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United Press International
| 11 months ago
The Russian government Sunday denied reports it sent a fully loaded warship to supply the Syrian government with weapons and troops. Ukraine media reports suggested the amphibious vessel Nikolai Filchenkov, loaded with armaments and soldiers, was...
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The Hindu
| 11 months ago
Russia may send warships and troops to Syria to protect its logistics base in Tartous, according to a Russian military source. It is quite possible that warships of the [Russian] Black Sea Fleet may go to the Mediterranean Sea in case it is necessary...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
Mikhail Metzel/AP A Russian arms dealer has said his company is shipping missile defence systems to Syria that could be used to combat international intervention in the country. Anatoly Isaykin, the general director of Rosoboronexport, said the...
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Zee News
| 11 months ago
The ministry statement follows a denial by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. "We are completing right now the implementation of contracts that were signed and paid for a long time ago," Lavrov said. "We are not delivering to Syria, or anywhere else,...
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Voice of America
| 11 months ago
VOA News June 15, 2012 The head of the U.N. observer force in Syria has accused both rebels and government troops of stoking violence in the country, a charge that comes as Russia hardens its position against Western pressure to topple embattled...
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Voice of America
| 11 months ago
Russia denies holding talks with western nations about the departure of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, but French officials say talks involving Moscow officials are taking place. In an interview on French radio, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius...
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NOW Lebanon
| 11 months ago
US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will discuss differences over what to do about the conflict in Syria at a G20 summit next week, a top US official said Friday. "Obviously disagreements persist with regard to Syria,...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
Youssef Badawi/EPA UN monitors could be forced to abandon their mission in Syria in the face of escalating violence in the conflict between the regime and rebels, its commander signalled on Friday on another day of bloodshed and protests across the...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 11 months ago
Both rebels and forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad are intensifying violence in Syria and striving for military gains rather than peaceful transition, the chief U.N. monitor in Syria said on Friday. Major-General Robert Mood's comments came as...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 11 months ago
Russia is not discussing plans for a Syrian political transformation that would follow the exit of President Bashar al-Assad, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday, emphasising Moscow's vocal opposition to external interference. Russia and...
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Fox News
| 11 months ago
Russia's foreign minister says Moscow isn't discussing Syria's future without President Bashar Assad as Washington has claimed. Sergey Lavrov denied Thursday's statement by State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland that Moscow and Washington were...
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NOW Lebanon
| 11 months ago
Russia on Friday denied holding discussions with other nations on a political transformation in Syria that would include the departure of President Bashar al-Assad. "I read somewhere today that supposedly, US State Department spokeswoman Victoria...
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NOW Lebanon
| 11 months ago
Russia said Friday it is not making any new deliveries of attack helicopters to Syria and has only carried out repairs of helicopters sent there many years ago. "There are no new supplies of Russian-made attack helicopters to Syria," the foreign...
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NOW Lebanon
| 11 months ago
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday that the United States held "constructive" talks with Russia but urged more action after days of feuding over the bloodshed in Syria. Clinton, who on Tuesday accused Russia of fueling the violence by...
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Zee News
| 11 months ago
US Deputy State Secretary Robert Burns met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday on the sidelines of the Hearts of Asia ministerial meeting in Kabul to discuss a wide range of issues, including the situation in Syria. "It was a...
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Zee News
| 11 months ago
Britain backs Syria conference plan 'in principle' London: British Foreign Secretary William Hague has reiterated that his country welcomes "in principle" the Russian suggestion of an international conference on Syria. Hague, however, warned that...
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Arab News
| 11 months ago
Hasan Barari Thursday 14 June 2012 Observers have recently been grappling with what role can Russia play to avert the escalation of the Syrian crisis into a civil war with grave regional consequences. Many American officials floated the idea that...
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The independent
| 11 months ago
Tensions between Washington and Moscow over Syria escalated yesterday after it emerged that Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, may have indulged in a little spin when she charged earlier this week that Russia was delivering attack...
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AP Online
| 11 months ago
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's accusation that Russia "dramatically" escalated the crisis in Syria lost steam Thursday when the State Department acknowledged that the helicopters she accused Moscow of sending were actually refurbished...
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The independent
| 11 months ago
Suggested Topics Moscow and Washington were yesterday engaged in a tense war of words over the conflict in Syria, trading barbed accusations over each other's role in arming opposing sides. In an indication of the breakdown in international...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
The Washington Post The United States and Russia traded fresh barbs Wednesday over allegations of arming Syria's combatants, further straining relations at a time when the two powers are struggling to preserve unity in confronting Iran over its...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 11 months ago
Britain and France join a chorus that appears to be pressing Moscow to give up on Syria's Assad. Washington Far from backing off claims that Russia is providing Bashar al-Assad the heavy weapons that are killing Syrian civilians, the United States...
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CNN
| 11 months ago
Russia supplying weapons to Syria? "A civil war is a conflict in which at least one side is a non-state actor, with at least 1,000 total battle deaths and at least 100 on each side," he said. Anuradha Chakravarty, assistant professor of political...
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BBC
| 11 months ago
Russia is facing increased pressure to harden its approach to Syria, with a number of countries warning of a descent into civil war. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned Moscow it risks losing influence in the Middle East if it does not...
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The New York Times
| 11 months ago
What Mrs. Clinton did not say, however, was whether the aircraft were new shipments or, as American officials say is more likely, helicopters that Syria had sent to Russia a few months ago for routine repairs and refurbishing, and which were now...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
Syrian government forces seized control of the northern town of Haffah on Wednesday after rebels retreated in the face of a withering offensive that saw the army rely heavily on combat helicopters for the first time. The fall of Haffah after an eight-...
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CNN
| 11 months ago
Civil War and it conjures a vague picture of a "really bad conflict." But the rigorously-defined scholarly meaning of civil war fits Syria now, just as it applied to Iraq last decade, he said. "A civil war is a conflict in which at least one side is...
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AP Online
| 11 months ago
Beirut (AP) — Syrian forces and militias dragged men from their homes, executing them and burning their bodies as their families watched — a campaign to terrorize the residents of towns believed to shelter rebels, Amnesty International charged in a...
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Truthdig
| 11 months ago
Jun 13, 2012 An already dire situation in Syria is getting worse as Russia continues to arm the Syrian military and Saudi Arabia and Qatar send anti-tank missiles to the Syrian opposition with the Obama administration's support. Syrian opposition...
