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More than 100 people including 13 children, die after Syrian forces attack the town of Houla in Homs province on Friday, according to Syrian anti-government activists.
Two explosions in Damascus kill more than 55 people and injure hundreds more. The blasts happened in an area housing a military intelligence complex.
Up to 70 people are feared to have been killed in a deadly shell attack on houses in the central Syrian city of Hama amid a visit by UN observers.
As a ceasefire between Syrian government troops and rebel forces comes into effect, there are reports from both sides of continuing violence, and tanks remain stationed in cities across the country.
Claims by the Syrian regime to have pulled troops out of some cities are disputed by international critics as UN envoy Kofi Annan urges the Assad regime to comply with his peace plan.
Around 50 people, including children, are killed in the besieged Syrian city of Homs amid a peace mission by the UN, according to activists.
President Bashar al-Assad tells UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan that no political solution is possible in Syria while “terrorist” groups are destabilising the country.
As deputy oil minister Abdo Hussameldin defects from President Assad’s government, Britain’s ambassador to Syria tells Channel 4 News the minister’s defection won’t be the last.
Syrian rebel forces “strategically withdraw” from their stronghold of Homs, reportedly leaving the area and its 4,000 civilians in control of government forces.
Channel 4 News takes a closer look at the hurdles between Israel and an attack on Iran.
Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Rugman travels to rural northern Syria where local villagers have joined the revolt against the Assad regime. His report contains eyewitness accounts of brutality.
At least one person has died in the Syrian capital Damascus after security forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad fired live rounds at protesters, according to opposition activists.
The international community learned a lot of lessons from Libya, and there are regrets. Lindsey Hilsum is in Moscow on the first anniversary of the revolution.
Gary Gibbon
At David Cameron’s speech in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle. Anti-cuts protestors chants waft by from the street. But up here on the 5th floor of an Edinburgh hotel David Cameron is, he says, speaking in a spirit of “humble pie.”
Gary Gibbon
Syria is already being talked up as a central topic at the Anglo-French summit between David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday. Can the old duo revive their Libya double-act? To which the answer is: forget it.