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Kuwait Times
| 6 months ago
The six Gulf states recognised a newly formed opposition bloc as the Syrian people's legitimate representative yesterday, as border violence stoked fears of a spillover of the country's 20-month conflict. The Gulf Cooperation Council move came a year...
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The Observer
| 6 months ago
Syrian government aircraft bomb the town of Ras al-Ain near the Turkish border...Photograph: Murad Sezer/Reuters The Syrian opposition says it has been promised western military support in return for forming a united front, in advance of a donors'...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 6 months ago
Golan Heights (AP) Israeli tanks struck a Syrian artillery launcher Monday after a stray mortar shell flew into Israel-held territory, the first direct clash between the neighbors since the Syrian uprising began nearly two years ago. The...
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The Daily Star
| 6 months ago
If Israel goes to war with any of its neighbours before this year ends it will be with Gaza not Syria, despite appearances. The Israeli army fired into Syria on Monday for the second day in a row, after a Syrian mortar round from fighting across the...
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News 24
| 6 months ago
Deadly fighting flared on Syria's borders with Turkey and Jordan on Monday while Israel fired across the ceasefire line on the Golan Heights for a second day stoking fears of a spillover of the 20-month conflict. Unlike on Sunday, when Israeli troops...
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 6 months ago
Tel Aviv Israeli tanks on the Golan Heights fired on and hit a Syria artillery battery on Monday in response to cross-border mortar fire, marking the first time after 18 months of watching the Syrian conflict from the sidelines that the Jewish state...
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Associated Press
| 6 months ago
Syria's neighbors are increasingly being drawn into the country's civil war in a variety of ways, whether militarily or due to an exodus of Syrians fleeing the fighting at home. The spillover has raised concerns that the nearly 20-month-long conflict...
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The Guardian
| 6 months ago
Ariel Schalit/AP Israeli forces have fired into Syria for the second day in a row after a mortar shell landed close to an army post in the Golan Heights, amid fears that Israel could become sucked into the conflict across the border. The Israeli...
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National Public Radio
| 6 months ago
Some of the latest news on the conflict in Syria: Israel Fires Back. "Israeli troops fired tank shells into Syria on Monday in retaliation for a mortar round that struck near an army post in the Golan Heights, scoring 'direct hits' on the source of...
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Fox News
| 6 months ago
An Israeli tank scored a "direct hit" Monday on a Syrian armored vehicle after a mortar shell landed on Israeli-held territory, the military said, in the first direct confrontation between the countries since the Syrian uprising broke out, sharpening...
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BBC
| 6 months ago
Israel's military says its tanks have scored "direct hits" on Syrian artillery units after Syrian mortar shells fell near an Israeli army post. It comes a day after Israel fired warning shots after it said a Syrian shell hit another of its army posts...
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Al Jazeera
| 6 months ago
Turkey deal with Syria Secretary-general says Ankara can rely on alliance, as Assad's troops try to regain control of rebel-held Ras al-Ain. Turkey, our ally, if needed," Rasmussen told reporters in Prague on Monday...President Abdullah Gul said last...
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News 24
| 6 months ago
Israel's army fired tank shells into Syria on Monday and scored "direct hits" in response to a Syrian mortar shell that struck the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, the Israeli military said in a statement. Israeli military sources said Syrian mobile...
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Denver Post
| 6 months ago
Israel was drawn into the fighting in neighboring Syria for the first time Sunday, firing warning shots across the border after an errant mortar shell landed near an Israeli military installation in the Golan Heights. While Israel appeared eager to...
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Taiwan News
| 6 months ago
Taiwan News, Website Editorial Staff 2012-11-12 11:18 AM Israel fired warning shots into Syria on Sunday after an apparently errant mortar shell struck an Israeli military post in the Golan Heights, the latest example of regional spillover from Syria...
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Qatar English Daily
| 6 months ago
Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Al Assad bombarded the Ras Al Ain area on the border with Turkey yesterday, days after the town fell to rebels during an advance that has sent thousands of refugees fleeing for safety. Helicopters circled...
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Zee News
| 6 months ago
Israel Sunday for the first time fired a warning missile on Syria since the 1973 Yom Kippur War, breaking a long standing ceasefire and drawing itself into the ongoing bloody fight between President Bashar Assad's regime forces and the rebels in the...
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The Sun UK
| 6 months ago
Minister David Cameron is on collision course with his own military commanders over war-torn Syria. He had ordered chiefs to draw up a raft of military options including Our Boys establishing safe zones to protect civilians. But he faces a major...
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Inquirer.net
| 6 months ago
UN leader Ban Ki-moon appealed Sunday to Israel and Syria to ease tensions on their disputed Golan Heights frontier amid warnings that conflict in Syria could spread. Israel fired warning shots into Syria after a mortar from the Syrian side hit an...
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Israel National News
| 6 months ago
The two countries called to recognize the united organization as the sole organization representing the Syrian people. "From now on we will strive for complete recognition of the new body by all parties," said Qatari Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim...
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Al Jazeera
| 6 months ago
06 Khatib, soon after his election, called on soldiers to quit the Syrian army and on all sects to unite [Reuters] Syria's opposition appears to have overcome its deep divisions to rally behind a new leader within a new coalition that its Western and...
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Daily Nation
| 6 months ago
Syria's opposition agreed Sunday to unite against Bashar al-Assad and elected a moderate cleric as its first leader, as Israel fired warning shots into the war-torn country after mortar fire hit the Golan. After four days of marathon talks in Qatar,...
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Jerusalem Post
| 6 months ago
Ban's office said the Secretary-General is deeply concerned by the potential for escalation. He calls for the utmost restraint and urges Syria and Israel to uphold the Disengagement Agreement, respect their mutual obligations, and halt firing of any...
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The Daily Star
| 6 months ago
The Daily Star A girl crosses the border between the Syrian town of Ras al-Ain and Turkey's Sanliurfa province. Syrian opposition groups endorsed Sunday the formation of a National Coalition in order to secure increased foreign backing and elected...
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Jerusalem Post
| 6 months ago
The decision was the result of months of deliberations in the IDF and its Northern Command. Soldiers on the Golan Heights have been hearing the exchanges of fire between rebels and the Syrian army for many months, and by the summer, Defense Minister...
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International Business Times
| 6 months ago
A Israeli Defense Force soldier directs vehicles as an armoured personnel carrier and mobile artillery piece move into position for exercises on the Golan Heights, bordering Syria. A ratcheting-up in hostilities between Israel and two of its...
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DAWN
| 6 months ago
The Syrian opposition struck a hard-won deal on Sunday on a new structure to take forward the 20-month uprising as clashes on the Golan Heights prompted what Israel said was its first fire across the armistice line since the 1973 Middle East war.
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B92
| 6 months ago
The Israeli military fired a missile across the border at Syria, as a warning to that country after a Syrian missile landed on Israeli territory. An Israeli Army tank is seen during a recent drill on the Golan Heights (Beta/AP) Israel occupied the...
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Russia Today
| 6 months ago
An Israeli Merkava tank crew sit on the Israeli annexed Golan Heights overlooking the Syrian village of Breqa on November, 06, 2012. (AFP Photo / Menahem Kahana) Israel has fired warning shots into Syria after mortars launched from Syrian territory...
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The Jakarta Post
| 6 months ago
The Israeli military said the mortar fire caused no injuries or damage at the post in the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war and then annexed. But in recent weeks, incidents of errant fire from Syria have...
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The Independent
| 6 months ago
Alex Thomson is readying himself to embark on one of the most gruelling sporting challenges in the w... I have been paralysed from the neck downwards since I was born in 1971 and spent my life wheelchair ... Suggested Topics Israeli forces fired into...
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BBC
| 6 months ago
Israeli forces say they have fired warning shots into Syria after a mortar round fired from Syria hit an Israeli post in the Golan Heights. Earlier, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu warned Israel was "ready for any development" on the border with Syria,...
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Jerusalem Post
| 6 months ago
Just hours earlier, Defense Minister Ehud Barak threatened that Israel would respond should stray Syrian ordnance continue to strike the Golan Heights, highlighting international concerns that the civil war in Syria could ignite a wider regional...
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Salem News
| 6 months ago
In an exclusive interview with Russia Today, President Bashar Assad said that the conflict in Syria is not a civil war, but proxy terrorism by Syrians and foreign fighters. He also accused the Turkish PM of eyeing Syria with imperial ambitions. Assad...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 6 months ago
Israel threatened on Sunday to respond should stray Syrian ordnance continue to strike the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, highlighting international concerns that the civil war in Syria could ignite a wider regional conflict. The remarks by Defence...
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Canadian Free Press
| 6 months ago
Now that he has been elected to a second term we can fully expect him to be even more hostile to Israel than he was in his first. He will try to pressure and intimidate Israel into taking actions which clearly aren't in her own best interests and...
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Daily Nation
| 6 months ago
Heavy fighting between Syrian rebels and troops sent thousands fleeing into Turkey on Friday, as President Bashar al-Assad said only the ballot box could decide his future and the main opposition bloc elected a new leader. The clashes over a border...
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The Daily Star
| 6 months ago
Agencies Sabra, left, is congratulated by his predecessor Sayda after the vote results are announced. The Syrian National Council elected veteran dissident George Sabra Friday as its new president but delayed a key decision on uniting the broader...
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News 24
| 6 months ago
Syrian President Bashar Assad denied that his regime was committing war crimes in the conflict with rebels, saying the army was engaged in "fighting terrorism", in an interview with Russian television broadcast on Friday. "We are fighting terrorism.
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 6 months ago
Syria's president said in an interview broadcast Friday that his country is not in a state of civil war, and that he has no regrets about any decisions he has made since the uprising against him began nearly 20 months ago. Instead of civil war, Assad...
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The Courier-Mail
| 6 months ago
Bashar al-Assad denies Syria is in a state of civil war as the opposition meets for crucial unity talks and the main armed rebel group says it's undergoing a drastic reorganisation. Underlining the mounting humanitarian crisis, Ankara said some 8000...
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The Daily Star
| 6 months ago
Israeli troops and U.N. peacekeepers inspect on November 8, 2012 the area where three mortar shells fired from Syria landed in Alonei Habashan in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, which Israel seized from Syria in 1967. Israel warned Syrian...
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The Boston Globe
| 6 months ago
Syria's president insists there is no civil war in his country rather, a new kind of battle he calls terrorism through proxies.'' Bashar Assad acknowledged his troops are fighting a tough war and a difficult war,'' adding that when foreign countries...
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Israel National News
| 6 months ago
Referring to opponents of President Bashar Al-Assad, the deputy prime minister said, "The other side received quite a few messages recently and has acted appropriately. I hope that, in this case, there will be someone who will take matters into their...
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The Daily Star
| 6 months ago
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad lashed out at Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, accusing him of behaving like an Ottoman sultan and thinking he is a "caliph", in an interview with Russian television broadcast Friday. Ties between the one-...
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United Press International
| 6 months ago
A Western-backed invasion of Syria could lead to global chaos, President Bashar Assad said in a rare television interview to be broadcast Friday. "The price of this invasion, if it happened, is going to be more than the whole world can afford," Assad...
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SF Gate
| 6 months ago
President Bashar Assad predicted a global catastrophe should the West invade his country, and representatives of Syria's notoriously divided opposition struggled Thursday to form a united government-in-exile against Assad's beleaguered rule.
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Russia Today
| 6 months ago
Without foreign rebel fighters and smuggled weapons, we could finish everything in weeks' RT: You know that the infrastructure and economy are suffering; it is almost as if Syria is going to be fall into decay very soon and the time is against you.
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Epoch Times
| 6 months ago
November 8, 2012 A member of the Free Syrian Army holds a burning portrait of President Bashar al-Assad in Al-Qsair, on Jan. 25, 2012. In a recent interview, Assad scorned foreign intervention in the nation's civil war. (Alessio Romenzi/AFP/Getty...
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The Daily Star
| 6 months ago
President Bashar Assad ruled out any possibility he might flee Syria and warned that any Western military intervention to topple him would have catastrophic consequences for the Middle East and beyond. In an interview with Russia Today television to...
