CNN's Ivan Watson reports from Istanbul on Syria's declining circle of friends and Turkey's efforts to isolate al-Assad.
In Homs, snipers line the streets, cornering civilians who fear death and starvation. Anderson Cooper reports.
Some of the bravest, noblest women and men I have met are members of the United States armed forces. To them, military intervention is not about winning a debate on television or sounding smart on Twitter. With the United Nations ruling out support for military options to stop the bloodbath in Homs in Syria, leading U.S. commentators are calling for NATO and the Arab League to intervene militarily.
CNN's Anderson Cooper talks with activist Abu Abdo about the violence in Syria.
Doctors Without Borders accuses the government of denying even the most basic care to the wounded in Syria.
The Pentagon starts an internal review of U.S. military capabilities in Syria. CNN's Barbara Starr reports.
Amid growing outrage over civilian casualties in Syria, there are ever more urgent calls to aid -- or at least protect -- the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. There is renewed talk of creating safe havens and humanitarian corridors inside the country. And those demanding tougher measures are again asking why events in Syria should not prompt Libyan-style intervention by NATO and its Arab allies.
Leaders in the U.S. are considering their options when it comes to stopping violence in Syria.
A low-slung skyline. A slate gray sky. Rumbling. Close your eyes. It could be the sound of rolling thunder.
John King speaks with Nicholas Burns about the increasingly difficult situations in Egypt and Syria.
The United States shuttered its embassy in Syria and pulled out its remaining staff Monday after the government refused to address its security concerns, the State Department said.
A last-ditch effort to put an end to the bloodshed in Syria failed on Saturday, with Russia and China exercising their veto at the United Nations. With that fateful decision, the conflict moved to another, more dangerous stage. Those who warn that Syria will descend into civil war are a bit behind: It is already in civil war. Now it will only intensify.
As international leaders wrestled over the weekend how to deal with the crisis in Syria, much of the nation remained engulfed in violence -- including attacks by government forces on one embattled city that the opposition Syrian National Council described as a "massacre."
United Nations Security Council members used strong language Saturday after the council vetoed a resolution condemning Syria for human rights violations and attacks against its citizens. Here are some notable remarks:
As international anger grows over reports of mass carnage at the hands of the Syrian regime, a U.N. Security Council draft resolution condemning Syria failed to be adopted Saturday after veto-wielding members Russia and China voted against it.
CNN's Jim Clancy reports the Security Council talks about Syria while conditions within the country grow worse.
More than 200 people were reported killed in Syria, hours before the U.N. Security Council was scheduled to meet and likely vote on a draft resolution intended to pressure the government there to end its months-long crackdown on demonstrators, diplomats said.
A Security Council meeting ended Thursday evening with no agreement on a draft resolution intended to pressure Syria to end its months-long crackdown on anti-government demonstrators.
Disturbing images show a family tortured and killed in Syria. CNN can't verify the authenticity of the images or report.
Security Council members ended an afternoon of private discussions Wednesday about a draft resolution on Syria still riven by major differences but expressing optimism that an agreement could be reached, participants said.
CNN's Arwa Damon explains that the fighting against the Syrian regime is intensifying around Damascus.
Rima Maktabi talks to two former regime insiders about Bashar al-Assad and Syria's future.
Ten months into the uprising in Syria, deadly clashes between opposition fighters and government forces have now spread to suburbs just 15 minutes from the heart of the capital Damascus.
The U.N. Security Council this week will take up a draft resolution proposed by Morocco that calls on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down and transfer power.
At least 64 people were killed in Syria on Sunday, according to an opposition activist group, as the Arab League suspended a monitoring mission designed to protect Syrian civilians from government-sponsored violence.
The Arab League has suspended its monitoring mission in Syria because of a sharp spike in violence, the group said Saturday, the same day opposition activists reported at least 98 deaths.
Deaths mounted in Syria on Friday as world powers in the U.N.Security Council weighed a draft resolution calling on the country's president to step down.
CNN's Arwa Damon travels to the outskirts of Syria's capital and finds the government is in less and less control.
The U.N. Security Council discussed Friday a resolution introduced by Morocco that calls on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down and transfer power to his vice president.
The U.N. Security Council will hold closed-door talks Friday afternoon on the situation in Syria, the British and French delegations reported Thursday night on their respective Twitter feeds.
CNN's Becky Anderson talks to Arwa Damon and Nic Robertson about reporting from inside Syria.
Government forces prevent a funeral while the foreign minister slams the Arab League proposal to end the Syria crisis.
The mother of an Ohio-born man is "hanging on by a thread" after her son disappeared earlier this month in violence-wracked Syria, according to family members.
In a televised address, Syria's foreign minister accused the Arab League of working against the desires of the people.
It wasn't until I left Syria that I found the voice I'd been looking for.
CNN's Nic Robertson shows the challenges and violence Arab League monitors face everyday in Syria.
The head of Arab League observers in Syria rejected criticism Monday that his team had failed to stop killing in the country, where thousands of people have died in clashes between government protesters and opposition forces demanding the end of President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
The Arab League agreed on a path forward in Syria on Sunday that instructs President Bashar al-Assad to delegate powers to his vice president following the formation of a national unity government.
The United States is considering closing its embassy in Damascus, Syria, because of security concerns, the State Department said Friday.
The U.S. government confirmed Friday the arrest of a U.S. citizen in Syria, a State Department official said.
Silence greeted CNN's Nic Robertson as he visited the tense city of Hama, Syria.
The Arab League was negotiating an extension of its fact-finding mission in Syria Thursday, with its members due to report over the weekend on what they have witnessed of a months-long government crackdown on protests.
Imad Ghalioun is the highest-ranking Syrian official to defect. CNN's Ian Lee reports.
The European Union planned new sanctions against Syria, spokesman Michael Mann said Wednesday, as opposition activists said government troops killed 21 more people in a months-long crackdown.
After more than six months of silence, Syria's leader, Bashar al-Assad, spoke last week for only the fourth time since the beginning of the country's widespread uprising in March. His words show that he is as delusional now as when the protests began.
CNN's Jim Clancy speaks with Former U.S. Ambassador to Syria, Edward Djerejian, about the crisis in there.
A member of Syria's Parliament has defected to Egypt and spoken of leaving behind a "ghost town full of horror."
Government forces killed at least 13 people in Syria on Monday, including five soldiers who died trying to defect during a firefight and five people who were shot to death waiting in line at a bakery, opposition groups said.
A criminal investigation has been launched in France into the death in Syria of a French journalist, television station France 2 said.
A Syrian opposition group demanding the end of President Bashar al-Assad's reign announced Friday that it has begun coordinating with the rebel Free Syria Army and anti-government protesters took to the streets to support the breakaway force.
CNN's Nic Robertson offers a rare look inside a crowd of thousands wanting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's ousted.
Last year, the U.N. Security Council authorized "all necessary measures" to stop the violence when the nation in question was Libya. It has come nowhere close to that on Syria, where the United Nations estimates more than 5,000 people have been killed since March. Why?
Syria's government blamed an "armed terrorist group" for the mortar attack it said killed an award-winning French journalist and eight Syrians in the strife-torn city of Homs on Wednesday.
A French journalist died Wednesday in a mortar strike on a pro-government rally in Homs, Syria.
Arab League monitors have complained about attacks on their Syria mission. CNN's Nic Robertson reports.
Opposing protests Monday highlighted Syria's new reality: The country is more divided today than it was just a few months ago.
Syria was tense Saturday as the families of the victims of a suicide bombing in the capital and lethal clashes elsewhere buried their dead, and as Syria's Christians celebrate Orthodox Christmas.
The embattled Syrian regime, reacting after a suicide bombing in the capital and continued violence in several anti-government bastions, vowed Friday to confront its foes with stern resolve as more than 60 deaths were counted across the nation.
A defector from the Syrian government tells CNN's Arwa Damon about the atrocities he says he witnessed.
Syria doesn't appear to be adhering to the Arab League's effort to end the 10-month-long violent crackdown against peaceful protesters, and the league should implement appropriate action against Bashar al-Assad's regime if it fails to comply, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said Friday.
Government officials blame the new blasts in Syria on "terrorists." CNN's Arwa Damon reports.
The popular uprising in Syria against the Alawi-led minority regime of Bashar al-Assad poses a serious challenge to U.S. national security in the Middle East.
ICG videos on the web and international voices call into question the mission of Arab League monitors sent to Syria.
Syrian officials and opposition activists blamed each other for an attack on a gas pipeline near the restive city of Homs on Tuesday, while opposition groups said more than 30 people had died in new clashes.
CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom reports on New Year's protests by opposition groups in Syria.
CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom reports on new videos purported to be out of Syria showing monitors talking with Syrians.
More than 5,800 people, including 395 children, died in 2011 during the crackdown on protests in Syria, according to an opposition activist group.
A freelance journalist whom CNN is not naming for his own safety describes struggles that Syrian civilians face in Homs.
Large-scale anti-government protests and more violence unfolded across Syria Friday as tens of thousands of demonstrators converged on public squares to protest President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
Concern grows in Syria that Arab League monitors aren't getting the access they need to assess the crackdown there.
Members of an Arab League delegation arrived Monday in Syria to look into events on the ground and whether Syria is upholding a commitment to end a brutal crackdown.
At least 38 killed outside government and security buildings in Syria. CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom reports.
Pope Benedict XVI prayed for peace in Syria, reconciliation in Myanmar, and comfort in flood-stricken Thailand and the Philippines in his annual Christmas message "To the City and the World" on Sunday.
Two powerful suicide car bombs shook the seat of Syrian power Friday in a strike the government blamed on terrorists, and opposition forces called the work of the Bashar al-Assad regime.
More violence erupted in Syria as an Arab League advance team arrived in the country Thursday to plan for an observer mission, part of a larger effort to stop the bloodshed.
As the Syrian military engages in a show of strength, CNN's Rima Maktabi details the opposition plea for intervention.
Dozens more people were reported killed by government troops and police in Syria on Tuesday, a day after what opposition activists said was the single deadliest known day of anti-government protests.
The Syrian vice president arrived Friday in Moscow to talk with Russia's foreign minister about the unrest that has roiled Syria for months, a Russian state news agency reported.
Just before Syrian security forces launched a large-scale military operation in the southern town of Daraa in the early hours of April 25, the commander of the 35th Special Forces Regiment, Brig. Gen. Ramadan Mahmoud Ramadan, allegedly gathered his troops and explained their mission. "Use heavy shooting. Nobody will ask you to explain," the brigadier said, according to "Amjad," one of the many defectors I have interviewed in the last months.
The United Nations' secretary-general called once again Wednesday for a cessation of violence in Syria and for international action.
CNN's Rima Maktabi with the tale of one man who managed to escape the brutal regime.
Pressure is growing for world leaders to respond to Syria's brutal crackdown on anti-regime protests.
From a distance, he appears to be taking a nap. His long, delicate eyelashes are closed as his head rests on a blanket.
An opposition group accuses security forces of using deadly force in Syria.. CNN's Ivan Watson reports.
Syrian opposition leader Burhan Ghalioun tells CNN's Rima Maktabi his message for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
CNN's Erin Burnett talked with Sheikh Mohammed, PM of UAE, about the Arab Spring, the world economy, Syria and Egypt.
Arab League Secretary-General Nabil el-Arabi called for a meeting of foreign ministers to consider their response to Syria's conditional agreement to allow observers into the country, according to a source close to the secretary-general.
CNN's Rima Maktabi show why Syrian government claims of having video of "terrorist gangs" isn't necessarily correct.
Syria agreed Monday to Arab League demands that it allow observers into the country, but on the condition that the group immediately drop sanctions and agree to amendments that league officials have previously rejected.
The Syrian government is conducting intensive and effective surveillance on its citizens. Ivan Watson reports.
Syria on Saturday slammed the U.N. Human Rights Council's stinging condemnation of its security crackdown, calling the resolution "unjust and blatantly politicized."
ITN's Jonathan Miller reports from Damascus, Syria, under Syrian government restrictions.
It would be hard to claim surprise at the array of sanctions which were finally imposed on the Syrian regime in the last weeks, following months of seemingly endless warnings from friends and foes alike. Yet, judging by the reaction of various officials in Damascus, the regime does seem stunned by this shock to its system, having been living in denial about the evolving situation it created.
The Arab League acted swiftly on its deadline against the Syrian regime this weekend. CNN's Nima Elbagir reports.
World pressure on the Syrian regime escalated Wednesday as Turkey announced tough economic sanctions and a leading U.N. body announced a Friday meeting on the human rights situation.
Anna Coren reports on the clashes in Syria, where activists say 100 people have been killed over the past two days.
Members of Syria's government are facing sanctions and travel restrictions over its eight-month crackdown on opposition protesters that has left, according to sources reporting to the U.N., at least 3,500 people dead. The regime is showing no indication it will soften its position, so will the isolation of President Bashar al-Assad have any effect?
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