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  • Blast near UN monitors as Syria deaths mount

    Blast near UN monitors as Syria deaths mount

    A rocket-propelled grenade exploded near a team of UN observers in a Damascus suburb Sunday, the military said, as dozens of people were killed in violence while clashes raged between regime troops and armed rebels.

    May 21, 2012
  • Suicide blast hits Syria

    Suicide blast hits Syria

    A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb in eastern Syria on Saturday killing nine people, as G8 leaders called for a "political transition" in Syria and an end to violence that has claimed an estimated 12,000 lives.

    May 20, 2012
  • Regime forces fire on huge Syria protests

    Regime forces fire on huge Syria protests

    Regime forces fired on protesters who took to the streets of Aleppo on Friday, wounding several people at the biggest rally seen in Syria's second city since a revolt erupted last year, a watchdog said.

    May 19, 2012
  • Syria accused of new 'massacre'

    Syria accused of new 'massacre'

    Syrian forces were accused of summarily executing 15 civilians, as members of a UN team of observers were evacuated from a shelled town the day after a bomb blast hit their convoy.

    May 17, 2012
  • UN convoy attacked in Syria

    UN convoy attacked in Syria

    A convoy of UN truce observers came under bomb attack in a Syrian town on Tuesday during a funeral procession in which a monitoring group said regime forces "massacred" 20 people.

    May 16, 2012
  • Syria troops storm village, truce in tatters

    Syria troops storm village, truce in tatters

    Troops stormed a village in central Syria on Sunday and rained shells on rebel strongholds Douma and Rastan, monitors said, as a UN-backed truce entered a second month looking in tatters.

    May 14, 2012
  • Syria violence kills 15 as UN mission grows

    Syria violence kills 15 as UN mission grows

    Violence in Syria cost at least 15 lives on Saturday as a UN force to oversee a truce neared half its planned strength, monitors said.

    May 13, 2012
  • Syria violence kills four

    Syria violence kills four

    Violence in Syria killed four civilians on Saturday, one of them a woman, a rights watchdog said, even as a UN mission charged with overseeing a battered truce neared half its planned strength.

    May 12, 2012
  • Syria 'foils' Aleppo suicide attack

    Syria 'foils' Aleppo suicide attack

    Tens of thousands of protesters defied Syrian regime gunfire and took to the streets Friday, as state TV said the army foiled a would-be suicide attack a day after twin bombings in Damascus killed dozens.

    May 12, 2012
  • Blast hits UN observer convoy in Syria

    Blast hits UN observer convoy in Syria

    A roadside bomb wounded six troops escorting UN observers in Syria Wednesday, prompting UN chief Ban Ki-moon to say that such attacks imperil the future of the hard-won monitoring mission.

    May 10, 2012
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