Syria Live Blog

A Syrian refugee, who fled the violence in Syria, looks out from her temporary home in Mafraq in neighbouring Jordan [Reuters]

People continue to take to the streets across Syria despite the government's crackdown on protests. Reports say thousands have been killed since the demonstrations started in March 2011, on both sides.

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2 hours 10 min ago - Jordan

Jordan would ask the Arab League to exclude it from implementing sanctions on Syria because the Jordanian economy will suffer if the country cuts bilateral economic ties with its neighbour, a Jordanian foreign ministry spokesperson told Al Jazeera’s Nisreen el-Shamayleh.

Jordan has reservations regarding cutting trade between the two countries and halting flights between Amman and Damascus. 

The volume of trade between them is $400m per year. Syria's exports to Jordan $150m worth of goods per year.

Jordan voted with sanctions on Syria at the Arab League last week but expressed reservations.

Tags Amman, damascus, Nisreen el Shamayleh, syria
3 hours 51 min ago - Syria
Syrian state media has reported that a funeral procession was held for 13 soldiers who were killed by "terrorists".
 
"The martyrs were targaeted by the armed terrorist groups while they were in the line of duty in Damascus countryside," SANA news agency said.
Tags damascus, SANA
11 hours 56 min ago - Syria

The number of deaths in Syria rose to 24 on Saturday, including two children, according to the opposition Local Co-ordination Committees.

Ten of the deaths were reported in Homs, six in Idlib, three in Hama, two in both Deraa and the Damascus Suburbs Douma and Domair and one in Damascus.

Tags death toll, violence
16 hours 31 min ago - Syria

An Arab League ministerial committee on Saturday slapped 19 Syrian officials with a ban on travel to Arab states and gave Damascus until Sunday to accept observers to monitor the unrest in the country - (AFP)

Tags Arab League, damascus
16 hours 46 min ago - Syria

 

The Qatari Foreign Minister has announced Syria has until Sunday to sign the initiative to the end the conflict -(Reuters)

Tags Arab League, Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani, Qatar
21 hours 42 min ago - Syria

A convoy of army tanks on the way to Idlib today 

 

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Tags idlib, Idlib province
21 hours 47 min ago - Syria

An army tank burning in Baba Amr Homes today

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Tags Baba Amr
21 hours 57 min ago - Syria

MachahirNewsBREAKING: Hundreds of Syrian people protesting in #London against #Syria's President Assad to step down - AlJazeera.Sat Dec 03 14:33:14

Tags Bashar al Assad, London
22 hours 52 min ago - Syria

At least 22 people were killed by Syrian security forces on Saturday, the opposition said, hours before the Arab League was to meet to discuss enforcing unprecedented sanctions on Damascus.


In the dissident province of Idlib near the Turkish border, clashes on Saturday between army defectors and the military resulted killing 15 people, three of them civilians, reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (DPA)

Tags Arab League, Bashar al Assad, idlib, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
1 day 1 hour ago - Syria

With the conflict in Syria raging, the number of people defecting from the armed forces is on the rise.

Al Jazeera has been speaking to soldiers in the Free Syrian Army.

Sergeant Nidal Agady says social media was one factor which made him change sides.

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