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Pressure of War Is Causing Syria to Break Apart

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By BEN HUBBARD - May. 17 (News Report) - Syrians tried to remove concrete with the help of a tractor last month to free those trapped under the rubble after an airstrike by government forces in Aleppo.

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Grisly Killings in Syrian Towns Dim Hopes for Peace Talks

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By ANNE BARNARD, HANIA MOURTADA - May. 15 (News Report) - BEIRUT, Lebanon — After dragging 46 bodies from the streets near his hometown on the Syrian coast, Omar lost count. For four days, he said, he could not eat, remembering the burned body of a baby just a few months old; a fetus ripped from a woman’s belly

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Syria denies role in Turkey car bombing that killed 46 (PHOTOS)

Sun, 12 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Alexander Besant, Tracey Shelton - May. 12 (News Report) - Syrian government officials have denied the country's role in a deadly car bombing in southern Turkey. In a press conference Sunday, Syria's information minister Omran al-Zoubi said that the attack was incompatible with the government's values.

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Israeli airstrike in Syria brings Iran onstage, raising risk of proxy war

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - May. 07 (News Analysis) - Iran dismissed Israeli claims that yesterday's airstrike in Syria targeted Iranian weapons destined for Hezbollah, accusing Israel of looking for an excuse to hammer the 'Axis of Resistance.' ...

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Israel: Syria air strikes not intended to further destabilise Assad government

Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Harriet Sherwood - May. 06 (News Analysis) - Israel sought to avoid a direct confrontation with the Syrian regime on Monday by stressing that air strikes across its northern border at the weekend were intended to prevent weapons reaching Hezbollah in Lebanon rather than further destabilise the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

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Israel launches second airstrike in Syria, targeting weapons shipment

Sat, 04 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Liz Sly, Suzan Haidamous - May. 04 (News Report) - JERUSALEM — Israeli forces have carried out an airstrike against a shipment of sophisticated missiles bound for the Lebanese political and military organization Hezbollah, officials in Washington and Israel told reporters Saturday. ...

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Israel planes 'strike inside Syria'

Sat, 04 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - May. 04 (News Report) - US media reports say Israel has conducted an air strike inside Syria, as President Obama makes clear he does not foresee sending US troops there.

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Syrian refugees riot over Jordan camp plight

Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

aljazeera.com - By Nisreen El-Shamayleh - May. 02 (News Report) - From Turkey to Lebanon, the situation for hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees is getting worse. Inside al-Zaatari camp in Jordan, people have rioted several times over living conditions. The Jordanian authorities have insisted they are in control, but people in the camp are on edge.

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UN investigating Syria chemical weapons use

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

aljazeera.com - Apr. 27 (News Report) - A UN spokesman has said that investigators from the world body have started collecting evidence outside Syria on the suspected use of chemical weapons. Ban Ki-moon has written to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with a new request for access.

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Goodbye to All That

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN - Apr. 24 (Opinion) - On April 13, Prime Minister Salam Fayyad of the Palestinian Authority resigned. It was an easy development to miss, but not one to be ignored. It was very bad news, because Salam Fayyad was the “Arab Spring” before there was an Arab Spring.

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What These Tweets Tell Us About Boston Bombing Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Dana Liebelson, Adam Serwer - Apr. 19 - More MoJo coverage of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings Dzhokhar Tsarnaev apparently maintained an active Twitter account. A high school classmate of the at-large Boston Marathon bombing suspect has confirmed to BuzzFeed that the @J_tsar Twitter account belongs to Tsarnaev, and multiple Twitter users who say they are friends of Tsarnaev have pointed to this Twitter feed as his. The tweets on the @J_tsar account cover a variety of topics, including religion and pop culture, and contain much trash talk about women. The user of this account kept on tweeting after the bombing. On April 15, hours after the attack, he tweeted, "Ain't no love in the heart of the city, stay safe people." On April 17, he tweeted, "I'm just a stress free kind of guy." Here's a sampling of odd, mundane, and chilling tweets from the account from the past year, including one in which the user laments, "the value of human life ain't shit nowadays." I'm a stress free kind of guy — Jahar (@J_tsar) April 17, ...

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The Bombing of al-Bara | Syria Behind the Lines |

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Frontline - By Azmat Khan, Olly Lambert - Apr. 09 (News) - Though the first blast knocked him to the ground, Lambert kept his camera rolling. He spent the next hour documenting the impacts of the Oct. 28, 2012 bombing of al-Bara, a village in Idlib province an hour south of Aleppo. The result is a rare, immersive portrait of the immediate aftermath of Syrian government air strikes on a civilian population. FRONTLINE has condensed the footage into this 36-minute digital feature, vividly narrated by Lambert

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UN General Assembly to vote on arms treaty

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

aljazeera.com - Apr. 02 (News Report) - The UN General Assembly is due to vote on what would be the first treaty to regulate the $70bn global trade on conventional arms. The vote on Tuesday comes a week after Iran, Syria and North Korea blocked the accord by consensus despite widespread suppor

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Arab League welcomes Syrian opposition

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

aljazeera.com - Mar. 26 (News Report) - Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Qatar's emir, opens summit by offering support for "political solution" to the Syria crisis.

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Intel committee chairman says 'red line' crossed in Syria, urges US action

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Fox News - Mar. 24 (News Analysis) - The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Sunday that Syria's Assad regime has "absolutely" crossed the so-called "red line" by moving and using at least a small amount of chemical weapons, pressuring the Obama administration to get more involved in the conflict to prevent further bloodshed.

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Obama Hearts Israel (and Bibi)

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Paul R. Pillar - Mar. 22 (Opinion) - Watching President Obama’s three-day love-fest toward Israel left critics and even some supporters cringing at his excessive embrace of Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and everything Israel has ever done. But Obama’s “game-change” metaphor on Syria may be the most troubling,

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'Top pro-regime cleric killed' in Syria blast

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

aljazeera.com - Mar. 21 (Breaking News) - A suicide bomber has blown himself up inside a mosque in central Damascus, killing Dr Mohammed Saeed Ramadan al-Bouti, a senior pro-regime Sunni cleric, state television has said.

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US considers sending aid to Syrian rebels

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

aljazeera.com - Feb. 27 () - The United States will increase aid to the Syrian opposition in an effort to speed a political transition in Syria, a White House spokesman has said. "We are constantly reviewing the nature of the assistance we provide to both the Syrian people, in form of humanitarian assistance, and to the Syrian opposition in the form of non-lethal assistance," White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters at a briefing on Wednesday.

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Kerry Promises Not to Leave Syrian Rebels ‘Dangling’

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By By MICHAEL R. GORDON, ANNE BARNARD - Feb. 26 (News Report) - Secretary of State John Kerry said the Obama administration was mulling new steps to increase support for the Syrian opposition and hasten the departure of President Bashar al-Assad.

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Syria opposition 'seizes air base'

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Feb. 12 (News Report) - Syrian rebels have captured a military air base near the northern city of Aleppo, activists say, a day after taking control of a major dam.

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Damascus outskirts 'rocked by heavy fighting'

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

aljazeera.com - Feb. 07 (News Report) - Rebel strongholds around the Syrian capital, Damascus, have been rocked by fighting and heavy shelling for a second straight day as the army launched a major offensive that opposition activists claim killed 55 people in 24 hours. Among those killed were five civilians, three of them women, who died when mortars hit the Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp on the southern outskirts of the capital, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Thursday

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Israel Bombs Military Target Outside Damascus, Syria Says

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

All Things Considered - Jan. 31 (Comment) - The Syrians say two workers have been killed and five injured at a military facility. The attack is likely to escalate concerns in the volatile region.

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Syrian Children Pay the Steep Price of War

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Global Voices - By Rami Alhames - Jan. 27 (Opinion) - Syrian children are the forgotten victims for the last 22 months of conflict. An estimated 4,000 Syrian children have lost their lives while hundreds of thousands are refugees without homes. International humanitarian communities and Syrian activists have no choice but to report the bad news to the world.

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Latitude: Turkish Media Won't Report Good News About The Kurds

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Andrew Finkel - Jan. 23 (Opinion) - A massive Kurdish funeral procession in eastern Turkey was a well-ordered, dignified display of grief, but the Turkish media wouldn’t show it.

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Has Syria Used Chemical Weapons?

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

readersupportednews.org - Jan. 20 (News Report) - Just before Christmas, deeply troubling reports emerged from the city of Homs, in Syria, that government forces had used sarin gas, or a deadly nerve agent like it, in an attack on a rebel-held neighborhood, poisoning scores of people

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