Arab League suspends Syria mission
New: Fierce clashes reported between rebels and Syrian forces
The foreign minister says he does not understand why the Arab League suspended its mission
"I would support an increased number of observers," Sergei Lavrov ...
His comments, in an exclusive BBC interview, follow a defiant speech by the Syrian foreign minister after the announcement of Syria's suspension from ...
Photograph: Charles Platiau/Reuters
11.05am:Syria's apparent acceptance of Arab League observers (see 10.53am) comes as the French foreign minister, ...
Syrians turned out in support of President Bashar al-Assad duringa rally in Damascus on Sunday.
The Arab Spring has forced three leaders from power ...
The Arab League will meet to discuss economic sanctions against the Syrian government on Saturday.
The group's latest ultimatum - to allow observers ...
The secretary general of the Arab League has said its approval of unprecedented sanctions has sent a very serious political message to Syria.
Nabil ...
As Damascus prepares to receive an advance party of Arab observers, many questions hang over the prospects of success for the Arab peace mission, and ...
More Arab League observers are due to arrive in Syria as part of a deal with Damascus to try to end months of violence gripping the country.
The main ...
In the largest protests Syria has seen in months, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets Friday in a display of defiance to show an Arab ...
Violence in Syria has continued unabated despite the monitors' mission to assess the situation on the ground.
Footage posted online appears to show ...
Footage posted online appears to show one official saying he had seen government snipers on rooftops and calling for them to be withdrawn.
However in ...
The Syrian military has withdrawn from residential areas and is on the outskirts of the country's cities, Nabil al-Arabi added.
The UN says more than ...
General Mohamed Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi, the head of the Arab League's mission to Syria, is to present his team of observers' initial findings to the ...
Arab League monitors in Syria have spent their last day conducting investigations into alleged abuses before writing up their report.
The BBC's Tim ...
2.13pm:The violence in Syria has increased significantly in the last three days, according to the Sudanese General, Mohammed Al-Dabi, who is charge ...
Syria has accepted a peace plan proposed by the Arab League to end more than seven months of violence, the League says.
The statement came after Arab ...
The Arab League says it is suspending its controversial monitoring mission in Syria because of the growing violence, although observers will remain ...
Foreign ministers from the UK, the US and France are to go to New York to push for a UN resolution calling for a transfer of power in Syria.
France ...
BEIRUT/UNITED NATIONS, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Western and Arab states voiced outrage on Sunday after Russia and China vetoed a U.N. resolution that would ...
There are few certainties or even probabilities in the complex and bloody crisis in which Syria is now mired.
It is uncharted terrain for all - the ...
U.N. Assembly Condemns Syria Crackdown
The U.N. General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved a measure condemning the Syrian government crackdown on ...
General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the US joint chief of staff, said intervention in Syria would be 'very difficult' and a strike against Iran ...
The Arab League committee put its plan, involving talks in Cairo between the Syrian authorities and their opponents, to Syrian Foreign Minister Walid ...
Protesters display fake bodies and an Arab League logo during a demonstration against Assad in Homs [Reuters]
Syria has said it reached a deal with ...
