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SYRIA News, Jan 05, 2012

Syria Presses on With Crackdown as Qatar Suggests UN Help
BusinessWeek
The number of monitors in Syria will reach about 140 when another delegation arrives tomorrow, Egypt's state-run Middle East News Agency said today, citing Adnan al-Khudair, operations-room chief for the observers. The Qatari premier's call for UN ...
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Arab monitors to stay in Syria despite
The Daily Star
Syria is a major player in the region and is strongly supported by Iran and militant groups like Hezbollah and Hamas. The League has suspendedSyria's membership, citing Assad's failure to adhere to its plan to stop a crackdown which the United Nations ...
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The Daily Star
UN raises death toll in Syria to 5000
The Upcoming
Photo: Free Syria The death toll includes civilians, army defectors, at least 300 children, and thousands of people remaining in detention. Peaceful protests against the rule of the Assad family have been on the rise since March, have now turned into a ...
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The Upcoming
UN diplomat calls for human rights investigation into NATO actions in Libya
Washington Post
Russia has also called for an independent UN investigation of civilian casualties. Syria'sPresident Bashar Assad is a close Russian ally. NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu denied that the alliance exceeded its mandate or that the bombing resulted in a ...
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Arab League's mission in Syria faces growing criticism
Link TV
We ask that the report by the delegation and its chief be issued quickly, and that the issue be internationalized and referred to the UN Security Council because with a regime like Assad's, I do not believe that Arabs can deal with it. ...
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Unravelling the Syrian crisis
Just International
It is also a coup for Syria which, by its signing, has forestalled the possibility that the League will refer the matter tithe UN Security Council. The strongest opponents of theAsad regime within the League are the GCC members – especially Qatar and ...
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Minority Interest
NOW LEBANON
Consider that the head of the Maronite church has spoken out in defense of SyrianPresident Bashar al-Assad. Patriarch Beshara Butros Rai called Assad “open-minded” in a September interview. “I am hoping Assad will be given more chances to implement...
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Middle East: The Year That Was
Eurasia Review
In Syria, a crackdown against demonstrators demanding President Bashar el-Assadstep down led to more than 5000 dead – though the number is constantly changing. In Yemen, at least 2700 protesters, tribal supporters, defected soldiers and ...
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Mideast A wave of deadly explosions across Iraq target Shiite districts
Foreign Policy (blog)
After admitting mistakes, the Arab League has gone to the UN for assistance on Syria. Meanwhile, the Assad regime released 552 prisoners detained during the crackdown. European Union officials have begun working to establish a unified agreement for an ...
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Until Obama Is Removed, We Are on the Edge of War
Executive Intelligence Review (EIR)
"I think there was more bloodshed over the past few months [in Yemen] than in Syria. We do not accept the premise that somehow the Assad regime cannot change, that there cannot be progress [through dialogue] under this regime. ...
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World's remaining despots can't live forever
Victoria Times Colonist
Kim Jong Un and his relatives don't look like much of an improvement on Kim Jong Il.Syria is still ruled by Bashar Assad, although his regime is weakening by the day. Sudan's Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir has waged war against much of his own country....
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Iran v the United States
The Economist
The plight of the embattled Assad government in Syria has weakened its links to Hizbullah and Hamas. And although the government in Tehran knows it cannot risk an all-out confrontation with America, nor can it be easily confident of stopping just short ...
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Free Syrian Army urges Arabs to seek UN help
The West Australian
BEIRUT (AFP) - The Free Syrian Army on Thursday called on the Arab League to admit its observer mission to the country is a failure, urging the bloc to seek UN help to end almost 10 months of bloodshed. Colonel Riyadh al-Asaad issued the statement ...
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The West Australian
Bahrain Shiites lament their lack of support
AFP
The Sunni-Shiite rift over the Arab Spring grew wider when protests reached Syria. Sunnis loudly supported their co-religionists in their struggle against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, a member of the Alawite Shiite offshoot. ...
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Meet the Jihadist War Criminal Obama Plans to Release from Gitmo
National Review Online (blog)
He also refers to a post by Michael Rubin with these important observations: Obama has sought not only to engage the late Libyan dictator Muammar Qadhafi, currentSyrian strongman Bashar al-Assad, and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, but also Iranian ...
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Mourners cheer Assad at Damascus funerals - Telegraph
... Bashar al-Assad today, with thousands of mourners denouncing the United ... TheUnited Nations voiced grave concern over the bombings, which marked an ... The official Syrian news agency SANA reported that seven army and police ...
www.telegraph.co.uk/.../Mourners-cheer-Assad-at-Damascus-f...
Mourning Syrians rally for Assad, UN condemns bombs - Yahoo! News
The United Nations voiced grave concern over the bombings, which marked an ominous step up in the violence ... The official Syrian news agency SANA reported that seven army and police "martyrs' killed in clashes with .... Today on Yahoo! ...
news.yahoo.com/mourning-syrians-rally-assad-143255499.html
Syria Presses on With Crackdown as Qatar Suggests UN Help
The number of monitors in Syria will reach about 140 when another delegation arrives tomorrow, Egypt's state-run Middle East News Agency said today, ...
www.businessweek.com/.../syria-presses-on-with-crackdown-a...
Mourning Syrians rally for Assad, U.N. condemns ... - The Daily Star
Mourning Syrians rally for Assad, U.N. condemns bombs ... December 24,2011 in this handout photograph released by Syria's national news agency SANA. ...
www.dailystar.com.lb/.../157830-new-un-draft-resolution-on-s...
Syrian troops fire on activists in deadly attack
The U.N. agency has no one posted in Syria. Nov. 8, 2011. In this file photo provided by the Syrian official news agency, President Bashar Assad waves to ...
www.cbsnews.com/.../syrian-troops-fire-on-activists-in-deadly...
Mourning Syrians rally for Assad, U.N. condemns bombs | Top News ...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Funerals for 44 people killed in twin suicide car bombs in Damascus turned into a show of support for President Bashar al-Assad on ...
ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCAL6E7NO07E20111224
Syria: Nicolas Sarkozy demands Bashar al-Assad step down after ...
Nicolas Sarkozy has demanded the resignation of Bashar al-Assad after accusing the... but to refer Syria to the UN Security Council, paving the way for international action against Mr ...http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/8989487/Syria-Nicolas-Sarkozy- ... TODAY; PAST WEEK; PAST MONTH ...
www.telegraph.co.uk/.../Syria-Nicolas-Sarkozy-demands-Bash...
Arab League says Syria monitors are helping - TODAY News ...
... on anti-government protests in Syria, but urged President Bashar al-Assad's ... After nearly 10 months of violence in which the United Nations says more than ...
today.msnbc.msn.com/.../arab-league-says-syria-monitors-are-...
Assad crackdown intensifies as Arab League monitors arrive in Syria
Qatar and Saudi Arabia want a UN security council action on Syria. ... Assad signed only after the Arab League threatened to turn to the UN security council to ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../syria-crackdown-arab-league-monitor...
Arab League turns to UN to restore peace in Syria - News Today
His meeting comes a day after President Bashar al-Assad's regime accused the ... onSyria, on Wednesday discussed the deadly protest crackdown with UN ...
www.newstoday.com.bd/index.php?option=details...
  
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