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Jerusalem Post
| 9 months ago
In an apparent conciliatory gesture, Saudi state television showed King Abdullah welcoming leaders to the summit with Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at his side. Abdullah and Ahmadinejad were shown talking and laughing together, and Abdullah...
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The Globe & Mail
| 9 months ago
Watch Now, in his first public statement since his defection, Mr. Hijab has emerged as one of the most prominent voices calling attention to the slow erosion of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. The regime is collapsing, morally, materially...
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The Independent
| 9 months ago
The former Syrian Prime Minister yesterday delivered a withering assessment of the regime's grip on power, describing it as on the brink of collapse with President Bashar al-Assad's forces in control just a third of the country. In his first public...
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Voice of America
| 9 months ago
As fighting continues in Syria between government and opposition forces, there are growing concerns that Islamist fighters, including some foreigners linked to terror groups like al-Qaida, are joining up with the Free Syria Army. At least one expert...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Agencies A Free Syrian Army fighter fires his sniper rifle from a house in Aleppo. Foreign ministers from leading Western states and Turkey have discussed ways to accelerate the fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad and prepare for the aftermath, as...
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News 24
| 9 months ago
The Syrian government has consented to the idea of Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi replacing Kofi Annan as the UN-Arab League mediator in the Syria conflict, though Brahimi has yet to accept or reject the post, Annan's spokesperson said on Tuesday.
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Voice of America
| 9 months ago
Andre deNesnera August 14, 2012 Rebel forces have been fighting the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad for nearly 18 months. But many experts and Western politicians say it is unclear who makes up the Syrian opposition. Fawaz Gerges, a Middle East...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke with Western foreign ministers to coordinate ways to hasten the end of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's embattled regime, her spokesperson said Tuesday. Clinton, following up on weekend talks in Turkey, held...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
The Syrians have agreed to the candidacy of Algeria's Lakhdar Brahimi as successor to Kofi Annan, who has resigned as the United Nations and Arab League mediator in Syria, Annan's spokesperson said Tuesday. "I was asked if it was true that the...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 9 months ago
The United States on Tuesday called on China to use its influence to press Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to end more than a year of bloodshed as senior US and Syrian envoys visited Beijing. "Our hope is that the Chinese will do what they can and...
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Voice of America
| 9 months ago
The agency has registered 157,577 Syrian refugees who have fled to Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey and expects those figures to rise sharply. The U.N. refugee agency says the number of registered refugees does not reflect the actual number of...
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Japan Times
| 9 months ago
We humans often make the mistake of not learning from history, even when it is recent...With Syria descending into worsening violence, the 15-year Lebanese civil war should provide frightening lessons of what happens when the fabric of a society...
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Russia Today
| 9 months ago
The only path to peace in Syira is a ceasefire, yet a proxy war backed by outside groups is holding both the Syrian government and the opposition hostage, Syrian political activist Abdul-Aziz Al-Khair says. Khair has been an opposition supporter for...
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Open Democracy
| 9 months ago
The first and most important casualty of the militarization of the Syrian uprising is the non-violent movement...World leaders are nonetheless united in their rhetoric supporting peaceful protest. The Syrian crisis, however, has revealed troubling...
