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Turkey Is Sheltering Antigovernment Syrian Militia
New York Times
By LIAM STACK ANTAKYA, Turkey — Once one of Syria's closest allies, Turkey is hosting an armed opposition group waging an insurgency against the government of President Bashar al-Assad, providing shelter to the commander and dozens of members of the ...
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China opposes foreign interference in Syria: state media
The Daily Star
Syria has been shaken since mid-March by an unprecedented protest movement against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. More than 3000 people have been killed by the regime's crackdown on the protests, according to the United Nations. ...
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Amnesty slams 'repression' at Syrian hospitals
FRANCE 24
By Kyle G. Brown (video) Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime has turned hospitals and medical staff into “instruments of repression”, a report released by Amnesty International revealed this week. The London-based human rights group accused ...
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Nasrallah, Assad reportedly hold STL talks
NOW LEBANON
Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus to discuss the issue of funding the UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), Al-Akhbar newspaper reported. According to the daily's Thursday ...
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Marc Lynch: What the Libya intervention achieved
Foreign Policy (blog)
But the truth is, there has never been an appetite at the UN -- or in Washington -- for a military intervention in Syria, regardless of the Libyan example. The outrage over Bashar al-Asad's violent onslaught against his opponents is real, and a growing ...
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Foreign Policy (blog)
Dib: No similarities between Qaddafi, Assad leaderships
NOW LEBANON
According to UN estimates, more than 3000 people have been killed in the crackdown on Syrian protesters who have been demonstrating against the Baath regime since mid-March. In a show of support for the embattled president, a huge crowd of Assad ...
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The Two-Way : NPR
NPR
Tens of thousands of people rally in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Wednesday. A delegation from the Arab League met with President Bashar Assad, today. The visit is supposed to facilitate the ceasefire demanded by the Arab ...
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A view from Israel: Mission not accomplished
Jerusalem Post
More recently, and more disturbingly, John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, believed Syrian President Bashar Assad to be “reformist.” Back in 2003, one objective behind US interference in Iraq, known as Operation Iraqi ...
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Arab Spring activists win prestigious Europe right prize
Al-Arabiya
While the people of Egypt, Libya and Tunisia succeeded in ousting longtime despots, the uprising of Syrian dissidents is still being brutally repressed by the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Zeitouneh, a 34-year-old lawyer leading the groups ...
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Al-Arabiya
Sen. Durbin urges administration to increase pressure on Syria
The Hill (blog)
By Josiah Ryan - 10/27/11 11:51 AM ET Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) wrote a letter urging the Obama administration to ratchet-up pressure against theSyrian regime, which according to the UN has been responsible for the deaths ...
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Sen. Durbin Takes Strong Stand Against Syria
Examiner.com
J.) Durbin states: “We write to express our deepening concern for the situation in Syriawhere government led violence against peaceful protesters continues to escalate. TheUnited Nations now estimates that more than 3000 Syrians, including almost 200 ...
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Wikileaks: UN Hunger Expert's "Profoundly Immoral" Actions
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Mr. de Schutter, who has expressed admiration for Ziegler, this year praised Syria's Assad regime in a major report, often attacks the West and Israel, and has refused to explain why he is planning a country visit next May to food-secure Canada, ...
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Mansour: Syrian envoy has not interfered in Lebanese affairs
NOW LEBANON
He added that the Arab League team's meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assadon Wednesday “shows positive steps [taken] to resolve the situation in Syria.” AFP reported that the Arab League team held “frank” talks with Assad in a bid to mediate ...
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Lavrov Stresses Importance of Reforms in Syria to Emerge from the Crisis
Syrian Arab News Agency
Lavrov expressed relief over the positive and cordial atmosphere during the meeting of President Bashar al-Assad with the Arab Ministerial Committee. For his part, Dr. Mikdad reviewed the situation in Syria due to the Western campaign and the ...
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Syrian Arab News Agency
Davutoğlu says Turkey responsible for defending Syrians, Palestinians
Today's Zaman
Recognition of Palestine as a sovereign state in the UN will lead the way to peace, the Turkish foreign minister said, as a Security Council vote approaches to decide on the Palestinian bid for membership in the UN. Turkey emerged as a strong supporter ...
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Council in brief
European Voice
The Council said it was “concerned” by communal clashes in Egypt earlier this month, and called on President Bashar Assad of Syria to step down. They said that additional sanctions would be imposed against the Syrian regime if it continues its “brutal ...
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Grab this Opportunity
Iranian
The pillars of the Syrian regime, Iran's staunch ally and regional partner, are tumbling in a popular uprising that has engulfed the country. To the detriment of Iran's allies Hamas and Hezbollah, Assad's eventual demise will undermine Tehran's ...
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Israel And Hamas: A New Equation For Mid-East Peace? – Analysis
Eurasia Review
Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is battling for his survival with no sign of the eight months of mass anti-government protests subsiding despite a brutal crackdown. Jordan's King Abdullah has so far been able to contain demands for political reform ...
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Wall St. Protesters Push "Robin Hood" Tax
The New American
According to the manifesto: Undemocratic international institutions are our global Mubarak, our global Assad, our global Gaddafi. Like Mubarak and Assad, these institutions must not be allowed to run people's lives without their consent. ...
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End of an era: Who, what and where next?
Sierra Express Media
In neighbouring Syria, President Assad signed an entente cordial with one of the prominent anti-government protesters. He celebrated by raiding the dying in hospitals, to inflict further torture on its people. Unlike Libya which had the backing of NATO ...
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Moammar Gadhafi martyr without a cause
The Star Democrat
In Syria on Thursday, demonstrators again took to the streets to warn President Bashar al-Assad that his turn was coming. The United Nations estimates that 2700 demonstrators have been killed since this spring. But civil war in this deeply sectarian...
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Around the world
LubbockOnline.com
BEIRUT — Arab officials held a “frank and friendly” meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad on Wednesday, the head of the delegation said at the beginning of a regional effort to resolve a bloody 7-month revolt, the most serious challenge yet to ...
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Targeting Iran, Again and Again and Again . . .
Fellowship of Reconciliation (blog)
Given that Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Syria were all secular states to begin with, this remark is hard to fathom. Just yesterday, the NTC in Libya declared that it would be governed by Sharia Law henceforth. General Keane goes on to say that Iran was ...
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The pragmatic warlord
Pasadena Weekly
Surely Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad must be wondering at this point just who they're up against and what this American president is actually capable of doing. A few weeks back, Iran's Supreme Leader ...
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Hout: National defense strategy must include factions
NOW LEBANON
With respect to the Syrian situation, Hout said that the consultations taking place between the Arab League delegation and the Syrian regime are a “waste of time”.Assad on Wednesday received a delegation of Arab League ministers led by Qatar, ...
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Tension mounts at Lebanon-Syria border
Pakistan Observer
Residents of Qaa, who for decades have maintained warm ties with their Syrianneighbours, say the once-friendly border soldiers who cross over daily for morning coffee are increasingly on edge as the seven-months revolt against Bashar al-Assad's regime...
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Abu Faour: High Relief Committee responsible for Syrian refugees
NOW LEBANON
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's troops are engaged in a deadly crackdown on protests against almost five decades of Baath Party rule which broke out mid-March, killing over 3000 people according to the UN Human Rights Committee, and triggering a...
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POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Thursday, October 27, 2011
CNN (blog)
The latest violence occurred as opposition leaders called for a nationwide general strike, and embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad huddled in Damascus with other regional leaders at an Arab League Ministers meeting. ...
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Faculty weigh in on Colonel Qaddafi's death
The Stanford Daily
This message however is not necessarily complementary to the demands of protestors against Bashar al-Assad in Syria and Ali Abdallah Saleh in Yemen. The manner of Qaddafi's death may create obstacles in talks for negotiated exits for other Arab tyrants...
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<i>VIEWPOINT: </i>Getting Qadhafi
Business Recorder (blog)
Ever since the uprising began in Syria last March, the US and its allies have been condemning Assad regime's excessive use of force that has left more than 2000 people dead, but there is no chance of a Libya-like campaign there. ...
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Bezjian: Madam Lucy's Green Peas
Armenian Weekly
Guests included the likes of DH Lawrence and Agatha Christie, with countless imaginary crimes in her mind, Iren Papas and Pier Paulo Pasolini, converting Medea into a film, and Hafez al Assad, partaking in a coup d'état. And the list goes on. ...
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Armenian Weekly
Syrian customs seizes smuggled weapons in unrest-strewn Homs: report
Shanghai Daily (subscription)
In the meantime, the state-run Syrian TV broadcasted footage of a missive rally held in the coastal city of Latakia in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The massive rally came just one day after another pro- government demonstration was held...
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Africa: Ambassador Godard At Un On Protection of Human Rights
AllAfrica.com
Syria has responded with violence to its citizens' efforts to peacefully assemble and protest for their universal rights. The Asad regime has now reportedly killed more than 3000 civilians and has arrested and detained roughly 30000 individuals since ...
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Gaddafi's death emboldens anti-Assad protesters in Syria - TODAY ...
Today · News. Latest show; Most popular; Our faves. Loading. .... The United Nationssays Assad's crackdown has killed 3000 people, including 187 children. ...
today.msnbc.msn.com/.../gaddafis-death-emboldens-anti-assad...
Syrian protesters vow to bring down Assad regime
protesters in the central city of Hama, a hotbed of resistance to the Assad regime, shouted. ... Syria is heading for full-blown civil war, top UN official warns ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../syrian-protesters-vow-end-assad-regi...
Stop the killings, UN chief tells Syria's Assad - Yahoo! News
Read 'Stop the killings, UN chief tells Syria's Assad' on Yahoo! News. UN chief Ban Ki-moon Monday urged President Bashar al-Assad to immediately stop the ...
news.yahoo.com/un-chief-tells-assad-killings-must-stop-syria-...
U.N.: Syria death toll tops 3000 – USATODAY.com - USA Today
BEIRUT (AP) – Thousands of Syrian protesters called on soldiers Friday to abandon President Bashar Assad's regime and join a dissident army numbering in ...
www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2011-10-14/syria.../1
Syria is heading for full-blown civil war, top UN official warns | World ...
The Guardian home. The Guardian, UK and World news, User comments, Web ....Syria continues crackdown despite Assad's assurances to UN. 17 Mar 2004 ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../syria-protesters-defections-security-for...

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