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Pro-Assad Militias Under Scrutiny After Syrian Massacre
Voice of America
Handout photo released by Syrian opposition's Shaam News Network shows UN observers at hospital morgue before their burial in central Syrian town of Houla on May 26, 2012. WASHINGTON - Syrian pro-government militiamen known as the "shabiha" are facing ...
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Voice of America
Weekly Standard: Obama's Syria Policy? Ask Putin
NPR
by Lee Smith Actors wearing masks of Syrian President Bashar Assad and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin perform with body bags during a demonstration outside United Nations headquarters on January 24, 2011 in New York City.
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Divisions persist in UN over how to halt Syria violence
Los Angeles Times
"Today, as the stronger partner, the government [of Syria] needs to take steps to this end.... After 15 months of violence, only strong signals will have an impact." US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice told reporters after the council session that the ...
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Syria Massacre Fuels UN Debate on Sanctions, Monitors
BusinessWeek
The worst atrocity in the 15-month uprising against Assad is raising tensions within the UN Security Council over how to quell the violence in Syria, exposing rifts over the UN observer force as well as the continuing impasse on sanctions.
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UN chief warns Syria; regime again shells Houla
Albany Times Union
BASSEM MROUE, AP In this image made from amateur video released by the Shaam News Network and accessed Tuesday, May 29, 2012, purports to show 13 blindfolded and handcuffed bodies on the ground in Deir el-Zour,Syria. UN observers have discovered 13 ...
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Syria Rebels Give Assad Fri Deadline To End Bloodshed
Wall Street Journal
The ultimatum by the Free Syrian Army came soon after US ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice warned that prospects for a political solution in Syria are now "almost non-existent" and that the Security Council must discuss new action against ...
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New Killings in Syria; US Hints at Bypassing UN
Voice of America
Jordanians and Syrian refugees protest the killing of at least 108 people in the Syrian town of Houla last Friday, outside the Syrianembassy in Amman, Jordan, May 30, 2012. United Nationsobservers in Syria have raised new allegations of ...
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Voice of America
Why the Syrian regime is killing babies
CNN
Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad went on a systematic killing spree, murdering at least 108 people. Most shockingly, the killers targeted women and children. A UN representative said the victims included 49 children who were younger ...
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US envoy sees grim outcome for Syria
msnbc.com
The appraisal by the ambassador, Susan E. Rice, appeared to reflect a new level of pessimism about a diplomatic solution to the Syria crisis, now in its 15th month, after the United Nations special envoy, Kofi Annan, traveled toSyria over the weekend ...
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Activists: Syrian troops shell Houla
Boston.com
BEIRUT (AP) -- Thirteen bound corpses, many apparently shot execution-style, have been discovered in eastern Syria, UNobservers said Wednesday, days after the massacre of more than 100 people provoked international outrage and the coordinated ...
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Boston.com
Clinton Slams Russia on Syria
Voice of America
COPENHAGEN - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says continuing Russian support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assadis blocking United Nations action to end 15 months of violence and could help lead to civil war. Clinton is in Denmark, ...
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Voice of America
Syria at a "tipping point"
Salon
“The big question today is to implement the Libyan or Yemeni scenario inSyria,” the head of a Damascus-based think tank told GlobalPost, requesting anonymity to speak without fear of reprisal. “The United Sates will discuss the Yemeni scenario with ...
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Massacre in Syria prompts special session for United Nations human rights council
The Hour
In this photo provided by the Syrian official news agency SANA, SyrianPresident Bashar Assad, right, meets with Kofi Annan, the UN-Arab League Joint Special Envoy for Syria, in Damascus, Syria. The meeting Tuesday followed a massacre in Houla, Syria, ...
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Syria's Tipping Point: With 10000 dead, urgency grows to end violence
Syracuse.com (blog)
By The Post-Standard Editorial Board SANA via AP IN THIS PHOTO provided by the official Syrian news agency SANA,Syrian President Bashar Assad (right) meets Tuesday with Kofi Annan, the UN-Arab League Joint Special Envoy for Syria, in Damascus.
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Syracuse.com (blog)
Syria recalled to UN as new killings uncovered - Today's World News
San Francisco Luxury News
Syrian activists claimed the latest victims of the violence were army defectors killed by President Assad's forces, but their account has not been verified. The bodies were discovered bound and shot in eastern Syria. A UN Human Rights Council special ...
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A Peace Plan in Name Only
New York Times
Cairo SYRIANS have been killed almost since Hafez al-Assad took power in the 1970s. Now that the bloodshed has escalated under his son Bashar, history repeats itself, and no one seems to care. In March, the international community put its faith in the ...
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World powers worry Syria sliding' to civil war
Fox News
Russia, along with China, has twice shielded Syrian President BasharAssad's regime from the UN sanctions over his crackdown on protests. Syriais Russia's last ally in the region, providing Moscow with its only naval base outside the former Soviet ...
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UN Diplomat: Annan Deputy Appeals for Syria Talks
ABC News
Annan held talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus on Tuesday following the weekend massacre in Houla of more than 100 people, many of them women and children. At the UN headquarters in New York, Germany's UN Ambassador Peter Wittig said ...
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ABC News
Syrian rebels urge Annan to declare end of ceasefire - live updates
The Guardian
The Syrian government has released 500 political detainees two days after peace envoy Kofi Annan urged the Assad government to show commitment to his plan by freeing prisoners. "500 people involved in the events taking place in Syria, without blood on ...
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The Guardian
Clinton: Military action in Syria demands unity
The Associated Press
Russia and China have twice shielded Assad's regime from UN Security Council sanctions. Clinton spoke as activists reported more shelling in the central Houla area where more than 100 people were massacred last week. The Britain-based Syrian ...
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Clinton argues against Syria military intervention
Reuters
Speaking to Danish students, Clinton got tough questions on what might motivate the United States and other nations to take military action in Syria, where President Bashar al-Assad is battling a 14-month-old anti-government uprising.
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Syria: UN Appalled By New Bound Body Atrocity - World News Now
San Francisco Luxury News
China's foreign ministry also reiterated its opposition to military intervention, asUN and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan's “frank” talks with Syria's President Bashar Assad warned of a “tipping point” being reached. Spokesman Liu Weimin also stopped ...
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US warns of failed Syrian peace plan
CBS News
If President Bashar Assad refuses to implement the peace plan, Rice said the UN Security Council should assume its responsibility and put additional pressure on Syria including sanctions. But Rice and other council diplomats said there is opposition ...
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CBS News
New Syrian slaughter; crisis U.N. meeting
UPI.com
DAMASCUS, Syria, May 31 (UPI) -- A Syrian commission probing a civilian slaughter will likely state its findings Thursday, Syria's UN envoy said as another civilian massacre was reported. The national commission was established by the Assad regime to ...
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Syrians tell activists of horrors of massacre
Tucson Citizen
Thirteen bound corpses were found in Deir el-Zour province, according to a statement from the UN mission. Western nations have opted for sanctions to pressure Syrian President Bashar Assad into ending his military campaign against the rebellion.
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13 bound corpses found in Syria
Detroit Free Press
The chief of the UN observer team, Maj. Gen. Robert Mood, said he was "deeply disturbed by this appalling and inexcusable act." The violence in Syriais spiraling out of control as an uprising against Assad that began in March 2011 has morphed into an ...
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Syria rebel chief urges Annan to declare peace plan over
WAMC
The rival statements from rebels inside and outside Syria showed once again how deep divisions run between Assad's foes, who have failed to unify either political or military operations more than 14 months after Syria's uprising first broke out. UN ...
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Activists: Syrian troops shell Houla, site of last week's civilian massacre
CNN
By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- Syrian forces shelled Houla early Thursday, opposition activists said, days after shadowy men went door-to-door in the town slaughtering entire families in their homes. The attacks started shortly after United Nations ...
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Assad prefers civil war in Syria | Ya Libnan | World News Live from ...
By Ya Libnan
NATO will not go beyond empty threats because it cannot get the support of the U.N. Security Council for using force against Assad's regime (the Russians and the Chinese would veto it) and because Syrian armed forces are so big and powerful that it would suffer significant losses if it attacked. If there is no ... So Assad now has about 30 percent of the population on his side, plus most of the army, all of the heavy weapons and the world's nastiest intelligence services. That's enough to ...
Ya Libnan
War News Updates: Civil War In Syria -- News Updates May 31, 2012
By War News Updates Editor
Civil War In Syria -- News Updates May 31, 2012. Syria: Free Army Rebels Issue 48-Hour Deadline For Bashar al-Assad To Stop Violence -- The Telegraph. The United Nations peace plan for Syria is on the verge of officially collapsing after ...
War News Updates
News on Houla Massacre « Israel Palestine Blogs
By Joshua
According to Syrian Arab News Agency, SANA, Assad stated “armed terrorist groups escalated their terrorist acts noticeably as of late in various areas across Syria.” In contrast, the head of the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping, ...
Israel Palestine Blogs
UN observer 'deeply disturbed' by new Syria ... - Pattaya Today
By pattayatoday
The UN's top observer said on Wednesday he was “deeply disturbed” by a newly discovered massacre in Syria, as the opposition insisted President Bashar al-Assad must step down if a peace plan is to be saved. The discovery of the bodies of 13 people ... “We believe that a review now by the Security Council of any new measures on the situation would be premature,” Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov told the Interfax news agency. In its first reaction to the diplomatic ...
Pattaya today newspaper
Pro-Assad Militias Under Scrutiny After Syrian Massacre
Handout photo released by Syrian opposition's Shaam News Network showsUN observers at hospital morgue before their burial in central Syrian town of Houla ...
www.voanews.com/content/pro_assad.../1145674.html
UN-Arab League special envoy Annan meets Syria's Assad after massacre
The start of the meeting between the UN-Arab League envoy and Assad was reported by Syria's official SANA news agency, which provided no further details.
www.foxnews.com/.../un-arab-league-special-envoy-annan-m...
UN Envoy, Assad Meet After Massacre
The U.N. has said government forces fired tank shells and artillery at the villages ... Syria's state news agency said Annan was meeting with AssadTuesday but ...
www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2115936,00.html
U.N. envoy Annan meets Syria's Assad - Yahoo! News
News: DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met peace... against Assad's rule that began with peaceful mass protests and now has an ...
news.yahoo.com/assad-meets-u-n-envoy-annan-heels-massacr...
Assad Holds Talks With Annan: Syria News Agency | The Jakarta ...
Damascus, Syria. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday receivedUN- Arab League envoy Kofi Annan for a meeting in Damascus, said statenews agency SANA. ... HEY PUTRIMAR HOWS THE EGGS ON YOUR FACE NOW?
www.thejakartaglobe.com/world/assad-holds.../520807
Syria diplomat expulsions go on - ITV News
Kofi Annan in Syria for 'frank' talks with Assad ... The head of the UN observer mission to Syria has said that 13 bodies were discovered in eastern Syria ...When questioned on the issue at a news briefing today, spokesman Liu Weimin said: ...
www.itv.com/news/story/...05.../50-dead-in-syria-forces-attack...
Syria's Assad Talks to UN's Annan Following Houla Massacre ...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and United Nations envoy Kofi Annan met for talks in Damascus today following the massacre of more than 100 people in Houla. ... Homs and Idlib, according to the Doha-based al Jazeera newschannel.
www.businessweek.com/.../syria-s-assad-talks-to-un-s-annan-f...
Syria Villagers Show UN Mass Graves of Assad Victims 5-23-12 ...
Syria Villagers Show UN Mass Graves of Assad Victims 5-23-12 Souran Town .... Addounia ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziONVtK44Wc
THE DAILY STAR :: News :: Middle East :: Annan tells Assad "bold ...
Annan tells Assad "bold steps" needed to halt Syria violence ... UN-Arab League peace envoy Kofi Annan is pictured during a meeting with SyrianForeign ...
www.dailystar.com.lb/.../174976-assad-holds-talks-with-annan...
Syria: Kofi Annan urges Bashar al-Assad to 'act now' - Telegraph
Kofi Annan has urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to act now to end 15 months of bloodshed, warning the ... from Damascus ally Moscow, which has previously blocked tougher UN action against Assad's regime. .... News Most Viewed ...
www.telegraph.co.uk/.../Syria-Kofi-Annan-urges-Bashar-al-As...
U.N. observers discover 13 bound corpses in Syria ... - USA Today
Syrian Arab News Agency via AP. U.N. envoy Kofi Annan, left, meets withSyrian President Bashar Assad on Tuesday in Damascus, Syria. EnlargeClose ...
www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-05-30/Syria.../1
UN envoy Annan meets Syria's Assad - International News - livemint ...
UN envoy Annan meets Syria?s Assad, Peace envoy Annan meets Syria?sAssad; Australia expels Syrian diplomats, International News. ... step down to help end a conflict that has now claimed some 10000 lives by United Nations estimates.
www.livemint.com/.../UN-envoy-Annan-meets-Syria82.html
Syria's Assad meets UN special envoy Kofi Annan | 123bharath.com ...
Damascus, May 29 : Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met here Tuesday with UN-Arab League joint special envoy Kofi Annan, state-run SANA newsagency ...
www.123bharath.com/.../syrias-assad-meets-un-special-envoy-...
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