The State Department on Tuesday described as barbaric Syria's reported use of tanks, arbitrary arrests and cuts in power and communications in the city of Deraa, where anti-government protests erupted six weeks ago.Full story
The Red Cross called on Syria on Tuesday to allow health workers safe access to people injured in bloody protests, especially in the southern city of Deraa, and let it visit those who have been arrested. Full story
Syrian troops went door-to-door in cities and towns across the nation Monday, arresting scores of people in a campaign of intimidation aimed at crushing an uprising against President Bashar Assad's authoritarian regime, activists said. Full story
Syrian anti-government protesters hold banners calling for an end to a military siege in Nawa near the southern town of Daraa, the epicentre of protests that have shaken President Bashar al-Assad's once uncontested rule, on April 28, 2011. A defiant Syria vowed to restore "security and stability" de
A man throws a rock at a passing tank in a location given as Deraa on April 25, 2011, in this still image from an amateur video. Syrian troops in tanks and armoured vehicles poured into the southern town Deraa and opened fire on Monday, residents said, in the latest bloodshed in a crackdown on prote
A combination photo shows a man throwing a rock at a passing tank in a location given as Deraa in still images taken from an amateur video on April 25, 2011. Syrian troops in tanks and armoured vehicles poured into the southern town Deraa and opened fire on Monday, residents said, in the latest bloo
-- A file picture dated March 23, 2011 shows Tyres burning along a street in Daraa, 100 kms south of the capital Damascus. Syria braced on April 5, 2011 for the start of "Martyrs Week", a series of rallies organised by a Facebook group in honour of those killed in security clampdowns on pro-reform
Hundreds of Syrians march from the Omayyed mosque in the centre of Damascus' Old City towards Souk Al-Hamadiyeh street on March 25, 2011 chanting "Daraa is Syria" and "We will sacrifice ourselves for Syria," as protests spread in Syria from the opposition's southern epicentre of Daraa to Damascus an
