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The New York Times
| 9 months ago
It was a locally made mortar that had been used in July in the battle for Azaz, a city in northern Syria where antigovernment fighters this summer drove away the army of President Bashar al-Assad. Now we have three or four of these, but we need to...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Agencies Syrians inspect the wreckage of the car bomb in Jaramana. A car bomb rocked the funeral of two government loyalists in a Damascus suburb killing 12 people Tuesday as the army kept up its bombardment of rebel strongholds in the east of the...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
Share This Story While Iran has consistently expressed support for the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Iranian authorities have previously denied any military involvement in Syria, where anti-government forces have been engaged in a...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi, by visiting Iran this week, aims to distance himself from three decades of chilly ties and cautiously pursue a more agile diplomacy than his predecessor Hosni Mubarak. Egypt's first Islamist and freely elected...
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The Nation
| 9 months ago
00 am Thailand has suggested barter trade to avoid the United States' economic sanctions against Iran over its nuclear ambitions. "Trade between Thailand and Iran could not increase for a long time because of the sanctions," Foreign Minister Surapong...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 9 months ago
Iran on Tuesday upped the verbal ante against the US ahead of the NAM Summit, with senior military officers attacking Washington, calling it a "Great Satan" who had unleashed "economic terrorism" on the country...A senior military official said in...
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Canadian Free Press
| 9 months ago
An era of deviations and corruption where criminals preach holiness and terrorists advocate for peace and tranquility. Why not, when all the criteria for all that is right and wrong have been distorted and confused. Sadly, the majority of our world...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
President Hu Jintao (left) of China inspecting the honor guard with President Mohamed Morsi of Egypt in Beijing on Tuesday...Photo: Xinhua/Rao Aimin Days before he is set to appear in Tehran, just two months after taking office, Egypt ian President...
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The Reporter
| 9 months ago
Syria's lightly armed rebels have grown bolder and their tactics more sophisticated in recent months. There have been claims of fighters shooting down helicopter gunships in the past, though the government has never confirmed it. With its forces...
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
Iran has begun supplying Syria with an elite force trained in obliterating military uprisings, force members said after Iran promised to help Syria if it asked. The quiet shipment of hundreds of members of Iran's 125,000-man Army of the Guardians of...
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Salem News
| 9 months ago
In his recent visit to Moscow, Syria's Deputy Prime Minister, Qadri Jamil, said that the government of Syria is ready to negotiate the resignation of the incumbent President, Bashar al-Assad, during the process of talks with the oppositions. This...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
At least 62 people were killed in an assault on the suburbs of Damascus on Monday, according to opposition activists, as the anti-Assad uprising is about to enter its 18th month in September. The United Nations says more than 18,000 people have been...
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Israel National News
| 9 months ago
Speaking to the website of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, the movement's Secretary General Dr. Mahmoud Hussein said that President Morsi is expected to raise the Syrian issue in his talks with the Iranian leadership during the...
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Rediff
| 9 months ago
This Nam summit presents a great opportunity for India [ Images ] to get back into the drivers seat of the developing world, says Seema Mustafa. I ndia might be trying to downplay the importance of the Non Aligned Movement summit even as Prime...
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Arab News
| 9 months ago
Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed Tuesday 28 August 2012 THE Non-Aligned Movement summit conference in Tehran is, more or less, a festivity of real value only to the Iranian government. It is in need of improving its image, in particular to its own citizens who...
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
The Non-Aligned Movement comprises nations that don't belong to major blocs led by world powers. As Egypt's first Islamist president, and as a successor to a long tradition of military rule, Morsi has signaled an eagerness to extend Egypt's ties,...
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The Hindustan Times
| 9 months ago
ministerial meeting, external affairs minister SM Krishna on Monday held bilateral talks with his Iranian counterpart Ali Akbar Salehi during which the two deliberated on the situation in Syria besides focussing on trade and economy.
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Zee News
| 9 months ago
Iran is ready to increase its ties with North Korea in all fields, the Islamic country's foreign minister has said. Speaking while meeting his North Korean counterpart Pak Ui-chun here Sunday, Ali-Akbar Salehi said Iran was ready to expand bilateral...
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The Guardian
| 9 months ago
President Mohamed Morsi was invited to the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Tehran by Iranian vice-president Hamid Baghaei on 8 August. Photograph: Ho/AFP/Getty Images Egypt 's new leader, Mohamed Morsi , is due to visit Iran this week, marking a...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
Instead, Syria's rebels should be encouraged to lay down their arms, said Haidar, who is in Tehran attending Non-Aligned Movement meetings. He claimed that "the United States and Israel are the real architects of the proposals [that Assad step down]...
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar-Salehi said the Non-Aligned Movement must play a more prominent role in international and regional relations. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the movement in Tehran Sunday, Salehi said his country, which assumes...
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Zee News
| 9 months ago
Iran has hit out at the US, saying the holding of the 16th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit in Tehran proves the "failure" of America's "threat and sanction" policy against the oil-rich country. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African...
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NY Daily News
| 9 months ago
Having decided to attend a major diplomatic conference in Iran, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon goes with the opportunity to speak with productive moral authority to the country's rogue regime. America and Israel were among many that urged Ban to...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Iran on Monday was deploying formidable security around a Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting preparing for a summit later this week that Tehran is determined to use to bolster its international status. Some 110,000 police have been dispatched around...
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Zee News
| 9 months ago
Iran's national security chief has said his country stands against any foreign intervention in Syria, and that the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Tehran will aim at resolving the 18-month-old crisis in Syria.
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Arab News
| 9 months ago
Britain said yesterday it was deeply concerned by emerging reports of a brutal massacre of civilians in a Damascus suburb that President Bashar Assad's army recaptured from rebels over the past week. Activist groups said on Sunday most of about 320...
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Time of India
| 9 months ago
The ongoing unrest in the Middle East, particularly the conflict in Syria, is expected to dominate discussions at the forthcoming NAM Summit , but India doesn't want specifics to be reflected in the official NAM document, sources said. As PM Manmohan...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi and Foreign Minister Walid Muallem will attend the August 30-31 Non-Aligned summit in Tehran, a top Iranian official announced in Damascus on Sunday. Aladin Borujerdi, the head of the Iranian parliament's foreign...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
Egypt on Sunday defended its idea of forming a regional contact group on Syria which would include Iran, a staunch Damascus ally, insisting that Tehran could "be part of the solution" to the Syrian crisis. President Mohamed Morsi proposed at this...
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GMA News
| 9 months ago
Syrian opposition activists accused President Bashar al-Assad's army on Sunday of massacring hundreds of people in a town close to the capital that government forces recaptured from rebels. In the town of Daraya, southwest of Damascus, some 320...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 9 months ago
Breaking News Egypt's foreign minister wants Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran and Egypt to meet for talks to work out how to end the Syrian crisis, Egyptian officials said on Sunday, a meeting that would include a regional ally as well as opponents of...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
The 16th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement kicked off in Tehran on Sunday with Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi delivering an opening speech to set the tone for the controversial conference , which will run through Friday. Share This Story...
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
Iran's foreign minister said Sunday the United Nations needed a major overhaul in order to carry out its mission of preserving world peace. Ali Akbar Salehi opened the 16th Non-Aligned Movement Summit of Leaders in Tehran by saying the U.N.
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AP Online
| 9 months ago
Iran (AP) — Iran opened a world gathering of self-described nonaligned nations Sunday with a slap at the U.N. Security Council and an appeal to rid the world of nuclear weapons, even as Tehran faces Western suspicions that it is seeking its own...
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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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Voice of America
| 9 months ago
VOA News August 26, 2012 Representatives of nearly 120 nations, including dozens of heads-of-state, have convened in Tehran for a meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement. At the opening ceremony Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi called...
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Zee News
| 9 months ago
Iran on Sunday condemned the West's policy of intimidation against other nations and sought NAM's support to end tough West-sponsored sanctions against it over its nuclear programme, as officials from 120 countries, including India, gathered here for...
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Jerusalem Post
| 9 months ago
The non-aligned (movement) must seriously oppose ... unilateral economic sanctions which have been enacted by certain countries against non-aligned countries," Salehi told the summit's opening session. Western diplomats have sought to downplay the...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
Non-Aligned Movement leaders should take a stand against Western sanctions at a Tehran summit later this week, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said Sunday, adding that many NAM members backed Iran's nuclear program. "The NAM... should...
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Zee News
| 9 months ago
A delegation from Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission arrived in the Syrian capital on a two-day visit Saturday for talks with top Syrian officials including President Bashar Al Assad.
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has played down possible Syrian links to a recent rise in guerrilla attacks in Turkey, saying unrest across the border was not the cause of Turkey's problems. Turkey has seen an upsurge in attacks over the...
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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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The Economic Times
| 9 months ago
Download free ET iPad add for easier viewing of latest and financial News ! Prime minister will meet Iranian leaders when he travels to Tehran to attend the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit next week, a government official said on Saturday. Prime...
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NewKerala
| 9 months ago
India will press Iran to cooperate in the investigation into the attack on an Israeli diplomat in February when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh holds talks with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran next week. "We haven't received the report...
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Zee News
| 9 months ago
The head of the national security office in the Iranian Parliament arrived in Syria on Saturday, sources said. Alaeddin Boroujerdi and two other members of the Iranian Parliament set foot in Damascus for a two-day visit, during which he will meet...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has no immediate plans to restore ties with Iran, his spokesperson said in comments published Saturday ahead of a landmark visit to Tehran later this month for a Non-Aligned Movement summit. "The matter [of restoring...
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Zawya Political
| 9 months ago
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has said that about 50 countries will participate in the upcoming summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Tehran at a high level. So far, about 50 countries have announced that they will participate in...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 9 months ago
Breaking News Senior Arab diplomats said the governments of Iran, Russia, China and other Syrian allies have concluded that there is no solution to the Syrian crisis that will see President Bashar Assad stay in power, Kuwaiti newspaper al-Rai...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
We all have a responsibility to support Syria and not allow the line of resistance to be broken," Fars news agency quoted Hossein Taeb, the intelligence unit head, as saying. Iran has supported Assad in the face of international condemnation over his...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
The Hamas premier in the Gaza Strip, Ismail Haniya, has been invited to the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Iran next week, his office said Friday, without saying whether he would attend. "The prime minister has received a formal invitation from...
