Home » Topics » Syrian government
Peace envoy: Syria agrees to Eid ceasefire
The Syrian government has agreed to a ceasefire during the four-day Muslim Eid holiday starting this week, international peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said in Cairo on Wednesday. Many rebel leaders he contacted had also agreed to a truce during the holiday, which begins on Friday, he told reporters in Cairo…
Activists allege Syrian troops shot and killed 90 people
Activists in Syria are blaming their government for what they considered to be a massacre in Houla Friday evening, when 90 people, including 32 children, were shot dead in one of the country’s bloodiest events in its 15 month uprising. Video images have emerged of the graphic violence taking place…
Arab states call for Syria to end violence
Arab states pushed for the Syrian government to end violence and hold talks with the opposition, while urging regime foes to unite, in a draft resolution obtained on Tuesday at the start of landmark regional talks in Iraq. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime is carrying out a bloody crackdown on…
Russia opposes ‘unbalanced’ new UN draft on Syria
Russia said Friday it opposed an “unbalanced” UN draft resolution on the Syria crisis because it did not contain a call for a simultaneous halt in violence by the government and rebels. “We cannot agree with the draft resolution in the form it is being presented in today. The text…
China calls on both sides to end Syria violence
China on Sunday called on the Syrian government and other “parties concerned” to cease all acts of violence and seek a peaceful resolution to the crisis, Xinhua reported, citing the Chinese foreign ministry. The state news agency said the ministry had released a statement, attributed to an unnamed official, calling for dialogue between the regime and those expressing “political…
UN handed list of Syria crimes against humanity suspects
International investigators on Thursday handed the UN a list of Syrian officials suspected of crimes against humanity, as a defiant regime brushed off an outcry over the killing of two journalists. Fifty-two people were killed across the country, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, as activists spoke of…
New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid dies in Syria
(Reuters) – Pulitzer-prize winning New York Times foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid died on Thursday in Syria of an apparent asthma attack, the newspaper reported. Shadid, 43, was on a reporting assignment in eastern Syria when he died, according to an obituary posted on the Times web site. It said Shadid…
Army attacks Syria’s Homs, 200 killed: activists
The Syrian army unleashed a massive attack on the city of Homs early Saturday, bombing the protest hub and killing at least 260 people in a bloody “massacre”, activists and witnesses said. The Syrian government denied involvement in the violence, blaming “armed gunmen”, as television stations showed images of bodies…
Thousands in Syria rally against Arab sanctions
Tens of thousands of Syrians demonstrated in the capital Monday against the Arab League decision to impose crippling sanctions onPresident Bashar al-Assad’s regime, an AFP correspondent reported. Protesters waved Syrian flags and carried giant portraits of the embattled leader as they belted nationalistic songs in Damascus’ central Sabaa Bahrat square. “The people…
Brand new on Raw Story
- First Yuri Gagarin film turns Soviet idol into Russian hero
- Indonesia to use rain-making technology to stop fires
- Obama to call for nuclear cuts in historic Berlin speech
- Hospital investors ‘sold’ on Obamacare despite bumps
- Accused Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro to appear today at pre-trial hearing
- Small global warming rise would have ‘alarming’ impact: World Bank
- FBI search for Jimmy Hoffa’s body may last two more days
- Japan finds highly toxic strontium-90 in Fukushima groundwater
- Anchorman 2 trailer: Ron Burgundy is back – and it’s kind of a big deal
- John ‘The Executioner’ Martorano under microscope in trial of accused U.S. mobster James Whitey Bulger
Commentary
Republicans’ latest abortion ban is staggeringly stupid
By Ana Marie Cox, The Guardian
The Orange Couch does Mad Men: S6E12, “The Quality of Mercy”
By Amanda Marcotte
The Center For Inquiry Likes Atheism’s Cranky White Guy Image, So Screw You Ladies
By Amanda Marcotte
Raw Exclusives
Featured Video
Follow Us!
