Syria: Rebels SAM-up; US increases aid; France recognises opposition; border villages taken
There was encouraging news for the Syrian rebels today, with success on the ground and increasing international support.
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As Syrian opposition form coalition against Assad, Gen. Richards says UK could intervene
The Chief of the Defence Staff has said there are contingency plans in place for Britain to intervene militarily in Syria in the next few months.
Syrian rebels accused of more human rights abuses
Video footage posted on the internet shows what appears to be Syrian Rebels summarily executing government soldiers. The footage shows rebels beating the soldiers before shooting them and represents the latest in a line of allegations of human rightstest
Ban Ki-moon urges Assad to declare truce as army “cleanse” villages around Homs
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged the Syrian regime to declare a truce forthwith and bring an end to the conflict that has killed at least 20,000.
Syria: Cameron and Obama step up pressure on Assad amidst chemical weapons fears
David Cameron and Barack Obama have warned any move towards the use of chemical weapons by Bashar al-Assad “would force them to revisit their approach so far”.
Syria: “They raised my toenails, stuck electrical wires under them and gave me electric shocks”
Syria: Amnesty International this morning revealed further, chilling details of life in Aleppo under the tyranny of Assad’s army thugs and Shabiha militia.
Syrians are hopeful as the fall of Assad looks imminent
Do recent events signal the end for Assad’s reign over Syria?
As tyrant slinks from view, Cameron warns Assad: “It’s time to go, it’s time for transition”
David Cameron today issued his strongest warning yet to Bashar al-Assad, warning it was “time for him to go” – as the Syrian President disappeared from view.
Jubilation in Libya as elections conclude
Surely the pro-intervention success story of Libya will now spur the West to remove Assad as they did Gaddafi?
Six EU countries support intervention in Syria – why isn’t the UK one of them?
Tory-led Britain continues to ‘sit on the fence’ when the war criminals of Syria should be sitting in the dock