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GMA News
| 4 months ago
The Syrian opposition should make counter-proposals to those President Bashar al-Assad made in a recent speech, to start a dialog that could end the fighting, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday. "President Assad came out with...
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Russia Today
| 4 months ago
Accusations that forces backing Syrian President Assad allegedly used chemical weapons against the opposition is a provocation aimed at making an excuse for foreign military intervention, says the Russian Foreign Ministry...He added that Assad's...
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SF Gate
| 4 months ago
Syrian fighter jets on Sunday bombed Damascus suburbs in a government offensive to dislodge rebels from strategic areas around the capital, activists said, as clashes raged around army bases and airfields in the country's north. The Britain-based...
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The Daily Star
| 4 months ago
Free Syrian Army fighters talk as they stand in snow in Daraya, near Damascus, January 10, 2013...Russia said Sunday that removing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power was not part of past international agreements on the crisis and was...
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The Daily Star
| 4 months ago
Official media in Syria renewed attacks on UN and Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi on Sunday, calling him biased and saying his peace mission aimed at solving the country's crisis was "useless." On Wednesday, Brahimi criticised as "one-sided" a...
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The Daily Star
| 4 months ago
Syria's army sent shells smashing into rebel zones on the outskirts of Damascus Sunday while a Palestinian camp south of the capital was rocked by fresh fighting, a watchdog said. "Regime troops shelled Daraya, Beit Sahm, Mleha and Moadamiyat al-Sham,...
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Washington Post
| 4 months ago
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad remains confident that he can ride out the maelstrom engulfing his country, casting into doubt prospects that intensified efforts to negotiate an end to the bloodshed can succeed, according to Syrians familiar with...
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Arab News
| 4 months ago
Abdul-Rahman Al-Rashid Sunday 13 January 2013 Last Update 12 January 2013 10:46 pm He who is not merciful toward others will not receive mercy...Winter storms came on time but this is the winter we feared: Unbridled aggression against the Syrian...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 4 months ago
He called on those currently working for the regime to follow in his footsteps. (Roi Kais)
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Al Jazeera
| 4 months ago
The Britain-based watchdog said on Saturday that two children and two men were killed when Mleha, just southeast of Damascus, was bombarded, and that two rebels battling forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad were also killed there. Mleha's...
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Washington Post
| 4 months ago
Turkey The Syrian military officer walked around for five months carrying a memory stick loaded with family photos in his uniform pocket, waiting for the chance to defect...Mohammed Hassoun went to his Aleppo home for lunch, the only brief period...
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Arab News
| 4 months ago
Russia voiced support on Saturday for international peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi but insisted Syrian President Bashar Assad's exit cannot be a precondition for a deal to end the country's conflict. Some 60,000 Syrians have been killed during the 21-...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 4 months ago
Syria (AP) Syrian troops have captured most of a strategic Damascus suburb used by rebels as a base to threaten key regime facilities in the capital, a government official said Saturday. The announcement that regime forces had taken Daraya came a day...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 4 months ago
Syrian aircraft bombed outer districts of Damascus on Saturday after stormy weather that had grounded them for a week eased, opposition activists in the capital said. Jets and helicopters fired missiles and dropped bombs on a line of towns to the...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 4 months ago
Russia voiced support on Saturday for international peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi but insisted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's exit cannot be a precondition for a deal to end the country's conflict. A Foreign Ministry statement following talks on...
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The Daily Star
| 4 months ago
A man walks near buildings damaged by what activists said were missiles fired by a Syrian Air Force fighter jet loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in Erbeen, near Damascus, in a picture provided by Shaam News Network January 6, 2013. The outskirts of...
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Jerusalem Post
| 4 months ago
FMs of Austria, Denmark, Ireland and Slovenia bemoan the fact perpetrators of "horrendous crimes" committed during the Syria conflict haven't been put on trial, cite attack on UN peacekeepers in Golan as reason to take action. Michael Kooren Four EU...
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Qatar English Daily
| 4 months ago
No breakthrough in US, Russia talks on Syria Saturday, 12 January 2013 Demonstrators hold banners during a protest against President Bashar Al Assad, after Friday prayers in Kafranbel, near Idlib. International mediator Lakhdar Brahimi and envoys...
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The Daily Star
| 4 months ago
Agencies Rebels stand on top of a damaged helicopter after overrunning the Taftanaz air base near Idlib. Syrian rebel military gains outpaced diplomacy again Friday, when opposition forces overran a strategic northern government air base, and talks...
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The Daily Star
| 4 months ago
The United States has largely ruled out sending in ground troops to secure Syrian chemical weapons under hostile circumstances, but the Pentagon could provide some forces if the Assad regime ever agrees to a peaceful transition, Defense Secretary...
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Associated Press
| 4 months ago
Sen. John Kerry has held up Syria as a country that could bring peace and stability to the region. He predicted the now-disgraced regime of President Bashar Assad would pursue a legitimate relationship with the United States. Those words are certain...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 4 months ago
He said that he would brief the UN Security Council later this month on his latest consultations. (Reuters)
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Leonia Life
| 4 months ago
Syrian rebels and Islamic militants seeking to topple President Bashar Assad took full control of a strategic northwestern air base Friday in a significant blow to government forces, seizing helicopters, tanks and multiple rocket launchers, activists...
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The Daily Star
| 4 months ago
Walid al-Bunni, spokesman of National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, speaks during a press conerence on December 27, 2012, in Istanbul. The opposition Syrian National Coalition has urged the international community to help...
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The Daily Star
| 4 months ago
Western and Israeli security experts suspect Syria may have tonnes of unenriched uranium in storage and that any such stockpile could potentially be of interest to its ally Iran for use in Tehran's own disputed nuclear programme. They say natural...
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Kansas City Star
| 4 months ago
More News January 11 Associated Press International envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is meeting with senior Russian and United States diplomats in an attempt to find a political solution to Syria's conflict, which has claimed more than 60,000 lives. Brahimi,...
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United Press International
| 4 months ago
Rebel forces took control of a strategic airbase in northwestern Syria after days of fighting with government troops, opposition activists said. The activists said the Free Syrian Army seized Taftanaz airport, northeast of Idlib, a base for...
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NewKerala
| 4 months ago
When asked whether he had ruled out putting U.S. troops in Syria to secure such weapons, Panetta said they 'always have to keep the possibility that, if there is a peaceful transition and international organizations get involved, they might ask for...
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The Daily Star
| 4 months ago
Members of the fighting vanguard, one of several Islamic brigades part of Free Syrian Army, besieging Taftanaz air base near Idlib man a weapon as they are seen in this picture provided by Shaam News Network January 9, 2013. Rebels seized a strategic...
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The New York Times
| 4 months ago
Senior United States and Russian diplomats prepared to meet Lakhdar Brahimi , the United Nations and Arab League special envoy, on Friday to discuss possible mechanisms for ending the Syrian conflict but with little sign that an agreement was close.
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NewKerala
| 4 months ago
The US last year provided humanitarian aid worth $210 million to Syrians, who have been suffering from the ongoing bloody conflict between the ruling authorities and the rebels, the US Department of State said. "(President Bashar al) Assad regime's...
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DAWN
| 4 months ago
The United States is increasingly focused on how to secure Syria's chemical weapons if President Bashar al-Assad falls from power, Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday. Panetta said he would not consider sending ground troops into the war-...
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Kuwait News Business
| 4 months ago
The killing of a senior Islamist rebel commander near Syria's border with Turkey could indicate a turf war between armed groups that will hamper their struggle to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, sources told Reuters. Thaer al-Waqqas,...
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Zee News
| 4 months ago
Ruling out any immediate possibility of sending troops to war-torn Syria, the US on Thursday said it will do so only when requested to join the international community in case of a peaceful transition in the country. "We're not working on options...
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Russia Today
| 4 months ago
US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey (R) speak during a press conference at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on January 10, 2013 (AFP Photo / Saul Loeb) Painting a picture of a post-Assad Syria,...
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Kansas City Star
| 4 months ago
More News January 10 Associated Press Pentagon officials say they have largely ruled out sending in ground troops to secure Syrian chemical weapons under hostile circumstances, but the U.S. could provide forces if the Assad regime ever agrees to a...
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Arab News
| 4 months ago
Israel, has exposed the ineptitude and sheer spinelessness of the United Nations and the blessed international community as Syria has. All the glorious international institutions and fine laws have proved useless in dealing with one obstinate and...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 4 months ago
Breaking News The United States is increasingly focused on how to secure Syria's chemical weapons if President Bashar Assad falls from power but is not considering sending ground troops into the war-torn country, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said...
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j.
| 4 months ago
Israel's warning to the United States at the end of November, involving intelligence showing up on satellite imagery, brought together the U.S., Arab states, Russia and China to deal with Syria's deadly civil war, the New York Times reported Jan. 8.
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United Press International
| 4 months ago
All options are on the table" to support opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad and end the bloodshed, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said. Assad last weekend said fighting in the country would stop once foreign support for an armed...
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 4 months ago
Rebels trying to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime battled army troops inside an air base in the north today as government forces fought opposition strongholds near the seat of his government in Damascus. Wednesday detected the launch...
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The Economist
| 4 months ago
TH, in his first public speech for nearly seven months, Syria's President Bashar Assad once again set his face against any suggestion that he should negotiate with the rebels, let alone accept the idea of his own departure as a prerequisite for a...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 4 months ago
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi on Thursday urged Middle East nations to promote a solution for Syria's conflict that excludes "foreign intervention," after talks in Cairo with Egyptian leaders. The renewed statement of Tehran's position on...
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BBC
| 4 months ago
The UK has not excluded providing military assistance to the Syrian opposition, should the conflict worsen, William Hague has said. He told MPs the UK would look to amend the EU arms embargo so "additional assistance" was "not closed off". He also...
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The Daily Star
| 4 months ago
Syrian media lashed out on Thursday at peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi accusing him of being a "pawn" of the West after he criticised a plan by President Bashar al-Assad to solve the 21-month conflict. UN-Arab League envoy Brahimi "has taken off the mask...
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The Daily Star
| 4 months ago
Residents evacuate their houses after being targeted by missiles fired by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in Aleppo's al-Mashhad district January 9, 2013...The official condemned as "reckless" the missile launches, which U.S.
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Zee News
| 4 months ago
The US on Wednesday said that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is not willing to give up power even in the wake of popular protests against his authoritarian regime, but stressed that it would not give up its efforts to oust him. "Based on the speech...
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Jerusalem Post
| 4 months ago
In comments published by the 'New York Times,' the president says if sanctions, negotiations do not work, US will attack Iran. President Shimon Peres Photo: Marc Israel Sellem In comments published by The New York Times on Wednesday, President Shimon...
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Jerusalem Post
| 4 months ago
Assad's speech offered no concessions and included a vow never to talk to foes he branded terrorists and Western puppets...Brahimi said he would travel to Geneva on Thursday for a meeting with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov and US...
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National Public Radio
| 4 months ago
Concerned about spillover from Syria's civil war, Israel says it will build a fence in the Golan Heights along the line that has effectively served as the border since wars between them in the 1960s and 1970s. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who...
