VIENNA (AFP) - The UN atomic watchdog voted Thursday to report Syria to the United Nations Security Council over allegations it built an undeclared nuclear reactor that was then destroyed by Israeli bombs, diplomats said.
At a closed-door meeting of the 35-member board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, 17 countries voted in favour of a corresponding resolution [...]
DAMASCUS (AFP) - Pro-democracy activists vowed more protests against President Bashar al-Assad for Friday, as witnesses reported a convoy of troops and tanks heading for a flashpoint town in northwest Syria.
Ahead of the tanks and soldiers reported converging on Jisr al-Shughur, a centre of earlier bloodshed, hundreds of the town's residents were fleeing to Turkey, the nearest foreign haven.
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DAMASCUS (AFP) - The US on Wednesday threw its weight behind a UN resolution condemning Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime over a bloody crackdown on demonstrations, as refugees fled a protest hub fearing reprisals.
State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters ahead of a 1900 GMT Security Council meeting on Syria that Washington was "trying to convince others in the [...]
DAMASCUS (AFP) - A Syrian town braced for a military assault Tuesday as international pressure piled on President Bashar al-Assad's regime amid reports his envoy to France had quit in solidarity with protesters.
Dissidents warned of a harsh backlash as troops headed for the northwest town of Jisr al-Shughur after the authorities said 120 policemen had been massacred there by "armed [...]
MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights (AFP) - In Majdal Shams, a quiet hilltown in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, residents voiced mixed feelings as demonstrators from Syria charged towards the ceasefire line on Sunday.
Some found it inspiring to see hundreds of protesters braving Israeli gunfire to try and breach the armistice fence.
But others, wary of the economic downturn the Druze [...]
VIENNA (AFP) - UN atomic watchdog chief Yukiya Amano turned up the heat on Syria and Iran -- both accused of illicit nuclear activity -- as the body's policy-making board of governors began meeting here Monday.
Tehran and Damascus are both accused of actively blocking the International Atomic Energy Agency's long-running investigations into illegal nuclear activity.
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DAMASCUS (AFP) - Thirty-eight people were killed in clashes in two days in northwest Syria, a rights activist said on Sunday, as dissidents meeting in Brussels called for the isolation of President Bashar al-Assad.
"Thirty-eight people were killed in shootings in the region of Jisrash Shughur, 10 yesterday and 28 today," Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the London-based Syrian Observatory [...]
MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights (AFP) - Israeli troops opened fire as protesters from Syria stormed a ceasefire line in the occupied Golan Heights, with Damascus saying 23 demonstrators were killed.
Hundreds of protesters rushed the ceasefire line, cutting through barbed wire as they tried to enter the Golan Heights in a repeat of demonstrations last month that saw thousands mass along [...]
VIENNA (AFP) - The UN atomic watchdog opens a week-long meeting Monday, with the United States and its western allies looking to pass a resolution against Syria over its alleged illicit nuclear activity.
The traditional June session of the International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-member board of governors has a heavy agenda, ranging from the upcoming two-year budget to the nuclear di [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said on Monday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may be encouraging unrest on the Israel-Syria frontier in a futile effort to save his regime.
"We have no choice, we have to defend our border and Assad, in my opinion will fall in the end," said Barak a day after hundreds of protesters from Syria tried to cross into the Israel [...]
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