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SYRIA News, Jul 24, 2012

Syrian Opposition: Assad Government Must Go
Voice of America
The spokesman for the Syrian National Council says the main opposition grouping is still demanding President Bashar al-Assad leave power, denying that the coalition would consider having someone from the current government temporarily lead a political ...
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Voice of America
Syria Conflict: Assad Reshuffles Top Security Post
Huffington Post
DAMASCUS, Syria -- President Bashar Assad on Tuesday reshuffled the generals at the core of his regime's highly secretive security apparatus after last week's bombing that killed four top officials charged with fighting the tenacious rebellion rocking the ...
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Five Syria Nightmares: The Middle East Can't Live with Assad, but Living Without ...
TIME
Renewed Arab offers of safe passage for President Bashar Assad if he agrees to abdicate miss the point: his isn't simply a personality-cult regime; it survives because many thousands of Syrians remain willing to kill for Assad — or at least, to hold the rebellion ...
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TIME
Syrian forces battle rebel push on central Aleppo
Reuters
After a week of battles between President Bashar al-Assad's forces and his opponents in Damascus, fighting intensified in Aleppo, a more populous commercial city that long seemed immune to the 16-month-old upheaval convulsing Syria. Rebels seeking to ...
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Syria's Assad reshuffles top security posts
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Syria's Assad reshuffles top security posts. ALBERT AJI, Associated Press Copyright 2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Clashes Intensify in Syria's Aleppo as Assad Shuffles Intelligence Chiefs
Wall Street Journal
The Syrian regime, deeply shaken after last week's stunning attack on Mr. Assad's inner circle and rebel advances, has turned to heavy weapons like artillery and helicopter gunships to uproot the opposition fighters in Damascus and now in Aleppo, Syria's ...
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Insight: Assad chemical weapons plans blocked by Moscow
Reuters
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Increasingly under pressure by rebels intent on unseating him, Bashar al-Assadhas considered using chemical weapons against his enemies but Washington and Moscow have formed an unlikely alliance to force him to abandon such ...
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Syria's Assad appoints new security officials
Houston Chronicle
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A Syrian government official says President Bashar Assad has named five officials to top security posts in a reshuffle of the regime's inner circle. One of Tuesday's appointments replaces Assad's national security chief, who died last ...
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Syrian Opposition May Reach Out to Some Assad Officials
Businessweek
“Those who have not been complicit in spilling Syrian blood and are not part of Assad's gang, will be considered as ordinary citizens and have the right to be part of such a government,” al-Bateen said. “At such a time, concessions should be made so that the ...
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America and its allies must prepare to secure Syria's weapons of mass destruction
Fox News
The killings of Syria's Defense Minister and other key officials last week by opposition forces threaten to shatter Bashir al-Assad's regime. Without a devastating response, his days are numbered. Sergei Lavrov, Foreign Minister of Russia, Syria's closest ally, ...
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US contemplating 'an Assad aftermath'
CNN (blog)
Senior level Obama administration officials are now holding regular high-level meetings to discuss the ongoing situation in Syria and begin thinking about U.S. priorities in a post-Assad era, a senior U.S. official told CNN Monday. "We are in the early stages of ...
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The Unresolved Mystery of Syria's 'Iraqi' Chemical Weapons
New York Times (blog)
Thaier Al-Sudani/ReutersA bullet-riddled portrait of former Syrian leader Hafez al-Assad at the Rabia border crossing, the main border post between Iraq and Syria. LONDON — The apparent confirmation by the Syrian regime that it has chemical weapons at ...
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New York Times (blog)
Iran general warns 'hated Arabs' of reprisals for backing Syrian rebels
Washington Post
TEHRAN, Iran — A commander of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards has warned “hated Arab” rivals they could face repercussions for their efforts to topple the Tehran-backed regime of President Bashar Assad in Syria, a report said Tuesday. Gen. Masoud ...
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War, Syrian Style? Has Assad Ordered Mass Rapes?
Business Insider
In Syria, Bashar Assad's violently repressive regime continues a vicious campaign of rape, plunder and murder orchestrated by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps in an effort to retain control over the Syrian people. A UN report on human rights violations ...
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Despite recent rebel gains, Assad's end isn't imminent
Christian Science Monitor
Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad in recent days have tightened their grip on the Lebanese border, re-established control over at least one neighborhood in Damascus and perhaps reached an accommodation with the country's Kurds that will free ...
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Christian Science Monitor
Syrian rebels fight Assad's forces in central Aleppo
Reuters
AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian rebels fought government troops and intelligence agents at the gates of Aleppo's ancient Old City on Tuesday in a battle for control of Syria's commercial hub, residents and opposition activists said. A local businessman said fighting ...
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Syrian Forces, Rebels Clash in Damascus, Aleppo
Voice of America (blog)
Syrian opposition activists say security forces and rebels engaged in fierce battles in Damascus and Aleppo on Tuesday, as President Bashar al-Assad replaced key officials killed in a bombing last week. Opposition groups say government forces staged a ...
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Syria fighting gives neither side decisive edge
Reuters
"Assad knows that he ... needs to be able to control main logistical and transport routes betweenSyria's urban hubs - Damascus, Aleppo, Latakia," said Anthony Skinner, Middle East expert at British political risk consultancy Maplecroft. "To use the medical ...
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Syria rebels: Assad regime moved chemical weapons near border
Haaretz
Syria rebels: Assad regime moved chemical weapons near border. Opposition members:'We have confirmed information that the weapons were moved to airports located at the borders of Syria,'; Erdogan: Rebels are 'closer than ever to victory'; Amos Gilad: ...
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Haaretz
In Syria conflict, US struggles to fill intelligence gaps
Washington Post
The lack of clarity has also fueled anxiety among U.S. allies in the region over who will control Syriaif Assad falls. Even among Arab intelligence services eager to help rebels overthrow Assad, “the vetting process is still in the early stages,” said a Middle ...
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* Syria still in full control of chemical arms
Reuters
Syria's 16-month-old conflict has spread concern that the chemical arsenal, acknowledged by Damascus for the first time on Monday, could fall into the hands of Hezbollah, the Lebanese Islamist group allied to Iran and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, ...
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Assad names new security chief after bombing
Chicago Tribune
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad appointed a new security chief and senior intelligence officials on Tuesday to replace members of his inner circle killed in a devastating bomb attack in Damascus last week, a Lebanese security source ...
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Assad 'moves chemical weapons to Syria border': rebels
AlterNet
Assad 'moves chemical weapons to Syria border': rebels. Syria's rebels accused strongman Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday of moving chemical weapons to the country's borders, a day after his beleaguered regime said it would use its stockpiles if attacked.
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AlterNet
Chechen Volunteers in Syria and the Dangers of Intervention
Forbes
Up to 6 thousand foreign volunteers are fighting on the side of the Syrian opposition, and among them are Chechens according to Saudi intelligence. The opponents of the Assad regime last week took over a stretxch of the Syrian-Turkish border, which ...
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Syria's Assad appoints new security officials after rebel bomb attack against ...
Newser
In this image made from amateur video released by the Ugarit News and accessed Monday, July 23, 2012, Free Syrian Army soldiers pose for a photograph after destroying two military tanks during clashes... (Associated Press) ...
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Assad days "numbered", Arab League chief tells paper
Reuters
CAIRO (Reuters) - The head of the Arab League has said the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad cannot last for long, saying its days were numbered in an interview published in the pan-Arab newspaper al-Hayat on Tuesday. Speaking after an ...
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Free Syrian Army Commander Rejects Exile for Bashar al-Assad
Al-Monitor
Free Syrian Army (FSA) Commander Col. Riad al-Asaad said that there is no longer room for a political solution in Syria, stressing that the fighting will continue until theAssad regime is overthrown. He also rejected the recent Arab League initiative, which...
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Al-Monitor
Remember Bashar Assad, 'Reformer'?
Wall Street Journal
A reader of last week's column on Hillary Clinton chided me for failing to mention her remark, made as the revolt in Syria was gaining strength last year, that Bashar Assadwas "a reformer." The reader makes a fair point, one that helps explain why the ...
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Wall Street Journal
In Post-Assad Syria, Challenges Are the Only Certainties
World Politics Review
After key security aides of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were killed in a bombing attack last week, media coverage became saturated with pronouncements of Assad's “imminent” fall and reports of contingency planning for the collapse of his regime.
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Syria's SNC to accept transition led by regime figures; Assad's days ...
By abennis
The Syrian opposition would be willing to accept a transition led temporarily by a member of the regime if President Bashar al-Assad steps aside, the Syrian National Council said on Tuesday. “We would agree that to the departure of Assad ...
Morocco World News
Fighting in Syria indicates Bashar Assad's end isn't imminent ...
Despite reports last week that suggested rebel forces were on the verge of major triumphs in Syria, the last few days of fighting there show that a long battle still looms.
Stars and Stripes
Syria threatens to use chemical arms against external aggression ...
Ban immediately sent a two-member U.N. delegation comprising its peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous and chief military adviser General Babacar Gaye to Syria as chemical weapon newssurfaced. Syrian President Assad, meanwhile, ...
Wall-Street.com | Wall Street...
MoD News - Syria: US Warns Assad Over Chemical Weapons
It is the first time that the Syrian government has openly admitted possessing unconventional weapons.Foreign ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi told a news conference in Damascus that they would not be used against Syrians but said they ...
Military News Feed
CIA's favorite Saudi prince is laying the groundwork for a post-Assad ...
By News Sources
CIA's favorite Saudi prince is laying the groundwork for a post-Assad Syria. by News Sources on July 23, 2012. Zvi Bar'el writes: Saudi Arabia's Prince Bandar bin Sultan, 62, fell in love with the United States when he was still a pilot in his ...
War in Context
Syria's Assad rejects Arab League power transfer proposal
By noreply@allvoices.com
In a statement released by the Syrian Foreign Ministry Monday, Damascus angrily rejected the call by the Arab League, issued at the Arab League foreign ministers conference in.
Allvoices.com - Top Stories
Syria says could use chemical arms against ... - Stabroek News
By Stabroek staff
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Western states expressed alarm after Syria acknowledged for the first time that it has chemical and biological weapons and said it could use them if foreign countries intervene. Bashar al-Assad. A week of unprecedented ...
Stabroek News
War News Updates: Assad's Willingness To Use WMDs Is Raising ...
By War News Updates Editor
Military, Political, And Intelligence News Are Also Covered. ... That wouldn't solve much: The rebellion consuming Syria isn't about how much people dislike Assad personally, but about being fed up of being ruled by the broader regime. Assad ...
War News Updates
Damascus - Report: Syria Moving Chemical Weapons To Border ...
By admin
This citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network SNN, taken on Sunday, July 22, 2012, purports to show a fireball in Homs, Syria. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network, SNN). Damascus - The ... “We reveal that [Syrian President Bashar] Assad has transferred some of these weapons and equipment for mixing chemical components to airports on the border,” a statement from the rebel Free Syrian Army said. “We in the joint command of the FSA inside the country know very ...
Vos Iz Neias (Yiddish: What's News?)
Syria claims Egyptians in rebels' ranks - Daily News Egypt
By Connor Molloy
In al-Qaboun and other Damascus neighbourhoods the anti-Assad rebels have been engaged in a week of street battles with the Syrian army and the feared Shabiha militia men who are not formally accountable to the Syrian Army but appear ...
Daily News Egypt
Syria unleashes helicopters on rebels in Aleppo - WMBF News
Rebels penetrated the heart of Syria's power elite Wednesday, detonating a bomb inside a high-level crisis meeting in Damascus that killed three leaders of the regime, including President BasharAssad's...More >> ... National NewsMore>> ...
WMBF - News
US warns Syria against using chemical weapons | AAJ News
By Majid Siddique
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama has warned Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad it would be a “tragic mistake” to unleash chemical weapons, after Damascus admits it has a stockpile and will use them if attacked. The warning, a ...
AAJ News
France: Syria's chemical weapons "under strict surveillance" | Al ...
By Antoun
A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on 8 July 2012, shows the launching of a rocket during Syrian army maneuvers at an undisclosed location in Syria. (Photo: AFP - HO - SANA). Published ... "Given the regime's stockpile of chemical weapons, we will continue to make it clear to Assad and those around him that the world is watching," Obama told an audience of US veterans in the western US state of Nevada. "They will be held accountable by ...
Al Akhbar English
FSA Forces: Assad Has Relocated Chemical ... - Yeshiva World News
By Y.W. Editor
The Free Syrian Army rebel force reports that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has moved stockpiles of chemical weapons towards borders and airports, apparently to facilitate accessing them in the event of the decision to deploy such ...
Yeshiva World News
Syria's Assad appears on TV after bombing - Yahoo! News
News: Syrian President Bashar Assad made his first appearance Thursday since a bomb killed some of his top lieutenants, looking calm and composed on state ...
news.yahoo.com/syrias-assad-appears-tv-bombing-194556812...
Syria: Assad forces 'executing prisoners and children' - World ...
Revulsion at Bashar-al-Assad's regime grew today with reports of Syrian children and rebels being executed.
www.standard.co.uk/.../syria-assad-forces-executing-prisoners-...
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