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AP Online
| 9 months ago
Britain has condemned the reported "brutal massacre" in Syria.
The British-based activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday that 32 dead bodies were found in the streets of Daraya and they had been killed by "gunfire...
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Canada.com
| 9 months ago
Syrian opposition activists accused President Bashar al-Assad's army on Sunday of massacring scores of people in a town close to the capital that it recently recaptured from rebels. More than 200 bodies, some of them women and children, were found in...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Dozens of bodies were found as Syrian forces launched a deadly assault in the southwestern belt of Damascus on Saturday, in what activists said was a new bid to crush "once and for all" the insurgency in the capital. Combat helicopters and tanks also...
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Arab News
| 9 months ago
Syrian opposition activists accused President Bashar Assad's forces on Sunday of committing a massacre of scores of people in a town close to the capital that the army had just retaken from rebels. More than 200 bodies were found in houses and...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Syrian army forces launched arrest raids and clashed with rebels in the southwestern belt of Damascus on Saturday in what activists say is a renewed bid to crush the insurgency in the capital "once and for all". Combat helicopters and tanks also...
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Zee News
| 9 months ago
General Babacar Gaye, left Syria on Saturday morning, leaving behind a number of UN members who are believed to be running the new political liaison office the United Nations has recently decided to establish in the unrest-stricken country. Wearing a...
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Fox
| 9 months ago
The head of a team of United Nations observers tasked to monitor a cease-fire in Syria that failed has left Damascus...Babacar Gaye gave no statement before leaving the Syrian capital to neighboring Lebanon Saturday...Security Council has agreed to...
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AP Online
| 9 months ago
The head of a team of United Nations observers tasked to monitor a cease-fire in Syria that failed has left Damascus.
Lt...Babacar Gaye gave no statement before leaving the Syrian capital to neighboring Lebanon Saturday.
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
The head of the now-defunct UN observer team in Syria, General Babacar Gaye, left Damascus on Saturday after the Security Council called time on the troubled mission, his aides said. The mission officially ended on at midnight last Sunday amid...
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Russia Today
| 9 months ago
US presidential candidate Mitt Romney is echoing Obama's earlier statements, saying he is ready for a military intervention in Syria if chemical weapons are used by the Assad government. "I think we have to also be ready to take whatever action is...
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Khaleej Times
| 9 months ago
The revolutionary Syrian people were shocked and dismayed by Mr Lakhdar Brahimi's statements,' the exiled opposition group. We call on the international envoy who has not yet consulted with any Syrians on his appointment or his mission to apologise...
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Arab News
| 9 months ago
Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed Saturday 25 August 2012 THE war in Syria indicates that the Assad regime has lost most of its positions, some of its top military leaders, the majority of its regions and all of its land crossings. And Russia has sent 17...
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Arab News
| 9 months ago
The number of refugees fleeing civil war in Syria has surged to over 200,000, the UN said yesterday, as fighter jets and tanks reportedly unleashed deadly new raids in hotspots across the country. Officials complained that the escalation of violence...
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Zee News
| 9 months ago
Days ahead of the new UN-Arab League joint special representative for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, takes charge, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon has reiterated his support him. Brahimi is scheduled to assume his new position on September 01.
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Sky News
| 9 months ago
At least 20 children in Syria's largest city, Aleppo, are being seriously injured every day by government forces, Sky News has learned. Although the Free Syrian army claims to control 60% of the city, the area is still coming under heavy bombardment...
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Scoop
| 9 months ago
You have all the respect and full support of the international community, Mr. Ban told Mr. Brahimi at UN Headquarters. It is crucially important that the Security Council and all the United Nations systems support your role.
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
The Daily Star UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-mmon meets with Lakhdar Brahimi, newly-appointed Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States for Syria, on August 24, 2012 at the UN headquarters in New York. Syrian...
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Palestine Chronicle
| 9 months ago
Fabian With the Free Syrian Army being supplied aid by the West and the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, the endgame for the Syrian regime has begun. Does Assad's exit guarantee the replacement of autocracy with democracy? What implications will...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
New UN-Arab League envoy Lakdhar Brahimi said Friday that he was "scared" at the size of the task of ending the Syria conflict. The former Algerian foreign minister made the comments as he started meetings with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Syrian forces blitzed areas in and around the city of Aleppo Friday, destroying a number of homes, activists said, as Western powers sought to tighten the screws on strongman Bashar Assad. France voiced support for a partial no-fly zone over Syria,...
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Zee News
| 9 months ago
Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mikdad said on Thursday that his country is expecting news from the UN secretariat about the next step's details after the expiry of the UN Supervision Mission in Syria. "The next step is the resumption of UN...
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Rediff
| 9 months ago
Israel warns world of Iran's propaganda 'trap' : PTI: Fearing an attempt by Iran to influence the opinion of world leaders, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, scheduled to attend a NAM summit meeting in Tehran next week, Israel has warned...
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Kuwait Times
| 9 months ago
A Syrian girl, who fled her home with her family due to fighting between the Syrian army and the rebels, sleeps by her family'sbelongings, while she and others take refuge at the Bab Al-Salameh border crossing, in hopes of entering one of the refugee...
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Wayne Today
| 9 months ago
Syrian troops backed by tanks and helicopters broke into a Damascus suburb on Thursday following two days of shelling and intense clashes as part of a widening offensive by President Bashar Assad's forces to seize control of parts of the capital and...
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Arab News
| 9 months ago
Forces loyal to President Bashar Assad wept into a restive town near Damascus on Thursday and recaptured the heart of Aleppo, while rebels advanced in a town along the Iraqi border, government officials and activists said. Military artillery and...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
Syria was ready to cooperate with new UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, the deputy foreign minister said on Thursday, adding he hoped the veteran Algerian diplomat would help pave the way for "national dialogue. "We have informed the United Nations that we...
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Open Democracy
| 9 months ago
The destructive potential of Syria's conflict is creating alarm in Washington and a bare margin of hope for diplomatic progress. The conflict in Syria has lasted almost eighteen months, confounding the expectations of so many observers who expected...
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The independent
| 9 months ago
Troops and tanks swept into a restive town near Damascus today in an assault aimed at crushing opposition to President Bashar al-Assad, whose struggle for survival has dragged Syria into an increasingly bloody war. Artillery and helicopters attacked...
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Kansas.com
| 9 months ago
When a listener calls in to praise the president, you must agree in flowery terms. When suffering civilians beg you to describe their plight, you ignore them. Those are just a few of the rules imposed on Honey al Sayed in the final weeks before she...
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AKI
| 9 months ago
A Syrian national dialogue must begin before there can be discussions of President Bashar al- Assad's resignation, Deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jamil said. Calls for Assad's resignation before dialogue starts would make talks impossible, Jamil, who...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Country Comment Html tags are not allowed. * Word Count: Left: Alert me of future comments Your comment was sent successfully, thank you... Story Summary The Vatican's envoy to Syria Mario Zenari blamed both sides for violations in the conflict...
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Japan Times
| 9 months ago
The European Union is probing alleged illicit cigarette shipments by Japan Tobacco Inc. to a firm close to Syrian President Bashar Assad in violation of the regional body's economic sanctions on the Middle Eastern country, EU officials said. The...
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Leader Post Online
| 9 months ago
A Syrian warplane on Saturday bombed a small town partially controlled by anti-regime fighters near the Turkish border, killing eight people and wounding at least 20, the latest escalation in the use of air power by President Bashar Assad's...
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IRIN
| 9 months ago
While conflict rages just kilometers away in Syria, the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights remains quiet. But there are signs that the 17-month old conflict has touched the areas' Arab residents. In Majdal Shams, the area's largest Arab village,...
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Leader Post Online
| 9 months ago
A Syrian government official warned the United States Tuesday that military intervention in Syria could lead to regional turmoil as regime forces bombed a northern village and stormed a rebel-held Damascus suburb, killing dozens of people, activists...
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China News
| 9 months ago
China on Monday reiterated its political position on the Syria issue, calling on related parties to stop the violence, and the international community to support the United Nations' mediation. China is deeply concerned about the escalating crisis in...
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Arab News
| 9 months ago
Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi is no stranger to difficult missions. During his long and colorful career the 74-year-old has served as a special UN envoy to conflict-ridden countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan and Haiti. But now he has accepted the...
