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Demonstrators gather during a protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Homs on Friday [Reuters]

People continue to take to the streets across Syria, where the uprising is becoming increasingly militarised. Activists say more than 7,000 people have been killed since protests began in March last year. The government blames "armed gangs" for the unrest and says more than 2,000 members of the security forces have been killed.

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4 hours 36 min ago - Syria

A Syrian Arab Red Crescent aid convoy reached Homs on Saturday to deliver food, medical supplies, blankets and "hygiene consumables" to thousands of people, the International Committee of the Red Cross announced on Sunday. 

"We are greatly concerned about the consequences of the unrest from a humanitarian viewpoint and about the current deterioration of the situation", said Marianne Gasser, head of the ICRC's delegation in Syria, who led the convoy that entered Homs. "The population, particularly the wounded and sick, are bearing the brunt of the violence."

Another convoy reached the town of Bludan, 50km northwest of Zabadani, a town that had been the scene of brief fighting between the government and the armed opposition. Many civilians have fled Zabadani.

Tags homs, ICRC, Red Crescent
10 hours 49 min ago - Syria

The head of a controversial Arab League observer mission to Syria has resigned, an Arab League official told AFP on Sunday.

The resignation of General Mohammed Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi was due to be officially announced at a meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo later in the day, the official said.

He did not say why the Sudanese former military intelligence officer had quit. [AFP]

Tags AFP, Ahmed Mustafa al Dabi, Arab League, Cairo, Sudan
13 hours 41 min ago - Turkey

A Turkish court Sunday placed in detention five people suspected of turning over to Syria a founder of the Free Syrian Army who is reported to have since been executed, reports said.

The suspects ordered held by the court in the southern city of Adana include a member of Turkey's National Intelligence Organisation (MIT), the Anatolia news agency reported.

They are being investigated for "political espionage" and for deprivation of liberty in the case of colonel Hussein Harmush and Mustafa Kassum, it said.

The two men were taken out of a refugee camp in Altinozu, Hatay province, near the Syrian border "by force" and handed over to Syrian security forces, the Adana prosecutor's office said in a statement on Friday. [AFP]

Tags AFP, Free Syrian Army, National Intelligence Organisation, syria
14 hours 57 min ago - Israel
Israeli demonstrators hold placards during a protest in front of the Russian embassy in Tel Aviv February 11, 2012. [Reuters]
Tags embassy, picture, reuters, Russia, syria
15 hours 12 min ago - Syria

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri releases Youtube video with a message on the Syrian uprising.

ZeinakhodrAljaz#Qaeda leader #zawahri in video recording posted on the Internet urged #Syrians not to rely on west or Arab govts in their uprising #SyriaSun Feb 12 06:52:20 2012

ZeinakhodrAljaz#Qaeda leader #zawahri urged Muslims to help "their brothers in #Syria with life, money, opinion and information"Sun Feb 12 06:54:11 2012
Tags Al Qaeda, tweets, Video
16 hours 18 min ago - Syria

Activists in Douma, Syria post videos of a Syrian military anti-aircraft vehicle being used in the streets of Douma. 

The vehicle appears to have pictures of Bashar al-Assad pasted on the front next to the guns, which appear to be firing directly at buildings. Al Jazeera cannot independently verify the veracity of Youtube videos. [Storyful]

Tags Douma, guns, storyful, syria citizen video
1 day 1 hour ago - Syria

Members of the Syrian Revolution General Commission (SRGC) are telling Al Jazeera that Syrian forces are attempting to raid the Homs neighbourhood of Bab Amr.

Tags Bab Amr, homs
1 day 2 hours ago - Syria

Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr tweets:

ZeinakhodrAljaz#Zabadani : opposition statement said they agreed to the army's entry to avoid further bloodshed but "the town didn't fall" #SyriaSat Feb 11 19:27:34 2012
Tags zabadani
1 day 2 hours ago - Syria

Syrian forces have entered the besieged town of Zabadani, in violation of a ceasefire agreement with rebels, an opposition leader says.

Kamal al-Labwani, who lives in exile, said that the agreement, reached after a week-long tank and artillery bombarment by Assad's forces, guaranteed the end of hostilities as long as rebel forces returned the weapons and armour they had seized from the army.

Tags zabadani
1 day 3 hours ago - Syria

The Local Co-ordination Committees report that at least 30 people have been killed in today's violence. They say 13 people were killed in Deraa, 12 in Homs, two in Maaret al-Nouman, two in Idlib, two in Rankous and one in Damascus itself.

This conflicts, as is often the case, with the Syrian Revolution General Commission's (SRGC) figures. That group says that at least 46 people have been killed today, with 20 of them in Homs, 11 in Deraa, 10 in Damascus, three in Idlib, one in Hama and one in Damascus itself.

Shelling has been reported from the Karam Zaytoun neighbourhood of Homs, and firing in the Damascus suburb of Bayada, where an anti-Assad protest was taking place.

Tags Local coordination committees
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