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Assad's Cold War of Revenge On Turkey
Al-Monitor
The interference by the Lebanese Hezbollah — which is consecrating all of its military and organizational experience in the fight between the regime army and Syrian opposition forces in Qusair and other regions — has started to tip the balance of the ...
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Obama considers Syria moves, Assad turns guns on north
Reuters AlertNet
BEIRUT, June 13 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama is deciding whether to take new action to helpSyria's rebels, the White House said on Thursday, while President Bashar al-Assad's surging forces and their Lebanese Hezbollah allies turned their ...
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Assad: Winning Hearts, Minds and Battles in Syria
The People's Voice
Most Syrians support Assad. They do so for good reason. Mass crowds turn out in liberated areas.Syria's military is cheered. Polls show over two-thirds of Syrians back their government. The longer conflict continues, the greater Assad backing grows.
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Syria death toll reaches 93000: UN
Telegraph.co.uk
A report, which came amid US debate over whether to arm anti-Assad rebels, found 92,901 documented killings in Syria between March 2011 and the end of April 2013. However the UN's top human rights official, Navi Pillay, said that it was impossible to ...
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More than 60 Shiites killed in raid on Syrian village
Haaretz
More than 60 Shiites killed in raid on Syrian village. WATCH: Syrian rebels, including Sunni extremists, storm village in attack steeped in sectarian hatred, one week after Hezbollah helps Assad forces overtake rebel stronghold of Qusair. By The ...
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West to discuss aid with Syria rebel leader; insurgents kill Shi'ites
Reuters
Western countries have shown more determination in recent weeks to play an active role in Syria's civil war after largely sitting on the sidelines while calling for Assad's downfall during two years of fighting in which 80,000 people were killed. The ...
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Assad gains sharpen focus on arming Syrian rebels
AFP
WASHINGTON/PARIS — The advance of Syrian regime forces on opposition strongholds has thrust into the spotlight a fractious debate on whether Western nations should arm the rebels, with no decision yet in sight. British Foreign Secretary William Hague ...
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US holds high-level meetings on Syria, including on arming rebels
euronews
The battlefield has tilted against the rebels in the Syrian civil war as Lebanese Hezbollah has entered the fray on the side of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, helping his forces retake the strategic town of Qusair last week. However, the White House ...
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Clinton Calls on Obama for More Force in Syria
Arutz Sheva
Clinton Calls on Obama for More Force in Syria. Former US President Bill Clinton has called on President Barack Obama to back rebel forces against Syria's President Assad more forcefully. By Chana Ya'ar. First Publish: 6/13/2013, 3:48 PM. Former US Pres.
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The danger in entering Syria
Denver Post
Just as Zine El Abidine Ben Ali had been swept from power in Tunisia, Hosni Mubarak deposed in Egypt and Moammar Khadafy toppled in Libya, surely it was only a matter of time before Bashar al-Assad'scruel dictatorship in Syria ran its course. The ...
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As Assad gains momentum, US weighs options
Washington Post
The United States is committed to helping the Syrian opposition salvage victory, Secretary of State John F. Kerry said Wednesday, as the Obama administration held crisis talks on whether to shift policy and begin arming the increasingly desperate rebels.
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Syrian rebels to tell West: "Arm us, or Assad gains"
Reuters AlertNet (blog)
BEIRUT, June 13 (Reuters) - Syrian rebels will use a planned meeting with Western officials to drive home a warning that continued reluctance to arm them will hand an irreversible military advantage to President Bashar al-Assad's Iranian-backed forces.
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Assad's Days Numbered?
Al-Monitor
He has fallen on the sword of a media that elevated his opponents. And from the ruins and battle smoke that continues to hover over Syria's cities — Assad has risen; Assad the Stubborn, Assad the Survivor, the man whose premature obituaries were ...
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Comment: Why Assad is loving the protests in Turkey
SBS
Since the beginning of the protests, the Syrian government and state media have had some fun with their denunciations of Erdogan, a previously close ally of President Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian Foreign Ministry issued a travel warning for Turkey, ...
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Free Syrian army stages operation against Assad forces
Journal of Turkish Weekly
Emphasizing barrel bombs were thrown near the 17th Division of the Syrian army, LCC stated planes ofAssad forces destructed tens of houses near capital Damascus. Hezbollah militia and Free Syrian army forces clashed in suburbs surrounding Damascus, ...
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UN says nearly 93000 killed in Syrian conflict
USA TODAY
BEIRUT (AP) — Nearly 93,000 people have been confirmed killed since Syria's civil war began more than two years ago, the U.N. said Thursday, a sharp rise in the death toll as the fighting turns increasingly sectarian and the carnage gripping the ...
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Diplomats predict Assad will soon launch campaign to retake Aleppo
MiamiHerald.com
The rebels first launched an offensive into Aleppo in July 2012 and fought pro-Assad troops street by street, gaining steadily until September, when the battle became a stalemate. According to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the ...
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Bashar al-Assad rallies troops to take Aleppo
The Australian
The prospect of Bashar al-Assad gaining the upper hand in the increasingly sectarian Syrian war has alarmed several Western countries that have supported the rebels during the two-year uprising. France urged the international community yesterday to ...
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Shadow Government: Old-fashioned intelligence problems in Syria
Foreign Policy (blog)
As a recent Wall Street Journal article (available here, but behind a subscription wall) explains, the intelligence community is divided on a basic question that figures heavily in the policy debate over what to do: Is Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ...
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US Eases Restrictions on Syria's Opposition
Arutz Sheva
The easing on the restrictions came amid reports that President Barack Obama is close to approving arms for the rebels fighting to oust Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. Officials in the U.S. said this week that the Obama administration could decide ...
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Saying 'yes' to a no-fly zone in Syria
The Yemen Times
The fall of the Syrian regime has been the goal of millions of Syrians, not only those who rose against Bashar Al-Assad, but also the now more than four million people directly affected by his clinging to power instead of answering the popular call for ...
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Syrian rebels kill 60 Shias, activists say
Peninsula On-line
BEIRUT: Sunni insurgents have killed about 60 Shias in a rebel-held eastern Syrian town where President Bashar Al Assad's agents had been trying to recruit and arm fighters for his cause, according to opposition sources yesterday. The attack was ...
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Syria: Jordan; Hezbollah fighters reach border, sources
ANSAmed
(ANSAmed) - AMMAN, JUNE 13 - Hezbollah forces reached the northern borders of Jordan to fight anti-Assad forces and built on recent victories in Homs, Syrian opposition and Jordanian sources said on Thursday. The information could not be officially ...
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Sunni and Shia jihad in Syria
The Commentator
In 2011 after the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia and the Lotus Revolution in Egypt, Syria proved that it was not immune to regional unrest. Syrians directed their anger against the secular Assad regime and, at the time, sectarianism did not play a role ...
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Syria crisis puts Lebanese farmers at risk
Gant Daily
Up to 60 percent of the border area's population depends on agriculture and raising livestock, which have come under growing strain as cross-border fighting has increased between forces supporting and opposing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the ...
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Syrian rebels warn lack of weapons for moderates will hand victory to ...
Fox News
The Obama administration has been alarmed by the Assad regime's rapid military advances, but U.S. officials said those closest to the president are still split on whether to begin providing Syria's armed opposition with weapons or to consider more ...
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Starved for Arms, Syria Rebels Make Their Own
New York Times (blog)
Last spring, when Mr. Assad was struggling to confront the armed opposition that his crackdown had fueled, shops like these forced Syria's military to change tactics. The roads became so laced with their output of hidden bombs that the army stopped ...
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Syrian Coalition needs arms to create conditions for peace
Washington Post
Inside Syria, however, the Assad regime has proceeded with very different preparations. Syrian forces amassed outside the western town of Qusair, near the border with Lebanon, and demanded that all residents evacuate. Days later, just as Kerry arrived ...
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Gaza suffers drop in foreign aid over Syrian war
MiamiHerald.com
They say Iran, an ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad and a former major financial backer of Hamas, has reduced monthly cash transfers because Hamas refuses to side with the Syrian regime. Islamic charities abroad that used to donate heavily to Gaza ...
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Syria Civil War Death Toll Rises to 93000, UN Agency Says
Businessweek
At least 93,000 people have been killed in Syria since peaceful protests against President Bashar al-Assad more than two years ago sparked a civil war, the United Nations said in an analysis of casualties. In an update of the inaugural January study ...
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UN slams recruitment of children for Syrian war
Jerusalem Post
UN shames Assad regime, rebels for recruiting child soldiers; report says kids are killed, maimed or raped by Assad forces. Children carry the body of a friend that was killed by shelling Photo: REUTERS. UNITED NATIONS - Syrian troops and rebels are ...
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McCain: Assad has the upper hand in Syria - CBS News Video
CBS News video: McCain: Assad has the upper hand in Syria - Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz ...
www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50148100n
Social Media Buzz: Turkish Protests on Focus in Assad's Media ...
Each week Syria Deeply monitors the online conversation in English and ... Social media pages loyal to Bashar al-Assad's regime were alight with updates on the protests. .... News and resources from the British Broadcasting Corporation  ...
www.syriadeeply.org/?p=6874
Sky News: Syria rebels boost as Assad forces close
Updated: 07:31, Saturday June 1, 2013. Syria rebels boost as Assad forces close . Syrian troops and Hezbollah allies pressed their assault on the strategic town ...
www.skynews.com.au/politics/article.aspx?id=876495
Syria: Assad Regime Regains Control of Qusair [VIDEO] | HEAVY
President al-Assad's troops have regained the contested border town of Qusair with the help of Hezbollah- shifting power towards Assad's favor in the civil war.
www.heavy.com/.../assad-regime-regains-control-qusair-syria-...
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