Syria News | News Date April 27, 2012

Cease-fire failing, Syria claims escalate

Syrian government officials and the opposition traded accusations over escalated cease-fire violations as a fragile peace deal implemented two weeks ago continued to unravel Friday.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=20kQ8m07Sj4:y_vt6IwuslY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=20kQ8m07Sj4:y_vt6IwuslY:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=20kQ8m07Sj4:y_vt6IwuslY:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?i=20kQ8m07Sj4:y_vt6IwuslY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=20kQ8m07Sj4:y_vt6IwuslY:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedbu

Syria, opposition trade accusations as Ban urges cease-fire commitment

Syrian government officials and the opposition traded accusations over escalated cease-fire violations as a fragile peace deal implemented two weeks ago continued to unravel Friday.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?a=PH4uUXAyZUo:UwTMIBQp6cA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?a=PH4uUXAyZUo:UwTMIBQp6cA:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?a=PH4uUXAyZUo:UwTMIBQp6cA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?i=PH4uUXAyZUo:UwTMIBQp6cA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?a=PH4uUXAyZUo:UwTMIBQp6cA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?

U.S. Is Seeing Positive Signs From Chinese

China’s changing positions on Iran, Syria and North Korea, among others, are hailed as steps toward unity among the world’s major powers, but its motives are a mystery.

U.N. monitors in Syria visit scene of deadly blast

Antigovernment activists say the explosion a day earlier in Hama killed 70 people. The government blames a 'terrorist group' and says 16 people died.BEIRUT — United Nations monitors on Thursday visited the scene of an explosion in the Syrian city of Hama that antigovernment activists said had killed 70 people, many of them women and children.

Syria government foes criticize U.N. monitoring mission

France demands swifter deployment of monitors and raises the prospect of military intervention. Some Syrians say the U.N. presence has worsened the bloodshed.BEIRUT — As violence continues to rage across Syria, the United Nations monitoring mission faced mounting criticism and pressure Wednesday.

Vogue profile of Syrian leader's wife disappears

A flattering Vogue profile of Asma al-Assad, wife of Syria's besieged president Bashar al-Assad, has been removed from the magazine's website, as the government crackdown on dissent rumbles on.

Syria blames ' terrorist' bombs for deadly Hama blast

Syria blamed "terrorist" bomb-makers on Thursday for an explosion that ripped through a building and killed 16 people in the restive city of Hama, where hostility to President Bashar Assad runs deep.

As Syria Burns, Assad Supporters Attack... LinkedIn?

The striking thing about the "Syrian Electronic Army" attack on LinkedIn's blog is that, well, they attacked LinkedIn, which really seems to have very little to do with the conflict in Syria. On Thursday, the Linkedin blog is down, but before it went dark, Silicon Republic's John Kennedy reports, it bore an image of a Syrian flag, with President Bashar al-Assad standing in front of it, and this text : "We are a group of Syrian youth who wanted to show the truth and therefore we used this website which was used to spread lies about Syria. ...

Heavy Casualties Reported in Syria Explosion

Activists said intensive shelling caused the blast, but state media blamed bomb-making by government opponents.

After 70 killed in Syria blast, opposition demands action

In one of the single deadliest incidents in the Syrian conflict, a military rocket attack killed more than 70 people in the flashpoint city of Hama, an activist told CNN on Thursday.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=qu6JF_k5cNM:x3UUvZlA-WU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=qu6JF_k5cNM:x3UUvZlA-WU:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=qu6JF_k5cNM:x3UUvZlA-WU:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?i=qu6JF_k5cNM:x3UUvZlA-WU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=qu6JF_k5cNM:x3UUvZlA-WU:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?d=qj6ID

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