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The Hindu
| 7 months ago
AP In this file photo, destroyed buildings are seen along a desolated street in the Bustan Al-Pasha district after several weeks of intense battles between rebel fighters and the Syrian army in Aleppo, Syria. Photo:AP Syrian government troops on...
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SF Gate
| 7 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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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
The Syrian regime has transformed a military airport in Hama city into one of the country's most-feared prisons, where detainees are crammed into hangars and deadly torture is rife, activists, watchdogs and former inmates say. Known as the site of a...
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Arab News
| 7 months ago
The Associated Press Wednesday 31 October 2012 Last Update 31 October 2012 1:35 am Syrian warplanes pounded a strategic northern city with three airstrikes yesterday as ground troops pushed forward to recapture the area recently taken by rebels,...
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SF Gate
| 7 months ago
Syrian warplanes pounded a strategic northern city with three airstrikes Tuesday as ground troops pushed forward in an intensified effort to recapture the area recently taken by rebels, activists said. The airstrikes targeted Maaret al-Numan ,...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
A Syrian jet drops its munitions as the regime steps up its bombing campaign. (AFP/Bulent Kilic) A Syrian fighter jet on Tuesday carried out the first warplane air strike on the city of Damascus since the start of the country's conflict 19 months ago,...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Mohammed Hafar was killed at dawn, shot while reportedly trying to rescue his brother Faisal, mortally wounded, from the latest gunbattles between Sunni Arab rebels and Kurdish militia in Syria. It was the second clash in 48 hours and killed up to...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Fierce clashes broke out before dawn Tuesday in a major Palestinian refugee camp south of Damascus, pitting rebels against troops backed by pro-regime Palestinian fighters, activists and a watchdog said. The fresh violence came after the feast of Eid...
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The Hindustan Times
| 7 months ago
The Syrian regime may be their sworn enemy, but rebels fighting to bring down President Bashar al-Assad say they pay hard cash to government agents for guns and bullets. For Syria's plethora of armed opposition groups, obtaining weapons is a constant...
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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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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
A Kurdish man tortured by rebels in northern Syria has died of his wounds on Monday, a watchdog said, noting that some armed groups have taken up methods used by the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Khaled Bahjat Hamdu, 37, was captured on Friday...
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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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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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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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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Syrian rebels launched a series of attacks on army positions on Sunday as regime air strikes hit opposition-held towns near Damascus after the failure of a Muslim holiday ceasefire effort, a watchdog said. Rebels took control of three military posts...
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Israel National News
| 7 months ago
In a special report, a soldier from the Free Syrian Army told The Independent newspaper, published Sunday in the UK, the Shi'ite Muslim terrorists are full military allies of the Syrian regulars.
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Friday's car bomb explosion struck a residential area housing police officers and their families, killing at least eight people and wounding more than 30, on the first day of an attempted ceasefire for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. The Al-Nusra...
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The Daily Star
| 7 months ago
In this Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012 photo, a Syrian resident walks at sunset through a crossroad in downtown as mortar explosions, not seen, sound in the distance, in the Saif al-Dawleh, neighborhood, Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras). A...
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 7 months ago
Perhaps the truth-telling tactics of the opposition in YouTube videos can help hollow out the lies of the Assad regime so that his remaining support collapses.
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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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Russia Today
| 7 months ago
Aleppo under protection of a rebel group when he was arrested and handed over to another rebel group which controls a small town some 30km away from the besieged port-city. The rebels said on their Facebook page they found Itani's work incompatible...
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The New York Times
| 7 months ago
Some Iraqi Shiites are traveling to Tehran first, where the Iranian government, Syria's chief regional ally, is flying them to Damascus, Syria's capital. Others take tour buses from the Shiite holy city of Najaf, Iraq, on the pretext of making a...
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United Press International
| 7 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
| 7 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...
