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Assad forces step up defense of Damascus
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| By Nadia Massih | April 08, 2013 01:05 AM |
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Following several weeks of strategic rebel gains in the south, Syria’s government forces made a concerted push to defend the capital.
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Scarred by conflict, nurse joins rebel side
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| By By Marie Roudani | April 08, 2013 12:42 AM |
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Umm Abed once worked as a nurse at a military hospital in Syria’s Latakia province, treating wounded soldiers, but when army shelling killed her brother and mother she decided to switch sides.
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March deadliest month as Damascus battle heats up
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| By Nadia Massih, Olivia Alabaster | April 02, 2013 01:02 AM |
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Intensified fighting in Damascus has made March the deadliest month since the start of the Syria war with more than 6,000 people killed, a prominent activist group said Monday.
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Syria accuses rebels of setting fire to oil wells
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| March 31, 2013 12:33 PM |
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Heavy shelling in a neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo sends civilians fleeing for their lives, and the state news agency accuses rebels trying to topple the government of setting fire to three oil wells.
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Syrian rebels enter strategic Aleppo neighborhood
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| By Bassem Mroue | March 30, 2013 02:06 PM |
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Syrian rebels push into a strategic neighborhood in Aleppo after days of clashes, seizing control of part of it and killing a pro-government Sunni Muslim cleric captured in the fighting, activists and state media say.
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'Aleppo button' disease afflicts war-torn city
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| By Marie Roudani | March 30, 2013 10:03 AM |
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The latest affliction to hit weary residents of Aleppo is written on their faces: some call it the "Aleppo button", a welt caused by leishmaniasis, an illness that is sweeping the Syrian city.
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Arab League seat for Syria opposition just symbolic?
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| By Serene Assir | March 30, 2013 08:51 AM |
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The Arab League's decision to grant Syria's seat to the opposition could be nothing more than a symbolic act as long as there is no backing for a rebel government on the ground, opponents and analysts say.
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Syria opposition in disarray as head resigns
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| By Serene Assir | March 24, 2013 09:54 PM |
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Opposition chief Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib on Sunday announced his resignation from the National Coalition, throwing Syria's divided opposition into disarray ahead of an Arab summit.
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Activists report Syria clashes near Jordan border
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| By Jamal Halaby | March 24, 2013 11:45 AM |
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Syrian rebels press ahead with their offensive in a restive southern province that borders Jordan, as Israel's military says its forces responded to fire by shooting at a target inside Syria.
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Sewing machines drown out gunfire in Aleppo factory
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| By Marie Roudani | March 24, 2013 09:43 AM |
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"We people from Aleppo are hard workers, we're renowned for that," says Mohammed, as he shows a team of AFP journalists around a clothes factory in strife-torn Aleppo, Syria's economic heart.
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Fearing stark future, Syrian Alawites meet in Cairo
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| By Khaled Yacoub Oweis | March 23, 2013 12:36 PM |
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Opposition campaigners from Syrian President Bashar Assad's Alawite sect will meet this weekend to support a democratic alternative to his rule and try to distance the community from wholesale association with the government's attempts to crush a two-year uprising.
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