21 April 2012 Last updated at 15:44 ET The Security Council has voted to increase the number of UN observers in Syria to 300 for three months. A small UN team is currently in Syria to monitor a fragile ceasefire between government and rebel forces. The UN resolution was unanimously approved by the 15-member...
12 April 2012 Last updated at 15:00 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Hillary Clinton: “The regime’s troops and tanks have not pulled back from population centres” The UN is preparing to send monitors to Syria to observe the implementation of a ceasefire after the first day passed without major...
11 April 2012 Last updated at 14:58 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Kofi Annan: “I’ve approached governments with influence to ensure that all parties respect the ceasefire” Syria will end military operations on Thursday, state TV has said, the day a ceasefire brokered by the UN-Arab League envoy to...
10 April 2012 Last updated at 16:59 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Kofi Annan: “I believe there should be no preconditions for stopping violence” The Syrian government has failed to send a “powerful political signal of peace”, UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan has told the UN Security Council. The...
9 April 2012 Last updated at 13:50 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Jim Muir, reporting from Beirut, says there is little prospect of the ceasefire “gaining hold” Turkey has protested after Syrian forces opened fire across the border, in the first such attack since Turkey began housing refugees from...
8 April 2012 Last updated at 12:33 ET Doubts are growing about the planned ceasefire in Syria after the government made new demands and the rebels said they believed the plan would fail. As fighting raged, Damascus demanded written guarantees from the rebels to end attacks and a promise from foreign governments not to...
7 April 2012 Last updated at 16:35 ET At least 100 people have died on one of the bloodiest days in the Syrian uprising, activists say, days ahead of a ceasefire backed by the UN. Clandestine monitors inside Syria say more than 30 died in Latamneh, a suburb of the city of Hama, as...
10 March 2012 Last updated at 12:31 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The BBC’s Lina Sinjab in Damascus: ”Syria’s words are on one level and their actions are on another level completely” Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has told visiting UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan that no political dialogue can...
7 March 2012 Last updated at 15:54 ET UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos has said parts of the Syrian city of Homs have been “completely devastated”. She said that it felt like the city had been closed down entirely. Baroness Amos visited the city on Wednesday, briefly entering the bombed-out Baba Amr district. Aid...
5 March 2012 Last updated at 15:59 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. One woman told Paul Wood how two of her brothers were detained, and one was killed People fleeing the central Syrian city of Homs have told the BBC that security forces are committing atrocities there. One woman...
