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UN urges Syria to end Lebanon incursions
AFP
Syria first sent it troops into Lebanon months after the outbreak of the country's 1975-1990 civil war, and kept them deployed in it smaller neighbour for 29 years. Bashar al-Assad withdrew forces from Beirut in the aftermath of the 2005 assassination ...
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AFP
Syria FM: Syrian People have the Ability to overcome Crisis
Day Press News
Al-Moallem referred to the citizens' legitimate demands which the Syriangovernment is working hard to fulfill through the comprehensive reform program announced by President Bashar al-Assad, citing the already issued legislative decrees regarding ...
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Day Press News
Gaddafi has underscored the new paradigm; who's next?
Left Foot Forward
The obvious answers lie in the Middle East. Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad is clinging on to power quite remarkably. Despite killing thousands of his own citizens (in the name of law and order, apparently), he is still de fact ruler of Syria. ...
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Left Foot Forward
US Leadership Needed to Protect the Syrian People from the Syrian Regime
NOW LEBANON
Today, the Asad regime crossed another red line. According to reports from Beirut,Syria dispatched troops into neighboring Lebanon to chase down and shoot eight defecting soldiers and other protestors in the border town of Masharee al-Qaa. ...
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Syrian Refugees in Lebanon Still Face Peril
New York Times
There are 3135 Syrian refugees in Lebanon registered with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, but the refugees estimate that their population is higher, because not everyone registers with the agency. Refugees said that the Lebanese ...
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LIBYA LIVE: Piecing together the day Gadhafi died
The Associated Press
Bashar Assad and Ali Abdullah Saleh are still clinging to power in Syriaand Yemen despite daily protests against their regimes. One comparison might be former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, who was found in hiding by US troops. ...
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The Associated Press
Turkey's New Activism in the Former Ottoman Lands and Continuing PKK Attacks
AOL News
And despite his close personal relationship with Assad, Erdogan now strongly condemnsSyria. And despite the United Nations' failure to impose sanctions on Damascus after its crackdown on anti-government protesters, Erdogan announced that Turkey would ...
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US accusations turn up heat in simmering Gulf
Jerusalem Post
In Iran, the initial euphoria of seeing old adversaries like Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak fall has given away to concerns that allies like Syria's Bashar Assad are also at jeopardy. The US charges, leveled last week, involve a plot to assassinate ...
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West celebrates Gaddafi's end, hails own role
TVNZ
On the streets of Cairo, people said Gaddafi's downfall would be a warning to SyrianPresident Bashar al-Assad who has launched a crackdown against months of protest against his rule. The response to Gaddafi's death appeared to be more muted south of ...
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Tracing the Middle East weapons flow
Aljazeera.net
In Syria's case, many governments had not sold weapons to the government of Bashar al-Assad for years. But for the thousands of people who have died since January, such measures came too late, and many countries seem ready to return to business as ...
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Hariri warns 'tyrants' to face Kadhafi's fate
iloubnan.info
In Syria, protests calling for greater freedoms and the fall of the regime of Bashar al-Assad erupted mid-March but were met with violent crackdown on dissent that has killed more than 3000 people, according to the UN. ...
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Arab Spring helped free Israeli soldier
CNN
For months now, the people of Syria have taken to the streets by the hundreds of thousands to demand an end to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, one of Hamas' most important backers. Hamas, an acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement, ...
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The 'Arab Spring' and beyond (Full Version)
The Hindu
But so far they have found no ruse to directly attack Syria, as President Bashar al-Assad could not be accused of “possessing weapons of mass destruction capable of destroying Western civilisations within 45 minutes.” So the Arab Spring has become the ...
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The Hindu
Rolling blog: Eurozone crisis
FT.com (blog)
It condemns in the strongest terms the ongoing brutal repression led by the Syrian regime against its population as well as the widespread human rights violations. President Assad must step aside to allow a political transition to take place in Syria. ...
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FT.com (blog)
Mouallem: 'Terrorist armed' groups have support of neighboring countries
NOW LEBANON
“[Syrian] President [Bashar] al-Assad has specified a schedule to implement reforms within a period that does not exceed six months,” Mouallem said, adding that preparations are ongoing to hold a national-dialogue conference that includes all the ...
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Syria May Switch From Euro to Ruble Banking
The Moscow Times
At least 3000 people have been killed in the seven-month uprising against President Bashar Assad, according to the United Nations. Syrian Arab Airlines, the country's biggest carrier, agreed Wednesday to buy three new planes from Tupolev as Western ...
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Saleh's dangerous game
Al-Arabiya
Washington has been less harsh with Saleh than it was with his Syriancounterpart President Bashar Assad. Saleh likes to project himself as a staunch partner in the war against Al-Qaeda, which is believed to have a large presence in Yemen. ...
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Al-Arabiya
3 Tragedies of Humanitarian Intervention
Globla Brief (blog)
But if Western leaders were frank about the crucial differences between the two cases – not least that it would be much harder to overthrow Assadthan Gaddafi, and that toppling the Syrian government might well cause a humanitarian crisis in its own ...
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Globla Brief (blog)
Karami: Neither cabinet nor parliament will approve STL funding
NOW LEBANON
The former PM also said that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah did not make any negative comments concerning the cabinet's work during his recent meetings with the two. Karami warned of “Israel's ...
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Syrian Intervention and the UN Security ... - Cultural Diplomacy News
By icdblogsphereteam
Firstly, there are many within Syria who want to see serious political reforms, but would still want to allow Mr Assad enough time to implement them rather than jeopardise prospects of stability and sectarian peace. If Mr Assad falls, there are qualms of instability and pandemonium – in some .... The Council would need to shoulder its responsibilities and take the “tough action that it was prevented from taking today.” US: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the UN Security Council ...
Cultural Diplomacy News
Syrian tank forces kill 25 in opposition hotbed Homs - TODAY News ...
Foreign reporters are largely banned from Syria, making independent confirmation of reported events difficult. The United Nations says Assad's crackdown has ...
today.msnbc.msn.com/.../syrian-tank-forces-kill-opposition-ho...
UN chief to Syria's Bashar Assad: 'This killing must stop'
The Syrian government has said it has no intention of having talks with opposition groups calling for the ouster of Assad.] The UN chief, who has previously ...
latimesblogs.latimes.com/.../un-syria-bashar-assad-ban-ki-moo...
UN calls for international action against Syria after warning country ...
A senior United Nations official called for "protective" international action against Syriayesterday as ... Demonstrators protesting against Syria's President Bashar al-Assadmarch through the streets ...http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/8827564/UN-calls-for- ...TODAY; PAST WEEK; PAST MONTH ...
www.telegraph.co.uk/.../UN-calls-for-international-action-agai...
Stop the killings, UN chief tells Syria's Assad - Yahoo! News
Read 'Stop the killings, UN chief tells Syria's Assad' on Yahoo! News. UN chief Ban Ki-moon Monday urged President Bashar al-Assad to immediately stop the ...
news.yahoo.com/un-chief-tells-assad-killings-must-stop-syria-...
U.N.: Syria death toll tops 3000 – USATODAY.com - USA Today
BEIRUT (AP) – Thousands of Syrian protesters called on soldiers Friday to abandon President Bashar Assad's regime and join a dissident army numbering in ...
www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2011-10-14/syria.../1
Stop the killings, UN chief tells Syria's Assad Asharq Alawsat ...
DAMASCUS , (AFP) — UN chief Ban Ki-moon Monday urged President Bashar al -Assad to immediately stop the killings of civilians, a day after the Arab League ...
www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&id=26965
UN chief asks Syria's Assad to stop killings : Nagaland Post ...
International news, world news, UN chief asks Syria's Assad to stop killings. ... inSyria, UN chief Ban Ki-moon has asked President Bashar-Al Assad to bring an ...
www.nagalandpost.com/.../InternationalNews.aspx?news...

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