In an interview with CBS's "60 Minutes," the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, said he would be in support of Arab military intervention in Syria. His comments come in the time of rising violence in Syria. Although ...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy requested that Syrian authorities  "shed light" on the attack against the convoy transporting journalists, among them Gilles Jacquier who was killed. A source close to the President declared that they believed  a manipulation occurred, but emphasized that there is ...

Amid continued civil unrest in Syria, the first Western journalist was killed. Gilles Jacques, a journalist from France who also covered conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, was one of eight people killed in an attack at a pro-government ...

An Arab League Monitor, Anwar Malek has resigned from the observer mission, declaring it to be a farce and describing Syria as a "humanitarian disaster." Malek believed the mission was not acting independently of the government, and was actually serving ...

  In Cairo, the Arab League foreign ministers have agreed to increase the number of monitors in Syria. Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim al-Thani, also head of the ministerial committee of the Arab League, has called Syria to ...

Following the Arab League observatory mission's initial visit to Homs, the head of the monitoring group Sudanese General Mustafa Dabi said, "Some places looked a bit of a mess but there was nothing frightening." Dabi added that "the ...

Clashes between Syrian loyalist troops and army deserters killed or wounded at least 100 defected soldiers, many of whom were killed as they attempted to defect, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. "After clashes that ...

Syria has agreed to allow an Arab observer mission into the country after Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad signedthe protocol at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo. According to Arab League Secretary General Nabil al-Arabi, the first group of ...

As the Arab League plans to meet in Cairo on Wednesday, the regional bloc is considering asking the U.N. Security Council to adopt a peace plan aimed at ending the violence in Syria.  As the League has ...

In an interview with Al-Jazeera, U.N. Secretary General  Ban Ki-moon blamed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for the events that have transpired over the past eight months. He stated that "As a leader of Syria is responsible for all that ...

Violence has escalated in Syria ahead of another Arab League deadline, leaving 35 people dead. The Arab League threatened further sanctions if Syria did not accept international human rights observers into the country, and gave Syria until Sunday ...

Lebanon's Prime Minsiter Najib Mikati said he transferred funding to the U.N. backed court investigating the assisnation of former PM Rafik Hariri. The $36 million of required funding for the Netherlands-based court was made on Wednesday, as Mikati stated  “it ...

After the Syrian government missed a deadline set by the Arab League to accept human rights observers, the League gave the government 24 hours to accept observers or face economic sanctions. The League's proposed plan called for ...

The Arab League rejected proposed amendments from Syria to sending monitors in an effort to end the violence.  In a letter released by the League stated, "The additions requested by the Syrian counterpart affect the heart of ...

Despite a deadline set by the Arab League to end the violent crackdown in Syria to expire on Saturday, violence escalated in Syria. 14 civilians were killed in in clashes with security forces, including two army defectors, ...

The Assad Regime conditionally accepted the Arab League's demands to allow international observers into the country. Despite this conditional acceptance, the regime stated that they had amendments to the Arab League's proposal including "that human rights activists ...