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United Press International
| 7 months ago
Turkey's foreign minister on Friday publicly called on warring sides in Syria to observe a proposed short-term cease-fire during an Islamic holiday next week. The statement was made as Syrian officials waiting to hear from international envoy Lakhdar...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Syrian rebels said Friday they have removed part of a collection of mosaics from Maaret al-Numan's museum in a bid to save the relics from the regime's bombardment of the northwestern town. "We have taken [the pieces] away and placed them somewhere...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Turkish artillery struck back at Syria on Friday after two Syrian shells landed in Turkish territory, the state-run television TRT reported. The television network said the shells fell into an empty field in Hatay province near the Syrian border...A...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Istanbul The Turkish foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, says the lives of millions of Syrians were at risk. Photograph: Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images Turkey has called on the US, Britain and other leading countries to take immediate action to...
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CNN Blog
| 7 months ago
The man hoping to broker a cease-fire in the Syrian civil war arrived in Damascus today. A date for Lakhdar Brahimi to meet Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has not been announced, but will happen "eventually," said Ahmad Fawzi, a spokesman for...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jihad Makdissi said Friday that Syria wants to calm the situation in the strife-stricken country for the sake of reaching a solution through dialogue. We want to calm the situation in order to reach a...
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SF Gate
| 7 months ago
Turkey and Germany on Friday threw their weight behind calls for a Syrian cease-fire during a Muslim holiday next week as the international envoy for the conflict arrived in Damascus to push for the plan. The effort has taken on urgency after...
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The Daily Star
| 7 months ago
Rebel arms maker Abu al-Fadhel shows off a row of homemade weapons including a hand-grenade, a portable rocket-launcher, and various rockets with explosive warheads at a location in Aleppo province on October 17, 2012. Syria: Lightly-armed Syrian...
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The New York Times
| 7 months ago
The appeal by Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu came as the international envoy on Syria , Lakhdar Brahimi , prepared to visit Damascus, the Syrian capital, news reports said, to press his earlier entreaties for the guns to fall silent on both...
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Jerusalem Post
| 7 months ago
United Nations envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is expected in the Syrian capital Damascus on Friday to try to broker a cease-fire during an Islamic holiday this month, a proposal backed by rebel groups as well as Iran and Turkey, a UN spokesman said. Brahimi,...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Syrian regime warplanes have dropped cluster bombs in sorties against rebels in the northwestern town of Maaret al-Numan, the insurgents told AFP on Friday. The rebels showed an AFP correspondent in the battleground Edleb province town debris from...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Turkey on Friday called for Syria's regime to immediately stop deadly aerial bombing of rebel targets and for the two sides to observe a truce ahead of the Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday next week. "It is particularly important that the Syrian regime...
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SF Gate
| 7 months ago
Turkey (AP) Turkey on Friday joined an appeal for a cease-fire to stop the bloodshed in Syria during a Muslim holiday next week. Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said both Syrian forces and rebels should end hostilities "at least" through the four-...
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The Daily Star
| 7 months ago
Smoke rise after what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Erbeen, near Damascus, October 18, 2012. Syria: Warplanes pounded a key rebel-hold town in Syria for a second straight day on Friday, hours...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Latest first Oldest first Auto update: On Off Updates: Truce calls Summary Welcome to Middle East Live. The International envoy on Syria is expected to take his calls for ceasefire to Damascus today, as Bashar al-Assad's forces continue to bomb rebel...
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National Public Radio
| 7 months ago
October 19, 2012 We are standing on a roof, leaning back against the wall because of the snipers. We're right at the Syrian-Lebanese border, looking into the Syrian town of Jusiyah, standing with a rebel fighter who has his walkie-talkie going. The...
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Pak Tribune
| 7 months ago
At least 28,000 Syrians have gone missing since they were abducted by forces loyal to President Bashar al Assad during the 19-month-old revolt, activist group Avaaz said on Thursday. Quoting statements from Syrian human rights lawyers and families,...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Syria's air force carried out raids on Friday morning against rebels besieging a major military base in the northwestern province of Edleb, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. "Military aircraft dropped bombs that targeted rebels...
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SF Gate
| 7 months ago
More than 40 civilians, many of them women and children, were killed Thursday in an air strike on the northern city of Maarat Numan, activists said, in another bloody day in Syria during which more than 200 people reportedly were killed. The city,...
