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Boston.com
| 7 months ago
Syrian fighter jets pounded rebel areas across the country on Monday with scores of airstrikes that anti-regime activists called the most widespread bombing in a single day since Syria's troubles started 19 months ago. The death toll for what was...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Government air force planes launched dozens of attacks on the city during the final day of the Muslim holiday. Photograph: Javier Manzano/AFP/Getty Images Syrian air force planes have launched dozens of attacks from Damascus to Aleppo as the truce...
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The New York Times
| 7 months ago
Even to the last, citizens caught up in violence held out hope for a brief lull. I told myself I should take advantage of this truce to go visit some relatives, said a woman willing to be identified only by her nickname, Um Samer, 32. Instead, as she...
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United Press International
| 7 months ago
A car-bombing killed at least 10 people on the last day of a temporary truce in Syria Monday, officals said, day after activists reported more than 100 killed. State-run television said women and children died in the attack in the Jaramana district...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 7 months ago
Heaviest' air raids shake Damascus after truce flop Posted October 30, 2012 01:13:49 Explosions shook Damascus overnight as warplanes launched their heaviest air raids yet, with the UN-Arab League peace envoy saying Syria's conflict was going from "...
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Russia Today
| 7 months ago
A Syrian rebel fighter looks at smoke billowing from a bus that caught on fire after a regime sniper allegedly shot at it in the northern city of Aleppo (AFP Photo / Javier Manzano) The Foreign Ministry said it regrets the failure of the warring...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 7 months ago
Syrian jets bombed suburbs of Damascus and a car bomb killed 10 people in the capital on Monday, the last day of a four-day truce which UN chief Ban Ki-moon acknowledged had failed. Each side blamed the other for breaching the Eid al-Adha truce...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
The Syrian military on Monday launched the heaviest air strikes seen in the country since warplanes were first deployed over the summer, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "There have been 48 air raids across the country over four hours...
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Zee News
| 7 months ago
Syria's state-TV on Sunday denied as "totally untrue" reports by the Saudi-funded al-Arabyia TV that the armed rebels in the northern province of Aleppo have taken control over a headquarters of Syrian Air Force intelligence.
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BBC
| 7 months ago
Warplanes have bombed parts of Syria's capital, Damascus, on the fourth day of a ceasefire during which hundreds of people are reported to have died. Opposition activists said government jets attacked areas in and around the eastern suburbs of...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Turkish artillery struck back on Monday after a shell fired from neighboring Syria ploughed into Turkish territory without causing any casualties, the state-run news agency reported. The shell struck near the village of Besaslan in southern Hatay...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday voiced bitter frustration at the failure of the Syria ceasefire and stressed the need for international unity to end the violence. "I am deeply disappointed that the parties failed to respect the call to...
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The Daily Star
| 7 months ago
U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, center talks during a joint press conference with former U.S. Russia Monday was to host the UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi to seek new ways of tackling the crisis in Syria after a truce failed...
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DAWN
| 7 months ago
Syrian warplanes bombarded a rebel stronghold in a Damascus suburb on Monday, the final day of a truce broken by air attacks and fighting between the two sides across the country, opposition activists said. Jets targeted Harat al-Shwam, a residential...
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Al Jazeera
| 7 months ago
18 After the failed Eid al-Adha holiday ceasefire, envoy Lakhdar Brahimi will return to the UN in November [AFP] Syrian fighter jets have bombarded a rebel stronghold on the edge of the capital, the final day of an attempted truce that has been...
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Arab News
| 7 months ago
Khaled Al Dakheel Monday 29 October 2012 Last Update 29 October 2012 3:46 am No one knows why did Lakhdar Brahimi accept the task to find a solution to the Syrian crisis...Brahimi immediately said after accepting the assignment in an interview with...
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The Globe & Mail
| 7 months ago
The Globe and Mail Published Sunday, Oct. 28 2012, 7:30 PM EDT Last updated Sunday, Oct. 28 2012, 6:33 PM EDT The temporary truce in Syria, which began Friday, was a helpful if tenuous sign that there might yet be a political solution to the country'...
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The Daily Star
| 7 months ago
Agencies FSA fighters fire a rocket toward a castle where government forces are based in Haram town, Idlib Governorate. Fighting, air raids and a car bombing shook Syria Sunday, monitors said, as the international community looked to pick up the...
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Russia Today
| 7 months ago
International peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi. (AFP Photo) In an effort to bring stability amid the ongoing finger-pointing between the Syrian rebels and government over blame for disrupting a truce, UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is in Moscow to...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Aleppo has fallen victim to the worst destruction of any major city in the world since 1945. Photograph: Manu Brabo/AP The four-day ceasefire that went into effect on Friday should have been the first good news from Syria for several months. The...
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The Independent
| 7 months ago
News in pictures From the blogs Cesar Milan, The Dog Whisperer, was back on our show this week...Although it's been around for as long as I can remember, I appreciate that for most adults, cyber bu... With the release of Skyfall this week superbly...
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The Daily Telegraph
| 7 months ago
Syria, as the international community looked to pick up the pieces of a failed bid to halt the violence for a Muslim holiday ceasefire. Rebels stormed regime positions in the suburbs of Damascus as air strikes pummelled opposition-held areas on the...
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B92
| 7 months ago
Violence continued in Syria on the third day of what was meant to be a four-day truce for the Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday. (Beta/AP) Meanwhile, the UN-Arab League peace envoy is planning a new bid to halt the conflict. Syrian planes shelled areas at...
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Al Jazeera
| 7 months ago
53 The suburbs of Damascus have played a major role in the uprising against Assad [Reuters] Syrian fighter jets have bombarded eastern suburbs of the capital, Damascus, activists say, continuing air raids despite an internationally brokered ceasefire ...
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SF Gate
| 7 months ago
Syrian troops shelled rebellious suburbs of Damascus and clashed with rebel fighters in several other areas of the country Sunday, the third day of what was meant to be a four-day holiday truce, activists said. A U.N-backed truce declared for the...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 7 months ago
Syrian fighter jets bombarded suburbs of eastern Damascus on Sunday, continuing the air raids launched on Sunni Muslim neighbourhoods in the capital since a UN-brokered ceasefire was supposed to begin two days ago, opposition activists said. There...
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GMA News
| 7 months ago
Christian church in the eastern city of Deir al-Zor. Activists in Deir al-Zor and in Aleppo, which is Syria's most populous city and about half controlled by rebels, said mortar bombs were being fired into residential areas. Residents in Damascus...
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The Globe & Mail
| 7 months ago
Ambulances sped to the site and security forces cut off access to the area...The explosion took place as President Bashar al-Assad was meeting international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, who has called for a temporary truce in Syria's civil war. Lebanese...
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Russia Today
| 7 months ago
Syrian rebels run to take position in the Bustan al-Basha district in the northern city of Aleppo on October 26, 2012 (AFP Photo / Philippe Desmazes) The death toll in Syria reached 146 people on the second day of the supposed Eid ceasefire,...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi's ceasefire plan to stop fighting in Syria has been a failure, a rebel commander said on Saturday, after almost 150 people reportedly died on the first day of the truce. "This is a failure for Brahimi. This...
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The Independent
| 7 months ago
Suggested Topics A car bomb, shelling and gun battles marred a tenuous truce that went into effect in Syria on Friday, calling into question whether a four-day holiday ceasefire brokered by the United Nations can endure. The day started out more...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 7 months ago
More than 280 breaches of the agreed ceasefire were registered, according to the Local Coordination Committees. (AFP)
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Fox News
| 7 months ago
Activists say Syrian troops have shelled rebel-held areas and clashed with anti-government gunmen in several parts of the country despite an internationally mediated cease-fire. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local...
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United Press International
| 7 months ago
Scores of people were reported killed Friday on the first day of an Eid al-Ahda truce in Syria, in violence that included a deadly car bombing in Damascus. Abu Osama al-Midani, an opponent of President Bashar Assad, told CNN the bomb attack killed at...
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DAWN
| 7 months ago
Outbursts of fighting threatened to undermine a fragile ceasefire that took effect in Syria on Friday after President Bashar al-Assad's regime and the main rebel force agreed to down arms for a four-day Eidul Azha holiday. But the violence was still...
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Zee News
| 7 months ago
At least five people were killed and 32 injured in a car bomb blast near the Syrian capital Friday, Xinhua reported...The blast came as the ceasefire brokered by the UN-Arab League joint special envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, supposedly went into...
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Boston.com
| 7 months ago
Two deadly car bombs and sporadic fighting marred a shaky holiday truce Friday in Syria, although thousands of protesters used the brief respite in the civil war to pour into the streets and demand President Bashar Assad's ouster. Chants of Syria...
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The Courier-Mail
| 7 months ago
Syrian soldiers were killed and eight were wounded, most of them critically, in a car bomb attack in the southern city of Daraa on Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "At least three soldiers were killed and eight others wounded...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Sana/AFP/Getty Images A car bomb has exploded near a Damascus mosque in a serious blow to a mooted three-day truce that was already struggling to take hold across Syria . The explosion late on Friday is reported to have caused scores of casualties.
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The Daily Star
| 7 months ago
A powerful car bomb exploded in Damascus on Friday, inflicting many casualties and buffeting a shaky temporary truce in the Syrian conflict on the occasion of a Muslim religious holiday. State television said the "terrorist car bomb" had killed five...
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The Daily Telegraph
| 7 months ago
Damascus on Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "The explosion of a booby-trapped car outside the Omar bin Khattab mosque in the area known as Shorta in the Daf Shawk district killed and wounded dozens of people," the Britain-based...
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Boston.com
| 7 months ago
A car bomb exploded in a Damascus neighborhood Friday, killing at least five people on the first day of a truce for a major Muslim holiday, activists said. Scattered violence elsewhere in Syria also marred the tentative cease-fire...Car bombs...
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The Globe & Mail
| 7 months ago
Ambulances sped to the site and security forces cut off access to the area...The explosion took place as President Bashar al-Assad was meeting international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, who has called for a temporary truce in Syria's civil war. Republican...
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National Public Radio
| 7 months ago
Still, the AP adds, "elsewhere violence appeared to die down, and thousands of protesters took advantage of the lull to mount some of the largest anti-regime demonstrations in months." From Beirut, correspondent Rasha Elass tells the NPR Newscast...
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The Daily Star
| 7 months ago
Arab League assistant secretary general, Ahmed ben Hilli (L), and Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari (R) listen to a question during a joint press conference at the Iraqi ministry of Foreign Affairs in Baghdad on February 1, 2012. A ceasefire in...
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The Hindu
| 7 months ago
Beirut, October 26, 2012 AP In this October 24, 2012 photo, rebel fighters retreat for cover as enemy fire targets the rebel position during clashes at the Moaskar front line, one of the battlefields, in Aleppo, Syria. A four-day ceasefire between...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Anti-regime protests erupted across Syria on Friday as the army and main rebel force began to observe a ceasefire for a four-day Muslim holiday, activists and a watchdog group said. The protests after morning prayers to mark the start of Eid al-Adha...
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DAWN
| 7 months ago
Calm followed a night of fierce clashes across Syria on Friday morning after the army and main rebel force fighting to oust Bashar al-Assad's regime agreed to down arms for the four-day holiday for Eidul Azha. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 7 months ago
Damascus residents reported artillery barrages by Syrian troops hours before Friday's scheduled start of a ceasefire to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha .
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The Daily Star
| 7 months ago
Agencies A Syrian refugee child, fleeing violence in their towns, looks on in a refugee camp on the Syrian-Turkish border of the Idlib Governorate, October 22, 2012. Cold weather and wary anticipation settled over Syria Thursday ahead of a much-...
