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Syria intensifies attacks on rebels; refugees pour into Turkey

4/6/2012

BEIRUT -- Syrian troops shelled restive areas and sent tanks and snipers into battle against rebels in the capital's suburbs on Friday, broadening a government offensive that appeared aimed at crushing pockets of opposition less than a week before an internationally sponsored cease-fire is to take hold, activists said.

Russia's criticism of Syrian leader suggests it's preparing for a future without him

4/6/2012

MOSCOW — After a year of iron support for its embattled Middle East ally, Russia's recent criticism of Syrian President Bashar Assad suggests that Moscow could be planning for a future without the Arab strongman.

Russia Says It Won't Intervene Militarily In Syria

3/15/2012

MOSCOW -- Russia is providing Syria with weapons to fend off external threats but has no intention to use military force to protect Syrian President Bashar Assad, the Russian foreign minister said Wednesday.

Syria Expands Assault, Hitting Rebel Enclaves in City in North

3/14/2012

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Emboldened by faltering diplomacy and a Russian pledge to keep supplying weapons, Syria's armed forces assaulted insurgent enclaves in the northern part of the country on Tuesday, invading the city of Idlib in an expanded campaign to crush the year-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad

Violence across Syria; soldiers killed in ambushes

3/13/2012

(Reuters) - Syrian government forces killed dozens of people in the northern city of Idlib, dumping their bodies in a mosque, while some 22 soldiers died in two separate rebel ambushes, opposition activists said on Tuesday.

Syrian opposition calls for “urgent” military intervention

3/13/2012

The opposition Syrian National Council called on Monday for an "urgent" foreign military intervention in Syria after reports that 47 women and children were killed in a Homs "massacre," AFP reported.

Syrian Minister Appears to Defect and Join Opposition

3/9/2012

Syrian Minister Appears to Defect and Join Opposition; "A spokesman
for Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain said on Thursday that an
apparent defection by Syria’s deputy oil minister represented an
“important moment” in an uprising that has turned increasingly violent
in recent weeks."

Use of IEDs by regime opposition in Syria rises sharply

3/5/2012

WASHINGTON – The number of improvised explosives used by rebels in Syria has increased sharply this year, suggesting to some military experts that more outside help is reaching regime opponents and the conflict may widen.

Syria forces assault Baba Amr quarter in besieged Homs

2/29/2012

The fate of the besieged Baba Amr quarter in the Syrian city of Homs remains unclear after government troops launched a ground offensive on rebels.

Tunisian president says ready to grant Assad asylum

2/28/2012

TUNIS: Tunisia is ready to grant asylum to Syrian leader Bashar Assad as part of a negotiated settlement to the crisis, President Moncef Marzouki said in an interview to be published Wednesday. Marzouki had last week called for judicial immunity for Assad and his family during an international conference on Syria held in Tunis.

Syrians Said to Approve New Charter as Battles Continue

2/27/2012

BEIRUT, Lebanon — As violence continued to rage in Syria on Monday, the country’s Interior Ministry announced that voters had approved a new Constitution by a margin of almost 9-to-1 in a referendum on Sunday that Western leaders labeled a farce.

Iran declines reports of arms supplies to Syria

2/26/2012

Tehran : Iran has rubbished the media reports saying that it has sent weapons to Syria, ISNA news agency reported Saturday. The Islamic republic of Iran rejects any military intervention in Syria's developments and dismisses reports on weapons delivery to the Syrian government, Xinhua quoted Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast as saying.

Syrian opposition will ‘somehow’ carry out offensive operations against Assad, Clinton says

2/26/2012

LONDON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that Syrian opposition forces will become “increasingly capable” of carrying out offensive operations against the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

After a Year, Deep Divisions Hobble Syria’s Opposition

2/26/2012

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syria ’s downward spiral into more hellish conflict in cities like Homs has provoked a new surge of outrage around the world, with Arab and many Western countries searching for new ways to support protesters and activist groups coming under the government’s increasingly lethal assault.

In Break, Hamas Supports Syrian Opposition

2/25/2012

GAZA —A leader of Hamas spoke out against President Bashar al-Assad of Syria on Friday, throwing its support behind the opposition and stripping Damascus of what little credibility it may have retained with the Arab street. It was Hamas’s first public break with its longtime patron.

Nations Press Halt in Attacks to Allow Aid to Syrian Cities

2/25/2012

TUNIS — Representatives of more than 60 nations and organizations called on Syria ’s government on Friday to halt its attacks on besieged cities and asked the United Nations to begin planning for a peacekeeping force, even as prospects for a diplomatic way out of the conflict appeared dim.

Gunmen Kill Army General in Damascus

2/13/2012

_Gunmen assassinated an army general in Damascus on Saturday in the first killing of a high ranking military officer in the Syrian capital since the uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime began in March, the state-run news agency said.

The Anti-Assad Axis of Insistence

2/11/2012

_Syria’s future is yet again the hot topic of debate at the United Nations. Called a “killing machine” by Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Jassim Al-Thani, and a “brutal, dictatorial regime” by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Syrian government faced a withering diplomatic assault in the halls of the U.N. Deliberations in the Security Council this past week spear-headed by the Arab League, United States, France, and Great Britain added more fuel to this diplomatic fire.

Is al-Qaeda Infiltrating Syria through Lebanon’s Beka’a Valley?

1/14/2012

_Disputes over the possible presence of al-Qaeda in Lebanon’s Beka’a Valley are beginning to destabilize Syrian-Lebanese relations. Attention on the Beka’a region has intensified following the December 23, 2011 and January 6, 2012 suicide bombing attacks in Damascus, which left a combined 60 dead and 229 wounded.

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