Mubarak sentenced to three years for embezzlementRuling against former Egyptian president comes ahead of election next weekThu May 22 2014 - 00:21
Iraq PM Nouri al-Maliki’s bloc wins most seats but still short of majorityBlocs commanded by Shia fundamentalist rivals came a distant second and thirdTue May 20 2014 - 01:00
Kerry to meet opposition head and ‘Friends of Syria’ in LondonMove to revive diplomatic option for resolving conflictThu May 15 2014 - 01:00
Presidential election campaign begins in Syria as Aleppo still under siegeAssad expected to win by landslide in June voteMon May 12 2014 - 01:00
Homs back in Syrian government hands as rebels evacuatedHandover of Old City a serious defeat for oppositionThu May 8 2014 - 01:00
Turkey denies accusations of promoting ethnic cleansing of Armenians in northern Syria3,500 people, mainly Armenian Christians, flee north Syrian town after rebel attackFri Apr 25 2014 - 01:00
Syrian election will hamper peace efforts, says UNOpposition says it will not return to talks if Assad is re-electedTue Apr 22 2014 - 17:04
Syrian presidential poll set for June 3rdOpposition activist says rebels accept Bashar al-Assad will remain in power for forseeable future and could regain control of most of the countryTue Apr 22 2014 - 01:00
Access for aid agencies becomes matter of life and death in SyriaAid agencies are being hampered by lack of access, trust and fundsMon Apr 21 2014 - 01:00
Syria’s battered third city still manages to functionThe situation has improved due, in part, to recent truce negotiationsSat Apr 19 2014 - 01:00
Reconciliation minister has a ‘complete vision’ for solving crisisHaidar says international community is key to Syrian sides working togetherSat Apr 19 2014 - 01:00
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 8 2014 - 18:25
Number of registered Syrian refugees in Lebanon over one millionTotal number, including unregistered refugees, form 37% of Lebanon’s populationFri Apr 4 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 7 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 6 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 4 2014 - 01:00
Barrel bombs dropped on Aleppo kill over 80 peopleSyrian army steps up bombardment of rebel-held areaMon Feb 3 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