DAMASCUS (AFP) - (AFP) - At least 10 people were shot dead as thousands of Syrians took to the streets to rally against President Bashar al-Assad on the first Friday of Ramadan in support of the protest hub of Hama, activists said.
"Seven people were killed in Irbin, another in Maadamiya (both towns near the capital) and two in Homs," Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human [...]

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - (AFP) - The United Nations condemned on Wednesday the Syrian government's deadly crackdown on protests and called for those responsible to be held "accountable," as tanks stormed the protest hub of Hama.
A Security Council statement agreed after weeks of often-acrimonious talks said the body "condemns the widespread violations of human rights and the use of force against [...]

DAMASCUS (AFP) - (AFP) - Syrian security forces pressed on with a deadly crackdown on dissent Tuesday as the Security Council held more talks on Syria and the UN chief said President Bashar al-Assad has "lost all sense of humanity".
Three more people were killed Tuesday in Hama, activists said, a day after Assad's tanks shelled the city following a bloody Sunday in which about 140 people were k [...]

DAMASCUS (AFP) - (AFP) - Syria's defiant president praised his troops on Monday as the army pressed on with a deadly crackdown on anti-regime dissent, even as international condemnation swelled ahead of a UN meeting on the crisis.
The Security Council was to hold closed consultations from 2100 GMT, a spokesman for the council presidency said, following demands from European powers to condemn Pr [...]

DAMASCUS (AFP) - (AFP) - Syrian forces killed nearly 140 people on Sunday including 100 when the army stormed the flashpoint protest city of Hama to crush dissent on the eve of Ramadan, activists said.
Activists said it was one of deadliest days in Syria since demonstrators first took to the streets on March 15 demanding democratic reforms before turning their wrath on the regime and calling fo [...]

DAMASCUS (AFP) - (AFP) - Syrian troops shot dead three people who stoned a massive military convoy Saturday as it headed to quash growing anti-regime dissent in the eastern oil hub of Deir Ezzor, an activist said.
Meanwhile a man identifying himself as a Syrian army colonel told AFP in Nicosia that he had defected and has "hundreds" of troops under his command ready to confront the regular army [...]

DAMASCUS (AFP) - (AFP) - Security forces shot dead at least four civilians and wounded dozens more as thousands of Syrians gathered Friday to call for regime change and to chide world powers for inaction in the face of a brutal crackdown.
Responding to a call under the slogan "Your silence is killing us," the protesters emerged from mosques in cities around the country, rights activists said.
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DAMASCUS (AFP) - (AFP) - Syrian forces have turned the screws in their clampdown on a democracy movement, arresting more than 100 people including two leading activists, rights groups said Thursday, on the eve of more mass rallies.
Security forces armed with machine guns and other weapons arrived in the town of Qatana, 25 kilometres (15 miles) south of Damascus, on pickup trucks and carried out [...]

DAMASCUS (AFP) - (AFP) - Syrian forces pursued a deadly crackdown on anti-regime dissent Wednesday, killing 11 people in a "vengeance" raid near Damascus and arresting hundreds outside the capital, activists said.
The latest violence came as some 200 Syrian youth activists opened a four-day meeting in Istanbul, to discuss ways of improving coordination among groups seeking to topple President B [...]

DAMASCUS (AFP) - (AFP) - Syria's government has adopted a draft law authorising multipartism in a move that could allow for a change in power in the Arab country ruled for decades by the Baath party, a report said Monday.
The law was adopted by the government during the night, the official SANA news agency reported.
The government "adopted a draft law regarding political parties in Syria as pa [...]