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Syrian forces raid homes as Assad opposition mounts
Apr 24, 2011 08:42 EDT
AMMAN (Reuters) - Secret police raided homes near Damascus overnight, rights campaigners said on Sunday, as popular opposition to Syria's authoritarian President Bashar al-Assad increased following bloody attacks on pro-democracy protesters.
Syrian forces raid homes as Assad opposition mounts
Apr 24, 2011 08:42 EDT
AMMAN (Reuters) - Secret police raided homes near Damascus overnight, rights campaigners said on Sunday, as popular opposition to Syria's authoritarian President Bashar al-Assad increased following bloody attacks on pro-democracy protesters.
Analysis: Syria's Assad torn between repression and reform
Apr 22, 2011 16:48 EDT
BEIRUT (Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad is in a quandary as the challenge to his autocratic rule grows in the streets of Syria: more concessions could signal weakness, but harsher repression risks radicalizing a growing opposition.
Syria government approves lifting state of emergency
Apr 19, 2011 10:53 EDT
AMMAN (Reuters) - Syria's government passed a draft law on Tuesday to lift 48 years of emergency rule, a concession to unprecedented demands for greater freedom in the tightly-controlled Arab country.
Syrian forces fire at protesters, unrest intensifies
Apr 19, 2011 04:11 EDT
AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian forces fired shots at hundreds of protesters who had gathered overnight in Homs city in defiance of warning by the authorities to halt what they called an insurrection, a rights campaigner said on Tuesday.
When AK-47s meet mobile phones: Syria's web activists
Apr 14, 2011 13:19 EDT
BEIRUT (Reuters) - In Tunisia and Egypt, "Facebook" vied with "Down with the regime" on graffiti-filled walls -- so central were social media to mobilizing mass protests that overthrew their authoritarian rulers.
Assad holds Syria army despite Sunni-Alawite divide
Apr 06, 2011 11:01 EDT
AMMAN (Reuters) - Senior Syrian army ranks are packed with loyal members of President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority, reducing any prospect of military pressure on him to stand aside if protests grow, military experts say.
Syria braces for "Martyrs Week", general strike in Daraa
Apr 05, 2011 12:41 EDT
Syria was bracing on Tuesday for a series of demonstrations organised by a Facebook group to mark "Martyrs Week" as the southern town of Daraa held a general strike.
U.S. offers free flights out for employees in Syria
Apr 03, 2011 22:05 EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is offering free flights out of Syria to family members of U.S. government employees, the State Department said on Sunday.
US hedges its bets on Syria: analysts
Apr 03, 2011 16:52 EDT
Although the Assad regime in Syria has long been a thorn in Washington's side, the Obama administration is not yet ready to throw its lot in with anti-government protesters there, analysts said.
Syria confirms Assad to address nation Wednesday
Mar 30, 2011 02:56 EDT
Syrian state media has confirmed that President Bashar al-Assad will deliver an important speech on Wednesday, in his first address since unprecedented dissent erupted two weeks ago.
U.S. says Assad must make progress on reforms
Mar 29, 2011 17:17 EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday urged Syria to make more progress on political reforms but U.S. lawmakers did not appear keen to intervene militarily in another Middle Eastern country.
Syria cabinet resigns, Assad to address nation
Mar 29, 2011 16:55 EDT
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is to address the nation Wednesday in his first speech in two weeks of unprecedented dissent and one day after his cabinet resigned, a senior official said.
Syria's Assad at crossroads, says US
Mar 29, 2011 15:07 EDT
Syria's Bashar al-Assad is standing at a crossroads and must seize the chance to carry out political reforms, a US official said Tuesday, on the eve of a speech by the embattled president.
Assad supporters to rally in final days of emergency rule
Mar 28, 2011 16:05 EDT
Supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are to hold mass rallies Tuesday to counter a wave of deadly dissent that has prompted the announcement of an end to 50 years of emergency rule.
Syria set to end emergency rule
Mar 28, 2011 11:01 EDT
Streets were deserted Monday in Latakia, scene of Syria's latest deadly violence, as citizens nationwide awaited an announcement by President Bashar al-Assad ending of 50 years of emergency rule.
Syria strives to restore order in unrest-hit Latakia
Mar 27, 2011 20:45 EDT
Syrian security forces strove to restore order in the northern city of Latakia, after two days of chaos that left 15 dead and more than 150 injured.
Syria accuses fundamentalists of stirring unrest
Mar 27, 2011 14:56 EDT
Muslim fundamentalists who aim to destroy religious coexistence in Syria are behind the unrest hitting the country but will "fail again", presidential adviser Buthaina Shaaban said Sunday.
Syria buries Latakia victims, emergency law to be lifted
Mar 27, 2011 11:04 EDT
Syrian authorities have decided to lift emergency rule, a presidential adviser told AFP on Sunday as residents of the northern city of Latakia buried victims of a wave of unrest that has put President Bashar al-Assad under unprecedented pressure.
More violence in Syria as dissent rises
Mar 26, 2011 23:29 EDT
More deadly violence erupted in Syria as snipers killed two people and demonstrators torched an office of the ruling Baath party of President Bashar al-Assad.
