Syria

Further exodus expected following departure of more than 150 observers.

Ambassadors to Cyprus and the UAE abandon Assad's regime and flee to Qatar.

The Syrian regime has five chemical agents plants and several dozen additional storage sites some of which are in hardened bunkers.

Syrian forces' fighter jets seen flying over the region while scores of troops have been storming Aleppo.

Assad's forces detained, tortured and sexually abused children while the rebels used them and failed to protect them, says report.

Government troops also fighting back in border areas, while thousands of civilians flee to Turkey and Lebanon.

Violent clashes between Syrian rebels and the regime's forces have now reached Aleppo.

Fighting continues in Damascus, with government troops withdrawing in several areas.

Syrian strongman not seen in public since rebels took fight to heart of Damascus.

As the Syrian forces at the border are being moved to tackle the internal conflicts, the Syrian-Israeli border becomes an attractive hub for the global Jihadists, fears the Israeli Intelligence Chief.

Clashes between Syrian rebels and the government forces continue in the capital.

1,000 rebels use grenades against regime tanks in Syrian capital.

UN observers say the attack appears to have been aimed at specific rebel groups and army defectors.

Syria has the largest stockpile of chemical weapons in the Middle East and if used could cause havoc.

Carnage strengthens resolve of western nations to get rid of Bashar al-Assad but Russia and China are still backing him.

After bombing the region from helicopters, Syrian forces reportedly carried out execution-style killings slaughtering women and children.

Syria's ambassador to Iraq, Nawaf al-Fares, becomes the first top diplomat to defect from Bashar al-Assad's government delivering a major blow to the discredited regime.

Clinton says Syrian rebels are becoming more effective in their fight against the Assad regime.

Shelling of Lebanon from Syria raises the spectre of the conflict escalating and dragging in neighbouring countries where Syrians have taken refuge from the brutal Assad regime.

Clinton's remark that China and Russia are holding up progress on Syria, draws flak.

As Friends of Syria meeting kicks of in Paris, Iraqi Foreign Minister says al-Qaida is entering Syria in the anti-Assad uprising.

Turkey maintains fighter jet in international airspace when it was shot down but Damascus claims it was in Syrian airspace.

While the US insists that Assad must go, Russia is against the removal of the Syrian president.

UN and Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan proposes transitional government in Syria that includes members of Assad's regime and rebels.

Assad says Syria is at war as fighting reaches outskirts of capital Damascus.

War of words escalating but Turkey says no intention of going to war with Syria over shooting down of jet.

Although Turkey is knocking on Nato doors, military intervention over the shooting down of a Turkish jet is unlikely.

As violence escalates, London and Washington seek immediate steps to tackle the situation.

Pictures including women and children being slaughtered during the more-than-a-year-long bloodshed.

UN acknowledges uprising has reached scale of civil war, as Assad's forces try to recapture swathes of cities taken by rebel troops.