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Syrian troops push further into Damascus suburbs
BEIRUT: Syria's troops crushed pockets of resistance on Damascus' outskirts Tuesday as they advanced into suburbs briefly held by rebel forces, just hours before key UN talks over a draft resolution demanding President Bashar Assad step (...)

31 - 01 - 2012
Explosion hits Syrian pipeline near restive city
BEIRUT (AP) — A major Syrian pipeline carrying oil to a refinery in restive Homs province was blown up Thursday in an attack the state-run news agency blamed on "saboteurs" as activists reported fresh violence from the government crackdown on a (...)

09 - 12 - 2011
Syria violence surges as UN calls for protection
BEIRUT (AP): The United Nations' human rights chief has called on the international community to protect Syrian civilians as violence surged across the country, with hours of intense shooting that sent stray bullets whizzing across the (...)

03 - 12 - 2011
Arab League: Syria misses observer deadline
BEIRUT (AP) — Syria missed an Arab League deadline Friday to allow hundreds of observers into the country, prompting the bloc to consider economic sanctions against Damascus for its eight-month crackdown on dissent, a senior diplomat said. The (...)

25 - 11 - 2011
Syrian army defectors raise stakes for uprising
BEIRUT — Attacks by army defectors are transforming the Syrian uprising into an armed insurgency that threatens to spiral into civil war. The Free Syrian Army holds no territory, appears largely disorganized and is up against a fiercely loyal and (...)

22 - 11 - 2011
Official: Syria agrees 'in principle' to observers
BEIRUT (AP) — Syria has agreed "in principle" to allow an observer mission into the country, a senior official in Damascus said Friday, as fresh anti-government protests erupted and France called for the U.N. Security Council to act against (...)

18 - 11 - 2011
Syria faces army defectors, worldwide isolation
BEIRUT — Syria's president faces a growing challenge to his iron rule from home and abroad, with renegade troops launching their most daring attack yet on the military and world leaders looking at possibilities for a regime without Bashar (...)

17 - 11 - 2011
Syrian tanks fire despite Arab League deal; 4 dead
BEIRUT: Syrian tanks mounted with machine-guns fired Thursday on a city at the heart of the country's uprising, killing at least four people one day after Damascus agreed to an Arab League plan calling on the government to pull the military out of (...)

03 - 11 - 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
Syrian forces advance on restive Hama
BEIRUT: Hundreds of residents of Hama burned tires, erected sand barriers and set up other makeshift roadblocks Tuesday to prevent the advance of Syrian tanks and soldiers ringing the city, which has become a flashpoint of the uprising against (...)

06 - 07 - 2011
More than 1,500 refugees flee Syria in one day
BEIRUT: More than 1,500 Syrian refugees streamed across the border to safe havens in Turkey in one day as Syria's 3-month-old pro-democracy movement braced for another day of mass protests Friday. The refugees crossed into Turkey on Thursday as (...)

24 - 06 - 2011
Syria activists: Troops enter village near border
GUVECCI, Turkey: Syrian activists said Thursday that troops backed by tanks and snipers have entered a village along the Turkish border as the regime expands its crackdown on a pro-democracy movement that has posed the gravest challenge to President (...)

23 - 06 - 2011
7 killed in Syria as protests turn violent
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad's effort to drown out pro-democracy protests exploded into clashes between government supporters and opponents, and security forces opened fire and killed seven people, including a teenager, activists (...)

22 - 06 - 2011
Syria president vows reform, critics shout 'Liar!'
BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's president promised a national dialogue Monday to consider political reforms, but his vague overtures to a pro-democracy uprising fell flat as protesters took to the streets shouting "Liar!" and demanding his ouster. In only (...)

21 - 06 - 2011
Analysis: Syria falls back on fear to quell revolt
BEIRUT: Falling back on the tactics that have kept his family in power for more than 40 years, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is gambling that fear - not reform - will break the popular revolt against his autocratic rule. Assad's initial (...)

28 - 04 - 2011
Arab world says hopes in Obama are dwindling
BEIRUT: Arabs across the Middle East are unconvinced the United States will stand up to Israel despite Washington s rare public outrage over plans to build new Jewish homes in a traditionally Arab part of Jerusalem. The skepticism is eroding Arab (...)

18 - 03 - 2010
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