July 2012
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First from their homeland, now from #Syria: Iraqis...
31/07/2012
BAGHDAD — When he saw the bodies of men and women left rotting in the streets of Damascus, Hassan Hadi knew that the sectarian violence he had fled Iraq to escape years ago had now come to Syria. Despairingly, he left his belongings and fled again, back home.
Hadi is one of at least 12,680 Iraqis who streamed back to their homeland the past month to escape the Syrian civil war. Most...
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Watch31/07/2012 #Syria: Rebels claim victory in Syria’s al-Bab town
Opposition claims to have pushed regime forces from what they say was military’s last urban base outside Aleppo city.
Government forces withdrew from the town of al-Bab, according to rebel forces, who claim it was the army’s last urban base in the region outside of Aleppo city.
The people of al-Bab took a captured...
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Humanitarian problems worsen in besieged #Syria...
31/07/2012
BEIRUT (AP) — Humanitarian conditions have grown even more dire in the besieged Syria city of Aleppo with activists reporting on Tuesday dwindling stocks of food and cooking gas and only intermittent electricity supplies as droves of residents flee 11 days of intense clashes between rebels and regime forces. Government helicopters pounded rebel neighborhoods across Syria’s...
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Escaping #Syria to a Barren Plain of Sweat and...
The large camp for Syrian refugees in Ceylanpinar, Turkey, receives as many as 400 people a day. It is hours away from the nearest population center.
30/07/2012
CEYLANPINAR, Turkey — At the gates of an enormous refugee camp here, among all the women with scarves knotted under their chins and men with thick hands and coarse woolen trousers, there was one young couple who just did not...
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Turkey’s #Syria Policy Backfires
As Syrian crisis deepens, Turkey is confronted with the risk of a PKK-controlled Kurdish state in Turkey’s immediate neighborhood. Ankara’s fear is not a Greater Kurdistan, but a PKK controlled semi-state, analysts say. Ankara’s support for a regime change in Syria has started to backfire, threatening Turkey’s own national security, with Syrian Kurdish groups forming a de facto state...
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Iran 'will not allow enemy to advance' in #Syria:...
Free Syrian Army members patrol Attarib, on the outskirts of Aleppo province July 30, 2012. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
31/07/2012
TEHRAN: Iran “will not allow the enemy to advance” in its key ally Syria, but does not yet see the need to directly intervene, the deputy chief of the Islamic republic’s armed forces was quoted as saying in reports Tuesday.
“There is still no...
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Rebels, troops clash in Aleppo #Syria
31/07/2012
Syria’s 16-month revolt has finally erupted in the country’s commercial hub
Aleppo: The route to Aleppo from the Turkish border is a long web of dirt back roads with miles of exposed ground. But undaunted and in total darkness, dozens of young men jump onto white trucks with their AK-47 rifles, keen to join the fight there.
Syria’s 16-month revolt has finally erupted in the...
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What the Chinese really think about Beijing’s veto...
30/07/2012
Since the start of the conflict in Syria, Russia and China have each opposed three UN veto attempts to increase pressure on Damascus. One of our Observers in China, writing anonymously, deciphers his government’s policies and the Chinese media’s portrayal of the issue.
“China finds a way to oppose anything related to human rights and supported by the West”
Tai (not his real name) is...
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Al-Qaida turns tide for rebels in battle for...
30/07/12
In his latest exclusive dispatch from Deir el-Zour province, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad meets fighters who have left the Free Syrian Army for the discipline and ideology of global jihad
A member of a jihadist group sprays the slogan ‘No Islam without Jihad’ in Arabic on the wall at a border crossing with Turkey. Photograph: Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images
As they stood outside the...
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#Syria: refugees tell of the horrors of the flight...
30/07/12
Only a few roads are still open for refugees to escape Aleppo. Those leading northwards from Syria’s commercial capital have not yet been sealed off by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces - and perhaps a tenth of the city’s population of about 2 million has fled along them.
By Damien McElroy, Aleppo province, Magdy Samaan in Cairo and Ruth Sherlock in Beirut
8:03PM BST...
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#Syrian rebels distribute 'national salvation...
30/07/12
Syria’s rebels distributed on Monday a “national salvation draft” proposal for a political transition in the country, bringing together military and civilian figures for a post-Bashar al Assad phase.
The draft by the joint command of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) proposes the establishment of a higher defence council charged with creating a presidential council, which in...
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UN urged to improve #Syrian refugee camp in Jordan
30/07/12
Charity that cares for thousands of Syrians who fled violence said on Monday that the first official camp to house the refugees in neighboring Jordan falls short of international standards.
“We demand the UN refugee agency [UNHCR] improve the Zaatari camp before moving more Syrian refugees there,” said Zayed Hammad, head of the Ketab and Sunna Society.
“The...
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Watch30/07/12
#Syria - FSA seize Anadan military base
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Foreign 'jihadi' fighters reported in #Syria
30/07/12
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Syria state television has broadcast images of soldiers battling what they called “foreign terrorists”.
Amateur videos have also revealed foreign fighters allegedly hoping to wage a religious war in Syria.
The country’s uprising has been played out constantly on the internet website YouTube, but while...
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#Syria: Nuncio welcomes Papal appeal
30/07/12
At the Sunday Angelus prayer, Pope Benedict XVI appealed for peace in Syria, calling on the international community to guarantee humanitarian care for all those affected by the violence and to work toward a just, lasting solution to the crisis. The Nuncio to Syria, Archbishop Mario Zenari, told Vatican Radio that the Holy Father’s words were very welcome. “The appeal of the Holy Father,”...
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Amid the ruins in Aleppo, #Syrian rebels say...
30/07/12
(Reuters) - The rebel banner of independence waves over the scorched streets and gutted cars that litter the urban battlegrounds of Aleppo, scars of a struggle in Syria’s second largest city that fighters believe they are destined to win within weeks.
The scruffy, rifle-wielding youths are undeterred by the fate of equally bold, but ultimately crushed campaigns by rebels in the...
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The foot soldiers in #Syria's war!
In the Turkish city of Antakya, a community of Syrian exiles personify an uprising that is languishing into uncertainty.
The food is piled high. Steaming pots of seasoned tomatoes and potatoes, yogurt and cucumber, cheese and piles of tortilla-like khubz, dipped in oil. A dozen or so young Syrian men crowd around, chattering excitedly about the day’s events.
These men are foot soldiers...
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Going Rogue: Bandits and Criminal Gangs Threaten...
In stretches of northern Syria where government control has collapsed and rebel militias call the shots, numerous criminal outfits have come to the fore — and threaten to undermine the rebellion
30/07/2012
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Free Syrian Army soldiers stand guard at a checkpoint in the northern town of Ariha, on the outskirts of Idlib, Syria, Sunday, June 10, 2012
The checkpoint wasn’t a...
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Watch30/07/2012 #Syria: Fighting on the outskirts of Aleppo
Syrian rebel forces launch an offensive against a Syrian army base north of Aleppo. CNN’s Ivan Watson reports.
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