Rebel Uprising

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  Regime Air Strike Kills Syria Rebel Chief Ahead Of Peace Talks

  Powerful Syrian rebel chief Zahran Alloush was killed in a regime air strike east of Damascus on Friday, dealing blows to both the nearly five-year uprising and a fragile peace process.

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  6 Ukrainian Soldiers Killed as Rebel Uprising Marks First Anniversary

  At least six Ukrainian servicemen were killed in separatist attacks on Sunday in Ukraine's troubled eastern regions in a grim weekend marking the first anniversary of a rebellion against Kiev's pro-Western rulers.

• Divided East Ukraine City Calm After Battle, Rebels Seek Russian Help

  An uneasy calm returned to the streets of Donetsk on Wednesday after the biggest battle of the pro-Russian separatist uprising in eastern Ukraine, a conflict transformed by the landslide election of a pro-European leader who vowed to crush the revolt.

• Vote for Self-Rule Would Spell Disaster, Ukraine Tells Rebels

  Acting Ukrainian President Oleksander Turchinov told eastern regions gripped by a pro-Russian uprising that they would be courting catastrophe if they voted "yes" in a separatist referendum on Sunday.

• Rebels evacuated from Homs, cradle of Syrian uprising

  Hundreds of Syrian rebels on Wednesday abandoned their last stronghold in the heart of Homs city, an epicentre of the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad, handing him a symbolic victory weeks before his likely re-election.

• Syria rebels say fire mortars at president's palace

  Syrian rebels said on Monday they had fired mortar bombs at the presidential palace, the Damascus International Airport and security buildings to mark the second anniversary of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.

• From teenage graffiti to a country in ruins: Syria's two years of rebellion

  On a cold winter's night in early 2011, some Syrian schoolboys drew a few slogans on a wall in a town the world had barely heard of. Two years on, more than 70,000 people have died in the bitter conflict that ensued, and calls for the West to give more help to the Syrian rebels are rising.

• Syria warplanes launch raids near capital: reports

  Syria's air force launched new air strikes on Friday on rebel bastions near Damascus, as clashes raged in flashpoints across the country two years after the anti-regime uprising began, a watchdog said.

• Syrian rebels capture country's largest dam

  Syrian opposition fighters captured the country's largest dam on Monday after days of intense clashes, dealing a major blow on the battlefield to President Bashar Assad's troops nearly two years after the uprising against his rule erupted.

• Bashar-al-Assad to make rare speech as Syrian rebels draw nearer

  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will deliver a rare speech on Sunday about the uprising against his rule, which has killed 60,000 people and brought civil war to the edge of his capital.

• UN raises Syria death toll to 60,000

  More than 60,000 people have died in the Syrian uprising and civil war, the United Nations said on Wednesday, dramatically raising the death toll in a struggle that shows no sign of ending.

• International Criminal Court rejects Libya bid to try Gaddafi's son

  The International Criminal Court (ICC) again rejected on Wednesday attempts by Libya to delay handing over one of former Dictator Moammar Gaddafi's sons, who is wanted for trial. Judges unanimously dismissed Libya's latest appeal against the court's order to surrender Seif al-Islam Gaddafi for trial on charges of murdering and persecuting civilian...

• Syria marks anniversary of uprising, violence grows

  Troops loyal to Mr Assad have pummeled rebel strongholds across Syria this week, deploying tanks and heavy artillery to crush opponents in a string of cities and villages, including Deraa in the far south where the rebellion took hold last March.

• Syrian troops storm areas near capital of Damascus

  In dozens of tanks and armored vehicles, Syrian troops have stormed rebellious areas near the capital, shelling neighborhoods that have fallen under the control of army dissidents and clashing with fighters. At least 62 people were killed in violence nationwide, activists and residents said.

• Gaddafi son resurfaces, free and vowing to fight

  The son and heir apparent of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, Seif al-Islam, resurfaced free and defiant early on Tuesday, a day after rebels claimed to have captured him, boasting in a bizarre reappearance that his father's loyalists still control parts of Tripoli and would crush the rebellion.