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SYRIA News, Jun 02, 2013

McCain: Assad has "upper hand" in Syrian civil war
CBS News
(CBS News) As the Syrian civil war rages on, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said Sunday on "Face the Nation," what's unfolding is "unfortunately a battlefield situation where [President] Bashar Assad now has the upper hand - and it's tragic - while we sit ...
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Hamas Surprised: Iran Supports a 'Dictator Like Assad' ?
The Jewish Press
However, when Syrians had the courage to take to the streets to protest, and then fight, againstAssad, Hamas started to be afraid. Hamas so far has kept the lid on opposition in Gaza. It casually executes its citizens suspected of collaborating with ...
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Qaradawi Calls Sunnis for Jihad in Syria
Onislam.net
DOHA – Prominent Muslim scholar Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi has appealed to Sunni Muslims worldwide to join opposition forces in their fight against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. "Every Muslim trained to fight and capable of doing that ...
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Russia blocks UN draft on Syrian siege of Qusair
Jerusalem Post
The draft statement, obtained by Reuters, also urged forces loyal to President Bashar Assad and rebels trying to oust him "to do their utmost to avoid civilian casualties and for the SyrianGovernment to exercise its responsibility to protect civilians ...
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A City Of Assad Supporters In War-Ravaged Syria
NPR
Many people in Syria are accustomed to the sound of daily gunfire. It is normal in battle-scarred cities like Damascus or Qusair. But along the beaches and in the cafes of Tartous, an area that is a center of support for the embattled President Bashar ...
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Accept Assad in Syria peace process: Carr
The Australian
“If you can bring the two parties to a ceasefire and to talks about a peaceful political transition, leaveAssad there,” the Foreign Minister told the Sky News Agenda program. “If it were to end the suffering of these millions of Syrians I would stick ...
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Rami Makhlouf, Bashar Assad's Cousin, Has Citizenship Revoked From Cyprus
Huffington Post
The EU froze the assets of and imposed a visa ban on Syrian President Bashar Assad and other members of his regime in May, 2011 because of his crackdown on anti-government protesters. Makhlouf controls the mobile phone network and other lucrative ...
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Take Assad at his word
Haaretz
We had better take at face value Syrian President Bashar Assad's threats to respond to any Israel Air Force strikes in the Damascus area. Whether he launches missiles against the Israeli home front − not necessarily at a city but an air force base ...
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Rockets from Syria hit Hezbollah stronghold
Arizona Daily Star
In Qatar, an influential Sunni Muslim cleric whose TV show is watched by millions across the region, fanned the sectarian flames ignited by the Syria conflict and urged Sunnis everywhere to join the fight against Assad. "I call on Muslims everywhere to ...
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'Iranian, Russian arms giving Assad edge in Syria'
Jerusalem Post
Sophisticated weapons that Iran and Russia have provided to Syrian President Bashar Assad have "cemented an advantage" gained by his forces in recent weeks with the arrival of Hezbollah fighters from Lebanon, The Washington Post reported on Sunday, ...
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News Analysis: Syrian opposition's disarray could benefit Assad's position
Philippine Star
DAMASCUS (Xinhua) - Syrian opposition's rejection of talks with the Damascus government and its great disarray would benefit President Bashar al-Assad's administration, local analysts said. After a week-long meeting in Turkey's Istanbul, Syria's ...
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Russian, Iranian technology is boosting Assad's assault on Syrian rebels
Washington Post
RAMTHA, Jordan — Sophisticated technology from Russia and Iran has given Syrian government troops new advantages in tracking and destroying their foes, helping them solidify battlefield gains against rebels, according to Middle Eastern intelligence ...
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Syrian opposition's disarray could benefit Assad
Daijiworld.com
Damascus, Jun 2 (IANS): The Syrian opposition's rejection of talks with the Damascus government and its disarray will benefit President Bashar al-Assad's administration, analysts said. After a week-long meeting in Istanbul, Syria's National Coalition ...
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Qatar-Turkey Plot to Explode Bashar Assad's Plane Foiled
Fars News Agency
Jordan's intelligence agency disclosed the assassination plot on Assad's life, informing their Syriancounterparts that terrorists intended to cause a blast in Assad's private plane at Latakia airport, the Lebanese al-Diyar newspaper reported on Sunday ...
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Syrian rebels, Hezbollah in deadly fight in Lebanon
Reuters
Rebels have said they will carry out attacks inside Lebanon in response to Hezbollah's support forAssad's assault on Qusair, a strategic town for rebel weapons supplies and fighters coming intoSyria from Lebanon. The United Nations said on Saturday ...
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Syrian TV Ramps Up Coverage of the Protests — Next Door
Wall Street Journal
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad–a friend of Mr. Erdogan before the Syrian crisis who broke both the personal relationship and the two countries' political ties–hasn't yet commented on the turmoil in Turkey. Mr. Assad has vacillated throughout the ...
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AK Party Deputy Chairman criticizes CHP
www.worldbulletin.net
"We called Assad to leave as a bloody-handed leader cannot rule his country any more. Without differentiating between Christian, Arab, Sunni, Kurd, Turkish groups in Syria, we want the Syrianpeople to choose their own leader, free from any foreign ...
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NATO Study: Assad Winning War, 70% of Syrians Support Him
Al-Manar TV
A NATO data published by World Tribune on Sunday shows that Syrian President Bashar al-Assadis winning the war against the foreign –backed opposition, as it stresses that 70 percent of theSyrians support their leader. President Bashar Assad. The ...
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Russia sells MiG-29s to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
Guardian Express
Russia has agreed to sell at least ten MiG-29 M/M2 fighters to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. This comes on the heels of a deal made between the two allies, of Russia selling S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to the regime of President al-Assad. On ...
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Crossing Borders: Syria's location makes it pivotal
Sacramento Bee
Congress and the White House are split on how to respond to Syrian President Bashar Assad'sbrutal crackdown on what started as peaceful protests by the Syrian people. More than 80,000 people have died since the uprising against Assad's rule began in ...
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Iraq: al-Qaida chemical gas team captured
Toronto Sun
The announcement was made as investigators look into allegations over the use of sarin nerve gas in next-door Syria where rebels and President Bashar al-Assad's forces have blamed each other for using chemical weapons. During the height of the Iraq war ...
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Bob Carr's Syria stand makes sense
The Australian
BOB Carr's suggestion that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad be allowed to stay in office if it facilitates an end to the bloody fighting there is a sharp and sensible departure from the US and European consensus. The Foreign Minister says a shift in the ...
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Assad: We already have S-300 missiles
WND.com
TEL AVIV – The Syrian government already has received a first shipment of S-300 air defense missiles from Russia and is waiting for more, stated President Bashar al-Assad in a television interview today. Assad told Hezbollah's Al-Manar television ...
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Fighting in Syria's Qusair, UN says world watching
Chicago Tribune
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said fighting was taking place inside Qusair and in villages around it, largely controlled by President Bashar al-Assad's forces who have cut off access to the town. Rebels have pleaded for military ...
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Nasrallah fights uphill battle for Assad
Haaretz
Nasrallah fights uphill battle for Assad. Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah knows that if SyrianPresident Bashar Assad falls, his own organization's future is burka-black. However, a call-to-arms to his Shi'ite brothers in Iraq is failing to win ...
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UN chief warns ''all sides will be held accountable'' for atrocities in Syria
CNN
But the fight for control of Qusayr has also raised fears the Syria conflict could destabilize Lebanon, with news that Hezbollah fighters have joined al-Assad's forces in laying siege to the city. At least 16 rockets were fired from Syria into Lebanon ...
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Leading Sunni Cleric Calls for Holy War in Syria
Voice of America
Sectarian tensions on Syria's western border rose sharply in mid-May, when Lebanese-based Hezbollah fighters were reported to have joined forces with Assad loyalists in a push against rebels in and near Qusair. The town has since become one of the war ...
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More than 1000 killed in Iraq violence in May
Pakistan Daily Times
Syria's war, where mostly Sunni rebels are trying to topple President Bashar al-Assad, has further frayed ties between Iraq's Shias and Sunnis. Iraqi fighters from both sects are crossing the border to fight for opposite sides in Syria. Iraqi Shia ...
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Assad forces killed in blast
The Australian
Meanwhile, young men loyal to President Bashar al-Assad are joining combat units being trained to fight Israel's 46-year occupation of the Golan Heights, adding another potentially dangerous twist to the Syrian conflict. Syrians, Palestinians and other ...
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Iraq captures alleged Al Qaeda chemical gas team
Toronto Star
The announcement was made as international investigators look into allegations over the use of sarin nerve gas in next-door Syria, where rebels and President Bashar Assad's forces have blamed each other for using chemical weapons. Western powers ...
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Cyprus rescinds citizenship of Assad billionaire cousin
AngolaPress
Rami Makhlouf, who is a maternal cousin of Assad, is widely considered part of the Syrianpresident's inner circle and one of the most influential men in Syria. Cyprus granted him citizenship in January 2011, and it was later extended to his wife and ...
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Liberal hawks mum on US intervention in Syria
The Japan Times
WASHINGTON – For interests on both sides of Syria's civil war, the past two weeks have been the time to increase the pressure. Hezbollah sent reinforcements to the troops of President BasharAssad, and Russia reiterated its intention to furnish the ...
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Syria claims sarin seizure at rebel hideout as Russia 'blocks' UN's ...
By RT
Syrian Arab News Agency reports that sarin, together with automatic rifles, pistols and homemade bombs (IEDs) was seized in the Faraieh neighborhood of the city of Hama. Sarin (or GB) is an extremely toxic, though ... he is cited by Syrian State Television. The UK-drafted UN statement obtained by Reuters claims that Assad's government must “allow immediate, full and unimpeded access to impartial humanitarian actors, including UN agencies, to reach civilians trapped in Qusair.”...
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Russia Vetoes Security Council Vote on Assad ... - The Jewish Press
By Jewish Press News Briefs
On Saturday night, Russia blocked a UN Security Council declaration of alarm over the siege of theSyrian town of Qusair by Syrian troops and Hezbollah guerrillas, diplomats told RTE News. Britain, the president of the council, had circulated ...
The Jewish Press
Syrian rockets hit Hezbollah stronghold in Lebanon | Ya Libnan ...
By Ya Libnan
Ya Libnan features frequently updated breaking news, world news, op-eds and features, live from Beirut, Lebanon. ... In Qatar, an influential Sunni Muslim cleric whose TV show is watched by millions across the region, fanned the sectarian flames ignited by the Syria conflict and urged Sunnis everywhere to join the fight against Assad. “I call on Muslims everywhere to help their brothers be victorious,” Yusuf al-Qaradawi said in his Friday sermon in the Qatari capital of Doha. “If I had the ...
Ya Libnan
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