An Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander has been killed inside Syria by rebels battling Iran\’s close ally President Bashar Assad, Iranian officials and a rebel leader said on Thursday.
Iran told Israel on Monday it would regret its air strike against Syria last week, without spelling out whether Iran or its ally planned any military response.
More than 60,000 people have died in Syria\’s uprising and civil war, the United Nations said on Wednesday, dramatically raising the death toll in a struggle that shows no sign of ending.
Syrian rebels said on Wednesday they had begun arming sympathetic Palestinians to fight a pro-Assad faction in a Palestinian enclave in Damascus – a move which could fuel spiraling intra-Palestinian violence.
Syrian jets bombed parts of Damascus on Monday in what residents said were the capital\’s fiercest air raids yet, at the end of what was supposed to be a four-day truce.
A bomber killed three of Bashar Assad\’s top military officials on Wednesday – including his powerful brother-in-law – in a devastating blow to the Syrian leader\’s inner circle as rebels closed in vowing to \”liberate\” the capital.
Syria\’s defense minster and several other government officials were killed or hurt by a suicide bomber in Damascus, a day after Israel\’s army intelligence chief said that President Bashar Assad had moved his troops from the Golan Heights to the capital.
Western powers brushed aside Russian criticism of a U.S.-drafted Security Council resolution authorizing an advance team of U.N. observers to monitor Syria\’s fragile ceasefire and said on Friday they hoped to put it to a vote this weekend.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday he deplores the cross-border shootings from Syria into Turkey and Lebanon ahead of a ceasefire deadline in the yearlong conflict that has pushed Syria to the brink of civil war.
Syrian artillery pounded rebel-held areas of Homs as President Bashar al-Assad\’s government announced that voters had overwhelmingly approved a new constitution in a referendum derided as a sham by his critics at home and abroad.
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