Will Libyans heed the warning of the ambassador’s murder?
How will Libya respond to hardline Islamic militancy? Last month the government failed to intervene when Sufi shrines were attacked. Now the US ambassador has been murdered.
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Barack Obama pledges to work with Libya as US officials investigate whether the attack which killed the US ambassador was planned, rather than the work of a spontaneous group of militia.
How will Libya respond to hardline Islamic militancy? Last month the government failed to intervene when Sufi shrines were attacked. Now the US ambassador has been murdered.
The US Ambassador to Libya and three other embassy staff have been killed in a rocket attack on their car in the city of Benghazi.
As the UN concludes that the massacre in Houla was a war crime authorised by President Assad, at least 30 people are reported killed in an air strike by Syrian forces on the rebel-held town of Azaz.
The UK government says it will give £5m to rebels fighting the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria to pay for “non-lethal support for the political opposition”.
New video emerges apparently showing Syrian rebels executing unarmed government forces, while Bashar al-Assad blames foreign enemies for plotting to undermine the country’s stability.
Yesterday it was Midan. Today it was al-Qaboon. In both the picture is pretty clear, that any rebel fighters in these areas have been driven from them, writes Alex Thomson.
Bizarrely, the Syrian regime will happily allow you to film its dead soldiers but makes filming living ones all but impossible.
Clashes between Syrian troops and opposition fighters in Damascus continue amid claims from the opposition that President Assad is now in the coastal city of Latakia.
Heavy fighting in the streets of Damascus follows a bomb blast which killed Syria’s defence minister, deputy defence minister – President Assad’s brother-in-law – and a senior military official.
UN envoy to Syria Kofi Annan has suggested his six-point peace plan could be revived after “constructive and positive” talks with President Bashar al-Assad.
A Syrian general from a powerful family close to President Bashar al-Assad defects and is on his way to Paris, the French government confirms.
Gunmen kill journalists and security guards at a pro-government television station near Damascus, after President Bashar al-Assad says the country is in a “state of war”.
Syria’s President Assad condemns last Sunday’s massacre in Houla, describing it as an ‘abominable act, but offers no specific response to international envoy Kofi Annan’s call to end the conflict.
Bashar and Asma al-Assad, Syria’s one-time golden couple, beguiled the West, then betrayed their own people. In the aftermath of the Houla massacre, Channel 4 News’s Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller considers evidence of President Assad’s personal responsibility for crimes against humanity.