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SYRIA News, Mar 04, 2012

Some aid reaches Syria's Homs, refugees flee to border
Reuters
By Oliver Holmes and Mohammed Abbas | BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Red Cross delivered emergency aid to areas around the battered Baba Amro district of theSyrian city of Homs on Sunday, but was blocked for a third day from entering the former rebel bastion ...
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Saudi: Syrians have right to defend themselves
The Associated Press
BEIRUT (AP) — Saudi Arabia said Sunday that Syrians have a right to take up arms to defend themselves against the regime and accused the Damascus government of "imposing itself by force," as concerns mounted over a humanitarian crisis there.
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The Associated Press
Rockets fall on Syrian city of Rastan, opposition activists say
CNN
(CNN) -- Relentless Syrian forces took aim at the city of Rastan on Sunday, hitting it with 15 rockets in as many minutes, opposition activists said. The government attack killed three people and injured dozens -- mostly children, according to Rastan ...
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Aid Delivered to Displaced Syrians Near Baba Amr
Voice of America
March 04, 2012 Aid Delivered to Displaced Syrians Near Baba Amr VOA News The International Committee of the Red Cross says aid workers in Syria have begun delivering relief supplies to a village sheltering refugees from a month-long government assault ...
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Senior US senator calls for arming Syria rebels
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior Republican US senator on Sunday called for arming Syria's rebels through the Arab League and suggested the imposition of "no drive" and "no fly" zones against Syrian military forces targeting the opposition.
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Red Cross hopes to enter Baba Amro as Syria boils
Reuters
ICRC says has permission, but still can't enter Baba Amro * Shelling of border town forces flight to Lebanon * Protests for and against Syria's Assad held in Beirut * China calls for talks, opposes foreign interference (Releads with aid delivered, ...
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China calls for Syria calm; ICRC still denied access
Jerusalem Post
By REUTERS/SANA/Handout China urged the Syrian government and rebels trying to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad to end all acts of violence, especially against civilians. It also urged the government and rebels to "launch an inclusive political ...
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Baird slams Syria for blocking aid to Homs
CTV.ca
Canada has condemned Syria for refusing to allow aid into Homs, the embattled city facing a humanitarian crisis after weeks of bombardment by security forces. "Assad and his regime are blocking humanitarian aid from getting to the Syrians who need it...
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CTV.ca
Syria army shells rebels, Red Cross aids refugees
AFP
DAMASCUS — Syrian artillery gunners pounded the mainly rebel-held city of Rastan on Sunday, monitors said, as the Red Cross began delivering aid to refugees from the battered Baba Amr district of nearby Homs. The aid distribution came as relief ...
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AFP
Bearing Witness in Syria: A Correspondent's Last Days
New York Times
It was damp and cold as Anthony Shadid and I crossed in darkness over the barbed-wire fence that separated Turkey fromSyria last month. We were also crossing from peace into war, into the bloodiest conflict of the Arab Spring, exploding just up the ...
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New York Times
Red Cross hopes to enter Homs as Syria boils
Reuters
"We have the green light, we hope to enter, we hope today is the day," said the International Committee of the Red Cross's Damascus-based spokesman Saleh Dabbakeh, declining to give further details about what he said were sensitive talks with Syrian ...
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Seven die as Syria shells town near Homs
Financial Times
By Abigail Fielding-Smith in Beirut Syrian forces shelled the central town of Rastan on Sunday, activists said, as China joined the growing chorus of concern about the plight of civilians in the country. Rami Abdulrahman, from the UK-based Syrian Human ...
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Financial Times
Red Cross handing out aid in Syria's Homs
Albany Times Union
BEN HUBBARD, AP Men hold revolutionary Syrian flags during an anti government protest in a town in north Syria, Friday, March 2, 2012. Syria has faced mounting international criticism over its bloody crackdown on the uprising, which started with ...
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Syrian forces shell rebels, Red Cross kept waiting
The Daily Star
DAMASCUS: Syrian forces pounded the city of Rastan with shells on Sunday after routing rebel fighters from nearby Homs, monitors said, as the Red Cross awaited the go-ahead to evacuate wounded from the battered region. The assault on mainly rebel-held ...
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The Daily Star
Canada blasts Syria's blocking of Red Cross aid
CBC.ca
Canada's foreign affairs minister has condemned what he calls the "depravity" of the continuing offensive by security forces in Syriaand moves to prevent the Red Cross from reaching the dead and injured in the central city of Homs.
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CBC.ca
Syrian rebels withdraw from enclave after siege
Houston Chronicle
ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY, AP, ZEINA KARAM, Associated Press Free SyrianArmy supporters chant anti government slogans under snowfall on the outskirts of Idlib , north Syria, Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012. Photo: Rodrigo Abd / AP Ahmed, a Free Syrian Army ...
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Fresh assault on Homs, Syria, as Red Cross seeks access
Jamestown Sun
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian forces launched a fresh assault on Homs as the Red Cross pressed forward with efforts to deliver badly needed aid to thousands of people stranded in a besieged neighborhood despite warnings from regime troops of land mines and ...
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Syrian rebel city shelled, Red Cross aids refugees
Africasia
Syrian artillery gunners turned their sights on the rebel city of Rastan, killing seven civilians, monitors said, as the Red Cross delivered aid Sunday to refugees from the battered Baba Amr quarter nearby. The aid distribution came as relief agencies ...
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Africasia
Red Cross pushing to enter war-torn area in Syria
Springfield News-Leader
Members of the news media gather around the coffin of photojournalist Remi Ochlik at Assad hospital in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, March 3, 2012. SyrianRed Crescent officials handed over to embassy officials Saturday the bodies of two foreign ...
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Red Cross Appeals Syrian Authorities to Enter Rebel Stronghold
Voice of America (blog)
The International Committee of the Red Cross is appealing to Syrianauthorities to let the humanitarian organization deliver badly needed food and other aid to thousands of people stranded in the rebel stronghold of Homs. Activists say the humanitarian ...
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Red Cross delivers aid to fleeing Syrians in Homs
Newsday
Nation Newsday > News > Nation Red Cross delivers aid to fleeingSyrians in Homs Originally published: March 4, 2012 12:49 AM Updated: March 4, 2012 12:44 PM By The Associated Press BEN HUBBARD (Associated Press) BEIRUT - (AP) -- Red Cross teams handed ...
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Newsday
Aid blocked; more Syrians flee to Turkey
Philadelphia Inquirer
By Kareem Fahim and Hwaida Saad ZACHARIE SCHEURER / AP Journalist Edith Bouvier is put into an ambulance after she and William Daniels, who'd been trapped in Syria, reached France. ANTAKYA, Turkey - As the Syriangovernment continued to block an aid ...
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Syrian Expatriates Organization Demands Immediate Access of Red Cross in the ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Syrian Expatriates organization is deeply concerned about the safety of Baba Amer residents, after reports that, Assad regime forces blocked the access of Red Cross into this devastated area. Homs, Syria (PRWEB) March 04, 2012Syrian Expatriates ...
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Syrian forces shell rebels, Red Cross kept waiting | Bangkok Post: news
Bangkok Post
Syrian forces pounded the city of Rastan with shells on Sunday after routing rebel fighters from nearby Homs, monitors said, as the Red Cross awaited the go-ahead to evacuate wounded from the battered region. A file picture from YouTube said to show a ...
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Syrian forces bomb rebels as Red Cross seeks access
Worcester Telegram
Children attend the funeral of three Free Syrian Army fighters in a park converted to a cemetery Saturday in Idlib, Syria. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) By Zeina Karam THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — Syrian forces renewed their bombardment Saturday of ...
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Syria from afar | Syria News Wire
By Sasa
Two real must-reads from two very dear friends who care a lot about Syria. And I don't say 'must read' lightly. You need these two pieces in your.
Syria News Wire
World News - UN: 2000 refugees flee Syria for Lebanon amid shelling
By NBC News Correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin in Lebanon, msnbc.com staff and news services
Up to 2000 refugees fleeing violence in Syria are crossing the border into northern Lebanon, a spokesman for the United Nations refugee agency told Reuters on Sunday. "Between one and two thousand (Syrians) are in the process of coming ...
Newsvine - World News - Articles
Syria: Red Cross distributes aid, Baba Amr not reached — RT
By RT
Red Cross teams have begun handing out humanitarian aid near Syria's war-ravaged city of Homs. The relief mission remains blocked from bringing supplies into the city's devastated Baba Amr district.
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Opposition Claims 44 Syrian Soldiers Executed for Trying to Defect ...
By John Glaser
On the other side, the Syrian state-run news channel quoted a resident of the besieged town of Baba Amr saying foreign “terrorists” were fighting in the area. ”There were Saudis, Qataris, Emiratis, Libyans and others. There were all kinds of ...
News From Antiwar.com
Syrian forces pound Homs, block aid convoy - Stabroek News ...
By Stabroek staff
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian forces renewed their bombardment of parts of the shattered city of Homs yesterday and for a second day blocked Red Cross aid meant for.
Stabroek News
Saudis equip terrorist gangs within Syria | Latest world news ...
By newscitybuzz
Saudi Arabia seems to have apparently supplied the actual rebels within Syriawith a large number of weaponry as well as military services equipment.
Latest world news headlines, Current ...
Video: Inside Syria – Can Syria's opposition unite? — War in Context
By News Sources
Video: Inside Syria – Can Syria's opposition unite? by News Sources on March 4, 2012 ... News and analysis with comments and commentary by Paul Woodward. This site depends on reader support. If you value the information you find here, ...
War in Context
XE.com - WRAPUP 5-Some aid reaches Syria's Homs, refugees flee ...
The Red Cross delivered emergency aid to areas around the battered Baba Amro district of the Syrian city of Homs on Sunday, but was blocked for a third day from entering the former rebel bastion amid reports of bloody reprisals by state ...
XE Forex News
Israel may be willing to give Syria aid | Ya Libnan | World News Live ...
By syh
Israel is willing to provide humanitarian assistance to Syria if asked, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said. Speaking to Army Radio and Israel Radio during the weekend, Lieberman described the situation in Syria as intolerable and ...
Ya Libnan
Up to 2000 Syrians crossing into Lebanon fleeing violence in Syria ...
Up to 2000 Syrians crossing into Lebanon fleeing violence in Syria, UN refugee agency official says - @Reuters.
Breaking news - www.breakingnews.com
Turkey steps up rhetoric on Syrian 'massacre' | World news | The ...
Rescued journalist tells of being abandoned in tunnel as China urges government and rebel to end all acts of violence.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/.../turkey-syrian-massac...
Syria: The war machine devours its propagandists - SyriaNews
Again, two embedded journalists were allegedly killed in Syria, another two from the West. Remi Ochlik, a photographer, and Marie Colvin..
www.syrianews.cc/syria-the-war-machine-devours-its-propaga...
Germany: EU to strengthen sanctions against Syria | EurActiv
Germany and other Western powers have repeatedly called on Assad to step down to put an end to protests against his government, which have triggered a...
www.euractiv.com/.../germany-eu-strengthen-sanctions-syria-...
Ex-Syrian news anchor slams state 'propaganda' - SYRIA - FRANCE ...
Once the face of Bashar al-Assad's evening news bulletin, Hani al-Malathi publicly resigned from Syrian state TV last week over what he calls “state- orchestrated ...
www.france24.com/.../20120220-former-syrian-news-anchor-...
Javier Espinosa escaped Syria, but Syrian news outlet reported his ...
The Syrian Arab News Agency falsely claimed Thursday that the Spanish photographer's body had been found. By then Espinosa was in Beirut.
www.washingtonpost.com/.../gIQA8YsfmR_blog.html
SYRIA NEWS UPDATES, MARCH 2, 2012 « Libya 360°
The Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said what is taking place on the ground in Syria contradicts the news broadcast selectively by internationalnews ...
libya360.wordpress.com/.../syria-news-updates-march-2-2012/
Videos show CNN, Al Jazeera Faking Syria 'News' | MyFDL
Angry Arab, opposed to both the Salafist-and-U.S.-backed rebels and the sleazy Syrian government, is essential reading these days, if and only if you want a ...
my.firedoglake.com/.../videos-show-cnn-al-jazeera-faking-syri...
Syria News 27-2-2012 Terrorists ...
Syria News 27/2/2012- The Devils That Think They Are Muslim Shaiqs.by thesyrianfighter90 views; IRAN WAR IS THE BEGINNING OF FULL SCALE NUCLEAR ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPNgMfQl6qs
War News Updates: Civil War In Syria -- News Updates February 27 ...
Syria Says Voters Back New Constitution, Fresh Violence Kills 10 -- Voice of America Syria approves new constitution amid bloodshed -- Yahoo News/ Reuters ...
warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/.../civil-war-in-syria-news-upda...
Syria News - February 28, 2012 (Warning: Graphic Videos) :: www ...
Euphrates University: A number of female students defected from the National Union of Syrian Students and joined the Union of Free Syrian Students in protest ...
www.uruknet.info/?p=m86118&hd=&size=1&l=e
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