| Syria fighting rages on last day of ineffectual cease-fire |
Government forces shell areas held by the opposition and a car bombing targets a suburb considered loyal to President Bashar Assad, reports say.BEIRUT — Syrian government shelling of areas held by opposition forces and a car bomb in a suburb considered loyal to President Bashar Assad killed and injured dozens of people Monday, activists and state news media said.
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| Syria fighting rages on last day of ineffectual cease-fire |
Government forces shell areas held by the opposition and a car bombing targets a suburb considered loyal to President Bashar Assad, reports say.BEIRUT — Syrian government shelling of areas held by opposition forces and a car bomb in a suburb considered loyal to President Bashar Assad killed and injured dozens of people Monday, activists and state news media said.
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| Syria rebels, Kurdish militia discuss cease-fire |
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| Attacks Continue During Failed Holiday Truce in Syria |
The declared four-day holiday truce in Syria ended on Monday much as it had begun — with airstrikes, artillery barrages and other firefights that made a mockery of the cease-fire.
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| UN Envoy Urges New Talks in Syria Despite Failed Ceasefire |
Negotiations to end the 19-month civil war in Syria should continue, despite the failure of a United Nations-brokered ceasefire over the Eid al-Adha holiday, UN and Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said on Monday. "The situation is bad and getting worse," a downbeat Brahimi said after a meeting in Moscow with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, as cited by RIA Novosti. "The government says they are fighting terrorists and only terrorists, and that it is their duty to do so รข€" to protect their people....
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| Car bomb hits Damascus on last day of failed truce |
Syrian jets bombed suburbs of Damascus and a car bomb killed 10 people in the capital on Monday, the last day of a four-day truce that U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon acknowledged had failed.
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| Envoy to Syria meets with Russian minister after truce unravels |
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| Kurds get taste of freedom after Assad's troops flee |
 DERIK, Syria --In the Kurdish areas of Syria, people have wasted little time seizing on the opportunities a tentative retreat by President Bashar Assad's government forces three months ago has afforded them. The Kurdish language, which as little as two years ago was forbidden, is now taught in state schools. Kurdish police forces patrol the streets and community organizations have been set up to act as de facto government institutions.
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| Experts: Greece riskier for investors than Syria |
An annual survey of finance directors from global business consultancy BDO finds that the crisis over too much government debt in Europe remains one of their key concerns - so much so that Greece is considered a riskier place to invest and set up business in than war-torn Syria.
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| Syria Warplanes Raid Damascus Suburb on Last Truce Day |
Syrian warplanes bombarded a rebel stronghold on the edge of Damascus on Monday, the final day of a truce marred by air raids and fighting between the two sides across the country, opposition activists said.
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