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MarketWatch
| 9 months ago
A Free Syrian Army fighter tries to fix his jammed rifle during heavy fighting Saturday in the Salaheddine neighborhood of central Aleppo. MarketWatch) As government and rebel forces continued fighting Saturday in Aleppo, U.S. Secretary of State...
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Fox
| 9 months ago
Syria Gunmen detonated back-to-back roadside bombs and clashed with police in central Damascus Saturday in attacks that caused no damage but highlighted the ability of rebels to breach the intense security near President Bashar Assad's power bases.
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AP Online
| 9 months ago
Syria (AP) — Gunmen detonated back-to-back roadside bombs and clashed with police in central Damascus Saturday in attacks that caused no damage but highlighted the ability of rebels to breach the intense security near President Bashar Assad's power...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 9 months ago
Syrian and Jordanian forces clashed along the border overnight in an incident that highlighted international concerns that the civil war in Syria could ignite a wider regional conflict. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stepped up efforts to...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
As Syria's conflict grinds bloodily on, Iran threw its diplomatic muscle this week into trying to save its Damascus ally -- but Western observers said the effort was likely to worsen the crisis. "Distrust between Iran and the West means Iran's...
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Denver Post
| 9 months ago
Al-Qaeda has advanced beyond isolated pockets of activity in Syria and is building a network of well-organized cells, according to U.S. Iraq-like foothold that would be hard to defeat if rebels oust President Bashar Assad. At least a couple hundred...
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Al Jazeera English
| 9 months ago
10 Dozen of people, including three children, died when a shell crashed into a bakery in Aleppo's Tariq al-Bab district [AFP] Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, is set to hold talks on the conflict in Syria with Turkish leaders as deadly...
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BBC
| 9 months ago
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has arrived in Turkey for talks on the worsening crisis in neighbouring Syria. Mrs Clinton will meet Turkish leaders as well as Syrian opposition activists. They are expected to discuss preparations for a...
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Zaman.com
| 9 months ago
The United States imposed new sanctions on Syria and its allies on Friday and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton headed to Turkey for meetings as both countries plan for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's fall. Clinton, winding up an 11-day Africa...
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The Guardian
| 9 months ago
Goran Tomasevic/Reuters The Obama administration is preparing new sanctions on Syrian president Bashar al-Assad 's regime and its allies. US secretary of state Hillary Clinton heads to Turkey for weekend talks with top Turkish officials and Syrian...
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Twin Boro News
| 9 months ago
Syrian government forces bombed rebel positions from the ground and air in the northern city of Aleppo on Friday as protesters across the country appealed for anti-aircraft guns for opposition fighters to offset the regime's increasing use of aerial...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 9 months ago
Information from within Syria indicates that the opposition Free Syrian Army [FSA] has carried out a tactical withdrawal from Aleppos Salaheddin district, in the face of overwhelming pressure from the al-Assad regimes forces. However FSA commanders...
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SF Gate
| 9 months ago
Syrian government forces fought rebels outside the capital Damascus and in the northern city of Aleppo on Friday as more civilians streamed across the border into neighboring Turkey to escape the civil war in their country. Meanwhile, U.N. diplomats...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 9 months ago
Syrian forces have pushed rebels back from a strategic district of Aleppo, but skirmishes continued in the city and the United Nations said the conflict engulfing Syria would have no winner. Diplomats told Reuters that veteran Algerian diplomat...
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The Globe & Mail
| 9 months ago
Video Syrian officials, including former Prime Minister Riad Hijab, attend a funeral for three of Bashar al-Assad's senior security officials, July 20, 2012. Reuters video Kofi Annan, Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the Arab League for...
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Sky News
| 9 months ago
The Government is increasing its work with the Syrian political opposition as part of efforts to create an alternative to President Bashar al Assad's regime. Foreign Secretary William Hague said a British diplomat met representatives of the Free...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Syrian army forces bombarding rebel foes in Aleppo may have sound reasons for delaying the expected next stage of their campaign to take Syria's largest city -- an infantry advance that would test the mettle of their front line troops. But while...
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CNN
| 9 months ago
Syrian rebels preparing for govt. assault The dangers reporters face in Syria How Syria's fmr. prime minister escaped Abu Ayham al-Halaby, a Free Syrian Army commander in Aleppo, told CNN the FSA had retreated from a portion of Salaheddine for...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 9 months ago
Syrian girls watch the funeral of 29-year-old Free Syrian Army fighter Husain al-Ali, who was killed during clashes in Aleppo on Thursday. Syrian rebels in embattled Aleppo tried to maintain morale on Thursday by highlighting small gains in the midst...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Agencies A Syrian air force fighter plane fires a rocket during a strike on the village of Tel Rafaat, 37 km north of Aleppo. President Bashar Assad named a new prime minister Thursday to replace Syria's most senior government defector as his forces...
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The Courier-Mail
| 9 months ago
Aleppo district of Salaheddin under a deadly rain of shellfire, with the showdown battle for Syria's commercial capital raging into a second day. "We have staged a tactical withdrawal from Salaheddin...Regime forces are now advancing into Salaheddin,"...
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Fox
| 9 months ago
Associated Press Clashes between government troops and rebels raged Thursday in opposition bastions of besieged Aleppo as President Bashar Assad's key state backer Iran hosted a gathering of countries for talks on how to end the conflict. Tehran...
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The independent
| 9 months ago
It began with a few of the rebel units pulling out, sleepless and disoriented after two nights of relentless shelling, fearful that they were being surrounded by regime forces...They have also left much of an adjoining district, Saifaldallah. The...
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AP Online
| 9 months ago
Clashes between government troops and rebels raged Thursday in opposition bastions of besieged Aleppo as President Bashar Assad's key state backer Iran hosted a gathering of allies for talks on how to end the conflict.
Speaking at the...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 9 months ago
President Bashar al-Assad named a new prime minister on Thursday to replace Syria's most senior government defector and his forces pounded rebels in a strategic district of Aleppo. Assad appointed Wael al-Halki, a Sunni Muslim from the southern...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 9 months ago
The Assad regime pressed its new assault on Aleppo, Syria's largest city and commercial hub, for a second day on Thursday. But blistering attacks on rebel positions from the ground and the air appear to be only slowly chipping away at the opposition'...
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Rediff
| 9 months ago
S yrian President Bashar al Assad's forces are currently engaged in a 'savage and barbaric assault' on rebels who are pulling back from their stronghold Alleppo -- the commercial hub and largest city in the country. The Syrian army has claimed that...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 9 months ago
Activists say clashes between Syrian government troops and rebels are raging in the opposition bastion of Saleheddine and other districts of the besieged city of Aleppo. The fighting comes just a day after President Bashar Assad's regime claimed in...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
Reuters Forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad have launched coordinated attacks in Aleppo to crush the rebels. Assad's troops pressed ahead with one of their strongest ground attacks in recent days on 8 August pushing the rebels on the back foot. The...
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The Independent
| 9 months ago
The five tanks covered the corners of Salaheddine Square, firing at rebel fighters trying to make their way through the side streets, desperate to try and retake the ground they had lost, their task made even more difficult by the helicopter gunships...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Men search for bodies under the rubble of a house destroyed by a Syrian airstrike in Tal Rifaat. Syria: Syria launched a ground assault Wednesday on rebel-held areas of the besieged city of Aleppo, the center of battles between government forces and...
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CNN
| 9 months ago
Lack of doctors leaves wounded suffering Rebels struggle to unify as revenge rules Syrian president meets with Iran envoy Abu Hussein said at least one tank and an armored vehicle were destroyed and that 32 government troops and three rebels were...
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Epoch Times
| 9 months ago
August 8, 2012 A Russian general on Wednesday denied claims that he was killed by Syrian rebel forces in clashes near Damascus. As a human being, it was very unpleasant for me to hear about my supposed death in Syria, Major-General Vladimir Petrovich...
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The Courier-Mail
| 9 months ago
Aleppo district after storming it and "annihilating" most of the insurgents, as a long-threatened ground assault on the key city was launched. The rebels promptly denied the claim, acknowledging that a "barbaric and savage attack" on the...
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Zee News
| 9 months ago
49 Zeenews Bureau Aleppo: The besieged city of Aleppo on Wednesday witnessed a fierce assault by Syrian troops on the rebel-held areas, in a battle that has been raging for over three weeks now. Reports said that Syrian troops loyal to President...
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Voice of America
| 9 months ago
VOA News August 08, 2012 Syrian government jets and helicopters bombed targets in the besieged northern city of Aleppo Wednesday as tanks launched a ground assault on the rebel-held district of Salaheddin. There were reports of fierce battles with...
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The Guardian
| 9 months ago
Ian Black, Middle East editor Iraq's foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari (r) welcomes Iran's national security chief Saeed Jalili, in Baghdad. Photograph: Mohammed Ameen/EPA Iran is stepping up efforts to secure the release of 48 pilgrims held in...
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Al Jazeera
| 9 months ago
10 The army has been massing its troops and armour in and around Aleppo since late last month [AFP] The Syrian army has launched a ground assault on the northern city of Aleppo, sparking fierce clashes with opposition fighters in the frontline...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 9 months ago
Syria's state television is reporting victory by the armed forces in Salaheddine, which has been the focus of fighting between the army and the rebels for days. But a colonel with the Free Syrian Army says the rebels are holding their ground as the...
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
Russia denied Free Syrian Army claims it had killed a Russian general proving Moscow's involvement in "humanitarian crimes" against Syrians. The FSA identified the general as Vladimir Petrovic Kojaiv, who was a consultant to the Syrian defense...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
FSA Colonel Abdel Jabbar al-Oqaidi told AFP via Skype that "it is not true the regime army has seized control of the district." "It is true that there is a barbaric and savage attack." Dozens of other terrorists were arrested, and some surrendered...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
Iran has admitted that some of the 48 Iranians taken hostage by Syrian rebels are "retired" members of the country's Revolutionary Guards...Share This Story Howover Salehi stressed that the 48 hostages were on a religious pilgrimage when they were...
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News 24
| 9 months ago
Russian news agencies denied reports that a Russian general had been killed in Syria and said he had appeared in person on Wednesday at the Defence Ministry in Moscow, reported Reuters. The ministry said reports that a Russian general advising Syria'...
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Jerusalem Post
| 9 months ago
Itar-Tass news agency said a reserve officer called Vladimir Kuzheyev had later met Russian journalists at the ministry and, although he did not say whether he had been in Syria, he declared: "I want to confirm that I am alive and well." Rebels...
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Sky News
| 9 months ago
Amnesty International has released new satellite images which it says show an increased use of heavy weapons in and around Aleppo amid reports rebels have abandoned a stronghold in the city. "We have retreated, get out of here," a lone rebel fighter...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Abu Bakr, a Syrian rebel commander on the outskirts of Aleppo, is a devoted Islamist determined to overthrow President Bashar Assad. But the radical allies that have joined the rebels in recent months alarm even him. "Let me be clear...But there is...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Syrian rebels fighting President Bashar Assad's forces in the northern city of Aleppo have abandoned at least one position in a battered district where fighting has raged for days. "We have retreated, get out of here," a lone rebel fighter yelled at...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
A Syrian rebel group said on Wednesday it had killed a Russian general working as an adviser to Syria's ministry of defence in an operation in the western Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus. A video statement from a group calling...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Syrian rebels fighting President Bashar Assad's forces in the city of Aleppo have abandoned their positions in a district that has been a frontline of fighting in recent days. "We have retreated, get out of here," a lone rebel fighter yelled at...
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Zee News
| 9 months ago
56 Zeenews Bureau Amman: A Syrian rebel group on Wednesday claimed that it had killed a Russian general, who was working as an adviser to Syria's Ministry of Defence on the outskirts of the capital Damascus. Calling itself the "Hawks Special...
