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Daily Nation
| 10 months ago
Rating Syria denied its armed forces carried out a massacre in Treimsa but said 37 gunmen and two civilians were killed in clashes there with rebels, as UN investigators returned to the village on Sunday. Rights activists say more than 150 people...
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon head for Russia and China on Monday to press the two UN Security Council doubters to back tougher action against President Bashar al-Assad to halt the slaughter in Syria. The visits by the UN-Arab League envoy and the UN...
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Arab News
| 10 months ago
Tariq Alhomayed Saturday 30 June 2012 What was said in Geneva by the majority of international forces that have taken a decisive position toward the crimes being committed by Bashar Assad was beautiful, and this includes what was said Kofi Annan...
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Arab News
| 10 months ago
Kofi Annan was appointed as a special UN envoy to Syria, I had hastened to warn about him. I claimed that Annan was brought in to prolong the tenure of Assad regime. I said that this was the last comic act in the theater of the Arab League and the...
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DAWN
| 10 months ago
Syrian peace mediator Kofi Annan was due in Moscow on Monday for talks with President Vladimir Putin that come amid growing pressure on Russia to finally back the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad. The Kremlin said Sunday the UN-Arab League envoy...
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
Carr was at Borobudur temple in Central Java as part of his official visit to Indonesia, ahead of talks with senior officials in Jakarta this week. Activists say more than 150 people were killed in last week's deadly attack on the Syrian village of...
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Jerusalem Post
| 10 months ago
Opposition sources said about 220 people, mostly civilians, were killed in Tremseh when helicopter gunships and tanks attacked on Thursday, after which militiamen stormed the village and slaughtered families...UN observers entered the central Syrian...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 10 months ago
Foreign Minister Bob Carr says the world is appalled by the news that Assad regime forces have slaughtered up to 200 civilians in the village of Treimsa. "This is another brutal and barbaric crime against innocent civilians," Senator Carr said in a...
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Zaman.com
| 10 months ago
Despite the international community's calls for an end to the unabated violence in Syria, President Bashar al-Assad's military does not seem to be ceasing its large-scale operations across the country, sending a strong message to the world powers...
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Arab News
| 10 months ago
A world meeting on Syria urged the UN yesterday to use the threat of sanctions to force change in Syria as President Bashar Assad was rocked by the defection of one of his most senior generals. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also rounded on...
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Arab News
| 10 months ago
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday warned that time was running out for the Syrian regime and it needed to start a political transition to save the country from a "catastrophic assault." "It should be abundantly clear to those who...
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The Daily Star
| 10 months ago
A handout picture released by the Syrian opposition's Shaam News Network on July 14, 2012 shows an anti-Syrian regime demonstration in Binnish, near Idlib, on July 13, 2012. Hundreds of troops stormed a town in southern Syria on Saturday, reports...
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
Iran was ready to play a role alongside other regional countries to try to establish a dialogue between the Syrian government and the opposition, an official was quoted as saying on Saturday. "Iran is ready to play an appropriate role in bringing...
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Tulsa World
| 10 months ago
U.N. special envoy Kofi Annan, the Obama administration and the Syrian opposition on Friday denounced President Bashar Assad after a massive military assault against a village involving tanks, artillery and helicopters a day earlier caused the deaths...
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The Daily Star (Bangladesh)
| 10 months ago
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also condemned what his monitors on the ground had seen as an "indiscriminate" bombardment that included rocket-firing helicopters of the town of Tremseh in rebellious Hama province, and he questioned...
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DAWN
| 10 months ago
UN Council's failure on Syria will be license' to kill: Ban AFP 34 mins ago UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. UN leader Ban Ki-moon on Friday demanded that the UN Security Council act on the Syria conflict, warning that any failure would be giving a...
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Arab News
| 10 months ago
Tariq Alhomayed Saturday 14 July 2012 IT is clear that the Syrian revolution has embroiled Kofi Annan along with his initiatives and plan in Syrian affairs. It is as if Annan today is trying to steal Walid Muallam's job, for what he is doing to save...
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The Daily Star
| 10 months ago
The Daily Star Demonstrators rally against Assad's rule in Kafranbel, near Idlib. Accounts differed Friday on how up to 220 people were killed in the village of Tremseh near central Hama, but the latest reported atrocity at the hands of Syrian...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 10 months ago
Reuters The bloodiest massacre in Syria's 17-month conflict along with the suspected movement of chemical weapons adds pressure on the United Nations Security Council to punish a regime that Russia has so far shielded. The opposition Syrian National...
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Sky News
| 10 months ago
The Syrian army has denied killing any civilians in an attack on a village in Hama province, which opposition activists claim left more than 200 people dead. It said the air and ground assault on Tremseh village only killed terrorists. "Army units...
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday called for a ceasefire in Syria to let UN observers enter a village where more than 150 people were reportedly killed. "We call for an immediate ceasefire in and around Hama to allow the UN observer...
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan told the UN Security Council on Friday that the Syrian government had "flouted" UN resolutions with the latest mass killings in the country. Syrian government's obligations and commitment to cease the use of heavy...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 10 months ago
Kofi Annan - is planning new talks on the country's crisis in the wake of reports of another massacre which has killed as many as 200 people. If those numbers are confirmed, the massacre would be the deadliest incident since the start of the uprising...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
UN-Arab League international envoy Kofi Annan has condemned the massacre of 220 people in the village of Tremseh by pro-regime Shabiha militia after heavy shelling. Share This Story The international media have attempted to contact sources in the...
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Washington Post
| 10 months ago
At least 200 people were massacred by government soldiers and militia fighters in the village of Tremseh in western Syria on Thursday, the highest death toll from a single attack since the country's uprising began in March 2011, according to...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 10 months ago
Russia urged U.N. special envoy Kofi Annan on Friday to work more closely with the Syrian opposition and a Foreign Ministry source said it would push the idea at talks with Annan in Moscow on Monday. Russia has repeatedly defended President Bashar al-...
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AKI
| 10 months ago
Syria's Muslim Brotherhood said United Nations and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan is partly to blame for yesterday's massacre in a village in the restive Hama region that left more than 200 dead. It was the largest massacre since violence started 16...
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Kuwait News Top Stories
| 10 months ago
More than 200 Syrians, mostly civilians, were massacred in a village in the rebellious Hama region when it was bombarded by helicopter gunships and tanks and then stormed by militiamen who carried out execution-style killings, opposition activists...
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Israel National News
| 10 months ago
Unfortunately, so far we don't see any practical results from his and his team's contact with the opposition."
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
The talks would most likely touch on a UN resolution that would extend the mandate of the UN mission in Syria, said the source. Talks between Russia and world powers at the United Nations have already been dogged by disputes, with Russia proposing...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 10 months ago
Breaking News Russia urges Annan to work more with Syria opposition Russia said on Friday it wanted UN special envoy Kofi Annan to work more actively with the Syrian opposition and that it would urge him to do so during a visit to Moscow. Russia...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 10 months ago
Syria's former ambassador to Iraq urged soldiers in Bashar al-Assad's army to turn their weapons on the regime and "join the ranks of the revolution". As Western efforts to threaten Assad with sanctions were again rebuffed by Russia, Nawaf Fares, who...
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
Syria's main opposition alliance Friday urged the UN Security Council to pass a binding resolution against Damascus following reports by activists that regime forces massacred at least 150 villagers. "To stop this bloody madness which threatens the...
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Taiwan News
| 10 months ago
Travel & Delicacy Beauty never Ends Ecological Environment Taiwan News, Staff Writer 2012-07-13 11:13 AM Syria n opposition activists said more than 200 people were killed in a Sunni village on Thursday by government forces using tanks and...
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Al Ahram
| 10 months ago
It's a lonely sojourn, writes Graham Usher at the United Nations In what may be the last throw of the dice for his diplomacy, on 9 July UN and Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan said he had agreed with President Bashar Al-Assad "to build an...
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Arab News
| 10 months ago
Hassan Barari Friday 13 July 2012 UN special envoy Kofi Annan took an unthinkable step by visiting Tehran and Iraq. After years of branding Iran as an element of instability, some turn to Iran to help put an end to the Syrian crisis. For Annan, Iran...
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Kuwait Times
| 10 months ago
In this citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network SNN, taken on Wednesday, smoke leaps the air from purported forces shelling in Homs, Syria. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad faced mounting pressure yesterday after a senior diplomat...
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The Guardian
| 10 months ago
Syria says it will punish its former envoy to Iraq who fled to Qatar and denounced the regime of Bashar al-Assad, then called on other ambassadors to do the same. The defection of Nawaf al-Fares , who was until Wednesday a leading member of Syria's...
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The Independent
| 10 months ago
News in pictures From the blogs Unparalleled levels of imprudent lending; corrupt banking practices; soaring inflation and rising un... Stewart Lee is widely regarded by many in the comedy world and the fans who worship them as a comedy... My...
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The New York Times
| 10 months ago
In a statement, the Foreign Ministry in Damascus said that the envoy, Nawaf Fares, "has been relieved of his duties and he no longer has any link to our embassy in Baghdad or the Foreign Ministry," Reuters reported. The declaration came a day after...
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The Daily Star
| 10 months ago
Pressure mounted on Syrian strongman Bashar Assad on Thursday after a first senior diplomat, his ambassador to Baghdad, defected and Western powers drew up a 10-day sanctions ultimatum. Syria's ambassador to Iraq, Nawaf Fares, announced he was...
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Arab News
| 10 months ago
Syria's ambassador to Iraq defected on Wednesday in protest over President Bashar Assad's violent suppression of a 16-month uprising as the UN Security Council remained deadlocked over the next steps in the crisis. I declare that I have joined, from...
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
Western nations on the UN Security Council on Wednesday proposed a resolution demanding sanctions against Syria over the worsening conflict, envoys said. The draft resolution lays the ground for a new Security Council battle over Syria in coming days...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 10 months ago
Syrian President Bashar Assad has discussed the possibility of forming a transitional government for his country, as proposed by an international conference in Geneva last month, envoy Kofi Annan said Wednesday. Mr. Annan, the U.N.-Arab League envoy...
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Fox News
| 10 months ago
Associated Press Syrian President Bashar Assad has discussed the possibility of forming a transitional government for his country as proposed by an international conference in Geneva last month, envoy Kofi Annan said Wednesday. Annan, the U.N.-Arab...
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United Press International
| 10 months ago
Nawaf al-Fares, Syria's ambassador to Iraq, said Wednesday he could no longer tolerate his government's violence against the Syrian people and had defected. Al-Fares urged others in Syria to join him in abandoning the regime of President Bashar Assad,...
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The Courier-Mail
| 10 months ago
Syria's Bashar al-Assad as Western powers submitted a 10-day sanctions ultimatum and a first senior diplomat, his ambassador in Baghdad, defected. At the United Nations on Wednesday, Britain, France, Germany and the United States submitted a draft...
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Sky News
| 10 months ago
The draft, a copy of which has been seen by Sky News Online, sets a deadline of ten days for the Syrian army to "cease troop movements towards population centres cease all use of heavy weapons in such centres withdraw its troops and heavy weapons...
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Zaman.com
| 10 months ago
COM, Turkey has denied reports that Turkish foreign minister called for greater pressure on Russia and China to push them to stop supporting Syria's embattled President Bashar al-Assad's regime during a gathering of Western and Arab nations in Paris...
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The Daily Star
| 10 months ago
Agencies A Russian warship, one of many vessels, is seen in Turkish waters as it heads to Syria to boost presence in Tartous. Syria's ambassador to Iraq defected Wednesday in protest over President Bashar Assad's military crackdown on a 16-month...
