#crackdown

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhai Jun said Beijing opposed armed intervention and forced "regime change" in Syria, a ...

Shutting Damascus out of talks to end the brutal crackdown in Syria would be a mistake, Russian Foreign Minister ...

Switzerland has decided to close its embassy in Damascus and called on all Swiss citizens to immediately leave Syria, ...

The Arab League intends to restart its observer mission in Syria where government forces have killed thousands of ...

Iran on Sunday welcomed the Russian and Chinese veto on a UN Security Council resolution condemning its ally Syria for ...

Russia, a permanent veto-wielding member of the UN Security Council, will reject any use of sanctions or deployment of ...

Syria is ready to let Arab monitors extend their mission beyond this week, an Arab League source said, but U.S. ...

UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged the Security Council to act on Syria as President Bashar al-Assad came under new ...

Syria`s President Bashar al-Assad has decreed a general amnesty for crimes committed during unrest in the country over ...

Russia warned the West on Friday that new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme will be seen by the world ...

The United States believes Iran is supplying munitions to aid Syria`s bloody protest crackdown in an initiative ...

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon travels to Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates this month, where he will discuss the ...

A woman writer was sentenced to five years in prison in Vietnam for spreading anti-government propaganda, state media ...

China said Thursday police killed seven "terrorists" who took hostages in the nation`s restive Xinjiang region during ...

China on Thursday expressed its support for Arab monitors in protest-hit Syria, after France charged the team had not ...