 | Wall Street Journal - DAMASCUS—Syria's rejection of a surprise Arab League road map to ease President Bashar al-Assad out of power deepened a split between Syrians on the most viable way out of their country's nearly yearlong bloody conflict, with neither international ... |
 | Voice of America - January 23, 2012 Rights Group Criticizes Some Countries for Letting Syrian Crackdown Continue Margaret Besheer | United Nations In a new report, Human Rights Watch sharply criticizes Russia and China for blocking action on Syria in the UN Security ... |
 | Washington Post - MOSCOW - Russia has signed a contract to sell combat jets to Syria, a newspaper reported Monday, in apparent support for President Bashar Assad and open defiance of international condemnation of his regime's bloody crackdown. |
 | Financial Times - By Michael Peel and Abigail Fielding-Smith in Damascus International sanctions have had a severe effect on Syria and driven it to focus on domestic markets after a plunge in revenues from sectors such as oil and tourism, the country's economy minister ... |
 | Los Angeles Times - Tanks in Homs, the third-largest city in Syria. “Our lives are only about guns and bullets,” one resident said. “I can't sleep anymore if I don't hear it. |
 | Washington Post - A 21-year-old Syrian-American has been missing for three weeks after returning to Syria from suburban Detroit, a family member in Michigan said Monday. |
 | Atlantic Sentinel - President Abdullah Gül said that he had “lost confidence” in his Syrian counterpart in August of last year and Turkey has refused to close its border with Syria for refugees seeking to escape the brutal crackdown on anti-government demonstrations. |
 | Arab News - By ARAB NEWS RIYADH: Saudi Arabia said Monday that the situation in Syria is extremely grave and urged all parties to take their historic responsibility to the people in the country seriously. |
 | Day Press News - (DP-News - agencies) BRUSSELS- The European Union today added 22 people and eight organizations to its Syriasanctions list. |
 | The Daily Star - During Sunday's funeral for Maher, angry Arida residents shouted anti-Syria slogans and called for the deployment of the Lebanese Army on the tense Lebanese-Syrian frontier to protect Lebanese citizens. |
 | ABC News (blog) - The Arab League's plan for Assad to step down - put forth just yesterday - was loudly rejected by Syria, whose state news agency SANA called it “a violation of its national sovereignty, a blatant interference in its internal affairs and a flagrant ... |
 | WKBW-TV - The sanctions bill also prohibits the sale of technology or weapons to Syria, by any companies seeking to do business with the United States, that would be used for censorship or human rights abuses in the country. |
 | Xinhua - The head of the so-called Syrian Free Army, a group of alleged army defectors who were given refuge in Turkey, has recently pledged to carry out attacks against army bases across Syria. The Syrian government has blamed the incident as well as many ... |