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2012/05/17 10:19

Syrian opposition faces fractures, infighting

5 minutes ago ON KLFY Lafayette

BEIRUT (AP) - A key activist group threatened Thursday to withdraw from Syria's main opposition umbrella grouping, saying the council has drifted away from the spirit of the Syrian revolution. A...

2012/05/17 10:19

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2012/05/17 09:43

Syrian Christians live in uneasy relationship with Bashar Assad

41 minutes ago ON Ekklesia

Hani Sarhan is a Christian who says none of his relatives works with Bashar Assad's regime or has anything to do with it - write Stephen Starr and S. Akminas. "But what we heard from (the protesters)...

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2012/05/17 07:27

North Lebanon fighting kills 1; ninth in five days

2 hours ago ON Swissinfo

North Lebanon fighting kills 1; ninth in five days TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - A civilian died in fighting in Lebanon's port city of Tripoli on Wednesday night, security sources said, bringing the...

2012/05/16 19:30

Syria's television confessions fail to convince many

14 hours ago ON Reuters

Syria's television confessions fail to convince many BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's state media is fighting hard to cast the country's unrest as an Islamist terrorist conspiracy rather than a popular...

2012/05/16 01:29

Syria’s sectarian splits creep into Lebanon

yesterday ON Washington Post

Inspired, they say, by the largely Sunni uprising in Syria, the group has refused to leave the square, even after clashes with security forces last week ignited days of fighting between Sunnis and...

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2012/05/15 23:47

Syria attack kills 21; rebels say protect U.N. monitors

yesterday ON Yahoo!Xtra News

BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least 21 people were killed on Tuesday in an attack in northern Syria, activists said, and members of a team of U.N. monitors caught in the incident said they were in rebel hands...

2012/05/14 18:27

Syria fighting kills 32, Saudis say peace plan unravelling

2 days ago ON Swissinfo

Syria fighting kills 32, Saudis say peace plan unravelling AMMAN (Reuters) - Fighting in Syria killed at least 32 people on Monday, activists said, and Saudi Arabia said stubborn violence was...

2012/05/14 12:57

Syrians raid village, violence bleeds into Lebanon border

2 days ago ON Business Mirror

BEIRUT—Syrian forces have killed at least five people when they raided a Sunni farming village, torching homes and looting shops in what activists said is a sign of worsening relations among the...

2012/05/14 10:35

Syria facing new sanctions

2 days ago ON iol.co.za

A Sunni gunman holds his machine gun as he stands at Syria Street which divides the Sunni and Alawite areas, in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon. European Union foreign ministers agreed to...

2012/05/13 17:38

Muslim Brotherhood in Syria resurrects itself amid revolt in country | newKerala.com, 20382

3 days ago ON New Kerala

Damascus, May 13 : The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria has resurrected itself and become the dominant group amid 14-months of uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. The exiled Muslim Brotherhood...

2012/05/12 17:11

Iran wins release of Turkish journalists in Syria

4 days ago ON Yahoo! Singapore News

ANKARA (Reuters) - Two Turkish journalists who went missing while reporting on the uprising in Syria two months ago were released on Saturday with Iran's help, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu...

2012/05/12 09:12

Militant video claims deadly Syria bombings

5 days ago ON The Evening Sun

Advertisementand the more than 100 U.N. observers in Syria can pressure the government and the opposition to stick the plan, they have no means of influencing shadowy Islamic militants. Friday's video...

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2012/05/10 22:39

Damascus blasts push Syria ever closer to war ‹ Japan Today

6 days ago ON Japan Today

The recent escalation of violence in Syria, including twin bombings on Thursday that killed scores, has pushed the country closer to war and could spell an end to a U.N. ceasefire mission, experts...

2012/05/10 19:45

Charles Krauthammer: Syria policy could balance human rights, strategic advantage

6 days ago ON Rockford Register Star and BusinessRockford.com

WASHINGTON — Imperial regimes can crack when they are driven out of their major foreign outposts. The fall of the Berlin Wall did not just signal the liberation of Eastern Europe from Moscow. It...

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2012/05/10 16:20

A shameful impasse on Syria

6 days ago ON Washington Post

This strategy will allow Mr. Assad to go on killing indefinitely. Mr. Annan, after all, describes his plan as the only alternative to a Syrian civil war, so he is unlikely to abandon it anytime soon....

2012/05/07 15:04

Neighbours turn into enemies in Syria

9 days ago ON News 24 South Africa

Syrian supporters of President Bashar al-Assad chant pro-government slogans as they wait to cast their vote in the parliamentary elections at a polling station. (Louai Beshara, AFP) Azzara - The...

2012/05/07 07:56

Syria holds parliament vote; opposition boycotts

10 days ago ON The Wilmington Star-News

The opposition has dismissed Monday's vote as a sham that seeks to prolong Assad's rule. It's unlikely to affect the course of Syria's popular uprising, which the U.N. says has killed more than 9,000...

2012/05/07 04:08

Syria holds elections as violence rages on

10 days ago ON Yahoo! Singapore News

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syria holds a parliamentary election on Monday which authorities tout as a milestone of political reform after a 14-month popular uprising against President Bashar...

2012/05/06 20:34

Parliamentary vote in Syria can't cover up country's violent divisions

10 days ago ON Miami Herald

ZABADANI, Syria -- Nationwide parliamentary elections are scheduled for Monday in Syria, but in this city not far from the border with Lebanon, the only posters on the walls bear the faces of the...

2012/05/06 11:08

FEATURE - Syria's Muslim Brotherhood rise from the ashes

10 days ago ON Yahoo! Singapore News

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - At a meeting of Syria's opposition, Muslim Brotherhood officials gather round Marxists colleagues, nudging them to produce policy statements for the Syrian National Council, the...

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