 NPR Another sign of international pressure on Syria: today, a United Nations team visited the city of Hama. It was investigating human rights abuses. The UN says more than 2200 people have died in the crackdown on anti-government protests, many of them in ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Gulfsands Stops Paying Assad's Cousin After Syria Sanctions Bloomberg The US, UK and France circulated a draft resolution to UN Security Council members yesterday seeking to freeze foreign assets held by Assad, his brother Maher and 21 senior government officials. The EU expanded an asset freeze and travel ban on Syrian ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Ford vs. Assad The National Interest Online (blog) Rice also has Syria on her mind. A draft UN resolution that would impose sanctions on Bashar al-Assad and his inner circle is making the rounds in New York, and it faces a potential veto from Russia and/or China. Ambassador Rice stressed that the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Single cell-phone perception of Syrian unrest RT The UN has condemned Assad over the violence against his people. But Damascus emphasizes that the condemnation is from afar – until recently no UN mission has crossed the Syrian border. Hanna, a correspondent with Saudi Arabia-based Al-Arabiya ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Syrian woman 'tortured to death' ABC Online The latest deaths come as Western nations circulate a draft resolution at the UN calling for sanctions against Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, members of his family and associates. The resolution - drafted by Britain, France, Germany, Portugal and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Conflicting interests paralyze Russian diplomacy on Syria: analysts RIA Novosti As international pressure on President Bashar al-Assad of Syria grows, Russia has maintained a perplexing timidity towards developments. Moscow has steadfastly refused to stake out an unambiguous position on events in Syria, a diplomatic paralysis that ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Does Gaddafi's fate await Assad? Asia Times Online The answer depends on whether Syria's political crisis leads to more civilian deaths, thus warranting an United Nations Security Council "humanitarian intervention" that would authorize another military gambit from the North Atlantic Treaty ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Ron Paul: We May Have to Accept Iran Nukes NewsMax.com We could invade Syria. There is a great opportunity to get rid of a terrorist enemy in President Bashar al-Assad? The natives will help us. But such posturing is ridiculous. American is broke. Our endless wars are destroying us. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| UN secretary-general renews pledge to help Libya msnbc.com As he has before, Ban criticized Syrian President Bashar Assad for failing to halt a military crackdown on dissent that has killed nearly 2000 people in that country. "We must do our part to protect people threatened with extreme violence for ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Syria: UN Team Should Insist on Protection of Protesters TrustLaw (New York) - The UN humanitarian assessment mission in Syria should demand guarantees from the government that security forces will fully respect the right to peaceful assembly in areas the UN team visits, Human Rights Watch said today. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| France calls Libya victory summit, warns Syria EUobserver.com Turning to Syria, Sarkozy ruled out military intervention due to the lack of a UN mandate, but warnedSyrian President Bashar Assad to draw lessons from the "precedent" of Libya and the Ivory Coast, where France also used force. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| UN rights council orders investigation into Syria's human rights violations Examiner.com Last Thursday, US President Barack Obama issued an executive order creating additional stricter sanctions on the Syria due to its violence against its own people and called for Syria's President Bashar al-Assad to immediately leave office. See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Five killed in Syrian clampdown, activists say Monsters and Critics.com Meanwhile, a draft document proposing sanctions against the regime of President Bashar al-Assadwas being circulated among United Nations Security Council members, according to diplomatic sources in New York on Wednesday. The paper, presented jointly ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Gulfsands stops funds to Syrian head's cousin CITY A.M. The explorer, which first entered Syria in 2000, said it was “fully compliant” with sanctions against the country and insisted it had kept its relations with Assad's cousin Remi Makhlouf, who owns a 5.7 per cent stake in Gulfsands via his investment ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Bloodshed in Homs as the Syrian authorities continue their violent crackdown ... FRANCE 24 A UN delegation arrived in Syria at the weekend to access humanitarian needs and visited Homs on Monday. Opponents of Bashar al-Assad were there to greet the mission for this much awaited visit, but the situation degenerated and security forces used ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| National and world briefs News Sentinel The uprising in Syria has lasted for more than five months and shows no signs of stopping. With President Bashar Assad's forces cracking down on the protests, the overall death toll has reached 2200 since March, the United Nations said this week. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| WORLD - News of the Day From Across the Globe San Francisco Chronicle 2 Iran sanctions: The European Union announced Wednesday that it was leveling sanctions against Iran's Al Quds military force, saying it had given technical and material support to President BasharAssad of Syria in his efforts to crush the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| High Tide: From A Referral In Thailand To A Thaw In India Wall Street Journal (blog) (WSJ) The European Union, with US backing, has introduced a draft resolution to the UN Security Council that would impose a total arms embargo on Syria and freeze the assets of top Syrianofficials, including those of President Bashar al-Assad. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Syrian forces raid tribal east for second day Reuters UK It said Syrian forces had killed at least 49 people since Assad told UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on August 17 that military and police operations had stopped, adding that on August 22 in Homs, Syrian forces "fired on a crowd of peaceful protesters ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Why Libya sceptics were proved badly wrong Financial Times Those forces have now pushed both the west and Arab governments into taking a much harder line than simply geostrategic logic would dictate against Bashar al-Assad's brutality in Syria, and even (albeit timidly) against torture and killings by the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| A Response to Andy McCarthy's 'Et Tu, Yoo?' National Review Online (blog) We should have done more to push out the dictators in Tunisia and Egypt, and we should be doing a lot more to remove one of the real cancers in the Middle East, Assad in Syria. We will be advancing our interests by simply getting rid of these dictators ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| EU diplomat: Embargo on Syrian oil possible next week Ynetnews The bloc's 27 governments agreed last Friday to explore new sanctions against Assad in response to his five-month crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators, in which the United Nations says 2200 civilians have been killed.(Reuters) See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Inside the 26 August edition The Guardian (blog) ... there was plenty else going on, with exchanges of fire between Israel and Gaza militants after a border attack that's also strained Israeli-Egyptian relations; a UN mission seeing close-up the strength of opposition to the Assad regime in Syria; ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| MidEast Daily News The Media Line The United Nations Human Rights Council has begun an investigation into Syrian President Bashar Al-Asad's violent repression of citizens demonstrating against his government. Ironically, while China , Russia and Cuba oppose investigating whether crimes ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Ullman: The 'LES' countries UPI.com Of course Libya has oil. And so does Iraq! Syria may be the most depressing of all. The United States has joined the growing chorus demanding President Bashar Assad leave. Yet, who would replace him? There are no democratic institutions in Syria. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Keith Lane / The Canadian Press Margot Kidder and others protest. (CP) Winnipeg Free Press BEIRUT -- Syria's opposition took steps toward forming a national council Tuesday but serious divisions and mistrust kept them from presenting a unified front against President Bashar Assad'sregime more than five months into their uprising, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Is Sri Lanka a target of Western regime change? Lankaweb This is why the scenario in Libya & Syria is taking the shape of a “war”. The US regime change forSyria started with the false flag terror campaign to tarnish the image of popular President Bashar-alAssad through hired street protests & paid carnage. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Austria - Spindelegger: "Our patience with the Syrian leadership is running out" ISRIA (registration) In a resolution presented by Austria and the EU, the UN Human Rights Council, into which Austria was elected as a member in May this year, has today clearly and unmistakably condemned the continued violence by the Syrian regime against its own people ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Iran in Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay Hudson New York Syria's President, Bashar Al-Assad, Iran's main ally in the Middle East, may sooner or later be toppled; according to some Arab media outlets Iranian diplomats are allegedly already evacuatingSyria;s capital city, Damascus. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Western Powers Target Assad with U.N. Sanctions | Radio Sawt ... By Carol Maher European nations and the United States pressed Wednesday for U.N. sanctions against Syria'sPresident Bashar Assad and his entourage for their deadly crackdown on opposition protests. A draft resolution circulated to the 15 nation ... Radio Sawt Beirut International... |
| msnbc.com U.S. & World News - U.N. Syria sanctions draft targets ... msnbc.com U.S. & World News. ... U.N. Syria sanctions draft targets Assad, 22 others. Seeded on Wed Aug 24, ... Filed under: world-news, mideastn-africa ... world-news.newsvine.com/_.../7458777-un-syria-sanctions-dr... |
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