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UN unanimously adopts Syria aid resolution

The UN Security Council has adopted a unanimous but non-binding resolution, calling for humanitarian aid convoys to be allowed access across war-torn Syria, but diplomats immediately voiced doubt about its effectiveness. Syria's staunch ally Russia, with support from China, has...

Syrian army steps up bombardment of southern province

The Syrian army on Friday intensified its aerial bombardment of southern Syria as opposition fighters were preparing to launch a wide offensive in a province bordering Jordan, activists said. The Local Coordination Committees opposition network and an anti-government activist in the area...

Fighting rages in northeast Damascus

Fierce clashes raged Friday between Syrian troops and rebels in northeastern Damascus as government warplanes raided insurgent strongholds, a monitoring group said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least seven rebels were killed in regime shelling and air...

Syria offers to help Lebanon fight ‘terrorism’

The Syria regime of embattled President Bashar al-Assad is ready to lend neighboring Lebanon a hand in combatting terrorism, the Syrian state-run agency reported late Thursday. The Syrian Interior Ministry stressed its readiness to help Lebanon “in the fields of counter terrorism, pursuing...