USA TODAY | Obama team: Russia sending attack helicopters to Syria USA TODAY By David Jackson, USA TODAY The Obama administration expressed concern today about reports that Russia plans to send attack helicopters to aid the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad as it battles rebel forces. "We are concerned about the latest ... Clinton says Russia is sending gunships to Syria, could escalate conflict ... Peacekeepers attacked in Syria as US accuses Russia of supporting regime Syria Called Civil War as Russia Ships Attack Choppers |
Globe and Mail | Syria tips toward civil war Globe and Mail As a recent flurry of reports from Syria – shipments of Russian helicopter gunships, assaults on children, UN observers under fire – suggest a desperate regime, the UN is confirming that Damascus is losing its grip on its own land. UN peacekeeping chief calls Syria conflict a civil war Syria conflict now a civil war, UN peacekeeping chief says Syria Is in a Civil War, Says UN; Clinton Says Solution Must Be Political |
USA TODAY | Syrian crowds attack UN observers USA TODAY BEIRUT (AP) – The United Nations says members of its observer team in Syria were attacked by angry crowds as they tried to reach an embattled mountain village near President Bashar Assad's hometown. The vehicles also were later shot at. UN Observers in Syria Attacked Near Besieged Town UN concerned over Syria violence escalation UN observers in Syria shot at, attacked by crowds |
CBS News | UN adds Syria to list of countries killing children Reuters By Michelle Nichols and Louis Charbonneau | UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syrian government forces and allied militia have killed, maimed, tortured and detained children as young as 9 years old, the United Nations said on Tuesday as Syria debuted on its ... UN: Syria using children as human shields Syria Troops Used Children As Human Shields, UN Report Says Syrian children used as shields: UN |
Voice of America | Britain Warns Syria Follows Path of Balkans Voice of America LONDON - Britain has warned that Syria risks becoming "the next Bosnia." British Foreign Secretary William Hague said the Syrian government's use of heavy weapons against the population, and the lack of intervention by the outside world, risks a civil ... Hague is focused on 'peaceful transition' in Syria |
AFP | Syria firestorm proving too fierce for Annan's cooling touch Reuters By Matthew Tostevin | JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Scarred by his failure to stop Rwanda's genocide nearly two decades ago, Kofi Annan faces another bloody debacle on his watch as his mediation efforts founder in Syria. Steeped in a culture of seeking ... Annan wants powers to 'twist arms' over Syria Syrian crowds attack UN observers Monitors Turn Back From Besieged Syrian Enclave |
Voice of America | Heavy Fighting Kills 34 in Syria, UN Monitors Blocked Voice of America US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday the US is concerned about reports Russia is sending attack helicopters to Syria. She also said Russia's claims that its arms shipments to Syria are unrelated to the conflict are "patently untrue. Syria Now Embroiled in Civil War According to U.N. Officials |
Christian Science Monitor | US: Syria plotting more massacres, but intervening would make it worse Christian Science Monitor By Ariel Zirulnick, Staff writer / June 12, 2012 This video image taken from amateur video and broadcast by Bambuser/Homslive shows a series of devastating explosions rocking the central Syrian city of Homs, Syria, Monday, June 11. Angry crowd blocks UN observer team in Syria Syrian rebels smuggle civilians from battered Haffeh Angry crowds block Syria monitors in Haffeh, shots fired |
The Guardian | Syrian national Olympic committee chief faces London 2012 ban The Guardian Britain is poised to ban the head of Syria's national Olympic committee (NOC) from attending the London games next month but allow a young showjumper with close family ties to the regime of Bashar al-Assad to compete as planned. Syria general 'faces Olympic ban' |
In Syrian countryside, residents fear growing sectarian violence Kansas City Star By DAVID ENDERS QUBEIR, Syria -- The lone family that had returned to Syria's devastated village of Qubeir wasn't planning to stay long. "We will abandon this place," said a middle-aged man, who said he was one of the handful of survivors of a mass ... SYRIA WITNESS: Traveling to the Dark Side of the Nation |