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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says Russia's failure to take decisive action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad "is going to help contribute" to the very civil war officials in Moscow say they are helping to avoid. Speaking in Denmark...
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Asbarez
| 1 year ago
Another Armenian soldier has fallen victim to the unrest in Syria. Levon Kuyoumjian, 20, was killed in clashes on the Syrian-Turkish border at the at Bab al-Hawa checkpoint. Earlier this month an Armenian church and school, operating under the...
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The Courier-Mail
| 1 year ago
The US has dismissed a Syrian investigation that blames rebel fighters for the massacre of more than 100 people in Houla as "another blatant lie". Susan Rice, the US representative to the United Nations, said today UN observers reported Syrian heavy...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Today's updated shipping databases show that the Professor Katsman did in fact dock in the port of Tartus on May 26, 2012 before heading to Piraeus, Greece," Sadia Hameed of Human Rights First told Reuters. One Western diplomat told Reuters the...
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Arab News
| 1 year ago
Abdul Rahman Al-Rashid Thursday 31 May 2012 Russia's attitude has been negative not only on the Syrian issue but also on all other key issues. Therefore, whenever we see any sign coming from Moscow indicating a possible change in the Russian stance...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Syria's main rebel commander urged Kofi Annan Thursday to announce that his peace plan has failed and free insurgents from any commitment to a truce deal, as Damascus blamed up to 800 rebel fighters for last week's Houla massacre that killed more...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Clinton indicates that Washington continues to support the UN peacekeeping mission in Syria rather than direct intervention by the United States. Syria's main rebel commander urged UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan on Thursday to announce that his...
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The independent
| 1 year ago
Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, told Russia yesterday it will be responsible for unleashing a full-blown civil war in Syria unless it changes course and sides with Washington and other Western powers in pushing for President Bashar al-...
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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
Syria is nearing full-blown sectarian civil war that would be catastrophic for the entire Middle East, Western nations said on Thursday, urging Russia to end its support for President Bashar al-Assad and put pressure on him to stop the bloodshed.
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
U.N.-Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan warned during talks with top Lebanese leaders Thursday of instability in Lebanon should Syria slide into a civil war following the failure of several U.N. efforts to end the 15-month-old conflict there,...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Crises at heart of Syria's opposition 31 May 2012 Last updated at 18:27 ET Syria could be moving towards a "catastrophic" civil war according to the UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon. The Syrian government rejects this claim, but the situation is...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
The Daily Star The geography of the current Syrian uprising is a reflection of the significant economic and social crisis that have been faced by large segments of the Syrian population since the early 1980s. While the essence of the revolution is...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
France and Germany will push Russian President Vladimir Putin to agree to tougher measures against Syria when he visits Paris and Berlin on Friday. But with Europe bedeviled by economic crisis and leadership upheavals, few here expect leaders to...
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Israel National News
| 1 year ago
The committee determined that the victims were killed because they refused to cooperate with the rebels. It was also claimed that many of the victims were relatives of parliament members.
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
The Syrian government announced Thursday that the results of a preliminary investigation into the massacre of 108 civilians in the Syrian village of Houla proved that Syrian government forces were not responsible. The announcement of the findings...
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News 24
| 1 year ago
Syria on Thursday blamed up to 800 rebel fighters for the massacre in central Syria last week that killed more than 100 people, nearly half of them children, in its most comprehensive explanation to date of the bloodshed. The narrative starkly...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
That fact further highlights Iran's continued effort to expand its nefarious influence in the region, and underscores Iran's fear of a Syria without the Assad regime," he told reporters at the White House. European and US security officials say Iran...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
First and foremost, I hold Russia responsible for the failure of international action, she said. It is, I think, very important and appropriate that Europe and the U.S. have imposed sanctions on Syria. But unless they are global sanctions, unless...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 1 year ago
Breaking News China's foreign minister said on Thursday his country was keeping faith with mediator Kofi Annan's peace plan for Syria, despite pressure for tougher action after the killing of over 100 people, including children, in the town of Houla.
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Epoch Times
| 1 year ago
May 31, 2012 United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday warned that massacres like the one in Houla where more than 100 people died could set off a catastrophic civil war. The U.N. did not deploy in Syria just to bear witness to the...
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
Damascus says a preliminary investigation showed armed groups carried out the Houla massacre. Earlier the government forces were blamed for the slaughter, which claimed lives of more than a hundred innocent citizens, including 32 children. The...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
The head of an inquiry committee into a massacre in Syria's Houla village has said preliminary investigations indicate that about 800 heavily armed men carried out the attacks on government forces and slaughtered families in Houla.
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
US envoy Susan Rice on Thursday condemned "reprehensible" Russian arms deliveries to Syria as she stepped up US calls for increased international pressure on President Bashar al-Assad. The US ambassador to the United Nations also accused the Damascus...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Syrian authorities Thursday said the government has freed 500 prisoners arrested in the pro-democracy demonstrations that began 14 months ago...The announcement came two days after U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan 's latest visit to Damascus to try...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 1 year ago
Syrian rebel leaders have declared a UN peace plan for the country to be a failure , joining a chorus of international opinion in agreement.
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 1 year ago
Iran engaged in 'malignant behavior' in Syria The White House on Thursday accused Iran of "malignant behavior" for propping up Syrian President Bashar Assad and warned anew that the country's conflict could explode into a wider proxy war unless Assad...
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The Independent
| 1 year ago
Or, in so far as there is one, it happened months ago when the regime unleashed its forces on the major centres of opposition and failed to crush them, as President Assad's father, Hafez al-Assad, had done in Hama. The idea that the Houla massacre...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
Global community needs to take action on Syria' Washington: The US on Thursday decried the "horrific brutalisation" of the Syrian people by the regime of Bashar al Assad, and said there was need for the international community to act on Syria. White...
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China News
| 1 year ago
With historic changes in the Middle East and Africa, China and Arab nations are working together to enhance the China-Arab States Cooperation forum, a dialogue mechanism that can bring greater benefits to all parties. Addressing the opening session...
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B92
| 1 year ago
A Russian cargo ship that was, according to Western officials, carrying arms for the Syrian government, has reached the Syrian port of Tartus. Human Rights First groups's Sadia Hamid told Reuters that the Professor Katsman docked at Tartus on May 26.
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News 24
| 1 year ago
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday laid out the clearest case yet for why the Obama administration is reluctant to intervene militarily in Syria - especially without Russia agreeing to be part of a united Western front - even as it...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, has bluntly told the regime in Syria to implement the peace plan promoted by Kofi Annan. Photograph: Damir Sagolj/AFP Syria risks a "catastrophic civil war" in the wake of the massacre of more than 100 civilians...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
World leaders should avoid letting a weekend massacre in Syria erase any pragmatism regarding perceptions of the situation, Russian officials said. The U.N.-backed Committee on the Rights of the Child said Thursday it was "appalled" by suggestions...
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
Clinton also told an audience that Russia's implicit support for Assad could "help contribute to a civil war" in Syria, The Associated Press reports . And the AP sums up the news from Clinton's comments this way: "U.S. Secretary of State Hillary...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Michael Bowman May 31, 2012 A mounting death toll in Syria is prompting calls for stronger international action to oust President Bashar al-Assad. While the Obama administration is backing diplomacy, sanctions, and non-lethal aid to promote change,...
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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
With Syria impervious to the international clamour over the murder of scores of women and children last weekend, and the many other gross human-rights violations that preceded it, the time for outside military action to depose President Bashar Assad...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Updated shipping databases show that cargo ship docked in the port of Tartus, says Human Rights First; Western officials confirm remarks, add that they understand ship was carrying arms for Syrian gov't. A Russian cargo ship that Western officials...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Syria said on Thursday that it regretted Ban Ki-moon's warning of a "catastrophic civil war," saying the UN chief had become a "herald" of such a conflict. "It is regrettable that the secretary general of the United Nations has departed from his...
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Arab News
| 1 year ago
The commander of Syria's main armed rebel group urged Kofi Annan on Thursday to declare that his seven-week-old cease-fire plan has failed, allowing rebels to resume attacks on President Bashar Assad's forces, Al Jazeera television reported...Riad Al-...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 1 year ago
Story continues below Speaking after a closed meeting of the UN Security Council in New York, Ms Rice said a further escalation of the conflict in Syria was the likeliest scenario now, with it also spreading to other countries in the region. ''...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
The weekend massacre of 108 people in the central Syrian town of Houla was carried out by "armed groups" and not by government forces as has been widely claimed, a senior official said on Thursday. "It appears that all the victims came from peaceful...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 1 year ago
Breaking News Syria said on Thursday a preliminary investigation showed that anti-government armed groups committed a massacre last week in Houla, in which 108 people were killed, with the aim of encouraging foreign military intervention against the...
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The Independent
| 1 year ago
Syrian troops today shelled the central region of Houla where more than 100 people were massacred last week, activists said. At least one person was killed in the latest violence and scores fled in fear of more government attacks. The shelling came...
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Bitchnews
| 1 year ago
Merkel and Hollande to Challenge Russia over Syria, Spiegel Online reports here : Vladimir Putin was hoping to address mainly economic issues when he visits Berlin and Paris on Friday. But the recent massacre in Houla will give the ongoing Syrian...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 1 year ago
But the rapidly deteriorating situation in Syria and the divide between Russia and the West on how to respond appears certain to figure heavily in their talks. Skip to next paragraph
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BBC
| 1 year ago
This has not yet become a war of neighbour against neighbour, village against village; majority Sunnis against the ruling Alawite minority, their Shia and Christian allies. But there has been such terrible loss in some communities that it could...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Syrian pro-government militiamen known as the "shabiha" are facing international scrutiny for their alleged role in the May 25 massacre of more than 100 civilians in the central Syrian town of Houla. U.N. peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous said there...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Russia said the United Nations Security Council should not consider new measures to resolve the crisis in Syria and signaled it would block any effort to authorize military intervention in its Middle Eastern ally. A spokesman for Russian President...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki and envoys from several Arab countries on Thursday urged China to put pressure on Syria to end the slaughter of civilians there. Marzouki was speaking at a Sino-Arab forum at Hammamet, in eastern Tunisia, attended...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 1 year ago
Syria's main rebel commander has called on UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan to announce that his peace plan has failed, in order to free insurgents from any commitment to a ceasefire deal. UN observers on Wednesday reported the discovery of 13 bodies...
