UN report paints dark picture of Syria’s escalating violence
The report plays out two scenarios for the massacre, both of which it says are possible.
Russia and China veto a UN resolution proposing sanctions on Syria as it emerges the UK has frozen £100m of Syrian assets. Are President Assad’s days in charge numbered?
Fighting has intensified in Damascus as the UN tries to persuade Russia and China to impose tougher sanctions on Syria.
The International Committee of the Red Cross says the conflict in Syria should be treated as a full-blown civil war.
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.
Syrian forces attack the capital with mortars for the first time since the uprising against President Assad began, as a senior diplomat calls for others to join him in defecting from the regime.
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.
The report plays out two scenarios for the massacre, both of which it says are possible.
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.
Turkey’s president warns that “whatever is necessary will be done” after one of the country’s fighter jets is shot down by Syrian government forces.
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.
Are Syrians paying the price for Libyans’ freedom given that one year on, it seems unlikely that such international intervention will be contemplated again.
In a war where they slit the throats of toddlers back to the spine, what’s the big deal in sending a van full of journalists into the killing zone, writes Alex Thomson.
Syria blogger Sakhr Al-Makhadhi considers the options as the UN struggles to find a credible plan for ending the violence.