CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo on Saturday are to warn Syria they will no longer remain silent on its deadly crackdown on dissent, an Arab diplomat said.
The meeting, being held in the absence of Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem, was to move first to re-admit Libya in the presence of the rebel government's prime minister Mahmud Jibril, who was in Cairo.
The [...]

DAMASCUS (AFP) - (AFP) - Syrians will have to tighten their belts if protests against President Bashar Al-Assad remain unabated and US and European sanctions bite, the country's top banker told AFP in an interview.
"It will be more and more difficult because of sanctions and the events. We will have to tighten our belts," said Adib Mayaleh, the governor of Syria's Central Bank.
"The main hit h [...]

DAMASCUS (AFP) - (AFP) - Security forces killed at least three people as they opened fire on protesters who rallied in their tens of thousands across Syria on the last Friday of Ramadan, vowing again to bring down the regime.
A fourth man died Friday in detention, his family told rights groups.
Spurred by calls posted on the Internet, protesters flooded the streets in the north, centre and sou [...]

DAMASCUS (AFP) - (AFP) - Security forces shot dead a woman and beat up Syria's best-known political cartoonist on Thursday, a day after violence in which 11 civilians and eight soldiers were killed, activists said.
The woman was shot dead during a military operation in a village near the eastern oil hub of Deir Ezzor, 460 kilometres (285 miles) northeast of Damascus, said the Britain-based Syri [...]

DAMASCUS (AFP) - (AFP) - Eight Syrian soldiers, including an army officer, have been killed in separate attacks in the country's central province of Homs, the official SANA news agency reported Thursday.
"In an ambush Wednesday afternoon at (the town of) Talbisa, terrorists fired on a military bus killing one officer and two soldiers and wounding seven others," said a military official quoted b [...]

DAMASCUS (AFP) - (AFP) - Security forces shot dead a woman and beat up Syria's best-known political cartoonist on Thursday, a day after violence in which 11 civilians and eight soldiers were killed, activists said.
The woman was shot dead during a military operation in a village near the eastern oil hub of Deir Ezzor, 460 kilometres (285 miles) northeast of Damascus, said the Britain-based Syri [...]

GENEVA (AFP) - (AFP) - The UN Human Rights Council called on the Syrian regime on Monday to halt its brutal crackdown on anti-government protests which has already left 2,200 people dead.
Opening the emergency session, UN rights chief Navi Pillay told the council: "The gravity of on-going violations and the brutal attacks against the peaceful protesters in that country demand your continued att [...]

DAMASCUS (AFP) - (AFP) - A UN humanitarian team has arrived in Syria to assess crisis needs as President Bashar al-Assad prepared to speak to the nation Sunday, amid global pressure to end a brutal crackdown on protesters.
"Most of the team is in place in Syria now," a UN humanitarian department spokeswoman, Amanda Pitt, told AFP late Saturday. It was not known when the experts would start thei [...]