“Syria” on The Daily Caller

(AP) BEIRUT – Gruesome video Saturday showed rows of dead Syrian children lying in a mosque in bloody shorts and T-shirts with gaping head wounds, haunting images of what activists called one of the deadliest regime attacks yet in Syria’s 14-month-old uprising. (more)

The Secretary General of the United Nations said he believes al-Qaida is responsible for a series of bombings in Syria last week and may be trying to establish a foothold in the troubled Middle Eastern nation. (more)

Syrian rebels battling the regime of President Bashar al-Assad have begun receiving significantly more and better weapons in recent weeks, an effort paid for by Persian Gulf nations and coordinated in part by the United States, according to opposition activists and U.S. and foreign officials. (more)

On Monday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer attacked President Barack Obama’s Monday speech at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., where he announced the first meeting of an Atrocities Prevention Board even as the Syrian government continues to commit atrocities against its citizens. (more)

Iran is escalating its threat to respond forcefully against outside interference in the Syrian conflict, despite already having 15,000 of its own troops inside Syria to help put down the rebellion that threatens the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. (more)

The war hawks are circling the Potomac. The drum-beating and saber-rattling is growing louder. Calls for the United States to intervene militarily in yet another Middle Eastern country are being repeated with increasing frequency. (more)

John McCain said that he suspects Syria will “not be on the agenda” at the upcoming North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) 2012 Chicago Summit. McCain’s remarks came at an event held by the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C. (more)

Calls for intervention in Syria are becoming more urgent, and the drumbeat for airstrikes against Iranian nuclear facilities is growing louder. Predictably, anti-war activists have frantically taken to the airwaves and print media to explain why [insert potential conflict here] is bad for America and for the world. (more)

(AP) STOCKHOLM – Syria imported nearly six times more weapons in 2007-2011 than in the previous five-year period, with Russia accounting for 72 percent of the arms supplies to President Bashar Assad’s regime, an international research institute said Monday. (more)

Twitter closed down a string of accounts purporting to be authored by the Syrian president and the first lady, emails reveal. (more)

A Republican congressman has introduced a bill that appears to warn President Obama that he could be impeached if the United States gets involved militarily in Syria without congressional approval. (more)

During the last several weeks, Republican Sen. John McCain and others in Congress have lobbied for a more aggressive approach towards Syria. In fact, the Arizona senator has even called for airstrikes against Bashar Assad’s regime. (more)

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian troops pushed ahead with a new assault on the northern region of Idlib on Saturday, shelling one of the centers of the uprising against President Bashar Assad’s rule and sending families fleeing for safety as armed rebels tried to fend off the attack. Thick black smoke billowed into the sky.. (more)

During his 13-year reign as Venezuela’s head of state, Hugo Chavez has expanded Venezuela’s ties with rogue states, protected terrorist organizations and actively undermined the rule of law throughout the Americas. Chavez is currently recovering from surgery in Cuba, but that isn’t stopping him from continuing to undermine critical U.S. interests. This week, news surfaced that Venezuela is preparing to send a tanker of much-needed diesel fuel — the third such shipment since November — to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. The move is clearly designed to subvert international sanctions and replenish the Syrian government’s dwindling energy reserves. This comes at a time when the Assad regime is increasingly isolated on the world stage and has ramped up its violence against opposition forces. According to official reports, the nearly one-year-long struggle in Syria has already claimed over 7,500 lives. High-level United Nations officials say that members of the Assad regime are directly responsible for “gross human rights abuses,” and perhaps even crimes against humanity. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. John McCain on Monday became the first senator to call for airstrikes against Syria, saying President Barack Obama has taken too soft a stand against President Bashar Assad and his brutal crackdown on his own people. (more)

Ann Coulter tells The Daily Caller that the United States should “do more” to help resolve the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Syria. (more)

GENEVA (AP) — The United States criticized Syria’s envoy for storming out of an emergency U.N. meeting about the crisis in his country Tuesday, saying the walkout and a fiery speech that preceded it demonstrated the “delusional” nature of President Bashar Assad’s regime. (more)

Two western journalists, one American and one French, were killed early Wednesday in Syria as forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad launched a deadly bombardment of the central city of Homs, according to activists and officials. (more)

Over the past few days, President Barack Obama has been on the trail promoting his budget proposal, while his administration has been the target of attacks for announcing a contraception mandate. However, missing in large part from the president’s speeches has been any sort of public criticism of the regime in charge of Syria and its brutal crackdown on anti-government opposition. (more)

BEIRUT (AP) — U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon accused the Syrian regime of potential crimes against humanity Thursday as activists reported fresh violence in Daraa, the city where the uprising against President Bashar Assad erupted 11 months ago. (more)