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    Syria rebels open ’embassy’ in Qatar
    The Syrian opposition opened on Wednesday its first “embassy” in Qatar, a day after the opponents of President Bashar al-Assad were given Damascus’s seat in the Arab League. The head of the Syrian National Coalition, Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib and Qatari State Minister for Foreign Affairs Khaled al-Attiya inaugurated the representative office dubbed the “Embassy...
    March 27, 2013 20:27
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    Russian FM: Syrian Rebels Used Chemical Weapons
    Russia’s Foreign Ministry says Syrian rebels have used chemical weapons, killing 16 people and injuring 100 others. The ministry said the attack represented an “extremely dangerous” development in the two-year Syrian crisis. It said the rebels detonated a munition containing an unidentified chemical agent early Tuesday in the province of Aleppo. It didn’t...
    March 19, 2013 19:59
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    Ukrainian Journalist Returns From Syrian Captivity
    The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry says a journalist who spent than 150 days in captivity inSyriahas returned home. The Ministry said Ankhar Kochneva arrived inKievon Sunday and her health is satisfactory. Kochneva, who has written for Syrian and Russian newspapers, was kidnapped in westernSyriaon Oct. 9 and reportedly held by members of the Free Syrian Army opposition group....
    March 18, 2013 23:00
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    Syrian planes bomb Lebanon border: army source
    Syrian warplanes bombed the border area with Lebanon for the first time on Monday, a high-ranking Lebanese army official told AFP, raising new fears that the Syrian conflict could spill over into its neighbour. “Syrian planes bombed the border between Lebanon and Syria but I cannot yet say if they hit Lebanese territory or only Syrian territory,” the military...
    March 18, 2013 21:38
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    Syria’s children shot at, tortured, raped: charity report
    A boy of 12 sees his best friend shot through the heart. Another of 15 is held in a cell with 150 other people, and taken out every day to be put in a giant wheel and burnt with cigarettes. Syria’s children are perhaps the greatest victims of their country’s conflict, suffering “layers and layers of emotional trauma”, Save the Children’s chief...
    March 13, 2013 20:55
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    Terror as massive gas explosion rips through Syrian refugee camp
    A gas explosion has ripped through a crowded Syrian refugee camp in Jordan today. The fire sent black smoke rising over the Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria. Authorities said the blaze damaged 35 tents but did not result in any death or injuries. In December, the U.N. said around one million Syrians have registered as refugees...
    March 9, 2013 20:03
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    Kerry says Syrian opposition needs more help
    Syria’s opposition needs more help in its struggle against President Bashar al-Assad and Washington wants to find ways to speed up a political transition, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday. The Washington Post reported this week that the White House was considering a shift in policy and could send the rebels body armor and armed vehicles and provide...
    February 27, 2013 22:55
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    Car bomb kills 53 people and injures 200 on busy road close to Russian embassy in Damascus
    A car bomb killed 53 people and wounded 200 in central Damascus on Thursday when it blew up on a busy highway close to ruling Baath Party offices and the Russian Embassy, Syrian television said. TV footage showed charred and bloodied bodies strewn across the street after the blast, which state media said was the result of a suicide bombing by ‘terrorists’ battling...
    February 22, 2013 9:39
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    Assad’s forces try to beat back rebels edging into Damascus
    President Bashar al-Assad’s forces fought back on Friday in an effort to retake sections of the Damascus ring road from rebels trying to tighten their noose around the capital, opposition activists said. Rebel fighters based in the eastern Ghouta region broke through defensive lines two days ago, capturing parts of the road and entering the neighborhood of Jobar,...
    February 8, 2013 22:34
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    Syrian opposition says it will meet U.S., Russia jointly
    A leading Syrian opposition source said the opposition would meet officials from the United States, Russia and the United Nations in Munich on Saturday to discuss a political transition for Syria. If confirmed it would be the first time that the United States and Russia, key players who have been at loggerheads over whether President Bashar al-Assad can have a role in...
    February 1, 2013 22:02
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    Israel hits Syria arms convoy to Lebanon: sources
    Israeli warplanes bombed a convoy near Syria’s border with Lebanon, sources told Reuters, apparently targeting weapons destined for Hezbollah in what some called a warning to Damascus not to arm Israel’s Lebanese enemy. Syrian state television accused Israel of bombing a military research center at Jamraya, between Damascus and the nearby border, but Syrian...
    January 31, 2013 20:10
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    The Lionesses of Syria: Assad recruits army of women as he starts to run out of men
    Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has recruited an army of women to guard checkpoints and carry out security checks in an attempt to plug the holes left by defections and casualties in his dwindling army. Up to 500 women have been drafted into the new paramilitary force known as the ‘Lionesses for National Defence.’ They form part of the recently formed 10,000-strong...
    January 23, 2013 21:45
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    UN says 650,000 have fled Syria, situation worsening
    More than 650,000 people have fled the conflict in Syria, a top United Nations official said on Wednesday, as Turkey’s foreign minister pledged Ankara would continue to accept refugees. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, UN aid chief Valerie Amos said the humanitarian situation in Syria was “already catastrophic and clearly getting worse”. “The...
    January 23, 2013 20:27
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    Assad “peace plan” greeted with scorn by foes
    Syrian President Bashar al-Assad rejected peace talks with his enemies on Sunday in a defiant speech that his opponents described as a renewed declaration of war. Although the speech was billed as the unveiling of a new peace plan, Assad offered no concessions and even appeared to harden many of his positions. He rallied Syrians for “a war to defend the nation”...
    January 7, 2013 16:52
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    Syrian refugees face harsh winter in desperate conditions
    Huddled inside thin plastic tents in a makeshift camp after fleeing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s bombs thousands of refugees say they face a new enemy. “The cold is killing us,” many of them say. Having survived a conflict in which more than 40,000 people are estimated to have been killed, refugees at the Bab al-Salameh camp on the Syrian-Turkish...
    December 25, 2012 20:08
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    Nephews of Syria vice president arrested: NGO
    Two nephews of Syrian Vice President Faruq al-Sharaa have been arrested along with five of their friends over their support for democratic change, a monitoring group said on Thursday. “University professor Zaydun Zohbi, 38, and his brother Suhaib, who are nephews of Faruq al-Sharaa, and five of their friends, activists in favour of peaceful change in Syria, were...
    December 20, 2012 16:38
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    Panetta Says Syria Chemical Threat Has Slowed
    The Syrian government seems to have slowed preparations for the possible use of chemical weapons against rebel targets, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Tuesday. Last week, U.S. officials said there was evidence that Syrian forces had begun preparing sarin, a nerve agent, for possible use in bombs. Speaking to reporters flying with him from Washington to Kuwait,...
    December 11, 2012 19:32
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    Syria says chemical scare pretext for intervention
    Western powers are whipping up fears of a fateful move to the use of chemical weapons in Syria’s civil war as a “pretext for intervention”, President Bashar al-Assad’s deputy foreign minister said on Thursday. He spoke as Germany’s cabinet approved stationing Patriot anti-missile batteries on Turkey’s border with Syria, a step requiring...
    December 6, 2012 20:21
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