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SYRIA News, May 17, 2012

Syrian opposition head offers to resign
Seattle Post Intelligencer
ZEINA KARAM, AP FILE - In this Monday, June 20, 2011 file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assaddelivers a speech in Damascus, Syria, at Damascus University. In his first interview in six months, ...
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Syrian leader Assad says terrorists are behind unrest
Fox News
Assad, who inherited power from his father in 2000, still has a firm grip on power in Syria some 14 months into a revolt that has torn at the country's fabric and threatened to undermine stability in the Middle East. The UNestimated in March that the ...
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Syria opposition head says to quit for sake of unity
Reuters
Syria has sharply restricted journalist access during an uprising that began with mass protests which Assad's forces sought to put down violently, andnow features an insurgency that takes the offensive against Assad's rule.Syria is five weeks into a ...
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Syrian opposition faces fractures, infighting
The Associated Press
Assad, who inherited power from his father in 2000, still has a firm grip on power in Syria some 14 months into a revolt that has torn at the country's fabric and threatened to undermine stability in the Middle East. The UN estimated in March that the ...
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The Associated Press
Syrian opposition faces more fractures, infighting
Atlanta Journal Constitution
A team of international observers were evacuated Wednesday from a tense town in northern Syria a day after their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb, a UN spokesman said. The team's vehicles were struck by the blast Tuesday during a mission in the ...
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Atlanta Journal Constitution
Syrian Activists Question UN Observer Mission After Deadly Attack on Protesters
New York Times (blog)
By ROBERT MACKEY Video posted on YouTube on Wednesday showed a convoy of damaged United Nations vehicles leaving a town in northern Syria.Syrian activists claimed that government forces moved tanks into a northern town on Wednesday, in clear violation ...
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Syrian Heart Patients Set to Feel Economy's Squeeze
BusinessWeek
“We're doing our best not to close down,” Bahri said in an interview in his office off a busy street of the Syrian capital. The factory owner says he's already dropped several product lines since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began ...
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Syrian opposition council appears to crumble as infighting
Washington Post
The slow disintegration of the Syrian National Council, which has become the international face of the uprising, could complicate Western efforts to bolster the opposition, just as President Bashar Assad's regime gathers momentum in its crackdown on ...
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Syrian opposition faces fractures, infighting
Seattle Post Intelligencer
ZEINA KARAM, AP In this Monday, May 14, 2012 photo, Syrian rebels aim their machine guns at Khaldiyeh neighborhood in Homs province, central Syria. The violence around the country is eroding an internationally brokered peace plan that many UN observers ...
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Syria's Assad: Nations that sow chaos will suffer
CNBC.com
Assad's remarks, to a Russian TV channel, came after UN staff monitoring an increasingly shaky ceasefire were caught up in an attack that killed at least 21 people, and had to spend a night with rebel forces. The stranding of the observers and new ...
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Iran Shipping Arms To Syria
KHBS-KHOG Northwest Arkansas
By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- A confidential UN report reveals Iran is exporting arms to the Syrian government in violation of a ban on weapons sales, the same day President Bashar al-Assad blamed the violence in his country on the work of ...
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More attacks in Syria after arrival of UN observers: Assad
TwoCircles.net
By IANS/RIA Novosti, Moscow : The number of terrorist attacks in Syria has increased since UN observers arrived in the country, President Bashar al-Assad told the Rossiya 24 TV channel. "We have redeployed our troops, and as for terrorist attacks their ...
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Iran Ships Oil On Behalf Of Syria -FT
Wall Street Journal
"As a result, Iranian-owned oil tankers are migrating to less regulated flags to continue doing business - whether it is shipping oil on behalf of the Assadregime in Syria, or transporting Iranian crude," Mr Griffiths added.
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Diplomat: Confidential report finds Iran shipping arms to Syria
CNN
By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- A confidential UN report revealed Iran is exporting arms to the Syrian government in violation of a ban on weapons sales, the same day President Bashar al-Assad blamed the violence in his country on the work of ...
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Syrian Opposition Rocked by Internal Dissension
Voice of America
Syria's opposition movement is in disarray as the newly re-elected head of the main exile coalition has offered to resign amid criticism of his leadership and infighting that has plagued groups trying to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Syrian ...
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Voice of America
Syria accused of new 'massacre,' UN team evacuated
The Bostwana Gazette
DAMASCUS (AFP) - Syrian forces were accused of summarily executing 15 civilians, as members of a UN team of observers were evacuated from a shelled town the day after a bomb blast hit their convoy. Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, however, ...
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Assad insists rebels are mercenaries
Philadelphia Inquirer
By Elizabeth A. Kennedy and Zeina Karam AP BEIRUT, Lebanon - In his first interview since December, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad insisted Tuesday that his regime is fighting back against foreign mercenaries who want to overthrow him, not innocent ...
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Assad says Syria is fighting foreign mercenaries
Bloomington Pantagraph
Russia has been Syria's most powerful and loyal ally over the course of the uprising, selling weapons to the regime and blocking action against Damascus at the UN Security Council. The Assad regime's crackdown on a 14-month-long popular uprising has ...
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Syria's Assad blames outsiders for turmoil
San Francisco Chronicle
The United Nations continues to say that an unacceptable level of violence exists in Syria, laying the onus on the government to withdraw its troops and heavy armaments from major population centers first to allow an April 12 truce to take hold. Assad ...
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Syria opposition rift widens - Thursday 17 May
The Guardian
Emz (@emmasuleiman) May 17, 2012 "Today was a historic day at the Univ of Aleppo. I can't believe we stood that long. We chanted for Homs and other cities." - @Syria_Horra — Nora Basha (@Nora0315) May 17, 2012 #Syria: Key question iscan UNmonitors ...
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The Guardian
UN observers caught up in Syrian violence
Faribault County Register
Ahmad Fawzi, a spokesman for Syria's special envoy Kofi Annan, confirmed the observers were caught up in the country's violence as they met with the rebel Free Syrian Army. "The UN Mission in Syria reports that shortly after 2 pm local time today, ...
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Syria scours more trade routes in search for grain
Reuters
Another said there had been enquiry looking for cargoes to Syria from Argentina. Last month the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation forecast that Syria's cereal import needs in the marketing year 2011/12 would rise to 4 million tonnes, ...
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Syria shells rebel bastion, Assad hits out at ëcriminalsí
Kuwait Times
Clashes across Syria continue despite an April 12 truce brokered by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan as part of a six-point plan aimed at ending violence that has swept Syria since March 2011, when the uprising against President Bashar Al-Assad erupted.
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Assad warns against 'sowing chaos'
Irish Times
Members of the United Nations observers mission in Syria leave a hotel in Damascus today. Photograph: Khaled al-Hariri/REuters Countries that "sow chaos" in Syria could find the tables turned,Syrian president Bashar al-Assad told a state-run Russian ...
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Irish Times
Syria's al-Assad Accuses UN of Being "Two-Faced"
Journal of Turkish Weekly
The UN has accused both sides of violating the ceasefire and warned thatSyria is nearing a civil war. Al-Assad told Rossiya 24 state-run television channel that the rebels were receiving "money and weapons from various countries.
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Syria opposition rift widens with resignation of Burhan Ghalioun
The Guardian
The head of Syria's main opposition council offered to resign on Thursday "as soon as a replacement is found" after some members threatened to quit, damaging efforts to present a united front against President Bashar al-Assad.
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The Guardian
Protesters Set Upon at Aleppo University Despite Monitors
New York Times
Syrian political analysts have said that Mr. Assad's intolerance for opposition demonstrations in Aleppo reflects his intention ultimately to subvert the peace plan brokered by the United Nations and the Arab League. Under that plan, 300 truce monitors ...
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Mideast In his first interview in months, Syrian President Assad spoke to ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
Russian state television, Russiya 24, broadcast a rare interview on Tuesday with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Assad said he faced no real domestic opposition and that violence in the country has been caused entirely by foreign-backed terrorists.
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Exclusive: Iran flouts UN sanctions, sends arms to Syria
South Bend Tribune
Iran, like Russia, is one of Syria's few allies as it presses ahead with a 14-month old assault on opposition forces determined to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. News of the panel's report came as Tehran and the UNInternational Atomic Energy ...
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We can't win media war with West but it's not battle that counts ...
By RT
The media war with the West was lost the day the Syrian uprising began, President Assad told a Russian broadcaster. The authorities appear ... Go to main page News We can't win media war with West but it's not battle that counts - Assad. Follow RT on ... Media reports suggesting that Kosovo officials have established contact with the Syrian opposition to train Syrian militants in the secessionist province are causing alarm, the Russian Ambassador to theUN said Monday. Syria unrest ...
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Confidential report finds Iran shipping arms to Syria | Ya Libnan ...
By Ya Libnan
A confidential U.N. report reveals Iran is exporting arms to the Syriangovernment in violation of a ban on weapons sales, the same day President Bashar al-Assad blamed the violence in his country on the work of foreign-backed fighters. ... At least one person was killed and an undetermined number were wounded Thursday in renewed clashes in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli between factions supporting and opposing the uprising in Syria, Lebanon's National News Agency ...
Ya Libnan
Syrian leader Assad says terrorists are behind unrest
In his first interview since December, Syrian President Bashar Assad has insisted his regime is ... Skip to main content: Fox News/Fox Business (Article Page: Fox News/SBC/Latino/Fox Business) ... On Air Now » Anchors and Reporters » ... The U.N. estimated in March that the violence has killed more than 9000 people, and ...
www.foxnews.com/.../syrian-leader-says-terrorists-are-behind-...
Syria opposition: Assad trying to destroy UN peace - CBS News
Syrian National Council chief says U.N.-backed peace plan "in crisis" a day ...that now we cannot reach any compromise through negotiations if BasharAssad is ...
www.cbsnews.com/.../syria-opposition-assad-trying-to-destroy...
Assad says Syria is fighting foreign mercenaries
Assad spoke in an interview broadcast on Russian state news channel Rossiya-24, ... and left them stranded overnight with rebel forces, a U.N.spokesman said.
www.seattlepi.com/.../Assad-says-Syria-is-fighting-foreign-me...
Al-Assad Forces Attack on UN Observer Delegation in Syria, 16 May ...
Syrian News Network (SNN) said that the clashes between al-Assad forces and Free Syrian Army were escalating in Homs. The UN says about 9000 people ...
www.turkishweekly.net/.../al-assad-forces-attack-on-un-observ...
Blast Near UN Car Shows Fragility of Syria Truce - ABC News
World News with Diane Sawyer · Nightline · This Week with George ... The team of 70 U.N. military observers now in Syria should grow to more than 100 in the ...
abcnews.go.com/.../blast-targets-syrian-military-soldiers-woun...
Al-Assad forces attack on UN observer delegation in Syria Anadolu ...
TODAY 11/21; THURSDAY 9/23 ... Forces of al-Assad army in Syria attacked on UN observer delegation in the country on Tuesday. ... News Video Gallery ...
www.aa.com.tr/.../51363--al-assad-forces-attack-on-un-observ...
Balkis reposts Syria news: NEXT ASSAD'S TRIP !!!
Due to the lack of media coverage on Syria, I have been reposting news sent by ... Both Blog's title and subtitle say it all about my motivation to start it now..... Mou2amara Good seeing the #UN remain neutral - UN Monitor at Pro-Assad rally ...
cherebalkis.blogspot.com/2012/05/next-assads-trip.html
More attacks in Syria after arrival of UN observers: Assad - Yahoo ...
'More attacks in Syria after arrival of UN observers: Assad' on Yahoo! NewsIndia. Moscow, May 17 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The number of terrorist attacks inSyria ...
in.news.yahoo.com/more-attacks-syria-arrival-un-observers-as...
Syria News - May 15, 2012 (Warning: Graphic Videos) :: www ...
Idlib, Khan Sheikhoun, Martyr Abdullah Hindawi killed by Assad's Before UN ...at the field clinic of Qusair,Homs,today , doctors trying to save a little girl ...
www.uruknet.info/?p=m88090&hd=&size=1&l=e
World News - Syria urges UN to stop 'terrorism' following Damascus ...
"The secretary-general strongly condemns today's attacks in Damascus," Ban's spokesman ... Explore related topics: syria, united-nations, assad, damascus ...
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BBC News - Syria crisis: Damascus losing information war, says Assad
President Assad speaking to Russia's Rossiya 24: "The Syrian people are not... But despite Syria's lack of co-operation, the UN committee in Switzerland is...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18095758
Iran Shipping Arms To Syria - News Story - NBCMontana NBC ...
(CNN) -- A confidential U.N. report reveals Iran is exporting arms to the ... Al-Assad acknowledged the sanctions have had an adverse affect on Syria'seconomy. ... if we conducted the reforms earlier, the situation would have been better now.
www.nbcmontana.com/news/31075481/detail.html
'Assad has a lot of sunny days ahead of him' — RT
A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows ... The head of the new UN observer team is starting his work in Syriaamid .... and now a group of Salafis is represented in the new “government” of Libya.
rt.com/news/assad-syria-days-ahead-850/
Syria rebels kill seven, bomb explodes near UN ... - News Today
AMMAN, May 9: Syrian rebels killed at least seven pro-government militiamen in a ... The US envoy to the United Nations declared on Tuesday that Assad's...
www.newstoday.com.bd/index.php?option=details...
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