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United Press International
| 8 months ago
Syrian rebels have vowed to retake control of the large Hanano army base in Aleppo, a few days after loosing control of it to Syrian government forces. Lebanon, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- The double bombing of the Syrian army's general staff headquarters in a...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Syrian rebels struck deep in the fortress-like inner sanctum of President Bashar Assad 's rule Wednesday in Damascus, detonating two car bombs that engulfed the army headquarters in flames. The suicide bombings and subsequent gun battles in the...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Shiite pilgrim Awad Ibrahim returns to Beirut on Wednesday. (NOW) A Lebanese Shiite pilgrim who was abducted in Syria in May arrived back in Beirut on Wednesday, state media reported. The National News Agency also reported that Awad Ibrahim flew in...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
A Syrian rebel commander and a group of fighters told an opposition meeting on Wednesday they had decided to abandon the insurgency against President Bashar al-Assad and return to the regular army. "We have decided to return to the army and cooperate...
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Mail Online UK
| 8 months ago
26 September 2012 Syrian rebels continued their campaign to free their country from the grip of President Bashar al-Assad's rule with a brutal attack involving a suicide bomber and a car packed with explosives. The Free Syrian Army bombed a military...
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The Daily Telegraph
| 8 months ago
TWO suicide bombs have struck the heavily guarded Syrian army headquarters in the heart of Damascus, killing four guards and sparking a gun battle between troops and rebels, state media says. A rebel officer and a rights group said the audacious...
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The independent
| 8 months ago
A Syrian rebel bomb attack reduced the army headquarters in Damascus to a smouldering wreck today as world leaders, unable to break the diplomatic deadlock in the conflict, met at the United Nations. The rebels said the assault on President Bashar al-...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Prisoners of their homeland's conflict, Syrian refugees have been crammed for weeks in shelters in a border village just meters away from the Turkish border waiting for a green light to cross. In and around rebel-controlled Atme in northern Syria,...
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Ledger-Enquirer
| 8 months ago
Over the past few months, rebels have increasingly targeted security sites and symbols of regime power in a bid to turn the tide in Syria's 18-month conflict, which activists say has left some 30,000 people dead.
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
A Syrian rebel commander has accused the West of being complicit in the "unprecedented massacres" committed by President Bashar Assad's forces by refusing to arm the rebels with anti-aircraft weapons. Rebel officer Ahmad al-Fajj, a brigadier-general...
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The Daily Telegraph
| 8 months ago
President Bashar al-Assad in March last year, a monitoring group said on Wednesday. "At least 21,534 civilians, 7,322 soldiers and 1,168 defectors have been killed in the past 18 months," Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Pro-government militiamen executed at least 16 civilians in their homes in Damascus before dawn on Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "Militiamen burst into their homes in the Barzeh neighborhood at 5 am [0200 GMT] and shot them...
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Russia Today
| 8 months ago
Rubble from destroyed buildings blocks a street on September 24, 2012, in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, following fighting between Syrian government troops and rebel forces. (AFP Photo/Str) It was the persistent call for regime change that...
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Arab News
| 8 months ago
UN chief Ban Ki-moon yesterday said the Syria calamity is turning into a global crisis as US President Barack Obama led growing calls for an end to Bashar Assad's rule. Angry over harsh living conditions in their desert tent camp in Jordan, dozens of...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
An Islamist militant group has claimed responsibility for dozens of attacks in Syria, including a fierce assault this month on an army barracks in Aleppo, US monitors reported on Tuesday. Intelligence Group. "After monitoring and planning, the...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
The Damascus regime said its forces recaptured a strategic district of Aleppo city, a claim rejected by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights which gave an nationwide toll of 85 people killed nationwide on Tuesday. At least three children were also...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
French President Francois Hollande (L) and UN General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon make a toast with champagne prior to a working diner in his residence on September 24,2012 in New York. Francois Hollande will attend the UN general assembly the next two...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
The Syrian regime on Tuesday announced it had retaken the large Arqoub district of Aleppo, the country's second city, but a watchdog reported there was still fighting between troops and rebels in the area. A military source told an AFP correspondent...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
Syria's crisis is "getting worse" and President Bashar Assad has no plans to make reforms, the U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria said as warplanes bombed Aleppo. "The situation in Syria is extremely bad and getting worse," veteran Algerian diplomat...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
A Syrian rebel commander, Colonel Kassem Saadeddine, has escaped an assassination attempt by pro-regime forces unscathed, a spokesperson for the Free Syrian Army told AFP on Tuesday. "Colonel Saadeddine's convoy was ambushed by shabiha [pro-regime...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Soldiers shot dead a child on Tuesday in Syria's Aleppo province when troops targeted the car she was in, after a bloody day in which 116 people, including 12 children, were killed, a rights watchdog said. The young girl was in a car on the motorway...
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Sky News
| 8 months ago
Syria's civil war is worsening and could spread across the Middle East, an international envoy has told the UN Security Council. Lakhdar Brahimi said the situation is "extremely bad and getting worse", adding that it is a "threat to the region and a...
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Arab News
| 8 months ago
Regime warplanes struck rebel positions in Aleppo yesterday, killing three children, as insurgents claimed to control most of Syria ahead of a UN Security Council address by peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi. Before the annual UN General Assembly beginning...
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Truthdig
| 8 months ago
Sep 24, 2012 After returning from his first diplomatic mission to Syria and reporting to the U.N. Security Council, envoy Lakhdar Brahimi confirmed that things are as bad as they seem, and he doesn't currently see a way forward. The BBC reports that...
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BBC
| 8 months ago
Children in Syria are being subjected to torture, imprisonment and abduction, and these atrocities should be better documented, according to a new report from British charity Save the Children . Drawing on the testimony of Syrian refugee children,...
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National Public Radio
| 8 months ago
Eyder Peralta Lakhdar Brahimi, right, joint special representative for Syria, arrives at closed door consultations regarding the situation in Syria at the Security Council at United Nations headquarters on Monday. Lakhdar Brahimi, right, joint...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
The number of Syrians in need of food aid has jumped from 250,000 in April to 1.5 million today, the head of the U.N.'s food agency said Monday, as more civilians are driven from their homes by an escalating civil war. Separately, the international...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Hussein Malla/AP Syrian air force planes bombed targets in the northern city of Aleppo, killing 15 people, including three children from one family, according to opposition sources. Fighting was also reported around Damascus and elsewhere across the...
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Mail Online UK
| 8 months ago
Syria grabbed the spotlight at the United Nations on Monday with a dire warning from international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi that the war is getting worse and threatening to spill across the Middle East. However he also voiced a note of hope, saying he...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Syria's rebels have captured hundreds of kilometers of territory in the country's north in the past six months, an AFP correspondent who visited the area in March reported on Monday. The journalist, who was in the northwestern province of Idlib in...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
Syrian warplanes bombed two buildings on Monday in the northern city of Aleppo, killing at least five people including three children from the same family, activists said. The Britain-based activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the...
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BBC
| 8 months ago
Government forces are bombarding opposition-held areas in Syria's second city of Aleppo, activists say. Three children from one family were reportedly among eight people killed in air strikes in the central district of Maadi, not far from the citadel.
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
Syria's rebel movement has established a command headquarters inside the country for the first time, in a show of growing confidence in its overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad's regime. Despite the threat of air attacks, rebels have, in past...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 8 months ago
Regime forces pounded rebels claiming to control most of Syria on Monday ahead of a UN Security Council briefing by peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi on his talks with President Bashar al-Assad. Ahead of the annual UN General Assembly starting on Tuesday,...
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USA Today
| 8 months ago
Activists say Syrian warplanes have bombed two buildings in the northern city of Aleppo, killing at least five people. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees say Monday's raids in a southern...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Syrian warplanes targeted several residential districts of the northern city of Aleppo on Monday, killing at least five people including three children from one family, a rights watchdog said. The five were killed and others were wounded in the...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
The Daily Star A Syrian soldier takes position behind a destroyed vehicle in the Al-Arqub neighborhood of Aleppo. Government aircraft hammered rebel bastions nationwide Sunday as internal opposition members met for a rare meeting in the capital for...
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Arab News
| 8 months ago
Regime aircraft hammered insurgent bastions nationwide yesterday as rebels said they now control most of the country and have moved their command center from Turkey to liberated areas inside Syria. With deadly violence raging across Syria, UN-Arab...
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MarketWatch
| 8 months ago
A body lies on a stretcher on a street Sunday after an airstrike in Aleppo's al-Shaar district. MarketWatch) Syrian forces fighting a rebellion attacked two major provinces on Sunday, a day after the opposition leadership said it would move its...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
The rebel Free Syrian Army's decision to move its command center from Turkey to "liberated areas" inside Syria shows its growing confidence despite the risk of air strikes, analysts said on Sunday. The FSA announced on Saturday that their command...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Syrian aircraft carried out strikes on rebel bastions across the country on Sunday, especially in the central province of Homs and Deir az-Zour in the east, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said apartment blocks in...
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Israel National News
| 8 months ago
The batteries were placed along the border along with armored vehicles and tanks, the report said. The report said that Turkish authorities fear that battles between rebels and army troops in Syria will spill over the border into Turkey. Several...
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Inter Press Service
| 8 months ago
Two floors have been ripped from the top of an apartment block in Aleppo in northern Syria. A lone man stands amidst the rubble four stories up after a missile from one of his own government's fighter jets smashed into the building that morning. With...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
The rebel Free Syrian Army said Sunday it now controls most of the war-torn country, a day after announcing that it has moved its command centre from Turkey to "liberated areas" inside Syria. U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon and U.N.-Arab League peace envoy...
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Zee News
| 8 months ago
Commanders of the rebel Free Syrian Army said they have moved their headquarters from Turkey to an unidentified location in Syria. They said that the move is an effort to unite and coordinate the armed insurrection against President Bashar al-Assad's...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Syria's vast territory is increasingly outside the control of the regular military, whose aerial superiority is the last strength keeping the Damascus regime afloat, a rebel chief told AFP. "With or without outside help, the fall of the regime is a...
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Zee News
| 8 months ago
05 Zeenews Bureau Istanbul: Turkey's military has deployed armored vehicles and heavy weaponry near the border with Syria after scores of its citizens were injured in cross firing between rebels and government forces. Reports on Sunday said that the...
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The Courier-Mail
| 8 months ago
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and international mediator Lakhdar Brahimi have met to discuss the situation in Syria, expressing hope that the upcoming UN General Assembly would help improve the humanitarian situation there. The two men focused on...
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Sky News
| 8 months ago
In the Islahiye camp in Turkey, the communal toilets are plastered with Arabic graffiti declaring them "the house of Assad"...There are 4,500 children in Islahiye, dependent on food and water provided by the Turkish authorities, and living in a city...
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Zaman.com
| 8 months ago
Although footage of atrocities coming from Syria confirms the increasing intensity of a civil war in a country in which ethnic, sectarian and religious differences play a decisive role in the power struggle, the international community seems overly...
