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Kofi Annan appealed on Wednesday to President Bashar al-Assad’s Iranian backers to support a peace effort.

Foreign policy analysts explain why Americans should care about what happens in Syria beyond the human suffering in the conflict.

Syrian forces on Monday fired across the border at a refugee camp in Turkey, killing one and wounding four, activists said. It is the first such attack since Ankara began allowing thousands of refugees to find shelter in the country.

A U.N.-brokered peace deal for Syria appeared to collapse as the government made a new demand.

U.N. Arab League envoy Kofi Annan said the Syrian army and rebels in a year-long conflict that has killed thousands must end all violence by 6 a.m. Syrian time April 12 if the government meets its agreed deadline to halt fighting two days earlier.

The rebels say they will wait for the government forces to stop shooting before they agree to reciprocate.

A Gulf plan to funnel millions of dollars a month to Syrian rebels - payments earmarked for salaries for the fighters - could amount to a blank check for the opposition to build up an arsenal against President Bashar Assad's forces, analysts say....

Syrian opposition leaders appealed to international supporters Sunday for “the means to defend themselves” against the regime of President Bashir al-Assad, and said that their liberation struggle was “moving into a new phase.”

Syria says the year-long revolt to topple President Bashar al-Assad is now over, but it will keep its forces in cities to "maintain security" until it is safe to withdraw in keeping with a U.N.-backed peace deal.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to work out a unified strategy on the crisis in Syria in talks with Saudi officials on Friday as violence continued in the north of the country.