April 2012
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Why History Repeats Itself in #Syria
by Radwan Ziadeh
With the international community’s action stalled while different parties debate national interests and the possible problematic consequences of an intervention, Syria is spiraling into chaos. Each day that this unrest continues unchecked amplifies and complicates the problems that will plague the nation post-Assad. Crimes against humanity are spreading, as the Free Syria Army...
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Stop Assad's Massacre #Syria
Paul Conroy
The situation in Syria continues to slip rapidly, and even more violently, out of control. The ceasefire, if it could ever be realistically be called that, now lays in tatters and the death toll continues to mount. The regime though has little to fear. The presence of a few unarmed observers on the ground is hardly likely to have Assad and company trembling in their boots and with no...
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Turkey calls for ‘full implementation’ of Annan...
(Photo: AA)
30 April 2012 / TODAY’S ZAMAN, İSTANBUL
Turkey’s top political leaders and military commanders called for full implementation of a UN peace plan for Syria and said a democratic transition process should immediately take effect in the conflict-hit country.
“It has been emphasized that the bloodshed in Syria must be ended and a democratic transition process should start...
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#Syria: The Battlefield Of Homs
Despite heavy losses in the Bab Amr district of Homs the Free Syrian Army (FSA) still controls large areas of the city.
The FSA stronghold is the Khaldia district but it manages to keep the Syrian army out of other quarters as well.
The area is devastated. High rise buildings have collapsed, their floors pancaked one on top of the other.
Shops and houses have also been destroyed by artillery...
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Syria's sealed-off rebels #Syria
In this Saturday April 21, 2012 photo, a Syrian man leaves his home carriying a suitcase as he walks in a destroyed alley damaged from Syrian army forces shelling, at Bab Sbaa neighborhood in Homs province, central Syria.(Credit: AP)
A GlobalPost journalist whose name has been withheld for security reasons, reported this story from Baba Amr, Syria. Hugh Macleod and Annasofie Flamand contributed...
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Deadly bombs in Syria's Idlib target security
By Oliver Holmes
BEIRUT | Mon Apr 30, 2012 11:03am EDT
(Reuters) - Nine people including Syrian military personnel were killed and 100 wounded on Monday in bomb blasts near security service buildings in Idlib, state media said, as a bombing campaign intensified against government targets.
Twin explosions, the latest to disrupt a shaky U.N. truce, blew fronts off nearby...
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Syrian death toll climbs; ships with weapons...
Posted Saturday, April 28th, 2012 at 9:40 am
The Syrian government and opposition activists traded accusations of violence on Saturday, as a handful of U.N. monitors spread out across the country to assess compliance with a fragile cease-fire.
Rights groups say Syrian forces killed at least 10 people during raids in the Damascus area. Activists also say clashes between government and opposition...
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#Syria violence has reached 'intolerable stage',...
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guardian.co.uk, Saturday 28 April 2012 00.42 BST
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A damaged car is seen outside a mosque in Damascus where a suicide bomber blew himself up killing 10 people. Photograph: KeystoneUSA-ZUMA / Rex Features
Security agents in Damascus collected the remains of 10 people killed in a suicide bombing on Friday, as activists reported incidents of Syrian troops...
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Rebel rivalry and suspicions threaten #Syria...
By Erika Solomon
ANTAKYA, Turkey, April 26 (Reuters) - Rebel fighter Mustafa and his trio of burly men look out of place at a trendy Turkish cafe near the Syrian border, dressed in tattered jeans and silently puffing on cigarettes as they scoop into tall ice-cream sundaes.
Their battleground is across the frontier in Syria, where they are fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad. But like...
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While #Syria burns
By Charles Krauthammer, Friday, April 27, 12:38 AM
Last year President Obama ordered U.S. intervention in Libya under the grand new doctrine of “Responsibility to Protect.” Moammar Gaddafi was threatening a massacre in Benghazi. To stand by and do nothing “would have been a betrayal of who we are,” explained the president.
In the year since, the government of Syria has more than threatened...
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UN must be ready for #Syria sanctions, says US...
The UN Security Council must be ready to order sanctions against Syria if it flouts commitments to halt violence, the US ambassador to the United Nations said Thursday.
The reported killing of more than 100 people in the Syrian city of Hama, where two UN ceasefire monitors are based, has thrown new doubt on international efforts to end the conflict.
“We condemn what remains the...
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Syrian opposition calls for emergency UN meeting...
Syria’s main opposition group on Thursday called for an emergency UN Security Council meeting after reports that up to 70 people died in an explosion in Hama.
Up to 70 people have been killed in an attack on a house in Hama, according to Syrian activists.
By Ruth Sherlock, Beirut and agencies
2:00PM BST 26 Apr 2012
“We are calling for an emergency meeting of...
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Doubts cast on video of Syrian 'buried alive'...
Syrian forces allegedly bury alive a civilian from Al Qusair, Homs in the graphic video above. Storyful has spent several hours assessing the available evidence surrounding this footage. We are particularly grateful for the advice of highly-experienced observers of video from Syria. We cannot definitively say this video is a fake but do believe there are serious grounds for doubt about its...
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Violence in Syria’s Capital Even With a Cease-Fire...
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Three members of the Syrian security services used to suppress antigovernment dissent were killed in and around Damascus on Tuesday, according to the official media and activists, one of several indications that the cease-fire arranged under United Nations auspices continued to wobble. In addition, a small bomb exploded outside an Iranian culture and travel center in the center...
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Activists: Syrian Troops Kill 27 Civilians #Syria
Photo: AFP/HO/SHAAM
Handout photo released by the Syrian opposition Shaam News Network on April 25, 2012, shows a shop destroyed during a Syrian government offensive in the city of Duma.
Syrian activists say security forces have killed at least 27 civilians in attacks across Syria, as France called for a small U.N. truce-monitoring team in the country to be expanded rapidly. The...
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France steps up pressure on #Syria as it threatens...
Mr Juppe said it was the “moment of truth” and if the Syrian regime were not complying with the plan’s terms France would seek a resolution under Chapter 7 of the UN charter Photo: EPA
By Ruth Sherlock, Beirut and Richard Spencer in Cairo
9:02PM BST 25 Apr 2012
Alain Juppe, the French foreign minister, said he was giving the peace plan put forward by Kofi...
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