Syria marks ‘evacuation day’ to the beat of mortars and the march of security forcesHalf-observed holiday is day of complications and contradictionsFri Apr 18 2014 - 01:00
Syrian army continues to advance on Homs old cityState TV claims strategic gains in offensive that may put at risk truce talksThu Apr 17 2014 - 01:00
Gutted and brutalised, Syrian town will not rise again for long timePointless battle for Maaloula is over as Syrian army takes control of regionWed Apr 16 2014 - 01:00
Syria exports chemical weapons but misses deadline‘Great progress’ made on shipments, says deputy foreign ministerTue Apr 15 2014 - 08:53
Syria facing drought as food rations cut, World Food Programme warnsFood rations cut by 20% as donors fail to honour pledgesTue Apr 08 2014 - 18:25
Number of registered Syrian refugees in Lebanon over one millionTotal number, including unregistered refugees, form 37% of Lebanon’s populationFri Apr 04 2014 - 01:00
Obama assures Saudi king on Iran nuclear dealUS president discusses ‘tactical differences’ on Syrian and Iran with King AbdullahMon Mar 31 2014 - 01:00
Entry of Sisi to presidential race divides opinion in EgyptCandidacy welcomed by secular politicians and Salifis, but criticised by Muslim Brotherhood leaderFri Mar 28 2014 - 01:00
Arab leaders call for political solution to Syrian conflictSyrian opposition leader urges that rebels be supplied with sophisticated weaponsThu Mar 27 2014 - 01:00
Egypt’s revolutionaries fear return to dark age of repressionCritics say Egypt is more insecure and repressed than it was under MubarakTue Mar 25 2014 - 01:00
Syrian army claims full control of western Homs provinceMore than 90 insurgents killed and Crusader fort of Crac des Chevaliers recaptured, says officerSat Mar 22 2014 - 01:00
Syria army captures rebel stronghold of YabroudSeizure allows government forces to close main smuggling route for fighters and armsMon Mar 17 2014 - 01:07
Syrian conflict enters fourth year with no end in sightA range of global and local rivalries are combining to prolong the warFri Mar 14 2014 - 01:00
Saudi Arabia threatens to blockade Qatar over terrorismRiyadh wants to contain radical groups and media at odds with foreign jihad policyTue Mar 11 2014 - 01:00
Egypt’s military-backed interim government resigns unexpectedlyResignation comes after criticism of administration’s economic managementTue Feb 25 2014 - 01:00
Syria agrees to co-operate with UN resolution on aid accessResolution demands access to all civilians and urges lifting of siegesMon Feb 24 2014 - 07:27
Russia and Iran must stop enabling Syrian government remain in power, warns KerryUS secretary of state urges Russia to cease distributing weapons and aidTue Feb 18 2014 - 01:00
Damascus blamed for deadlock in Syrian peace talksBritain and France criticise lack of progress on ceasefireMon Feb 17 2014 - 01:00
Russia accuses US of using Syrian talks to effect ‘regime change’Moscow unhappy with John Kerry’s claim that forming transitional authority was sole purpose of peace talksFri Feb 14 2014 - 19:10
UN mediator has talks with US and Russia over Syrian deadlockMoscow and western powers disagree on resolution over access to besieged areasFri Feb 14 2014 - 01:00
Brahimi to hold trilateral talks on SyriaUS and Russia meeting brought forward as government, opposition remain deadlockedThu Feb 13 2014 - 00:41
Syrian peace talks make little progress, says United Nations mediatorAl-Qaeda offshoot begins withdrawal from besieged Yarmouk, says Al JazeeraWed Feb 12 2014 - 01:00
Mismatch at talks as government team faces off with disjointed Syrian oppositionUnited Damascus delegation contrasts with a coalition torn by regional rivalriesTue Feb 11 2014 - 01:00
Second round of Syrian peace talks open in toxic atmosphereEach side accuses the other of firing on UN convoys in HomsTue Feb 11 2014 - 01:00
More than 600 civilians evacuated from HomsSyrian delegation arrives in Geneva for second round of talks with oppositionMon Feb 10 2014 - 01:00
Thousands of Iraqi women tortured, says Human Rights WatchReport says legacy of abuse inherited from Saddam Hussein lives onFri Feb 07 2014 - 01:00
UN accuses both sides in Syria of grave violations against children10,000 children have been killed and ‘unspecified numbers’ abused and torturedThu Feb 06 2014 - 01:00
Media circus replaces jazz as Syrian peace talks caravan rolls into MontreuxThe small Swiss town was beseiged by 40 ministers, UN officials and scores of journalists looking for wifiTue Feb 04 2014 - 01:00
Barrel bombs dropped on Aleppo kill over 80 peopleSyrian army steps up bombardment of rebel-held areaMon Feb 03 2014 - 01:00
US says Syria has not handed over bulk of chemical weaponsPeace talks delegations observe minute’s silence for tens of thousands killedFri Jan 31 2014 - 01:00
Syrian government says it is ready to discuss transitional authorityGap between sides very large, says Brahimi, but ice is breaking slowlyThu Jan 30 2014 - 01:00
Warring factions hit deadlock in Syrian peace talksUN envoy encouraged that parties wish to continue talksWed Jan 29 2014 - 01:00
Syrian talks hit impasse as mission to Homs stallsGovernment plan for expanded national unity government headed by President Bashar al-Assad rejectedTue Jan 28 2014 - 01:00
Women and children to be allowed to leave HomsAid waiting outside rebel-held Syrian city as peace talks in Geneva stallMon Jan 27 2014 - 01:00
Syrian talks to begin in earnestBrahimi achieves major breakthrough in bringing both sides face to faceSat Jan 25 2014 - 01:05
Sides edge towards direct talks on Syria after mediationUN meetings lay groundwork for further talks with delegations this morningFri Jan 24 2014 - 01:00
Montreux talks still far from crossing great divide on SyriaThere was little goodwill amid plain disagreement at yesterday’s talks in the Swiss cityThu Jan 23 2014 - 01:00
Bitter exchanges as Syria summit beginsStark divisions in Montreux over Assad’s role in country’s futureThu Jan 23 2014 - 01:00
Obama and Putin speak on eve of peace talksNo agreement between two leaders on desired outcome of Syria summit in MontreuxWed Jan 22 2014 - 01:00
Assad tells Russians he plans to stay in powerSyrian president rejects stepping down ahead of peace talks brokered by Washington and MoscowMon Jan 20 2014 - 01:00
Egyptian regime under pressure to switch order of electionsThe landslide approval of a new constitution will increase calls for presidential poll to be held before a parliament is electedSat Jan 18 2014 - 01:00
Egyptian voters approve new constitutionMilitary maintains budgetary independenceFri Jan 17 2014 - 01:00
Egyptians show no sign of election fatigue at third constitutional pollThe referendum is being seen as an endorsement of Morsi’s oustingThu Jan 16 2014 - 01:03
Egyptians vote for their future on first day of constitutional referendumVoters are upbeat at some polling stations; at others the mood is seriousWed Jan 15 2014 - 01:00
Low turnout predicted in Egyptian referendum on divisive constitutionAllies of the Muslim Brotherhood have threatened to attack polling stationsTue Jan 14 2014 - 01:00
Egypt’s military chief to consider standing in elections to select Morsi successor later in yearGen Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi urges Egyptians to vote in force for new constitutionMon Jan 13 2014 - 01:00
Syrian opposition fails to agree on peace talks delegationAlmost 500 people killed in eight days of fighting between insurgents and jihadisFri Jan 10 2014 - 19:46
Syrian rebels seize headquarters of al-Qaeda-linked factionAs Qatar, Saudia Arabia and UAE compete for influence, National Coalition postpones peace conference decisionThu Jan 09 2014 - 01:00
Iraqi PM urges people to drive out al-QaedaAppeal to Falluja as Sunni tribesmen fight to retake areas of nearby RamadiTue Jan 07 2014 - 01:00
Kingdom is world’s 20th largest importerDeeply conservative country is major market for European goodsTue Jan 07 2014 - 01:00
