Wednesday for hardening his line on concessions to the opposition in a bleak assessment of the chances for peace.
09 Jan 2013
Syria: 'Assad family has ruled for too long' says peace envoy
UN peace envoy comes close to saying Bashar Al-Assad should go, as Syrian rebels free 48 Iranians they had been holding for months in a prisoner swap.
09 Jan 2013
Syria 'has chemical weapons that could be used within two hours'
Syria has armed dozens of bombs with sarin gas and other chemical weapons that could be used to target opposition less than two hours.
08 Jan 2013
US condemns Bashar al-Assad's speech as delusional
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's road map to end the civil war ravaging his country is "detached from reality" and he should step down, the US State Department has said.
07 Jan 2013
Assad denounces Syria's rebels as 'murderous armed criminals'
A defiant President Bashar al-Assad offered no compromise to Syria's rebels on Sunday, using his first public speech in six months to rule out any negotiation with an opposition he described as nothing more than "al-Qaeda terrorists" and "murderous armed criminals".
06 Jan 2013
Bashar al-Assad's speech echoes Gaddafi's final, desperate rallies
There was more than a little of the Gaddafi about Bashar al-Assad's appearance on Sunday, and not just the theatre of a personality cult.
06 Jan 2013
This tragedy will end
Telegraph View: For all the bombast and posturing of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, the battle has turned against him and his days are surely numbered.
06 Jan 2013
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Assad mobbed by supporters after speech
Hundreds of supporters swarmed around Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, after he made a speech denouncing the opposition as "puppets of the West".
06 Jan 2013
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