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At least 5 reported dead in bombing at Syrian Interior Ministry

Source: AzFamily.com, Dec 12 2012, 4:34pm CST

BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's Interior Ministry says at least five people were killed in a bombing attack today on the ministry's headquarters in Damascus. Officials say three bombs caused walls to collapse. Activist ...

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UN calls for ‘credible’ Syrian players at Geneva talks

Source: GulfToday.ae  |   May 21 2013, 4:06pm CDT

GENEVA: A planned Syria peace conference next month will only work if the government and rebels send credible negotiating teams, the UN’s deputy secretary-general Jan Eliasson said on Tuesday. “There have to be two, credible delegations to ...

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Major drop in refugees moving into Jordan: UN

Source: GulfToday.ae  |   May 21 2013, 4:06pm CDT

GENEVA: The UN said on Tuesday the number of Syrian refugees flooding into Jordan had suddenly fallen from several thousand a day to close to zero, warning that fighting may be blocking people in need from coming. ...

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Hezbollah growing in Syria - Tue, 21 May 2013 PST

Source: The Spokesman   |   May 21 2013, 3:23pm CDT

Secretary of State John Kerry is headed back to the Middle East to press his case for peace talks between Syrian rebels and President Bashar Assad’s regime amid increasing signs the new U.S. strategy to halt the war is being undermined by Rus ...

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Al-Khatib and Al Jazeera: Listening to Victims in Syria

Source: God’s Politics Blog  |   May 21 2013, 3:19pm CDT

What the heck is going on in Syria? If you are like me, you have a problem keeping all the players straight, and the unfamiliar Arab names don’t help. Thankfully, the Syrian president has a relatively easy name to remember, Bashar al-Assad, but ...

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Shrugging at Syria and its refugees

Source: Ottawa Citizen  |   May 21 2013, 3:14pm CDT

When the United States and Britain turned away 70,000 starving Jewish refugees from the fascist Romanian regime of Ion Antonescu in February, 1943, it fell to U.S. Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles to explain why. There are reasons, Welles s ...

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Lebanon: Palestinian refugees from Syria are extremely vulnerable

Source: Humanitarian News  |   May 21 2013, 2:52pm CDT

his commentary by Samar El Yassir, ANERA Country Director Lebanon, was published May 20, 2013 on al-monitor.com Syria's civil war has forced more than a million Syrians to flee their homeland in search of protection and shelter in Turkey, Jord ...

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Senate panel approves weapons for Syrian rebels

Source: Yahoo News: Business  |   May 21 2013, 2:46pm CDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate panel has voted to provide weapons to rebels battling the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad . The vote by the Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday marked the first time that lawmakers have backed the aggres ...

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Syrian Opposition Meets in Madrid to Discuss Coming Talks

Source: GlobalSecurity.org  |   May 21 2013, 2:44pm CDT

MADRID, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - About 80 leaders of various Syrian opposition movements and organizations met on Monday in Madrid to forge a common position for the upcoming international conference on Syria, the EFE news agency report ...

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Kerry in Oman to Discuss Syria Peace Conference

Source: GlobalSecurity.org  |   May 21 2013, 2:44pm CDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in Oman on his latest stop in a campaign to help arrange an internationally-sponsored Syrian peace conference. A senior State Department official said that while Oman has not played a key role in Syria, ...

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Testing time for Syria’s rebels

Source: The Washington Post  |   May 21 2013, 2:11pm CDT

It’s a rule of thumb in Middle East conflicts that whenever peace talks are announced, each side steps up the fighting so it can grab as much territory as possible before the cease-fire lines are drawn. This struggle ...

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