Syria

By BRADLEY KLAPPER, Associated Press Monday, 06-February-2012 ADO-World.org WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration closed the U.S. Embassy in Damascus on Monday and pulled all American diplomats out of violence-wracked Syria as the U.S. stepped up pressure on President Bashar Assad to leave power. Robert Ford, the American ambassador, and …

By Tom Feran, The Plain Dealer Sunday, February 05, 2012, CLEVELAND, Ohio — As the soaring death toll from a crackdown on dissent threatened to push Syria into full-scale civil war, representatives of the country’s government in exile told a Cleveland audience today that they now see the overthrow of …

You can find the original article in English here and Portuguese here. How representative are the Syrian Christians for Democracy of the Syrian Christian population? Syrian Christians for Democracy is a new organization that was established almost two months ago. The point for establishing it was to show that Christians …

From Nic Robertson, CNN January 11, 2012 ADO-World.org Damascus, Syria (CNN) — At a funeral for a Syrian man allegedly killed by government forces, a grief-stricken sister wails uncontrollably. Mourners carried her brother’s casket Monday before thousands of anti-regime protesters, whose passionate anger against a brutal government crackdown was palpable. …

By Douglas Hamilton JERUSALEM ADO-World.org 10-January-2012 (Reuters) – Israel is making preparations for the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and a flood of refugees from his minority Alawite sect into the Golan Heights, Israel’s military chief told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday. "Assad cannot continue to hold onto power," …

By ANTHONY SHADID ADO-World.org 10-January-2012 BEIRUT — In his first public address in months, President Bashar al-Assad of Syria lashed out on Tuesday at the Arab League for isolating his country, mocked Syrian rebels as traitors and vowed to subdue what he said was a foreign-backed plot against his country. …

By Fareed Zakaria, CNN ADO-World.org 01-December-2011 Earlier this year, I thought the Syrian regime would be able to persevere. It has been extraordinarily brutal and, unfortunately, if governments are willing to open fire on their people with utter disregard for human life, it often works. Crowds disburse; people stop gathering. …

ADO-World.org 09-November-2011 WASHINGTON — Arab leaders are privately telling the United States that they have offered Syrian President Bashar al-Assad "safe haven" in a bid to convince him to step down, a top US diplomat told lawmakers on Wednesday. "Almost all the Arab leaders say the same thing: Assad’s rule …

ADO-World.org The US government is looking into claims that Syria restricted its citizens’ access to the internet, using an American company’s technology. A group of hackers says it has downloaded data from the Syrian government telecommunications agency. It says the records suggest equipment built by Blue Coat is being used …

ADO – press: The al-Fayhaa stadium in Damascus, the Assad stadium in Latakia, the main stadium in the city of city of Deraa were being used to hold thousands of prisoners, said Ziadeh. Ziadeh said that the U.N. Security Council’s failure to pass a resolution on the Syria crisis had …