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Articles of the author Bassem Mroue Associated Press
Syrian troops clash with rebels in eastern city
BEIRUT: Syrian troops clashed with army defectors in an eastern city Thursday, leaving at least one person dead, while government forces bombarded rebel-held neighborhoods of the central city of Homs, activists said. The renewed violence comes as (...)

19 - 04 - 2012
Syria rejects new Arab League plan to end crisis
BEIRUT: Syria rejected Monday a new Arab League plan aiming to end the country's 10-month crisis by calling on the government and the opposition to form a national unity government within two months. The Syrian statement carried by the state-run (...)

23 - 01 - 2012
Syria signs Arab League deal to allow observers in
BEIRUT: Syria signed an Arab League initiative Monday that will allow Arab observers into the country, Syria's foreign minister said, as part of an effort to end the nation's increasingly bloody nine-month-old crisis. Up to now Damascus balked at (...)

19 - 12 - 2011
25 die in Syria, as defectors battle regime forces
BEIRUT: Violence sweeping across Syria has killed 25 people, most of them in a battle between troops and a growing force of army defectors who have joined the movement to oust the autocratic president, activists say. The Arab League, meanwhile, has (...)

04 - 12 - 2011
Syrian soldiers killed in clash with defectors
BEIRUT (AP) — Dozens of soldiers and security forces were gunned down by suspected army defectors in southern Syria, a deadly ambush that comes as President Bashar Assad increasingly appears unable to manage the crisis, activists said (...)

16 - 11 - 2011
Blast at south Lebanon hotel popular with UN staff
BEIRUT — A senior Lebanese security official says a bomb has exploded at a hotel frequented by U.N. staffers in the country's south, causing damage but not casualties. The official says the blast went off in the pub of the Queen Elissa Hotel in (...)

16 - 11 - 2011
Clashes between Syrian troops, defectors kills 13
BEIRUT — Syrian troops clashed Thursday with armed men believed to be military defectors in a southern village and a northwestern town, killing at least 13 people in the latest sign that the 7-month-old uprising against President Bashar Assad is (...)

13 - 10 - 2011
Activists say Syrian soldiers kill 17 protesters
BEIRUT — Syrian troops killed at least 17 people Friday in raids on anti-government protesters, activists said, but failed to stop thousands from pouring into streets nationwide and taking their uprising against President Bashar Assad's autocratic (...)

16 - 09 - 2011
Syrian troops enter border town, hundreds detained
BEIRUT: Syrian troops backed by tanks stormed a town Sunday near the border with Lebanon as security forces rounded up more than 500 people, including a leading opposition figure, across the country over the past two days, activists (...)

17 - 07 - 2011
Bolstered by support, Syrians pour into streets
BEIRUT (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Syrians poured into the streets of the opposition stronghold Hama, bolstered by a gesture of support from the American and French ambassadors who visited the city where a massacre nearly 30 years ago came to (...)

09 - 07 - 2011
Amnesty: Syrian crackdown on town 'disturbing'
BEIRUT (AP) — The rights group Amnesty International said Wednesday that Syrian security forces may have committed crimes against humanity during a deadly siege of an opposition town in May, citing witness accounts of deaths in custody, torture and (...)

06 - 07 - 2011
Images of dead children fan Syria's protests
BEIRUT (AP) — The images grow no less shocking with time — a gaping wound on a tiny skull, the hair matted with blood; a gunshot that pierced the skin of a small torso and went straight toward the kidney; and finally, the broken neck and severed (...)

02 - 06 - 2011
Syrian troops bomb central town
BEIRUT: Syrian troops bombarded a town in the central province of Homs with artillery Monday, causing several causalities a day after nine people were killed in a continuing crackdown in the country's turbulent heartland, activists said. The (...)

30 - 05 - 2011
Revolt batters Syria's already-struggling economy
BEIRUT (AP): The uprising against Syrian President Bashar Assad is eviscerating the country's economy, threatening to hit hard at the business community and prosperous merchant classes, which the embattled regime relies on to help retain its grip on (...)

26 - 05 - 2011
Syrian authorities detain hundreds in fresh raids
BEIRUT (AP): Syrian security forces arrested hundreds of activists and anti-government protesters in house-to-house raids across the country Monday, part of an escalating government crackdown aimed at stamping out the nationwide revolt engulfing the (...)

09 - 05 - 2011
Thousands demonstrate in Syria against regime
BEIRUT: Thousands of people joined protests Friday in Syria calling for an end to President Bashar Assad's regime, witnesses and activists said. An activist in Damascus, the Syrian capital, said hundreds of people marched in the central (...)

06 - 05 - 2011
49 killed in deadliest day of Syria uprising
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian security forces fired bullets and tear gas Friday on pro-democracy demonstrations across the country, killing at least 49 people — including a young boy — in the bloodiest day of the uprising against President Bashar Assad's (...)

22 - 04 - 2011
Witness says 13 protesters killed in Syria
BEIRUT: Syrian security forces opened fire Friday on thousands of protesters in the southern city of Daraa, killing at least 13 people and wounding dozens, witnesses said. One witness said he helped ferry the dead and wounded to the city's (...)

08 - 04 - 2011
Qaddafi militia open fire on Libya protesters
BENGHAZI: Militias loyal to Moammar Qaddafi opened fire Friday on protesters streaming out of mosques and marching across the Libyan capital to demand the regime's ouster, witnesses said, reporting at least four killed. In rebellious cities in (...)

26 - 02 - 2011
Former top Mubarak regime officials in court
CAIRO: An angry crowd of hundreds taunted three former high-ranking members of ousted President Hosni Mubarak's regime as they arrived in court for a corruption hearing, screaming "thieves" and "you robbed our money." Egyptian authorities also (...)

24 - 02 - 2011
Hezbollah condemns summoning of Lebanese general
BEIRUT: Hezbollah demanded Friday that Lebanese authorities withdraw a state summons for a former army general who called Prime Minister Saad Hariri a liar and urged people to topple his government. Former General Security chief Maj. Gen. Jamil (...)

17 - 09 - 2010
8 suspects questioned in Lebanon mob killing
BEIRUT: Lebanese judicial officials say prosecutors are questioning eight men suspected of taking part in last month's lynching of a murder suspect. Egyptian national Mohammed Muslim was stabbed to death April 29 by an angry mob in the Chouf (...)

14 - 05 - 2010
Hezbollah leader threatens Tel Aviv strike
BEIRUT: Hezbollah s leader was quoted by two Lebanese newspapers Monday as warning that his fighters will strike Israel s largest city of Tel Aviv with missiles from Lebanon - if the Jewish state attacked the guerrillas south Beirut stronghold in a (...)

27 - 07 - 2009
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