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What's really going on in Syria?
15/05/2012 - World news explained

What's really going on in Syria?

The constant stream of information coming out of Syria would seem to suggest that people outside the country are getting an informed picture of what's happening there. But are we?

30/04/2012 - Report: Syria

Red Crescent death - Syrian medics say they're being targeted

The UN envoy to Syria, Major General Robert Mood, is now in Damascus, at the head of a 30-person observer force, to monitor a more than two-week-old ceasefire which so far has failed to stop ...

25/04/2012 - Report: Jordan - Syria

Where's the aid? Syrian refugees in Jordan ask

A day after a Swiss humanitarian envoy praised efforts to help Syrian refugees in the town of Mafraq, north of Amman, refugees told RFI that they are not receiving enough food.

19/04/2012 - Syria - France

Russia says Syria meeting in Paris will isolate Assad, damage chances of peace

Russia has decided not to attend Thursday’s talks on Syria in Paris, saying they could isolate the Syrian regime and damage the chances of peace, though France says the talks will send a ...

Syrian army fights rebel-held town
18/04/2012 - International report

Syrian army fights rebel-held town

The Syrian town of Al-Qusayr is under the control of the opposition Free Syrian Army.

16/04/2012

French press review 16 April 2012

This day week we'll know the names of the two finalists in the great French presidential race.

10/04/2012 - France - Syria

Syria is not implementing peace plan, says France

France said on Tuesday that Syria was not implementing a UN and Arab League-backed peace plan despite assurances from Damascus that it had started pulling troops out of certain provinces.

Doubts remain over Syria's proposed withdrawal
03/04/2012 - World news explained

Doubts remain over Syria's proposed withdrawal

The UN-Arab League envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan, says Syria has agreed to "immediately" start pulling troops out of protest cities by 10 April.

02/04/2012 - Report: Syria - Uganda

Arab spring dominates debate at Inter Parliamentary Union assembly in Kampala

Syria and events in the Middle East and North Africa - MENA - dominated debate at a standing committee of the Inter Parliamentary Union ...

01/04/2012

European press review

In Syria former UN secretary general Kofi Annan has brokered a plan to stop the fighting - but will it work? Spanish unions call a general strike. Ireland prepares to vote on another ...

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