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Jordanian border officers check the papers of a vehicle at the Jaber border crossing between Jordan and Syria, 95 kms north of the capital Amman, April 25, 2011. Syria sealed off its Ramtha-Daraa border with Jordan, the kingdom's information minister Taher Adwan said, but the Jaber border crossing remained open with limited movement.
AFP 10 Oct 2012
The US military has sent a task force to Jordan to help it handle an influx of Syrian refugees and prepare for...
Reuters 09 Oct 2012
NATO said it had drawn up plans to defend Turkey if necessary should the war in Syria spill over their border again as...
AFP 07 Oct 2012
Syrian rebels, lacking heavy arms and air power, are braced for the long haul as they struggle to take on army...
Lina Attalah 04 Oct 2012
Walking into Syria after an inconspicuous crossing, I met a smiling Abu Tamim waiting past the border. On the way back...
A damaged Syrian Army tank belonging to forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad is pictured after clashes with the Free Syrian Army in Aleppo 2 October 2012.
Reuters 03 Oct 2012
Three bombs exploded on a main square in a government-controlled central district of Syria's second city Aleppo on...
Egypt's Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr.
Al-Masry Al-Youm 28 Sep 2012
Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr met with his Iranian and Turkish counterparts in New York City on Thursday...
Mass burial in Houla, Syria
Reuters 27 Sep 2012
More than 300 people were killed in Syria on Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, in one of the...
MENA 26 Sep 2012
Egyptian diplomats were not hurt in explosions that hit Syrian capital early Wednesday, an official source at the...
Reuters 26 Sep 2012
Two loud explosions targeted one of Syria's top military command buildings in the capital Damascus on Wednesday,...
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)
Reuters 23 Sep 2012
The rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) has moved its leadership for the first time from Turkey to parts of Syria that are now...