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Arab News
| 7 months ago
The army took a pounding at the hands of rebels in northern Syria, a watchdog said on Friday, as tensions between Damascus and Ankara escalated over cargo seized from a Syrian passenger plane. A rebel offensive killed more than 100 soldiers in two...
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Al Jazeera English
| 7 months ago
47 Rebels killed more than 100 government soldiers in two days, the syrian Observatory for Human Rights said [AFP] Syrian rebels have captured an air defence base east of Aleppo as government forces battled fighters on several fronts across the...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz held talks Friday with international peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi on ways to end the bloodletting in Syria, the official SPA news agency reported. The talks held in the Red Sea city of Jeddah centered on "how to stop...
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The Daily Star
| 7 months ago
Lakhdar Brahimi (R), U.N.-Arab League Special Envoy for Syria and former Algerian minister of foreign affairs, leaves after attending the funeral ceremony of former Algerian President Chadli Bendjedid at the presidential place in Algiers October 7,...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 8 months ago
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday a Syrian passenger plane forced to land in Ankara was carrying Russian-made munitions destined for Syria's armed forces, ratcheting up tension with his country's war-torn neighbor. Damascus said...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Latest first Oldest first Auto update: On Off Updates: Time is running out in Jordan report Time is running out for a deal between King Abdullah and Jordan's political parties, as elections early next year loom, an article in the Economist magazine...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
The war of words between Syria and Turkey escalated on Thursday when Ankara said it had found military supplies on a passenger plane it intercepted en route between Moscow and Damascus. The Syrian foreign ministry accused Turkish Prime Minister Recep...
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Star Tribune
| 8 months ago
Syria's conflict is the most violent to emerge from last year's Arab Spring, taking thousands of lives over the past 18 months. After dictatorships fell in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen, Syrian President Bashar Assad's government resorted to a...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
The Daily Star More than any of the previous events in the Arab Spring, Syria's turmoil has presented serious difficulties for Western policymakers. Just as Syria comprises a more complex society than the other Arab countries currently in the throes...
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MarketWatch
| 8 months ago
Conflict between Turkey and Syria escalated Thursday, providing additional support to rising oil futures prices and stoking fears of a supply crunch...Hint: it's not about crude production but it could impact BP Plc. Turkey and Syria pump little...
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Jerusalem Post
| 8 months ago
Umit Bektas Prime Minister Recep Tayep Erdogan said in a speech this week that Turkey was not interested in war but we're not far from it either. This rather confused phrase perfectly sums up the dilemmas in which Turkey's policy toward Syria and the...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
Jordan (AP) From the edge of a steep mountain overlooking a desert compound built into an old rock quarry, machine gunfire echoes just outside hangars where U.S. special operations forces are training Jordanian commandos. The Americans, who arrived...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Reuters Syrian government Russia has retained its historical role as the key weapons supplier to Bashar al-Assad 's regime over the past 18 months. It is believed to have sent at least three shipments of heavy ammunition to the jointly run port of...
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The Economist
| 8 months ago
Greater efforts are being made to build a rebel front and to unify local commands in particular cities and provinces. Last month, for instance, the Aleppo Military Council said it had brought a variety of fighting groups in the city under its control.
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The independent
| 8 months ago
Moscow accused Ankara of endangering Russian lives today after Turkey forced a Syrian passenger plane to land and seized what it suspected was military equipment being ferried from Russia to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Damascus said...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
The UN's chief humanitarian coordinators for Syria, on a Gulf tour to seek aid, have warned that already scarce resources for the growing number of displaced in the war-torn country are quickly drying up. The UN's regional refugee coordinator, Panos...
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Al Jazeera English
| 8 months ago
47 Moscow has accused Ankara of endangering Russian lives after Turkey forced a Syrian passenger plane to land and seized what it suspected was military equipment being ferried from Russia to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 8 months ago
UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi waded back into the Syrian fray on Thursday, even as rebels and regime troops fought pitched battles for control of key northern towns leaving dozens dead. The envoy, who has previously held out little prospect...
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Telegram & Gazette
| 8 months ago
Turkey sharply escalated its confrontation with Syria on Wednesday, forcing a Syrian passenger plane to land in Ankara on suspicion of carrying military cargo, ordering Turkish civilian airplanes to avoid Syrias airspace and warning of increasingly...
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Jerusalem Post
| 8 months ago
The Russian side is insisting on an explanation of the reasons for such actions by the Turkish authorities," the statement said. It said that "the lives and safety of the passengers were placed under threat" by the incident. The plane was detained...
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The Independent
| 8 months ago
Turkey scrambled fighter planes to force a Syrian passenger jet to land and seized what it suspected was military equipment being ferried from Russia to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces. The interception of the Syrian Air plane came hours...
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The Hindu
| 8 months ago
Istanbul/Beirut, October 11, 2012 AP People gather atop the aircraft steps at a Syrian passenger plane that was forced by Turkish jets to land at Esenboga airport in Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday. Turkey confiscated what it described as objectionable...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
Turkish fighters jets forced down a Syrian passenger plane on Wednesday, following accusations that it was carrying weapons to the Assad regime from Russia. Turkish authorities gave few details but local television said the plane was on a flight from...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 8 months ago
In a significant escalation in the tensions between the two countries, Turkey scrambled fighter jets to escort the passenger jet into the Ankara airport. Turkish authorities had received information that it was carrying "non-civilian" cargo which had...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Turkey intercepted Wednesday a Syrian passenger plane suspected of transporting banned cargo from Moscow to Damascus as the U.S. announced it had military planners in Jordan to prepare for any chemical weapons threat. Meanwhile, on the ground in...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
Turkey (AP) Turkish jets on Wednesday forced a Syrian passenger plane to land at Ankara airport on suspicion that it might be carrying weapons or other military equipment, amid heightened tensions between Turkey and Syria that have sparked fears of a...
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Mail Online UK
| 8 months ago
Villagers helped the families by ferrying them in small metal boats as they fled the violence in the Syrian border town of Azmarin where several mortar shells landed early on Wednesday. As heavy machine gun fire could be heard from the Turkish side,...
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War In Context
| 8 months ago
The shelling across the Turkish-Syrian border, now entering its seventh day, gives further testimony, as if any were needed, that Turkey's Syria policies have failed and that the civil war in Syria is also a regional, sectarian war, with no end in...
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Midland Park Suburban News
| 8 months ago
Syria's conflict is the most violent to emerge from last year's Arab Spring. The protests started peacefully but prompted a brutal crackdown by President Bashar Assad's government. The fighting has escalated into a civil war that has killed more than...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Facebook page of President Bashar Assad of Syria, it shows the first lady Asma, dressed in jeans and a t-shirt, accompanying her daughter and three sons on their first day back at school. Two of the boys wear camouflage shorts with khaki t-shirts and...
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Canadian Free Press
| 8 months ago
Since the Islamic Revolution, Iran has not had any real ally, among the superpowers or in the region, other than Syria. The alliance between Iran and Syria has lasted more than thirty years, the longest alliance between any two states in the region...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 8 months ago
The private NTV television network reported the comments of armed forces chief of staff General Necdet Ozel, amid fears of a cross-border escalation of Syria's civil war. The military chief was inspecting troops on a tour of the heavily fortified...
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BBC
| 8 months ago
Turkey's top military commander has warned Syria that it will respond with greater force if it continues its cross-border shelling. Five Turkish civilians were killed by Syrian mortar fire last week, prompting Turkey to fire into Syria for the first...
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Al Jazeera English
| 8 months ago
39 Syrian opposition fighters have taken control of Maarat al-Numan, a strategic town in Idlib province on the highway linking Damascus with the commercial hub of Aleppo, activists say. "Regular forces pulled back from all of their checkpoints around...
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Scoop
| 8 months ago
I have conveyed my strong message to the Syrian Government that they should immediately declare a unilateral ceasefire, he told a news conference in Paris, after holding talks with French President Francois Hollande on the 19-month uprising against...
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Arizona Republic
| 8 months ago
In Syria's cities and towns, entire blocks of apartment buildings have been shattered, their top floors reduced to pancaked slabs of concrete...And then there are the many factories, oil pipelines, schools, hospitals, mosques and churches that have...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
Turkey, the alliance's top official said Tuesday, in a direct warning to Syria after a week of cross-border artillery and mortar exchanges dramatically escalated tensions between the two countries. Ankara has sent additional fighter jets to reinforce...
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The New York Times
| 8 months ago
The group, the Nusra Front for the People of the Levant, posted a statement with details of what it called three stages of the attack on a branch of the air force intelligence compound in Harasta, on the edge of Damascus. It released a video showing...
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Japan Times
| 8 months ago
General Assembly, presenting both the danger of a widening regional humanitarian crisis and the challenge of a politically deadlocked U.N...The 18th month conflict between the Damascus rulers and a wide coalition of opposition forces has seen more...
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Russia Today
| 8 months ago
Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told journalists before a defense ministers meeting in Brussels. Meanwhile, Turkish news agencies report that 25 F-16 jet fighters have arrived at the Diyarbakir base, 100 kilometers from the Syrian border.
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Mail Online UK
| 8 months ago
Turkey from being attacked by Syria as tensions continue to escalate between the two countries , the head of the military alliance announced today. Turkey in an emergency meeting after Syrian shells struck a border town in Turkey killing five...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Syrian rebels patrol on their way to the frontline in the northern city of Aleppo on October 8, 2012. Tuesday it had drawn up plans to defend Turkey if necessary against any further spillover of violence from Syria's border areas where rebels and...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Turkey warned Syria again on Tuesday that it would not hesitate to retaliate for any strike on its soil as the country's top military commander visited troops stationed at the reinforced border. "It has become inevitable for our armed forces to...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday urged the Syrian regime to declare an immediate truce to bring an end to the conflict that he said had left 20,000 dead over the last 19 months. "It is unbearable for the [Syrian] people to continue like...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 8 months ago
Turkish President Abdullah Gul said on Monday the "worst-case scenarios" were now playing out in Syria and Turkey would do everything necessary to protect itself, as its army fired back for a sixth day after a shell from Syria flew over the border.
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Zawya Political
| 8 months ago
The Syrian army moved to crush resistance in the Homs region on Monday hoping to free up troops for the north, as Republican challenger Mitt Romney said Washington should be doing more to get the rebels weapons. Exiled opposition leader Abdel Basset...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 8 months ago
Abdullah Gul says the "worst-case scenarios" are taking place in Syria, and the Turkish government is in constant communication with the military. Turkish troops have fired into Syria for the sixth day in a row after a Syrian shell exploded in...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Agencies Damaged buildings are seen in the Khaldieh neighborhood of Homs. Turkish President Abdullah Gul warned Monday that worst-case scenarios were playing out in Syria and vowed Turkey would do everything necessary to protect itself, as its army...
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Russia Today
| 8 months ago
Syrian rebels by Ankara, according to Turkey's Yurt newspaper. The mortar killed one adult and four children from the same family on Wednesday. An article by the paper's Editor-in-Chief, Merdan Yanardag, states that the newspaper received information...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
Ankara's Bilkent University . "The Turkish people don't want a war and there are no vital national interests at stake to warrant a war...The Syrian conflict has taken a prominent role in the U.S. presidential election at a time when the U.S. and its...
