UN intervention in Libya, so why not in Syria?
Are Syrians paying the price for Libyans’ freedom given that one year on, it seems unlikely that such international intervention will be contemplated again.
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UN officials head for the Syrian town of Tremseh to investigate reports of a massacre of civilians by Syrian troops and pro-government militia.
Kofi Annan says he is “appalled” by the massacre of up to 200 people in the Syrian village of Tremseh, one of the bloodiest incidents in the country’s ongoing conflict.
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.
As the EU imposes sanctions which will affect the transportation of Iranian oil, Channel 4 News examines the extent of existing economic blocks on trade and their potential impact.
World powers have agreed on a power transition plan for strife-hit Syria, with a unity government to include members of the present government and opposition, international envoy Kofi Annan said.
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”.
Foreign Secretary William Hague condemns Syria’s attack on a Turkish jet as “outrageous” as the wreckage of the downed plane is found.
On the day the US and Russia call for an end to Syrian violence, a cargo ship believed to be carrying Russian-made attack helicopters to Syria turns back in British waters.
Escalating violence in Syria forces 300 UN observers to suspend operations amidst a failing peace plan brokered by Kofi Annan.
UN observers set out on another field trip on Saturday amid reports that 17 people were killed in overnight shelling in the Syrian town of Deraa, where the uprising began 15 months ago.
Are Syrians paying the price for Libyans’ freedom given that one year on, it seems unlikely that such international intervention will be contemplated again.
Syria blogger Sakhr Al-Makhadhi considers the options as the UN struggles to find a credible plan for ending the violence.
United Nations monitors enter the village in Syria where a massacre was reported, hours after the organisation’s chief warns that civil war is an “imminent and real” danger.
A new plan for addressing violence in Syria is to be considered by the UN on the day its monitors in Syria were shot at while trying to reach the site of the latest “massacre” near Hama.
With the systematic slaughter of dozens of non-combatants, the evidence on the ground in the Syrian town of Houla is of a war crime. But Syria’s government is saying it had no hand in the massacre.