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UN Security Council strongly condemns Syria’s Houla massacre
AFP 28 May 2012
The UN Security Council on Sunday strongly condemned the Syrian government for unleashing artillery and tank shelling...
UN says over 92 killed in Syria, 32 of them children
Reuters 27 May 2012
The United Nations said on Saturday that more than 92 people were killed in what activists described as an artillery...
Activists put Syria attack death toll at over 90
AP 26 May 2012
BEIRUT — Activists on Saturday raised the number of those killed in an alleged massacre by Syrian...
Burhan Ghalioun
Divided Syrian opposition to choose new leader
Reuters 24 May 2012
AMMAN — The main Syrian National Council opposition group said it had accepted the resignation of its president,...
A Sunni gunman fires his weapon during a clashes, in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Sunday, 13 May 2012. Gunfire broke out in the city Saturday and continued through the night primarily between a neighborhood populated by Sunni Muslims who hate Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and another area with many Assad backers from his Alawite sect. Lebanon's national news agency NNA said one soldier was shot dead by a sniper in the city early Sunday. Another man was found dead on the side of a road while a third died after a shell landed in a residential neighborhood. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Lebanese FM: Captives in Syria have been found
AP 23 May 2012
BEIRUT — Lebanon's foreign minister said Wednesday that authorities have located 11 Lebanese Shias kidnapped...
In this Friday, 6 April 2012 photo, Free Syrian Army fighters stand guard during fighting with Syrian troops in a suburb of Damascus, Syria. Syrian government shelling and offensives against rebel-held towns killed dozens of people across the country on Saturday, activists said, as the US posted online satellite images of troop deployments that cast further doubt on whether the regime intends to comply with an internationally sponsored peace plan. (AP Photo)
Bomb kills 5 in Syrian capital
AP 22 May 2012
BEIRUT — Activists and state media say a bomb has exploded in the Syrian capital, killing at least five people...
In a Sunday, 20 May 2012 photo, Palestinian writer Salameh Kaileh is seen during an interview with the Associated Press in Amman, Jordan. The prominent Palestinian writer, who was jailed in Syria for nearly three weeks, described the facilities as "human slaughterhouses," saying security agents beat detainees with batons, crammed them into stinking cells and tied them to beds at night.(AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)
Palestinian writer: Syrian detention facilities ‘human slaughterhouses’
AP 22 May 2012
AMMAN, Jordan — A prominent Palestinian writer who was jailed in Syria for nearly three weeks described the...
Abdel Wahed convoy, Lebanon
Two dead in Beirut clashes after killing of anti-Assad cleric
Reuters 21 May 2012
Albireh, Lebanon — Hundreds of Islamist gunmen fired in the air on Monday as they laid to rest a Sunni Muslim...
In this Friday, 6 April 2012 photo, Free Syrian Army fighters stand guard during fighting with Syrian troops in a suburb of Damascus, Syria. Syrian government shelling and offensives against rebel-held towns killed dozens of people across the country on Saturday, activists said, as the US posted online satellite images of troop deployments that cast further doubt on whether the regime intends to comply with an internationally sponsored peace plan. (AP Photo)
Bomb explodes during UN visit in Syria
AP 20 May 2012
DAMASCUS, Syria — A roadside bomb exploded in a restive suburb of the Syrian capital as senior UN officials...
Abdel Wahed convoy, Lebanon
Army kills Sunni cleric in Lebanon
AFP 20 May 2012
TRIPOLI, Lebanon — Army troops shot dead a Sunni cleric on Sunday when his convoy failed to stop at a checkpoint...