Struggling for a solution to Syria’s civil war, President Barack Obama said the United States is willing to work with Russia, as well as Iran to achieve a “managed transition” to remove Syrian leader Bashar Assad from power.

Nearly 30,000 suspected people smugglers have been identified by European authorities since the start of the year.

Material damage of benefit to al Qaeda, says Syrian military

There are growing calls for British Prime Minister David Cameron to consider a second vote on military action in Syria, if more evidence against President Assad emerges.

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanese Shi’ite militant movement Hezbollah, said yesterday the rebels in Syria could not emerge victorious from the 21-month-long uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.

The White House says reports of a massacre near Damascus are the latest evidence of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's "wanton disregard for human life."

David Cameron and Vladimir Putin will hold talks on the Syrian civil war in London tomorrow.

The British Foreign Secretary has said that Russia and China have turned their backs on the Syrian people.

French President Francois Hollande has said military intervention in Syria should not be ruled out, despite US insistence that it is not a good idea at this point.

The UN Envoy to Syria - Kofi Annan - has said that the country is at "a tipping point".

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Syrian troops began pulling out today from some calm cities and headed back to their bases a week ahead of a deadline to implement an international ceasefire plan, a government official said.

Fierce clashes have erupted in Syria just a day after a promise from President Assad's regime of an immediate pull back of forces.

The Syrian government has declared victory against rebel forces in the country.

At least 27 people were killed and 140 others injured when twin suicide car bombs struck intelligence and security buildings in the Syrian capital today, according to state media.

David Cameron and Barack Obama could tighten sanctions against Syria to increase the pressure on President Bashar Assad, Downing Street said today.

Plans to send a joint United Nations and Arab League peacekeeping force in to Syria must be discussed “urgently”, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said today.

Syria's President Bashar Assad appears to be pouring reinforcements into the battle against his opponents in Syria.

President Obama has accused the Syrian government of murdering civilians in what he is calling an "unspeakable assault" in the city of Homs.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon yesterday urged Syria’s Bashar al-Assad to stop killing his own people, saying the path of repression was a “dead end”, as Damascus announced a general amnesty for crimes committed during the unrest.

Authorities in Syria are bracing themselves for another day of demonstrations as anti-

Syrian president Bashar Assad has warned Western intervention against his regime would cause an “earthquake” that would “burn the whole region”.

Tens of thousands of Syrian protesters shouted for President Bashar Assad’s death today in a dramatic escalation of their rage and frustration, defying bullets and rooftop snipers after more than a week of intensified military assaults on rebellious cities, activists and witnesses said.

Syria’s government has endorsed a law that it says will allow the formation of political parties alongside President Bashar Assad’s ruling Baath Party.

Syrian forces have shelled a town in the country’s restive north and opened fire on scattered protests nationwide, killing at least 21 people, activists said.

FOREIGN Affairs Minister Micheál Martin will sit down with the president of Syria today during the first stage of a diplomatic tour of the Middle East.

US president George Bush condemned the Democratic leader of the House of Representatives, saying Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Syria was encouraging a terror sponsor.

Syria will “soon” take steps to withdraw its army from Lebanese areas in accordance with a 1989 agreement, the Arab League chief said today.

Syrian President Bashar Assad has declared his support for the Saudi-proposed peace plan to end the Middle East conflict.

Tony Blair has ‘‘no regrets’’ about his fraught diplomatic mission to the Middle East, despite failing to achieve any great breakthrough in the peace process, Downing Street said today.

The British Prime Minister Tony Blair has flown into the Syrian capital Damascus for talks with President Bashar Assad.

Syria's foreign minister says the terror attacks on the United States were a horrible event.

Tony Blair today warned Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers that they would become the ‘‘enemies’’ of Britain and its allies in the war against terrorism unless they handed over Osama bin Laden.