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News 24
| 1 year ago
The UN Security Council on Saturday voted unanimously in favour of a Western-drafted resolution to send observers to monitor a shaky truce in Syria, where the latest reports claim sporadic violence has killed 12 people. Russia, a staunch ally of the...
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Canada.com
| 1 year ago
Opposition activists said at least six people were killed in Syria on Saturday as the UN Security Council tentatively was scheduled to vote to authorize an advance team to monitor a fragile, three-day-old ceasefire. Activists also reported the first...
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The Hindustan Times
| 1 year ago
Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad shelled the battered city of Homs on Saturday, opposition activists said, the first bombings since a ceasefire began on two days ago. The United Nations Security Council is tentatively scheduled to...
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Fox
| 1 year ago
Syrian troops shelled Saturday two rebel-held neighborhoods in the central city of Homs in an apparent violation of an internationally brokered cease fire, activists said. The reports came two days after the cease-fire brokered by international envoy...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
Activists say Syrian troops have shelled two rebel-held neighborhoods in the central city of Homs. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says Saturday's bombardment lasted for about an hour...The shelling comes two days after a cease-...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that shelling had wounded several people overnight. On Friday, Syrian forces shot dead five protesters after prayers, activists reported, while the government said an army officer was killed.
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Syrian troops shelled two neighborhoods of the flashpoint central city of Homs on Saturday, even as a hard-won U.N.-backed ceasefire entered its third day, monitors said. There was no immediate word on any casualties from the hour-long morning...
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Toronto Star
| 1 year ago
Friday, testing a tenuous, day-old ceasefire that the United Nations struggled to shore up when the rapid deployment of international observers snagged on Russian objections. There were scattered reports of deaths and arrests linked to the...
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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
Syrian troops fired on and broke up demonstrations as crowds poured on to city streets Friday, threatening to break a ceasefire even before the United Nations monitors supposed to guard it had arrived. Videos posted online from flashpoints across...
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The Globe & Mail
| 1 year ago
Video Photos Video Although security forces fired in the air to disperse a large number of the protests insisting they lacked the requisite permits to demonstrate -- reports indicate that only about three protesters were killed. That so few people...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Articles Some see the protests as a test of President Bashar al-Assad's sincerity. Assad's crackdown against protests last March were the spark that started Syria's year of conflagration and Friday's rallies will certainly push the terms of the truce.
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Several people have been shot dead during protests in Syria, activists say, as the UN considers deploying monitors to oversee a peace plan. Security forces fired into the air to disperse crowds in several locations...The demonstrations were seen as a...
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Financial Times
| 1 year ago
IN Middle Eastern Politics & Society Opponents of the regime of Bashar al-Assad steeled themselves for what many fear will be an inevitable confrontation with the security forces when they respond to a nationwide call for mass demonstrations after...
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The Globe & Mail
| 1 year ago
Video Photos Video Some of the gunmen pulled out when the shooting started, the group's director Rami Abdulrahman said. He said there were no immediate reports of casualties and the fighting appeared to have stopped. The grassroots Local Coordination...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Syria broke a U.N.-backed cease-fire Friday, less than a day after it began, a rebel group said, as activists vowed mass protests to test the truce's strength. Low-flying aircraft swept over the Inshaat and Baba Amr former opposition-stronghold...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Editorial A fragile ceasefire took hold in Syria on Thursday, evidence of the pressure Russia, China and to some extent Iran could apply to the Assad regime if they wanted to. It was their alarm at the escalating fighting, which Kofi Annan, the joint...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 1 year ago
Friday Apr 13, 2012 International envoy Kofi Annan has told the UN Security Council that despite the fragile cease-fire in Syria, the government has failed to implement the council demand that it withdraw troops and heavy weapons from cities and...
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News 24
| 1 year ago
UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan told the Security Council on Thursday that Syria has not fully complied with the terms of his peace plan and urged the 15-nation body to demand the withdrawal of troops and heavy weapons from towns, council diplomats...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan said a ceasefire in Syria appeared to be holding today, as the Syrian government and its foes traded charges of trying to wreck his peace plan. "I am encouraged by reports that the situation in Syria is relatively calm...
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The Economist
| 1 year ago
S grim slide to all-out civil war has hit a welcome bump, as the government of Bashar Assad pledged to abide by a ceasefire starting on April 12th. The halt in the fighting was part of a six-point plan devised by Kofi Annan, the UN and Arab League...
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Mail Online UK
| 1 year ago
Abdulhamid, who fled Syria in 2005 and has since lived in the U.S. said members of the main opposition groups, representing all political and religious backgrounds, helped draw up the new six-point plan. The plan sets out measures to arm local rebel...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
An uneasy calm is taking hold in Syria, hours after a United Nations-brokered cease-fire went into effect. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says there have no reports of violence since the 6 a.m. local time deadline. The deal...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
The head of the opposition Syrian National Council on Thursday urged people to demonstrate against President Bashar Assad's regime, in a test of a ceasefire that entered in to force at dawn. Burhan Ghalioun, who leads the exile umbrella opposition...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
China's Foreign Ministry on Thursday welcomed what it called the Syrian government's decision to uphold a "comprehensive ceasefire," and urged it to fulfill its commitments. "This will help ease the tense situation in Syria, and is an important step...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Fighting had raged in the countdown to Thursday's deadline, fueling widespread doubts that Syria would comply with international envoy Kofi Annan's ceasefire plan...The Syrian Observatory reported explosions in Zabadani, a town close to the Lebanese...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
There was an uneasy calm in Syria Thursday as a cease-fire ending more than a year of violence began amid Western doubts the Assad regime would honor the deal. Cities, including the western-central former opposition stronghold of Homs, which played a...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
A ceasefire in Syria came into effect at 6 a.m. (0300 GMT) in line with an ultimatum set by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan aimed at ending violence that has killed thousands over 13 months. The Syrian regime, which has carried out bloody repression...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Activists say there are no immediate reports of fighting; resident of Zabadani, town close to border with Lebanon says there had been shelling overnight but quiet since deadline; calm reported in Hama, Homs, Damascus. Photo: Reuters The deadline for...
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Taiwan News
| 1 year ago
Travel & Delicacy Beauty never Ends Ecological Environment Taiwan News, Staff Writer 2012-04-12 11:30 AM Syria promised to stop fighting in time for Thursday's deadline for a cease-fire brokered by special envoy Kofi Annan but reserved the right to...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
That missed deadline was supposed to be followed by a full ceasefire by the Syrian army and opposition forces on Thursday morning, but fierce fighting has continued. "On Syria, the president and chancellor shared the concern that the Assad government...
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The independent
| 1 year ago
As President Bashar al-Assad's promise that he will abide by a ceasefire was met with scepticism yesterday, evidence emerged of the utter devastation wrought by his forces during the fierce bombardment of opposition forces in the central city of Homs.
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Syria announced Wednesday that it had succeeded in asserting government control over the country after more than a year of unrest and would therefore observe a U.N.-brokered cease-fire due to go into effect Thursday morning. A statement issued by the...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
A ceasefire for Syria proposed by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan is due to come into force in the next few hours, but Western countries have publicly doubted Syria's willingness to comply. On Wednesday, Syria said it would abide by the ceasefire but...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 1 year ago
In the letter to Mr Annan, the Syrian foreign ministry said it would halt all fighting at the deadline, but that it would reserve the right to respond to any attack by armed terrorist groups against civilians, government forces or private or public...
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Epoch Times
| 1 year ago
April 11, 2012 Syrians pray over the bodies of Syrian violence victims at a funeral in the northwestern town of Kafr Zeta on April 10. (-/AFP/Getty Images) Syria on Wednesday said that it would comply with a deadline to cease all fighting in the...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Syrian president Bashar al-Assad receives the gift of a sword from religious leaders in Damascus. Syria's plan to halt military activity has been met with international scepticism. Photograph: Sana/Reuters Syria has announced a halt to all military...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
A Syrian defense ministry source quoted on state television on Wednesday said the army would halt operations on Thursday morning, but would confront "any assault" by armed groups. UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan said the Syrian government had also...
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Novinite
| 1 year ago
Syrian pro-goverment ralliers during an event in Damascus celebrating the 65th anniversary of the foundation of the ruling Baath party, 7 April. The Syrian army will stop all operations by Thursday morning, revealed Syrian state TV Wednesday, quoting...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Articles The Syrian Network for Human Rights said 42 people were killed the first time and 18 people in a second attack. At least five women and five children were killed the organisation added. They said the security forces entered Hafara district...
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The Observer
| 1 year ago
David Cameron arrives to holds a press conference with the Indonesian president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA David Cameron has warned President Bashar al-Assad that he will face a day of reckoning for his savagery as...
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
As al-Jazeera and other news outlets report being told by activists that Syrian government forces are shelling the city of Homs and attacking and arresting opponents of President Bashar Assad in other places, former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan...
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The Independent
| 1 year ago
British adventurer Sarah Outen is currently on a bid to loop the planet using human power rowing, .....Suggested Topics David Cameron today accused Syrian president Bashar Assad of endangering peace in the Middle East with his increasingly bloody...
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SF Gate
| 1 year ago
Louai Beshara / AFP/Getty Images Portraits of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are pasted on the windows of a shop in the bazaar of old city of Damascus on April 10, 2012. The UN Security Council formally backed an April 10 deadline that envoy Kofi...
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Mail Online UK
| 1 year ago
Annan is welcomed by Syrian refugee children upon his arrival at Yayladagi refugee camp The uprising that began more than a year ago seeks the ouster of authoritarian President Bashar Assad. Syria's regime defied the Tuesday deadline to pull out...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
China on Wednesday called on Syria to heed a plan aimed at bringing peace to the conflict-ridden country, saying it was "deeply concerned" by the situation. "China calls on the Syrian government to respond to the six-point proposal," Chine Foreign...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Syria showed no let up in assaults on protest hubs Wednesday as peace envoy Kofi Annan said there was still a chance to salvage a peace plan for a complete halt to hostilities within 24 hours. Activist group the Local Coordination Committees said...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan said the situation in Syria should be "much improved" by a Thursday deadline if both sides in the conflict respect a peace plan he drew up. Annan, speaking at a news conference in Tehran on Wednesday, said: "If...
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Kuwait News Top Stories
| 1 year ago
Iran (AP) International envoy Kofi Annan has appealed to Syria's key ally Iran to support his plan to end the violence wracking the Arab country, saying that "any further militarization of the conflict would be disastrous." Annan spoke to reporters...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan , while "gravely concerned" after Syria failed to pull back its troops, vowed to pursue a cease-fire within 24 hours. "We still have time between now and 12 April to stop the violence," Annan said after visiting...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Russia has wielded its veto power on the Council, the UN's decision-making body, to protect Syria from efforts by Western powers and their Arab allies to consider sanctions against Assad's regime and call on him to step aside. That stance may become...
