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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
The Syrian government denounced the United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon as "biased" Monday and accused the West of conspiring to install Islamist and al-Qaida regimes across the Middle East. In an interview with The Daily Telegraph in...
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The Independent
| 1 year ago
A string of bomb blasts ripped through Syria yesterday, including three powerful explosions in the north-western city of Idlib killing nine people highlighting the momentous challenge facing the UN monitoring mission as it attempts to shore up a...
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Kuwait Times
| 1 year ago
Anti-Syrian regime mourners carry the body of activist Nour Al-Zahraa, 23, who was shot by Syrian security forces on Sunday, during his funeral procession in the Kfar Suseh area yesterday. Twin blasts targeting security buildings killed more than 20...
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Epoch Times
| 1 year ago
Among the dead was at least one law enforcement officer, and about 100 other people were injured in the twin explosions. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights painted a more dire picture, saying that more than 20 people were killed in...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 1 year ago
Damascus May 1, 2012 Read later Norwegian Major General Robert Mood. Syrian central bank in Damascus and a security forces building in Idlib killed at least eight people and injured many more, state television reported. Syrian state television...
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Inquirer.net
| 1 year ago
Monday in blasts targeting security buildings in the city of Idlib in northwest Syria, as an explosion was also reported in the capital, a monitoring group said. The violence a day after the arrival of the chief of a United Nations monitoring mission...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
A prominent human rights activist said they appeared to target local headquarters of intelligence services for the air force and the army, two of the many security agencies that have helped keep the Assad family in power for four decades. The...
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AKI
| 1 year ago
At least 20 people were killed Monday by two suicide bomb explosions in the northern Syrian city of Idib, according to activists. The explosions targeted state security forces, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights opposition group...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the blasts targeted security buildings and killed mostly security force members. Syria's state news agency says armed attackers have fired rocket-propelled grenades at the Syrian Central Bank.
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
One activist group, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, put the death toll at more than 20, but the figure could not be confirmed. Syria's pro-government al-Ekhbariya TV aired footage of the aftermath, showing torn flesh, smashed...
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DAWN
| 1 year ago
More than 20 killed in blasts in Syria's Idlib: NGO AFP 13 mins ago The Chief of the U.N. Supervision Mission to Syria, Norwegian Major General Robert Mood talks to the media at his arrival to Damascus airport, April 29. More than 20 people were...
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Guardian Unlimited
| 1 year ago
More bomb blasts have been reported in Syria as the head of the UN observer mission pleads for a genuine ceasefire. Meanwhile, in Bahrain, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja and other jailed opposition activists are to get a retrial. Syria The state news agency...
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The Independent
| 1 year ago
Touching down in Damascus yesterday, the new head of the United Nations' observer team cautioned that his mission would not be a silver bullet that would resolve Syria's conflict, as escalating violence and mistrust continued to thwart plans for...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Agencies Mood negotiates with Syrian authorities the conditions for the advance team's deployment. A Norwegian general charged with overseeing a shaky U.N.-brokered truce in Syria arrived in Damascus Sunday, boosting a monitor mission that activists...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
UN's Syria mission chief in Damascus 29 April 2012 Last updated at 15:20 ET The head of the United Nations observer team for Syria has arrived to take charge of the advance deployment. Maj Gen Robert Mood of Norway and the 15 unarmed military...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
General Robert Mood acknowledged the huge task awaiting the planned 300-strong unarmed mission, which now has 30 people on the ground, but said he was confident it could make headway. "We will be only 300 but we can make a difference," Mood told...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
The newly appointed head of the U.N. observer mission to Syria arrived Sunday amid increasing bloodshed...Robert Mood of Norway will head the observer mission consisting of about 30 monitors, which will grow to 300 in the coming month, CNN reported. "...
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Al Jazeera
| 1 year ago
42 Major General Robert Mood, head of the UN observer mission in Syria, has called on all sides to "stop the violence" upon his arrival in Damascus. Mood, a Norwegian with experience from several UN missions, will take charge of an advance team of 16 ...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
The head of the U.N. observer mission in Syria on Sunday called on President Bashar Assad and the country's opposition to stop fighting and allow a tenuous cease-fire to take hold...Robert Mood spoke after arriving in the Syrian capital Damascus to...
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KSAZ
| 1 year ago
At least eight people were killed in violence in Syria on Sunday, including four soldiers who died in a blast at a military center in the northern province of Aleppo, monitors said. Two civilians were shot dead by snipers in the district of Juret al...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
Khaldiyeh district, which has seen heavy government shelling and clashes between Syrian forces and rebels. The team in Homs is part of an advance team of 15 UN monitors in Syria who are trying to salvage a peace plan brokered by special envoy Kofi...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
UN observers said on Sunday that it was "extremely important" that all sides respect a promised ceasefire in Syria as a veteran peacekeeper flew in to take command after a new day of bloodshed. A mission spokesperson said that an advance party of...
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Kuwait News Top Stories
| 1 year ago
April 29, 2012 (AFP) -Lebanese intelligence officers were questioning the crew of a Sierra Leone-flagged vessel on Sunday over allegations it was carrying arms to Syrian rebels as fighting raged between the insurgents and regular troops. Ten rebel...
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Al Jazeera English
| 1 year ago
42 Syria has accused the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of bias and encouraging terrorism, after he blamed government forces for violating a ceasefire it agreed to earlier this month. An editorial in the state-run Tishreen newspaper...
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Daily Nation
| 1 year ago
Rating Deadly clashes broke out between deserters and Syrian government forces on Saturday as a veteran Norwegian peacekeeper headed to Damascus to take charge of a UN mission overseeing a troubled truce. Regime troops killed at least 10 rebel...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Russia on Saturday said it backed delivering a "decisive rebuff" to "terrorists" operating in Syria a day after state television reported 11 people killed in a bomb blast outside a Damascus mosque. "We are convinced that the terrorists operating in...
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Al Jazeera English
| 1 year ago
52 The Lebanese navy has reportedly intercepted a ship loaded with three containers of weapons destined for Syrian opposition forces. The cargo vessel, which originated from Libya, was found on Saturday containing heavy machine guns, artillery shells,...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
Gunmen in inflatable dinghies attacked a military unit on Syria's Mediterranean coast, state media said on Saturday, the first seaborne assault in a 13-month-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. The nocturnal raid, along with the killings...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Syrian troops have killed 10 people north of Damascus, activists say. Civilians are said to be among the dead in the incident, after army defectors took refuge in the village of Bakha. Separately, authorities say gunmen in inflatable dinghies...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 1 year ago
A veteran Norwegian peacekeeper headed to Damascus on Saturday to take charge of a UN mission overseeing a troubled truce as monitors reported 10 deserters killed in clashes with the army and Lebanon said it had intercepted arms headed to the rebels.
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Attack follows suicide bombing that killed nine people in Damascus mosque. Syrian forces killed at least 10 people on Saturday in a village north of Damascus where army defectors had taken refuge, and in the coastal province of Latakia the army...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Tearing up the UN-sponsored peace plan into pieces, a suicide bomber exploded at a Damascus mosque killing nine people including security officers on Friday. The blast occurred when worshippers were leaving the Zain al-Abideen mosque after Friday...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
The United Nations on Friday put Major General Robert Mood of Norway, a veteran of troublesome truces, in charge of the force monitoring the faltering ceasefire in Syria. Mood was already heading for Damascus when UN leader Ban Ki-moon publicly...
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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
A suicide bomber killed at least nine people outside a mosque in Damascus Friday, dealing a further blow to Syria's threadbare ceasefire plan. Witnesses in the city's central Midan district said a man in military uniform detonated an explosives vest...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
The Daily Star Syrian Kurdish women wearing the colors of the Kurdish and Syrian pre-Baath era flags attend an anti-regime protest. An apparent suicide bombing in the Syrian capital Damascus that killed at least nine people further strained a fragile...
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Newyork Times
| 1 year ago
Activists in the neighborhood of the mosque in the Midan suburb south of the capital and residents said some civilians were wounded in that blast and that security forces opened fire immediately afterwards, scattering crowds of worshippers. One...
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The New York Times
| 1 year ago
Activists in the neighborhood of the mosque in the Midan suburb south of the capital and residents said some civilians were wounded in that blast and that security forces opened fire immediately afterwards, scattering crowds of worshippers. One...
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Taiwan News
| 1 year ago
Two weeks into a cease-fire agreement, there still was no peace in Syria : Security agents in Damascus collected the remains of 10 people killed in a suicide bombing...Video showed a crowd carrying a slain boy to U.N. observers as proof of regime...
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News 24
| 1 year ago
Tens of thousands of people protested across Syria on Friday as a deadly suicide bombing rocked the capital, killing 11 and fuelling growing scepticism over the prospects of a UN-backed peace plan. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said three...
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Leonia Life
| 1 year ago
Syria A suicide bomber blew himself up across the street from a mosque in the Syrian capital Friday, killing at least 10 people and wounding nearly 30, state TV said. Thousands of Syrians protested elsewhere to denounce persistent violence by...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Pressure mounts on Syria as 'suicide attack' hits capital 27 April 2012 Last updated at 11:44 ET An explosion in the centre of the Syrian capital Damascus has killed at least 10 people and wounded 20 others, state TV says. The reports said a "...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Tens of thousands of anti-regime demonstrators took to the streets across Syria on Friday demanding the fall of President Bashar al-Assad's regime, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said three people, including a child,...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
A suicide bombing in the Syrian capital of Damascus has killed nine and wounded 20, according to state TV. The attack, which occurred in the Midan area of the city, was the second to strike the capital on Friday and the latest in a string of bombings...
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AKI
| 1 year ago
At least ten people were killed and dozens injured Friday by a suicide bomb blast across the street from a mosque in the Syrian capital, Damascus, according to state media. The Sana government news agency posted graphic photographs of body parts it...
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Al Jazeera English
| 1 year ago
17 A suicide bomber has killed nine people and injured dozens in the Syrian capital, Damascus, according to state media. The developments on Friday came a day after Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, said the Syrian government was "in...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Syria's exiled Muslim Brotherhood on Friday urged UN chief Ban Ki-moon to acknowledge that Damascus had failed to honor a peace plan and to suspend its membership of the world body. "We ask Ban Ki-moon to announce that Assad's government has failed...
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Arab News
| 1 year ago
A suicide bomber killed nine people and wounded 20 outside a central Damascus mosque on Friday, Syrian state television said, in another blow to a peace plan that the United Nations says President Bashar Assad has failed to honor. The blast ripped...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Another 15 UN military observers are due to arrive in Syria by month's end, completing an advance team of 30 charged with monitoring the conflict-torn country's troubled ceasefire, a UN official said Friday. "We have always said that we hope to have...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
Opposition activists said the explosion occurred as worshippers were coming out of the Zeen al-Abadeen mosque. "About 30 minutes ago, I heard a really heavy blast. It felt like I was shaking and I think everyone in Damascus must have heard it," said...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 1 year ago
The Syrian government and rebels traded blame on Thursday for a huge explosion which killed 16 people in the city of Hama, as a two-week-old U.N.-backed ceasefire looked increasingly fragile...Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon accused Damascus of...
