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Destroyed homes in a government airstrike and shelling, in the neighborhood of Marjeh in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Thursday, April 11, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Aleppo Media Center)
April 12, 2013, 3:33 am
Syrian troops launch counterattack on south
‘They slaughtered any person they found,’ says rebel activist of regime offensive on Sanamein
By Bassam Mroue
Image capture from video claiming to show bodies of victims killed in Houla massacre on Friday. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)
August 15, 2012, 5:40 pm
UN panel charges Assad forces, rebels with war crimes
Human Rights Council blames Damascus and its shabiha militia for slaying of over 100 Houla villagers; violence continues across the country
Free Syrian Army members raise their weapons during a training session on the outskirts of Idlib, Syria on Thursday. (photo credit: AP)
June 8, 2012, 1:03 pm
Syrian troops shell Homs in advance of possible assault
No report on casualties; amateur videos show drones hovering over the city
Egyptian women protest in Egypt's Tahrir Square June 5 (photo credit: AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
June 7, 2012, 8:28 pm
UN sword looms over Syria
While Hosni Mubarak wilts in prison, international community may step up pressure against the Assad regime
By Elhanan Miller
Syrian President Bashar Assad delivering a speech at the parliament in Damascus (photo credit: AP/SANA)
June 7, 2012, 5:03 am
Assad reportedly offered exile in Russia
Washington Post columnist reports Assad may take refuge in Moscow as part of new diplomatic push
By Joshua Davidovich
Dead bodies following the assault on Houla, Syria, in May (photo credit: AP/Shaam News Network. AP cannot independently verify this photo)
June 1, 2012, 2:59 pm
Syrian mass atrocities and the international responsibility to protect
After all this time — after all this killing — we still do not have a UN Security Council resolution to stop the massacre
By Irwin Cotler
Dead bodies following the assault on Houla, Syria, in May (photo credit: AP/Shaam News Network. AP cannot independently verify this photo)
May 30, 2012, 10:37 pm
UN observers in Syria discover 13 bound corpses
Team leader ‘deeply disturbed by this appalling and inexcusable act’
By AP and George Potter
Anti-Assad protesters drive by the Syrian embassy in Berlin, Germany (photo credit: AP Photo/dapd/Clemens Bilan)
May 30, 2012, 1:54 pm
Following Houla, Syria is out in the cold
Editorials debate the two Egyptian candidates and Arabs fear the West may fall for Iran
By Elhanan Miller
UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi)
May 28, 2012, 2:50 pm
Kofi Annan arrives in Damascus for talks with Assad
Special UN envoy ‘shocked and horrified’ by weekend massacre in Houla
Dead bodies following the assault on Houla, Syria, in May (photo credit: AP/Shaam News Network. AP cannot independently verify this photo)
May 28, 2012, 1:33 pm
Bashar the butcher
The Israeli press deals with Syria and Iran, incoming migrants, and Gelfand’s final match in the World Chess Championships
By Ilan Ben Zion
Egyptian presidential candidates Ahmad Shafiq (left) and Muhammad Mursi (photo credit: AP Photo/Khalil Hamra; Nasser Nasser)
May 28, 2012, 11:56 am
Discomfort in Cairo
Arab editorials voice their disappointment with both Egyptian candidates, and Iraq’s Shiite leaders try to remove the prime minister
By Elhanan Miller
Nasser al-Kidwa in 2012 (photo credit: AP)
May 27, 2012, 2:28 pm
Syria denies UN and Arab League’s deputy envoy entry to Damascus
Government says it does not want to deal with Arab League, has its own investigation into the Houla assault
Foreign ministers of the 22-member Arab League meeting in March in Baghdad, Iraq (photo credit: AP/Karim Kadim)
May 27, 2012, 11:22 am
Arab League to hold emergency meeting on Syria massacre
Assad regime blames al-Qaeda for attacks that left more than 90 people dead
By Yoel Goldman
Image capture from video claiming to show bodies of victims killed in Houla massacre on Friday. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)
May 26, 2012, 9:45 pm
Global outrage following Syria massacre
‘Rule by murder and fear must come to an end,’ says Hillary Clinton in the wake of shelling that left at least 32 children, 60 adults dead
May 26, 2012, 12:16 pm
UN observers heading to Houla, after Friday’s massacre
Conflicting reports put the number of dead somewhere between 50 and 110
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