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MarketWatch
| 9 months ago
A civilian lies on the street after being shot by a sniper at El Amreeyeh neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria's largest city, on Saturday...Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has increasingly been relying on the air defense facility and airport under attack...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
Syrian government warplanes and ground forces bombarded Aleppo on Saturday as troops struggle to clear the country's largest city of lightly-armed rebel forces nearly five weeks after they stormed their way into it, activists said. Share This Story...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Rebels seized an air defense facility and attacked a military airport in eastern Syria on Saturday, a monitoring group said, hitting back at an air force on which President Bashar Assad is increasingly relying to crush his opponents. The attacks in...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
Russia said Saturday it would be "naive" for outside powers to expect Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to withdraw his troops first from cities and then wait for the opposition to follow suit. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said such a demand on the...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
Veteran troubleshooter Lakhdar Brahimi took up faltering international attempts to end the Syria conflict on Saturday leaving predecessor Kofi Annan to tend his diplomatic wounds. With Syria marking the bloodiest month yet in the civil war and...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said no steps could be taken to create safe zones to protect refugees inside Syria without a UN resolution. "We cannot take such a step without any resolution at the UN Security Council," Erdogan...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
A French plan to channel aid to rebel-held liberated zones in Syria falls well short of the foreign-protected safe haven the opposition says it needs, offering little hope of relief to the worsening plight of civilians fleeing the chaos. French...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Syria's main opposition body will expand to include more groups fighting President Bashar Assad, part of a reorganization aimed at making it more representative and effective, its leader said Friday. Abdelbasset Sayda, leader of the Syrian National...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
Russia on Friday repeated a call for an immediate end to the violence in Syria in a statement issued a day after the UN Security Council discussed the humanitarian crisis in the strife-torn country. "The violence in Syria has to be ended immediately,"...
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
Now is the time for supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad to step away from the regime or face legal action, British and French officials said. British Foreign Secretary William Hague and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius in New York...
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Associated Press
| 9 months ago
Iran's supreme leader said Friday that emerging nations have a greater right than the West or United Nations to help resolve Syria's escalating civil war. The comments appeared to reflect a hope by Iran to lead a diplomatic push over the crisis in...
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The Globe and Mail
| 9 months ago
Canada is putting more pressure on Syria Friday, as Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird announced an additional 47 people and three companies would be barred from business dealings under Canadian sanctions already imposed on the war-torn country's...
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Fox News
| 9 months ago
FoxNews.com Turkey's non-starter call for a humanitarian safe zone inside Syria offers the clearest sign yet that diplomacy to end the bloodshed in the most violent uprising of the Arab Spring is at a dead end. Any new push by the international...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Friday told Syria's prime minister in Tehran on Friday that fighting must stop in Syria "with the primary responsibility resting on the government to halt its use of heavy weapons." In the meeting with Syrian Prime Minister...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
A protest against the Syrian regime was held on Friday in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, the National News Agency reported. The protesters, who marched through the city's streets, voiced their support for the Free Syrian Army. Lebanon's...
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Jerusalem Post
| 9 months ago
Maybe in these liberated zones Syrians who want to flee the regime will find refuge which in turn makes it less necessary to cross the border whether in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan or Iraq," Fabius said after a UN Security Council meeting in New York on...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 9 months ago
President Bashar al-Assad suffered a double blow on Thursday as fighters claimed to have taken over part of an air base and to have shot down a fighter bomber. Video footage showed the burning wreckage of a Syrian air force jet in Idlib province...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
Syria's UN representative Bashar al-Jaafari said on Thursday that some political factions in Lebanon, but not the state, were smuggling weapons to Syria, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency. [The act of] smuggling weapons from Lebanon [to Syria]...
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Arab News
| 9 months ago
Obama's personality, the Iraqi nightmare, the attitude of the Russians and the phobia of jihadists are all reasons that might explain the protracted slackness of the Americans to support the popular uprising in Syria. Thousands of Syrians carry arms...
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Voice of America
| 9 months ago
Syria's neighbors, who have absorbed more than 220,000 refugees fleeing violence in that country, told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday that they need international assistance to meet the growing tragedy. Syria's humanitarian crisis is spreading...
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Russia Today
| 9 months ago
Some of the proposals for solving the humanitarian crisis in Syria voiced at a United Nations Security Council meeting Thursday do not fully comply with the principles of neutrality and impartiality, Russian envoy Vitaly Churkin said. The central...
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The independent
| 9 months ago
The head of the American military has stated that the worst possible outcome of the Syrian civil war would be an "unstable state with all the risks that involves". General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff in the US, pointedly...
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Russia Today
| 9 months ago
France and UK not ruling out' Syrian no-fly zone Published: 31 August, 2012, 02:56 British Foreign Secretary William Hague speaks at a press conference on the situation in Syria on August 30, 2012 at United Nations Headquarters in New York. Britain...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Agencies Members of the Syrian opposition carry a wounded man outside a hospital in the northern city of Aleppo. War-torn Syria's frustrated neighbor Turkey demanded Thursday that world powers set up refugee camps within the country to stem the...
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Jerusalem Post
| 9 months ago
Such proposals raise serious questions and require careful and critical consideration," Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson said at the start of the ministerial meeting. While the Security Council impasse between western nations and Russia and...
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Baltimore Sun
| 9 months ago
Matthew VanDyke, the Baltimore man who was captured in Libya last year while fighting with the rebels who eventually overthrew dictator Moammar Gadhafi, says he is now raising money to travel to Syria and film a documentary about the uprising there.
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The Herald
| 9 months ago
Syrian activists said rebels shot down a government warplane over the northern province of Idlib on Thursday, the second time in a week that opposition fighters claimed to have brought down an aircraft in the escalating civil war. Two activist groups,...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
The United States welcomed Thursday a decision by UN chief Ban Ki-moon and Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to criticize Iran and Syria during a Non-Aligned Movement summit in Tehran. Ban and Morsi's decisions to attend a summit hosted by Iran raised...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
Dissident Syrian diplomats and civil servants are covertly working from the inside to help opposition forces, a diplomat who recently defected from the regime told UN rights officials Thursday. Danny al-Baaj, who went public with his opposition to...
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Denver Post
| 9 months ago
Syrian diplomat Danny al-Baaj says he spent half his days at the Syrian U.N. mission in Geneva secretly working against President Bashar Assad's regimeand he says there are many others like him at all levels of government. Al-Baaj, who joined the...
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The New York Times
| 9 months ago
The Syrian Support Group, incorporated here in April as a nonprofit, has few resources and, so far, few donations, and whether it succeeds in its larger goal remains to be seen, but it is already serving as a conduit between the United States and the...
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Pascak Valley Community Life
| 9 months ago
The head of the main Syrian opposition group seeking to oust President Bashar Assad criticized U.S. officials Tuesday for saying it was premature to speak about a transitional Syrian government. The comments came on the same day a car bomb ripped...
