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February 26, 2013
4:41 pm

A Syrian woman walks past a house destroyed from a government airstrike in Idlib, Syria, on Monday February 25, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

More than 70 reported dead in latest Syria fighting

Battle for police academy used as a military base continues in largely destroyed city of Aleppo

February 26, 2013
12:21 am

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem (photo credit: AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)

Syrian FM: Damascus prepared to talk with rebels

In Moscow, Walid al-Moallem extends olive branch to insurgents in first sign of regime’s willingness to negotiate end to conflict

By RYAN LUCAS

February 24, 2013
11:41 pm

An illustrative photo of a Syrian villager writing the name of his granddaughter (who was killed by an airstrike by Syrian government forces) on her grave near the village of Sarja, in Idlib, Syria, on Sunday. (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

Prominent Syrian comedian killed in Damascus

Yassin Bakoush, who often played likeable but naive and dim-witted characters, hit in rebel-regime crossfire

February 20, 2013
6:31 pm

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, center, and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov in Moscow in April 2012 (photo credit: AP)

Russia, Arab League push for Syria conflict talks

Mortars strike Damascus soccer stadium, killing one player

February 18, 2013
9:29 pm

A Free Syrian Army fighter walks past destroyed shops in Aleppo, Syria, on Friday, February 8, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Abdullah Al-Yassin)

Syrian rebels gain ground near key airport

Aleppo field is country’s second largest, and valued as strategic target; military base, fuel station now in rebel hands

February 16, 2013
3:23 pm

Anti-regime protesters hold a caricature placard during a demonstration in Idlib province, Syria, on Friday (photo credit: AP/Edlib News Network ENN)

Syria: Hundreds taken in tit-for-tat kidnappings

Pro-Assad gunmen seize over 300 people in Sunni-majority Idlib province, presumably in retaliation for abduction of 42 Shi’ites

By Bassem Mroue

February 15, 2013
10:29 pm

A Free Syrian Army fighter sits behind an anti-aircraft weapon in Aleppo, Syria (photo credit: AP/Abdullah al-Yassin)

150 killed in clashes near Syrian airport

Rebels have fought for months to capture Aleppo’s airport, which contains a military airbase and army base defending the area

By AP

February 15, 2013
3:01 pm

Syrians who fled their homes with their families gather around a fire to warm themselves at a makeshift vegetable store in a camp for displaced persons in the village of Atmeh, Syria in December. (photo credit: AP/Muhammed Muheisen)

Not even the Nazis did what Assad’s doing, says ex-Syrian PM

Defected leader claims Iran is ‘actively running’ Syria days after reports surfaced that Islamic Republic, Hezbollah are building networks of militias there

By Michal Shmulovich

February 14, 2013
3:01 pm

Smoke rises from the Aleppo International Airport earlier this month (photo credit: AP/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

Syrian rebels fight for Aleppo’s airport

Regime fighter planes pound area in attempt to counter advances

February 13, 2013
3:20 am

Syrian rebels advance on Aleppo airport

Captured airfield on perimeter houses regime fighter jets used in airstrikes on rebel-held areas

February 12, 2013
1:04 pm

A statue of Hafez Assad, father of Syrian President Bashar Assad, burns after being set on fire by rebel fighters inside the grounds of the General Company of the Euphrates Dam in al-Raqqa, Syria, on Monday, February 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)

Rebels capture air base in northern Syria

Airfield seizure comes day after anti-Assad fighters took control of country’s largest dam

February 11, 2013
2:29 pm

A Free Syrian Army fighter sits behind an anti-aircraft weapon, February 8, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Abdullah al-Yassin)

Syrian rebels capture major dam

Rebels led by al-Qaeda-linked group Jabhat al-Nusra now control much of water flow in country’s north and east

February 8, 2013
5:21 pm

Smoke and fire rising on a main highway in Damascus, Syria on Friday, February 8 (photo credit: AP/Ugarit News)

Syrian rebels close in on capital, block key highway

‘This is not the battle for Damascus. This battle is to prepare for the entry into Damascus,’ says an opposition spokesman

By Ben Hubbard

February 8, 2013
1:47 pm

A Syrian woman sits on the ruins of her house, which was destroyed in a recent government airstrike that killed 11 members of her family, in Aleppo, Syria, on Thursday (photo credit: AP/Abdullah al-Yassin)

Bus stop bombing kills 54 in Syria

Assad’s air force bombs roads surrounding Damascus, rebels say