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The Daily Star
| 7 months ago
Syria denied on Monday that it had used cluster bombs in its battle with rebels trying to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, saying it did not possess such weapons. A brief military statement carried by state television came in response to a report...
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The Independent
| 7 months ago
World leaders should not ignore the atrocities being committed in Syria, Foreign Secretary William Hague said today as he welcomed another round of EU sanctions against President Bashar Assad's regime. Mr Hague said the sanctions agreed today in...
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International Business Times
| 7 months ago
In the latest episode of friction between Turkey and Syria, an Armenian plane en route to Syria was ordered to land in Turkey and searched by authorities on Monday. Though the search was not unexpected, it was a sure indication that Turkey is...
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PRWeb
| 7 months ago
Erdogan’s comparison of current events to those surrounding the massacres in Bosnia is timely and should give the international community pause. The current conflict has claimed the lives of nearly 40,000 civilians and if no action is taken, the...
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PRWeb
| 7 months ago
On Saturday, October 13-2012, a fire sparked in part of the historical big Omayyad mosque in Aleppo after Assad military forces used the mosque complex as a base of operations...October 15, 2012 On Saturday October 13-2012, a fire sparked in part of...
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Russia Today
| 7 months ago
AFP Photo / John Macdougall The Foreign Ministry has not confirmed allegations by human rights organizations that Russian cluster bombs are being widely used in Syria. "There are a lot of illegally supplied weapons in the Middle East and it is often...
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DAWN
| 7 months ago
UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi called Monday for a ceasefire in Syria during the upcoming four-day Muslim holiday of Eidul Azha, as the revolt entered its 20th month with a death toll of more than 33,000. Brahimi made his call as he shuttled between Syria'...
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Fox News
| 7 months ago
Syrian TV says President Bashar Assad has ordered immediate repairs at a historic mosque in the city of Aleppo after fierce fighting between rebels and regime forces set parts of the compound on fire. Government troops had been holed up inside the...
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United Press International
| 7 months ago
Russian passengers on a Syrian plane grounded by Turkey were state agents, a Turkish newspaper reported, as Turkey and Syria imposed tit-for-tat air space bans. The 17 Russian passengers aboard the Syrian Air Airbus A-320 jetliner with 35 passengers...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
The European Union slapped fresh sanctions against President Bashar al-Assad's regime Monday, agreeing an assets freeze and travel ban on 28 Syrians and two firms at a meeting of EU foreign ministers. This 19th round of sanctions since the start of...
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Al Jazeera
| 7 months ago
17 Rebel fighters have pushed the Syrian troops from the city of Maarat Al Numan, forcing them to retreat to two military barracks on its outskirts. Rebel commanders called the victory "a major breakthrough" though fierce fighting continued in the...
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SF Gate
| 7 months ago
Syria and Turkey, meanwhile, declared their skies off-limits to each other amid mounting cross-border tensions in Syria's 19-month-old conflict, now a civil war. Turkey is an outspoken backer of rebels trying to oust President Bashar Assad . Many of...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Europe's foreign ministers will sharply ramp up the pressure on Iran and Syria at talks Monday, while taking a "big step" in Africa by agreeing to assist Mali reconquer its north from rebels and Islamist extremists. Meeting days before a European...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
The body of a Syrian soldier, a gaping wound in his forehead, is sprawled in a pool of blood, while two other corpses lie nearby at a military site close to the key battleground city of Aleppo. Rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad...
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The Age
| 7 months ago
In the last couple of months Iran has not budged on any of the key issues and we must therefore increase the pressure through sanctions," German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said in Berlin. Speaking a day before his counterparts meet in...
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The Daily Star
| 7 months ago
Agencies Syrian rebels take position at the Umayyad Mosque in Aleppo hours before the Syrian army retook control of the complex. Syria's army regained control Sunday of the Grand Mosque in Aleppo after fierce clashes with rebels in and around the...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Sort comments by It is amusing to see the Assad is still trying to cling to power after dropping 1000kg bombs, barrel bomd(TNT), cluster bomb and etc, etc,etc. What does he think he will get in return for all his efforts, lets analyse the outcome.
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Indian Express
| 7 months ago
No mans land '+google_ads[i].line2 +' '+google_ads[i].line3 + ' Turkeys tensions with Syria show regional powers were bound to get involved in the Syrian conflict Beginning midnight Saturday, local time, Turkish civilian planes are no longer allowed...
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National Public Radio
| 7 months ago
President's Cousin Reportedly Shot Mohammed Assad, a cousin of the president, was reportedly shot and critically wounded last week in Qardaha, the ancestral mountain village of the Assad clan. A hometown challenge to the most powerful family in the...
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Mail Online UK
| 7 months ago
Members of the Free Syrian Army get a lift to the front lines of the battle between FSA and soldiers in Aleppo HRW had previously reported cluster bomb remnants found in Homs and nearby Hama this summer. 'Syria's disregard for its civilian population...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Reuters Syrian government forces have used Russian-made cluster bombs on populated areas in their effort to push back rebel advances along the country's main north-south highway, according to Human Rights Watch. The watchdog on Sunday pointed to...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Hundreds of Syrian and Lebanese supporters of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad staged a rally in Beirut on Sunday to thank Russia and China for supporting the Damascus regime, an AFP journalist said. Demonstrators held posters bearing slogans...
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United Press International
| 7 months ago
The Syrian government announced a ban Sunday of all Turkish flights in its airspace as tensions between the neighboring countries mounted. Turkey's forced landing of a Syrian passenger flight earlier this week. Turkey hasn't declared any flight...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 7 months ago
Syrian government forces have dropped Russian-made cluster bombs over civilian areas in the past week as they battle to reverse rebel gains on a strategic highway, Human Rights Watch said on Sunday. Rebels surrounded an army garrison on Sunday near a...
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Israel National News
| 7 months ago
The bombs were dropped while loyalist government forces were fighting rebels for control over a highway, according to the New York-based High Rights Watch (HRW) organization.
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The Daily Star
| 7 months ago
Syrian rebel fighters guard a post on the front line near the Wadi Daif government army base on the outskirts of the city of Maaret al-Numan, in the northwestern Idlib province, on October 13, 2012. Syrian government forces have dropped Russian-made...
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International Business Times
| 7 months ago
The move has come days after Turkey intercepted a Syrian plane alleging that it carried Russian made munitions for the Syrian army. Syria has said that the ban was in retaliation against Turkey's ban of Syrian planes over its territory. Turkey has...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 7 months ago
Standing on a patch of muddy scrubland just inside Syria's broken border fence with Turkey, the rebel commander watched glumly as the group of jihadists crossed into his country. Scruffy, with long beards, some wearing khaki jackets and each...
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Arab News
| 7 months ago
I hear senior Syrian dissident leaders speak, especially the ones from the military, I feel I am in the presence of students chanting the same rhetoric of the regime that they defected from. One major deplores the passiveness of the international...
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SF Gate
| 7 months ago
The U.S. and regional allies are closely monitoring Syria's chemical weapons caught in the midst of a raging civil war but options for securing the toxic agents stuffed into shells, bombs and missiles are fraught with risk. President Bashar Assad 's...
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Kuwait Times
| 7 months ago
Violence in Syria has killed at least 33,082 people, most of them civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said yesterday. Some 1,000 people have been killed in the past five days alone, the Britain-based watchdog said. ...
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International Business Times
| 7 months ago
A lion at the Damascus Zoo Children play in spite of their wounds, zookeepers look after their charges despite the chaos and the lions continue to thrive. For the past 40 years, Syrians have been reluctant to admit that lions are animals, or...
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International Business Times
| 7 months ago
Erdogan addresses members of parliament from his ruling AK Party during a meeting at the Turkish parliament in Ankara. Warning that the increasing bloodshed in Syria represents a "humanitarian disaster," Erdogan told a forum in Istanbul that history...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 7 months ago
Indeed the Arab Spring as a whole has resulted in significant shifts within Arab society and politics, particularly the actions and behavior of dictatorial regimes. Such regimes previously relied on strong security and intelligence apparatus to...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi and German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle were in Istanbul for talks with Turkish leaders on Saturday as tensions soared between Damascus and Ankara over cargo seized from a Syrian passenger plane. Syria said it was...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Syrian rebels blocked on Saturday army reinforcements advancing towards the town of Maaret al-Numan which has been under rebel control for nearly a week, an AFP journalist said. In its bid to retake the town, strategically located in the northwest on...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 7 months ago
Rebels battled to hold onto Syria's main north-south highway on Friday as government forces fought insurgents on several fronts across the country. The rebels captured an air defense base east of Syria's biggest city, Aleppo, and government forces...
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Zee News
| 7 months ago
The US State Department has accused Russia of having a "morally bankrupt" policy over Syria. The US reaction came two days after Turkey intercepted a Syrian passenger jet headed from Moscow to Damascus over suspicions it had military equipment on...
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Qatar English Daily
| 7 months ago
Powerful Syrian Islamist brigades, frustrated at the growing divisions among rebels, have joined forces in what they say is a liberation front to topple President Bashar Al Assad. Mistrust and miscommunication have been a feature of the rebel...
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Haaretz
| 7 months ago
The United States Department of State confirmed Friday the report that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu relayed a message to Syrian President Bashar Assad in an effort to reach a peace agreement between the two countries. The report of the talks...
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Mail Online UK
| 7 months ago
The unidentified boy was among scores of civilians treated today by overstretched staff at the blood-soa ked Dar al Shifa Hospital, a seven-storey building that was itself extensively damaged by shelling two months ago. Doctors and volunteers treat a...
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United Press International
| 7 months ago
Israel Aerospace Industries, flagship of the Jewish state's defense sector, is reported to have secured a $958 million contract from India's military to upgrade its IAI-built Heron and Searcher unmanned aerial vehicles. UAVs are one of the biggest...
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National Public Radio
| 7 months ago
October 12, 2012 When the Soviet Union splintered two decades ago, one of the biggest U.S. worries was how to ensure that the vast Soviet arsenal of nuclear weapons was kept secure. The American response was the Cooperative Threat Reduction program...
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Epoch Times
| 7 months ago
October 12, 2012 Syrian rebel forces on Friday captured nearly 260 government soldiers in the restive northern part of the country after clashes in several towns in the area, said a pro-opposition group. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human...
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Kuwait Times
| 7 months ago
Syrian rebels have gone on the offensive killing more than 100 soldiers in two days, a watchdog said yesterday, as tension between Syria and Turkey escalated over cargo seized from a Syrian Air jet. Fourteen soldiers died in an attack on an army post...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Rebels drove the much-feared Syrian security forces out of the northern city of Minbej in July, but as calm returned to the streets, so did the criminals. The rebels are now slowly rebuilding Minbej's police force to combat the rise in crime, which...
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Contra Costa Times
| 7 months ago
A Syrian plane that was forced to land in Turkey was legally carrying Russian radar parts for Syria, Russia's foreign minister said Friday. Sergey Lavrov insisted the shipment of "electric equipment for radars" was a legitimate cargo that complied...
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Taiwan News
| 7 months ago
Fighters from a shadowy militant group with suspected links to al-Qaida joined Syria n rebels in seizing a government missile defense base in northern Syria on Friday, according to activists and amateur video. It was unclear if the rebels were able...
