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SYRIA News, Nov 17, 2011


Russia stands by Assad as pressure mounts on Syria |
Reuters
Ankara is considering imposing sanctions on Syria, has hosted opponents of Assad and is working with the Arab League to increase pressure on Damascus, but denies any plan to intervene militarily in its southern neighbor. No UN sanctions against Syria ...
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France helping Syrian opposition get organized
Ynetnews
The Syrian security forces' violent suppression of demonstrators opposed to President Bashar Assad has killed some 3500 civilians over the past eight months, according to UN estimates. Opponents of Assad'sgovernment in the Syrian diaspora have so far ...
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Ynetnews
50 rights groups urge UN's Syria meeting to mandate victim hearings, special ...
Canada Free Press
... al-Assad and the holding of televised hearings in Geneva for Syrian victims to testify. Led by UN Watch, a Geneva-based human rights advocacy group, the appeal was submitted in a letter today to the ambassadors of all 47 council member states. ...
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Syrian leader's uncle calls for him to step down
Montreal Gazette
Western countries are piling pressure on Bashar al-Assad to halt the violent crackdown on protesters against his regime, which has cost more than 3500 lives by a UN count, since demonstrations began in March. The Arab League has suspended Syria and ...
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A Syrian revolution iPhone app to back activists
Al-Arabiya
(File Photo) By AL ARABIYA A mobile application which documents theSyrian revolution has allowed users to follow opposition groups and the latest news across the country, while sharing a few jokes aimed at embattled president Bashar al-Assad and his ...
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Al-Arabiya
Syria faces army defectors, worldwide isolation
Atlanta Journal Constitution
It is up to the people of Syria to decide," Larijani told a press conference Wednesday at UN headquarters in New York. But as more countries shift away from Damascus, Assad's power could wobble. Assad, a 46-year-old eye doctor who inherited power 11 ...
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Atlanta Journal Constitution
Research report: US, Canadian servers host Syrian government websites
Washington Post
The United Nations estimates more than 3500 people have been killed in Syria since last March, when President Bashar Assad began clamping down on Syrians who spoke out against his regime. The report also says a website for the official media arm of ...
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Canadians in Syria should 'leave now,' Baird says
CTV.ca
For months, the Syrian leader has used military force to crack down on an uprising against his rule. The UN believes thousands of people have been killed since March. As a result of the bloody tactics being used in Syria, Canada is demanding that Assad ...
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CTV.ca
Lebanese ready to take up arms against Syrian insurgents
Ya Libnan
Also present was a representative of the estimated 5000 Syrians who have fled to Lebanon to escape the government's brutal crackdown on protesters demanding President Bashar al-Assad step down. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights says more than ...
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MidEast Daily News
The Media Line
Pro-Asad demonstrators continued to attack the Damascus embassies of Arab League member states that supported the suspension of Syria. The embassies of Morocco and the UAE were the latest to be hit. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud 'Abbas called ...
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Iranian Envoy Says Tehran Supports Arab Spring
Voice of America
On Iran's closest ally, Syria, where President Bashar al-Assad is facing international calls to step down and suspension from the Arab League, Larijani condemned what he said is 'incitement' by the United States, European powers and Arab nations to ...
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Syrian stalemate?
Africasia
Syria's complexities are both numerous and intertwined. The country's business classes can be loosely split into those that precede the Ba'athist regime (broadly anti-Assad) and those who became rich through the patronage of the establishment ...
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Israel strives to impress
Asia Times Online
[11] On Wednesday, the League gave Assad three days to stop the crackdown, without making any specific threats. Simultaneously, France withdrew its ambassador to Syria, while some of the rebels in the country, the so-called Free Syrian Army, ...
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Will Washington Thump the Syrian Domino?
Antiwar.com
I do not know what is going on in Syria, but neither does John McCain, any more than he knew what was going on in Libya and can predict what kind of government it will wind up with. According to some media reports, it does seem that the Assad regime ...
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Military chief: Israel under threat from all sides
CBS News
And in Syria, uncertainty surrounding the fate of the embattled Assad regime, which last May organized mass marches on the Golan Heights border with Israel. The use of civilian populations as fronts for military operations, is one of the most difficult ...
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Whose Side Is Egypt On?
Tablet Magazine
To that list, you may add the country's recent efforts to protect Syria's Assad regime from what is becoming an extraordinarily broad movement to isolate it. European countries are pushing a UN General Assembly resolution to strongly condemn human ...
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MacKay muses about Syria intervention
CANOE
MacKay's comments come as the situation on the ground in Syria gets worse. Hundreds have died so far this month in Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's brutal military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. Since March, 3500 people have been killed. ...
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Russia says Syria's crisis looks like 'civil war'
Newsday
... saying an attack by Syrian renegade troops on a government building looks like the start of a civil war. President Bashar Assad is facing severe international isolation stemming from his crackdown on an 8-month-old uprising, which the UN estimates ...
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Newsday
AP News in Brief at 5:58 am EST
Newsday
The three European countries decided to move ahead with the General Assembly resolution after the Arab League confirmed its suspension of Syria Wednesday and gave Bashar Assad's government three days to halt the violence against civilians and accept an ...
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PM to meet Obama at Bali to arrest drift
Deccan Herald
The US and its allies cite the 'Responsibility to Protect' or the R2P doctrine to justify the Nato interventions in Libya and seek similar actions in Syria. The doctrine was adopted by all UN member states in 2005. Its 'Pillar One' says that the states ...
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Tonight: Jon Huntsman and his girls
CNN (blog)
The reported blasts come as international leaders intensify their pressure on President Bashar al-Assad to end violence against protesters in the uprising the United Nationssays has killed 3500 people." • Occupy Wall Street protesters called for a ...
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Reuters World News Highlights at 1800 GMT, Nov 17
TrustLaw
AMMAN - Russia stood by President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday as Arab and Western countries sought to pile pressure on the Syrian leader to halt a violent crackdown on his opponents. VIENNA - The six world powers finalised a draft UN atomic agency ...
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AP Top News at 2:11 pm EST
KMPH Fox 26
BEIRUT (AP) - Syria's allies in Russia called for urgent talks Thursday between Damascus and the opposition, saying an attack by Syrian renegade troops on a government building looks like the start of a civil war. President Bashar Assad is facing...
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AP News in Brief at 11:58 pm EST
Newsday
___ France recalls ambassador to Syria as violence grows, former allies abandon Assadregime BEIRUT (AP) -- Syria's president faced a growing challenge to his iron rule from home and abroad Wednesday, with renegade troops launching their most daring ...
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A virtue of necessity?
Ahram Online
Washington and the EU have incited and armed sectarian regional mass and armed movements aimed at overthrowing the authoritarian and nationalist Al-Assad regime inSyria. Playing off of legitimate democratic demands and harnessing fundamentalist ...
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Koor Industries Buying Shares in Credit Suisse
Israel Diamond Portal
China said Thursday that it was “highly concerned” about the situation in Syria, Lebanon's Daily Star news site reports. After the Arab League gave President BasharAssad three days to halt a violent crackdown against anti-government protesters, ...
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Iran News Round Up November 17, 2011
Critical Threats Project
[E] Iran said the Arab League's decision to suspend Syria was unhelpful and played into the hands of foreign countries at a time when President Bashar al-Assad's reforms should be given a chance. [E] Iran's UN Envoy Mohammad Khazayee, in letters to UN ...
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Iranian speaker discusses Syria with Kuwaiti counterpart
NOW LEBANON
According to UN estimates, more than 3500 people have been killed in the crackdown on demonstrations. On Saturday, the Arab League suspended Syria's membership in the organization until Syrian President Bashar al-Assad implements an Arab deal to end ...
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POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Thursday, November 17, 2011
CNN (blog)
Syria has faced a chorus of criticism over its eight-month crackdown on opposition protesters that has left, according to sources reporting to the UN, at least 3500 people dead. The regime is showing no indication it will soften its position, ...
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Press Gaggle Following Testimony Before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee ...
US Department of State (press release)
We saw in New York at the UN General Assembly not too long ago Turkey announcing not just a critical view on Syria, but even sanctions, and the Turks have done what they said they would do. They made it clear that Assad needed to reform if they wanted ...
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Iranian FM: Arab League rushed into suspending Syria
NOW LEBANON
The Arab League suspended Syria's membership in the organization until SyrianPresident Bashar al-Assad implements an Arab deal to end violence against protesters, and called for sanctions and transition talks with the opposition. ...
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Arab League steps up pressure on Syria
Malaysia Star
Further intensifying the international pressure on Assad to end his repression of protests, France withdrew its ambassador from Syria and Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said Paris was working with the Arab League on a draft UN resolution. ...
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Malaysia Star
Germany, Britain, France seek UN action against Syria
The New Age Online
Success could increase pressure on the full UN Security Council to act over the Syriacrisis. Russia and China last month vetoed a council resolution condemning the deadly crackdown by President Bashar al-Assad's forces which the United Nations says ...
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Stop Another Bloodbath at Camp Ashraf , Before it is Too Late...
Huffington Post UK (blog)
In addition, after the Arab spring, Iran is swiftly losing control in the Middle East region and is unable to help dictators such as the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in brutally suppressing the Syrian people and acts of terrorism in different parts ...
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League lock-out: neighbors sanction Syria — RT
By RT
Syria's president has until Saturday to stop the violent crackdown on protesters and allow a monitoring team into the country, demands the Arab League, which threatens to tighten the financial noose around the regime by slapping down heavy sanctions. ...Russian lawmaker and foreign policy architect Konstantin Kosachev thinks that Russia is “probably one of the very few, or maybe the only country, which maintains dialogue both with Assad and with the opposition.” Syria unrest ...
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European nations seek UN action against Syria | Pakistan Today ...
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News Comments (1382490http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pakistantoday.com.pk%2F2011%2F11%2Feuropean-nations-seek-un-action-against-syria%2FEuropean+nations+seek+UN+action+against+Syria2011-11-17+19%3A19%3A15ali.abbashttp% 3A%2F%2Fwww. ... The British, French and German UN ambassadors met Arab ambassadors at UN headquarters Wednesday after Arab leaders gave Assad three days to end his violent repression, a German mission spokesman said. ...
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Raids in Syria as pressure mounts on Assad ... - News Hub Today
By NewsHubToday
Raids in Syria as pressure mounts on Assad regime. November 17, 2011. RABAT, Morocco (AP) – Foreign ministers from the 22-member Arab League are expected to formalize their decision to suspend Syria for refusing to end its bloody ...
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Pro-Assad crowd attacks Saudi Embassy in Syria
Today · News. Latest show; Most popular; Our faves. Loading. .... U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions despite objections by Syrian allies Russia and China ...
today.msnbc.msn.com/.../pro-assad-crowd-attacks-saudi-emba...
Jordan's king: Syria's Assad should step down - TODAY News ...
Jordan's King Abdullah said Monday that Syrian President Bashar Assad ... the Arab League voted to suspend Syria over attacks on protesters that the U.N. ...
today.msnbc.msn.com/.../jordans-king-urges-syrias-assad-step-...
UN chief urges al-Assad to stop civilian killings in Syria
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to stop killing his own people and abide by the agreement ...
www.saudinewstoday.com/.../89092__UN+chief+urges+al-Ass...
Assad Regime In Syria Comes Under Increased Pressure Amid UN ...
Britain, France and Germany are pushing for a UN vote to condemn the Syrian regime for its ongoing military crackdown against civilians.
news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16111745
UN, UK welcome Arab League's suspension of Syria - News - Mail ...
The United Nations and Britain have joined a chorus of approval for the Arab League's suspension of Syria/ ... Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. (Reuters) ...
mg.co.za/.../2011-11-13-un-uk-welcome-arab-leagues-suspens...
Syria facing worldwide isolation - USA Today
Syrian President Bashar Assad faces a growing challenge to his iron rule. ... "We hope it will show Assad just how isolated he is," Germany's U.N. Ambassador ...
www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2011-11-16/arab.../1
UN: Assad's crackdown killed more than 3500 Syrians - Haaretz ...
Syria regime continues campaign to repress protests against Assad, despite agreement with Arab League to end assault. ... More Breaking News > · Home · News · Middle East ... "I sneaked in to see my father today, who was hit by shrapnel. ...
www.haaretz.com/.../un-assad-s-crackdown-killed-more-than-...
Syria: pressure mounts on Assad - Tuesday 15 October | World ...
Seven people have been killed in Syria today, including two children, ... 5.22pm: This report, in Gulf News, is likely to raise eyebrows considering the Bahrain ... last month vetoed a UN security council resolution against the Assad regime, has ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../syria-pressure-mounts-on-assad-live-u...
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