NICOLAS Sarkozy compared Bashar al-Assad's assault on Homs to Col Muammar Gaddafi's attacks on the city of Benghazi. Nicolas Sarkozy compared Bashar al-Assad's assault on Homs to Col Muammar Gaddafi's attacks on the city of Benghazi "Bashar al-Assad is l
It would have pleased Marie Colvin to discover the number of friends she had -- and amused her still further, had she survived that bomb blast in Syria in February, to greet so many of them for the first time.Like "her good friend Martha Gellhorn" (to ci
Muammar Gaddafi's son and former heir apparent Saif al-Islam will be put on trial inside Libya and there will be a verdict before mid-June, a Libyan official has said.The decision comes despite appeals by rights groups to Libyan authorities to hand him o
The Libyan government has been "extremely apologetic" about the desecration of British war graves in the eastern city of Benghazi, a Foreign Office Minister said.Speaking on the Sky News Murnaghan programme, Jeremy Browne said people would be understanda
Tribal leaders and militia commanders have declared oil-rich eastern Libya a semi-autonomous state, a unilateral move that the interim head of state called a "dangerous" conspiracy by Arab nations to tear the country apart six months after the fall of Mu
A suicide vehicle bomb tore through the car park of a military compound in an eastern Syrian city yesterday, killing nine people, it was reported. It was the latest in a series of blasts in recent months targeting security installations.The state-run new
THE US should bomb the Syrian army to stop attacks on cities and carve out "safe havens" for rebel fighters, Senator John McCain said.The Republican candidate for the presidency in 2008 became the first senior figure in US politics to call publicly for m
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