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The New York Times
| 7 months ago
The truce was ragged from the start considering the fractured nature of the fighting across the country, and the opposition accused the government of resuming aerial bombardments and shelling urban centers...Extremist brigades outside the Free Syrian...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Syrian rebels clashed with Kurdish militia in the northern city of Aleppo, leaving 30 dead and around 200 captured, a watchdog said on Saturday, sparking fears of a new front in an already fractured country. The fighting between armed rebels and...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
The United States has not deployed any military personnel or units in Turkey in connection with the crisis in Syria, the Turkish army said in a statement Saturday...At the start of October, a Syrian mortar bomb killed five Turkish nationals at a...
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 7 months ago
The attack and other violence casts further doubt on the chances that the four-day truce that began Friday will be a springboard for ending the civil war. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says eight people were killed and many...
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The Boston Globe
| 7 months ago
Activists say Syrian warplanes have bombed a building in a suburb of the capital Damascus in the first airstrike since an internationally mediated cease-fire went into effect. The attack and other violence casts further doubt on the chances that the...
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The Globe & Mail
| 7 months ago
Ambulances sped to the site and security forces cut off access to the area...The explosion took place as President Bashar al-Assad was meeting international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, who has called for a temporary truce in Syria's civil war. Lebanese...
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Russia Today
| 7 months ago
Syrian rebels run to take position in the Bustan al-Basha district in the northern city of Aleppo on October 26, 2012 (AFP Photo / Philippe Desmazes) The death toll in Syria reached 146 people on the second day of the supposed Eid ceasefire,...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Agencies A Syrian rebel takes cover in Karmal Jabl district of Aleppo. Photograph: Narciso Contreras/AP At least 22 people were killed in clashes between Syrian rebels and Kurdish militia men in Aleppo, Syria 's largest city. The fighting broke out...
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Zee News
| 7 months ago
32 Zeenews Bureau Beirut: At least two dozen people have reportedly died in Aleppo on Saturday even as various instances of clashes between Syrian government forces despite an agreement to a ceasefire during Muslim holiday, activists said, as per a...
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The Courier-Mail
| 7 months ago
Saturday declared the failure of a truce declared for Eid al-Adha, as fighting raged, warplanes buzzed key cities and at least 150 people were reported killed since a ceasefire came into effect. The truce conditionally agreed by President Bashar al-...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
A car bomb attack in front of a church and close to a restaurant in the east Syria city of Deir Ezzor killed at least five people Saturday, a watchdog said, while the regime blamed the blast on "terrorists." The attack further eroded a ceasefire the...
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Al Jazeera English
| 7 months ago
08 Syrian opposition activists have reported a return of heavy government bombardment in major cities, further undermining a truce intended to mark the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday. Activists in the eastern city of Deir al-Zor, the suburbs of Damascus...
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BBC
| 7 months ago
Hezbollah denies any involvement in Syria's civil war beyond helping refugees. But many Lebanese people living on the country's open border with Syria are already caught up in the violence and say they have a right to defend themselves.
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi's ceasefire plan to stop fighting in Syria has been a failure, a rebel commander said on Saturday, after almost 150 people reportedly died on the first day of the truce. "This is a failure for Brahimi. This...
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The Independent
| 7 months ago
Suggested Topics A car bomb, shelling and gun battles marred a tenuous truce that went into effect in Syria on Friday, calling into question whether a four-day holiday ceasefire brokered by the United Nations can endure. The day started out more...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 7 months ago
More than 280 breaches of the agreed ceasefire were registered, according to the Local Coordination Committees. (AFP)
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The Journal Gazette
| 7 months ago
Afghanistan A suicide bomber detonated explosives outside a mosque packed with senior regional officials in northern Afghanistan on a major Muslim holiday Friday, killing 41 people. The officials escaped unhurt, and many of the dead were soldiers and...
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News 24
| 7 months ago
Almost 150 people died on the first day of a barely-observed truce between the warring parties in Syria, a watchdog said, adding that a fresh clashes on Saturday claimed more lives. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said of the 146 people...
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Fox News
| 7 months ago
Activists say Syrian troops have shelled rebel-held areas and clashed with anti-government gunmen in several parts of the country despite an internationally mediated cease-fire. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local...
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CNN Blog
| 7 months ago
Fierce fighting between Syrian government forces and rebels was reported early Saturday in the flashpoint city of Deir Ezzor, according to the opposition Local Coordination Committees of Syria. The opposition claims of violence in the eastern Syrian...
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Inquirer.net
| 7 months ago
The blast in a residential area of Damascus, near a housing complex for police, killed five people and wounded more than 30, state TV said. A shaky holiday truce was marred by sporadic fighting and two car bombs Friday but gave war-battered Syrians a...
