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Syria truce largely holds but 6 killed in protests
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April 13, 2012 09:38 PM
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BEIRUT: Syrian forces used live fire, tear gas and clubs to beat back tens of thousands of protesters who took to the streets across the country Friday in powerful and often jubilant displays of defiance. But a U.N.-brokered truce largely held up without the widespread, bloody offensives that have...
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Syria's Assad in firm control after a bloody year
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March 22, 2012 10:01 PM
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BEIRUT: As world leaders close ranks against Syrian leader Bashar Assad, the U.S. president summed up the popular wisdom during a recent White House press conference: "Ultimately, this dictator will fall." That prediction may be premature. Regime forces have retaken the major...
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UN chief: Syria unrest could have global impact
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March 21, 2012 08:16 PM
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BEIRUT: The "extremely dangerous" conflict in Syria could have global repercussions, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday, as fresh violence erupted and an al-Qaida-inspired group claimed responsibility for two suicide bombings in Damascus. The uprising that began a year ago...
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Syrian rebels lack guns, money after key defeats
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March 14, 2012 08:41 PM
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BEIRUT: Two significant defeats at the hands of Syrian government troops have exposed the limitations of the country's rebel forces: They are low on cash, running out of weapons and facing a fiercely loyal military that will fight to the death. Insisting that their drive to oust President...
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Syria's Baba Amr is deserted, Red Cross says
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March 07, 2012 08:16 PM
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BEIRUT: The U.N. humanitarian chief got the first look inside the shattered district of Baba Amr on Wednesday but found most people already had fled the rebellious neighborhood in Homs following a devastating military siege. Activists have accused the government of sealing off Baba Amr for nearly...
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Syria says 'terrorists' blow up gas pipeline
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January 30, 2012 11:42 AM
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BEIRUT: Syria's state news agency says an armed "terrorist" group has blown up a gas pipeline. SANA said the pipeline carries gas from the central province of Homs to an area near the border with Lebanon. Further details on Monday's blast were not released. There have been...
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Syrian legislator defects to protest crackdown
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January 16, 2012 08:27 PM
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BEIRUT: A member of Syria's parliament has left the country to join the opposition against President Bashar Assad's regime, saying the Syrian people are suffering sweeping human rights violations. Imad Ghalioun, who represents the central city of Homs, told Al-Arabiya TV that the city,...
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Arab League calls urgent meeting on Syria monitors
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January 03, 2012 08:55 AM
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BEIRUT: The Arab League has called for an emergency meeting to discuss whether to withdraw the group's monitors from Syria after reports that Syrian security forces are still killing anti-government protesters despite the observers' presence. Deputy secretary-general, Ahmed bin Heli, said...
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Arab League: Syrian tanks withdraw, killings go on
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January 02, 2012 03:30 PM
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BEIRUT: Syrian security forces are still killing anti-government protesters despite the presence of foreign monitors in the country, the head of the Arab League said Monday. But he insisted the observer mission has yielded important concessions from the Damascus regime, such as the...
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UN: Syria now in a civil war with 4,000 dead
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December 01, 2011 01:09 AM
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BEIRUT: Syria has entered a state of civil war with more than 4,000 people dead and an increasing number of soldiers defecting from the army to fight President Bashar Assad's regime, the U.N.'s top human rights official said Thursday. Civil war has been the worst-case...
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Syrian protesters warn Bashar: You’re next
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October 22, 2011 12:55 AM
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BEIRUT: Inspired by the scenes of euphoria in Libya, Syrian protesters poured into the streets Friday and shouted that President Bashar Assad’s regime will be the next to unravel now that ousted Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi is dead. Syrian forces fired on protesters Friday, killing at...
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Syrian ally Iran urges dialogue, end to violence
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September 08, 2011 03:45 PM
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BEIRUT: Syrian security forces kept up a deadly crackdown on dissent Thursday as the embattled government faced surprising calls to end the violence from its closest ally, Iran, in a sign of growing alarm over the 6-month-old uprising. In a live interview in Tehran, Iranian President...
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Activist: Syrian troops snatch, beat up cartoonist
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August 25, 2011 12:00 PM
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BEIRUT: Masked gunmen dragged Syria's best-known political cartoonist from his car before dawn Thursday, beat him severely and left him bleeding along the side of a road days after he compared Syria's president to Moammar Gadhafi, human rights activists said. Hospitalized with...
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Damascus defies all appeals
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August 10, 2011 12:36 AM
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BEIRUT: Turkey’s foreign minister said he met President Bashar Assad for more than six hours Tuesday to discuss “concrete steps” Syria should take to stop its violent crackdown on anti-government protesters. Meanwhile, the army launched a series of new raids around the country,...
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Syria conflict descends into 'war of attrition'
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August 09, 2011 11:45 AM
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BEIRUT: Despite five months of blistering attacks on dissent, the Syrian regime has yet to score a decisive victory against a pro-democracy uprising determined to bring down the country's brutal dictatorship. President Bashar Assad still has the military muscle to level pockets of...
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