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BEIRUT (AFP) - Regime forces on Sunday pressed a fierce offensive in Homs after overrunning a key neighbourhood of the central city, according to a watchdog, which also listed 23 children killed in violence across Syria. The latest…

Syrian supervision army have pushed insurgent army out of a Deir Baalbeh district of a city of Homs after several days of extreme fighting. One romantic organisation pronounced that some-more than 200 civilians were killed by regime…

The international envoy to Syria has outlined the urgent need for a peace process in the country, claiming it remains a possibility. Lakhdar Brahimi made his appeal amid early reports of a massacre in the city of Homs. UN and Arab…

CAIRO: International peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi warned on Sunday the Syrian war was worsening "by the day" as he announced a peace plan he believed could find support from world powers seeking to end the conflict. Brahimi's comments…

Activists say Syrian rebels have captured an oil pumping station in the north of the country after days of fighting. The Local Coordination Committees and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights say the rebels captured the…

BEIRUT (AP) -- The international envoy to Syria warned Sunday that as many as 100,000 could die in the next year if a way cannot be found quickly to end the country's civil war. Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N.-Arab League envoy for the…

The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, has said the Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, will not quit before his term ends in 2014 and that it is ''impossible to change his position''. The declaration came as Syrian armed…

UN and Arab League special envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, has said he hopes the Syrian conflict will end in 2013, Voice of Russia’s Polina Chernitsa reports. The UN mediator told reporters, who gathered at the Russian foreign…

With the celebration of Christmas, 40-year-old Mira begged her parents to flee their hometown of Aleppo, which has become a major battleground in Syria’s civil war. Her parents refused to join her in Lebanon, but they are taking one…

The United Nations envoy for the Syria crisis has warned that further deterioration of conditions in the country could send an unbearable stream of refugees into neighboring countries. Speaking Saturday after meeting in Moscow with…