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SYRIA News, Apr 22, 2012

In this Saturday, April 21, 2012 photo, Syrians carry the bodies of an infant, Adam al Najjar, and Free Syrian Army fighter, Mowaffaq al Nablsi, 42, during their funeral in Douma, a suburb of Damascus, Syria.
Syrian Troops Reportedly Attack Damascus Suburb
Voice of America
April 22, 2012 Syrian Troops Reportedly Attack Damascus Suburb VOA NewsSyrian activists say government soldiers backed by tanks have killed three people near Damascus, even as international envoy Kofi Annan called the UN Security Council's decision to ...
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Violence persists in Syria as Annan urges truce compliance
Reuters
By Dominic Evans | BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian soldiers stormed a town east of Damascus on Sunday and rebels bombed a military convoy in the north of the country as international mediator Kofi Annan urged both sides to work with an expanded team of UN ...
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Syrian troops storm Damascus suburb, activists report
Fox News
April 20, 2012: Syrians wave Islamic and revolutionary flags at a large protest in Douma, a suburb of Damascus, Syria.AP BEIRUT – Syrian troops stormed and shelled districts in a suburb of the capital Damascus Sunday, activists said, a day after the ...
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UN observers tour rebel-held town in Syria
The Associated Press
By ZEINA KARAM, AP – 1 minute ago BEIRUT (AP) — UN cease-fire monitors toured a rebel-held town in central Syria Sunday with army defectors, while government troops pounded a Damascus suburb with artillery and heavy machine guns, activists said.
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The Associated Press
Syria hotspot enjoys lull with UN monitors present
The Seattle Times
The deployment of UN truce monitors brought a lull in shelling of the Syrianopposition stronghold of Homs for a second day Sunday while President Bashar Assad's troops kept up heavy attacks on other areas where observers were not present.
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Syria shells suburb of Damascus as UN expands monitoring
Christian Science Monitor
The UN Security Council voted Saturday to expand the number of observers inSyria from 30 to 300, but fighting continues. By Zeina Karam, Associated Press / April 22, 2012 UN cease-fire monitors toured a rebel-held town in central SyriaSunday with ...
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Activists: Syrian troops attack Damascus suburb
San Francisco Chronicle
(04-22) 07:01 PDT BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- UN cease-fire monitors toured a rebel-held town in central Syria Sunday with army defectors, while government troops pounded a Damascus suburb with artillery and heavy machine guns, activists said.
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While Syria awaits more UN monitors, cities under fire again, opposition says
CNN International
By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- Syrians in the devastated city of Homs endured another day of heavy shelling Sunday, opposition activists said, a day after the United Nations Security Council voted to send as many as 300 observers to monitor a tenuous ...
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Presence of UN monitors helps calm Syrian city
Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT -- Responding to pleas from residents of the battered Syrian city of Homs, two UN observers have remained, helping to extend a cessation of shelling into a second day. The respite from the bombardment was the first in almost three months in the ...
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Activists: Syrian troops storm Damascus suburb
CBS News
BEIRUT — Activists say Syrian troops are shelling districts in a suburb of the capital Damascus, causing casualties. The Local Coordination Committees activist network says explosions shook Douma early Sunday as troops stormed neighborhoods in the ...
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Syria Crisis: Government Troops Strike Near Damascus Despite Ceasefire, UN ...
Huffington Post
By KARIN LAUB 04/22/12 01:22 PM ET BEIRUT — The deployment of UN truce monitors brought a lull in shelling of the Syrian opposition stronghold of Homs for a second day Sunday while President Bashar Assad's troops kept up heavy attacks on other areas ...
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Syrian forces kill 3 east of Damascus: activists
Reuters
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian soldiers backed by tanks killed three people east of Damascus on Sunday, activists said, after the United Nations voted to expand its mission monitoring a 10-day-old ceasefire agreement. The British-basedSyrian Observatory ...
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UN observers tour opposition stronghold in Syria
Fox News
April 20, 2012: Supporters of an Islamic group and Lebanon's Future Movement of former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, wave their party flags and a giant Syrianrevolution flag, and shout slogans as they march during a demonstration against the Syrian ...
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UN monitors visit Syria opposition stronghold
The Associated Press
By KARIN LAUB, AP – 8 hours ago BEIRUT (AP) — Five unarmed UN truce monitors toured the battered city at the heart of theSyrian uprising on foot Saturday, encountering unusually calm streets after weeks of shelling as a throng of residents clamored ...
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The Associated Press
Syrian forces attack in 2 cities
MarketWatch
By Robert Daniel, MarketWatch TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) — Syrian forces attacked the cities of Homs and Douma on Sunday and human-rights groups said that at least four people, including a member of the Syrian security forces, were killed in the country, ...
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UN authorizes 300 Syria cease-fire observers
Chicago Sun-Times
By EDITH M. LEDERER AP April 21, 2012 10:00PM Members of the Security Council of United Nations vote unanimously to adopt Syria Observer Mission Resolution on Saturday. | David Karp~AP UNITED NATIONS — The Security Council unanimously approved a ...
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Syria Violence Kills Three After UN Approves Observers
BusinessWeek
By Gopal Ratnam on April 22, 2012 At least three people were killed in violence in Syria, a day after the United Nations Security Council unanimously backed sending 300 unarmed observers to monitor a cease-fire agreement between President Bashar al- ...
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Annan welcomes monitors force, says "pivotal moment" for Syria
Reuters
(Adds details, quotes) GENEVA, April 22 (Reuters) - International mediator Kofi Annan said on Sunday that the UN Security Council's decision to deploy a further 300 ceasefire monitors in Syria marked a "pivotal moment for the stabilisation of the ...
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UN: 2043 Resolution on UNSMIS / Syria
Day Press News
Calls upon the Syrian government to implement visibly its commitments in their entirety, as it agreed to do in the Preliminary Understanding and as stipulated in resolution 2042 (2012), to (a) cease troop movements towards population centers, ...
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Day Press News
UN authorizes 300 unarmed Syria monitors
CNN International
By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- The UN Security Council on Saturday voted unanimously to authorize up to 300 unarmed military monitors to try and bring about compliance with a cease-fire imposed last week in violence-wrackedSyria.
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UN monitors tour rebel-held town in Syria with army defectors as troops shell ...
Washington Post
BEIRUT — UN cease-fire monitors toured a rebel-held town in central SyriaSunday with army defectors, while government troops pounded a Damascus suburb with artillery and heavy machine guns, activists said. The shelling in Douma highlighted the need ...
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Syria: US Runs Out...
Talk Radio News Service
By Staff|4/22/2012 1:10 PM As the UN Security Council Saturday unanimously agreed to dispatch a team of 300 unarmed military observers to monitor the faltering truce in Syria, Ambassador Susan Rice warned the US and its allies in the Council were ...
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UN approves full monitoring mission in Syria
Los Angeles Times
The UN Security Council authorizes as many as 300 observers to monitor a cease-fire in Syria. Seven observers already there on an advance mission visit the heavily shelled city of Homs. UN advance team monitors tour suburban Damascus recently, ...
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Los Angeles Times
Syrian city Homs is quiet as U.N. cease-fire monitors visit
Salt Lake Tribune
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR Beirut • The battered Syrian city of Homs was calm for the first time in months Saturday during a visit by an advance team of UN cease-fire monitors who had initially been denied government permission to visit.
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UN chief calls Syria situation `precarious'
Las Vegas Sun
AP Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is calling the situation in Syria "highly precarious" but says he's still recommending a 300-strong UN observer force to try to help bring peace. Despite the Syrian government's agreement to cease all violence, ...
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UN authorizes full Syria monitor mission | The Raw Story
By Agence France-Presse
In the restive Syrian province of Homs, the first dispatch of UN observers arrived to monitor a shaky ceasefire, as two civilians were said to be among at least 11 people killed across the country, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human ...
The Raw Story
Germany tells Syria game over - The Local
The German foreign minister has welcomed the decision by the United Nations Security Council to send UN observers to monitor the fragile ceasefire in Syria, telling Damascus the game is up.
The Local - Germany's news in English
Syria Crisis: Government Troops Strike Near Damascus Despite ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
BEIRUT — The deployment of U.N. truce monitors brought a lull in shelling of the Syrian opposition stronghold of Homs for a second day Sunday while President Bashar Assad's troops kept up heavy attacks on other areas where observers ...
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
UN observers tour rebel-held town in Syria | Richmond Times ...
U.N. cease-fire monitors toured a rebel-held town in central Syria Sunday with army defectors, while government troops stormed and shelled a Damascus suburb, activists said.
www2.timesdispatch.com - News
Prison Planet.com » UN to send 300 ceasefire observers to Syria
By admin
The UN Security Council has unanimously voted to pass a resolution increasing the number of ceasefire observers in Syria to 300. Meanwhile the first wave of observers reached war-torn Homs. The resolution is aimed at enforcing a truce in ...
Prison Planet.com
Opinion: Needed: Plan B for Syria | Ya Libnan | World News Live ...
By Ya Libnan
By WP Editorial Board THE ONLY good news about Syria since the Obama administration's embrace of an unworkable United Nations peace plan is the hints that it is beginning to consider alternatives. Adopted a month ago by the Security ...
Ya Libnan
Israel Matzav: Syria no closer to peace than ever
By Carl in Jerusalem
The six-point peace plan for Syria proposed by Kofi Annan is doomed to fail for one simple reason: Neither President Bashar al-Assad nor the government opposition is interested in making it work. For al-Assad, full implementation of the plan, ...
Israel Matzav
UN Security Council Approves Observer Mission to Syria
By InternationalLaw Blogger
In a unanimous decision, Council members passed a resolution calling for the formation of the "United Nations Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS), comprising an initial deployment of up to 300 unarmed military observers as well as an ...
International Law Prof Blog
The World Outside Westminster – Slasher Republicans, Syria ...
By Tom Rouse
Tom Rouse looks back at the week's main stories from around the world, including the latest from Burma, Bahrain, Syria and the US Presidential elections.
Left Foot Forward
Paris "Friends of Syria" Meeting: Imperialist Powers Prepare for War ...
By blackandred
Paris “Friends of Syria” meeting: Imperialist powers prepare for war againstSyria. By Johannes Stern; 21 April 2012 - WSWS http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/apr2012/syri-a21.shtml. The so-called “Friends of Syria,” consisting of the major ...
Mostly Water
Unrest Continues in Syria | News | English
The United Nations Security Council has approved a resolution sending 300 unarmed observers to Syria, boosting the strength of a previously approved force of ...
www.voanews.com/.../Unrest-Continues-in-Syria--148381405....
U.N. approves full monitoring mission in Syria - latimes.com
The U.N. Security Council authorizes as many as 300 observers to monitor a cease-fire in Syria. Seven observers already there on an advance mission visit the ...
www.latimes.com/.../la-fg-syria-monitors-20120422,0,197199...
Gunfire gives U.N. mission taste of Syria challenge - World news ...
Gunfire erupted on Wednesday close to an advance team of U.N. observers who had been swarmed by protesters, giving a taste of the challenge facing a...
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../gunfire-gives-un-mission-taste-syria-...
Syrian troops storm Damascus suburb, activists report | Fox News
Syrian troops stormed and shelled districts in a suburb of the capital Damascus Sunday, activists said, a day after the Security Council voted to expand the ...
www.foxnews.com/.../syrian-troops-storm-damascus-suburb-a...
U.N. authorizes 300 unarmed Syria monitors - CNN.com
The UN Security Council unanimously approved a measure that allows for an observer mission in Syria to be expanded to 300 unarmed military monitors.
www.cnn.com/2012/04/21/world/meast/syria.../index.html
UN authorizes full Syria monitor mission - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: The United Nations voted Saturday to send 300 unarmed ceasefire observers to Syria, but the United States warned it may veto a new ...
news.yahoo.com/un-council-passes-syria-monitors-resolution-...
BBC News - Syria 'failing to keep to truce', says Ban Ki-moon
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says Syria has failed to comply with a peace plan obligation to pull forces from urban areas and urges more observers.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17765654
Syria Cease-Fire Monitors Arrive From U.N. - NYTimes.com
Six United Nations military observers arrived overnight and were ready to begin, depending on the cooperation of the Syrian government, a spokesman for the...
www.nytimes.com/.../un-truce-observers-arrive-in-syria-as-she...
Syria 'pledges respect' for Annan plan ...
Foreign minister Walid al-Muallem says deployment of 250 UN monitors is " reasonable and logical", during visit to China.
www.aljazeera.com/news/.../04/201241873011444737.html
Syria: Extrajudicial Executions | Human Rights Watch
(New York) – Syrian security forces summarily executed over 100 – and possibly many more – civilians and wounded or captured opposition fighters during ...
www.hrw.org/news/2012/04/09/syria-extrajudicial-executions
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