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Kuwait Times
| 8 months ago
Syrian air strikes pounded rebel bastions yesterday as international divisions were once more exposed over how to end an escalating conflict now said to have killed more than 36,000 people. As UN-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi urged China to...
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CNN
| 8 months ago
Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N- Arab League joint special envoy, met with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, China's state-run Xinhua News Agency said...Security Council initiatives against Bashar al-Assad's regime. Yang said Syria's future should be...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 8 months ago
Syrian warplanes pounded rebel bastions on Wednesday after a day of fighting that left more than 180 dead, as UN-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi urged China to help end the violence. In a week that has seen unprecedented air strikes, regime...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Syrian warplanes pounded opposition strongholds around Damascus and in the north Wednesday, as President Bashar Assad 's forces intensified airstrikes against rebels seeking to topple him, activists said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for...
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CNN
| 8 months ago
Syrian cease-fire ceases Police base targeted in Syria blast "Sources confirmed to us that Hurricane Sandy that is slamming the U.S. was set off by highly advanced technologies developed by the heroic Iranian regime that supports the resistance, with...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
U.N.-Arab League peace envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi (L) shakes hands with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi before their meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing October 31, 2012. The world should act with greater urgency to...
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Fox News
| 8 months ago
The U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria met with China's foreign minister Wednesday to solicit Beijing's support for international efforts to end Syria's civil war. The international mediator, Lakhdar Brahimi, told Yang Jiechi at the opening of their...
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Al Jazeera
| 8 months ago
40 The opposition says the 19-month conflict in Syria has claimed more than 32,000 lives [Reuters] Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN-Arab League envoy, has expressed hope, after holding talks in Beijing with Yang Jiechi, Chinese foreign minister, that China...
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The New York Times
| 8 months ago
October 30, 2012 Syria 's state television said Tuesday that insurgents had assassinated an air force commander in Damascus, as news accounts from antigovernment activists reported an intensified aerial bombing campaign against rebel targets,...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Syrian fighter jets bombed rebel targets with added intensity Tuesday, including striking targets inside Damascus for the first time, an opposition rights group said. In renewed violence following a four-day cease-fire that was largely ignored over...
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The Boston Globe
| 8 months ago
Airstrikes by Syrian jets and shells from tanks leveled a neighborhood in a restive city near the capital of Damascus on Tuesday, killing 18 people, and at least five rebel fighters died nearby in clashes with regime troops, activists said. The...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
A general view shows destruction in the Suleiman al-Halabi nieghbourhood, now under full army control according to state media, in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on October 30, 2012. A Syrian air force general has been assassinated in Damascus,...
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The independent
| 8 months ago
Syrian state television said today that an air force general was assassinated in a Damascus suburb, the latest in a string of attacks on high-level figures from President Bashar al-Assad's administration. "Terrorists assassinated General Abdullah...
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Al Jazeera English
| 8 months ago
08 Syrian fighter jets have struck rebel positions around the city of Homs as the international envoy appointed to try to resolve the crisis prepares to hold talks in China. Two rebel fighters were killed and 10 wounded on Tuesday at al-Mubarkiyeh, a ...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
Syrian warplanes bombed rebel positions on the outskirts of the central city of Homs on Tuesday to try to break a siege of an army base housing dozens of soldiers, opposition activists said. Two rebels were killed and 10 wounded at al-Mubarkiyeh, a...
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Zee News
| 8 months ago
And the other side says 'we're fighting a very cruel government that is persecuting us, and we are defending ourselves'," the envoy said. He, however, stressed the collapse of last week's truce would not weaken "our resolve" to bring an end to...
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Qatar English Daily
| 8 months ago
Syrian jets bombed parts of Damascus yesterday in what residents said were the capital's fiercest air raids yet, at the end of what was supposed to be a four-day truce. More than 100 buildings have been destroyed, some levelled to the ground, said...
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The Independent
| 8 months ago
Suggested Topics President Bashar al-Assad's fighter jets wreaked destruction across Syria on the last day of a supposed ceasefire yesterday, leaving no doubt that the UN-brokered initiative had failed. Admitting defeat, the UN-Arab League envoy...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Agencies A crowd gathers in front of a building damaged after a car bomb in Jaramana, south of Damascus. Syrian warplanes carried out scores of strikes against rebel positions throughout the country Monday in what anti-regime activists said was the...
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Boston.com
| 8 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 New York Times
| 8 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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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 8 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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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 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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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
U.N.-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, left, and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov walk during their meeting in Moscow October 29, 2012. U.N.-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi expressed regret on Monday that a U.N.-brokered truce...
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BBC
| 8 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
| 8 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
| 8 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
| 8 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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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 8 months ago
Breaking News UN-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi will visit China this week, the Foreign Ministry announced on Monday, as Syrian President Bashar Assad kept up air strikes against rebels despite a U.N.-brokered truce that now appears to be in...
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DAWN
| 8 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
| 8 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
| 8 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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Arab News
| 8 months ago
Syrian jets bombarded Sunni regions in Damascus and across the country yesterday, activists said, as President Bashar Assad kept up airstrikes against rebels despite a UN-brokered truce that now appears to be in tatters...Damascus has been under...
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The Globe & Mail
| 8 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
| 8 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
| 8 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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News 24
| 8 months ago
Fighting and air raids shook Syria on Sunday as the international community looked to pick up the pieces of a failed effort to halt the violence for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. Fresh clashes saw rebels storm regime positions in the suburbs of...
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The Herald
| 8 months ago
Though Syria's death toll has topped 35,000, the bloodiest and most protracted crisis of the Arab Spring, the West has been wary of intervening. There is concern about sparking a wider conflagration because Syria borders Israel and is allied with...
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The Independent
| 8 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
| 8 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
| 8 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
| 8 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
| 8 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
| 8 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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United Press International
| 8 months ago
At least 59 people, including five children and five women, were killed Saturday in apparent violation of a cease-fire in Syria, human rights observers said. The Syrian government and rebel forces had agreed to a break in the fighting beginning...
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Arab News
| 8 months ago
Activists say Syrian warplanes have bombed a building in a suburb of the capital Damascus in the first airstrike since an internationally mediated cease-fire went into effect. The attack and other violence casts further doubt on the chances that the...
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GMA News
| 8 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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International Business Times
| 8 months ago
Members of the Free Syrian Army search for bodies in the rubble of a building damaged after a Syrian Air Force fighter jet loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad fired missiles at Erbee. Fighting broke out in Damascus shortly after the four-day...
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Ledger-Enquirer
| 8 months ago
A Syrian warplane flattened a three-story building, suspected rebels detonated a deadly car bomb and both sides traded gunfire in several hotspots across the country Saturday, activists said, leaving a U.N.-backed holiday truce in tatters on its...
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National Public Radio
| 8 months ago
October 27, 2012 Eid al-Adha is one of the holiest days on the Muslim calendar...It's the feast of the sacrifice, when any Muslim who is able should sacrifice an animal and donate the meat to the poor. There is little to celebrate in Syria's largest...
