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'Scud missiles fired at rebels'

Source: Daily Express, Dec 12 2012, 1:11pm CST

Syrian men use sledgehammers to break the concrete of a residential building destroyed in a governme Syrian government forces have fired Scud missiles at rebels in recent days, according to a US official, ...

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Syria's Assad says he won't step down

Source: Lebanon Daily Star  |   May 18 2013, 4:47pm CDT

In this June 20, 2011 photo released by the Syrian news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad delivers a speech in Damascus. (AP Photo/SANA, File) BEIRUT: Syrian President Bashar Assad says he won't step down before elections are held in his wa ...

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Al-Qaeda's Syrian wing takes over the oilfields once belonging to Assad

Source: The Telegraph  |   May 18 2013, 4:43pm CDT

Because of sanctions, Jabhat's oil is largely shipped to thousands of home-built mini-refineries that have sprung up across the north of the country. The crude is distilled in hand-welded vats dug into the ground and heated with burning oil resid ...

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RT: 'Turkey to see more bombings as Erdogan's support for Syrian rebels backfires'

Source: Rantburg  |   May 18 2013, 4:42pm CDT

Will there be a new Crimean War to save the Turk? Who will take the place of the British? Terrorist attacks on Turkish soil won't stop until the country's Prime Minister, Tayyip Erdogan, gives up on his supp ...

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More suspects detained in Turkey car bombing

Source: United Press International  |   May 18 2013, 4:11pm CDT

Published: May 18, 2013 at 5:11 PM ANKARA, Turkey, May 18 (UPI) -- Turkish officials said four more suspects have been detained after two car bombs exploded last week near the Syrian border killing 51 people. In total, 17 people have eithe ...

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Assad: Syria transition talks are internal matter

Source: Mail.com  |   May 18 2013, 3:55pm CDT

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a newspaper interview Saturday he won't step down before elections and that the United States has no right to interfere in his country's politics, raising new doubt ...

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Syria's Assad, In an Interview, Suggests Peace Talks are Unlikely to Succeed

Source: Democratic Underground  |   May 18 2013, 3:55pm CDT

Source: New York Times BEIRUT, Lebanon President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, in a rare interview with a foreign newspaper, appeared to dismiss the possibility of serious progress arising from peace talks planned for next m ...

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France won’t attend Syria talks if Iran invited

Source: GulfToday.ae  |   May 18 2013, 3:51pm CDT

SOCHI: France spelled out on Friday that it would oppose a peace conference for Syria if Bashar Al Assad’s regional ally Iran is invited, clouding the prospect for a US-Russian initiative to end the two-year-old war. No date has yet been agreed for ...

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Violence unabated across Syria

Source: GulfToday.ae  |   May 18 2013, 3:51pm CDT

DAMASCUS: Gunmen on Saturday abducted the elderly father of Syria’s deputy foreign minister, the official’s office said, in the latest kidnapping targeting family members of figures in President Bashar Al Assad’s regime. The father ...

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Assad says WMD claims pretext for war

Source: News24  |   May 18 2013, 3:33pm CDT

2013-05-18 22:33 Weedah Hamzah, Ramadan Al-Fatash Cairo - Western claims that the Syrian government used chemical weapons against its own people are a pretext for waging a war against Syria, President Bashar Assad said in remarks published on S ...

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Syrian civil war: A military-strategic assessment

Source: Jerusalem Post  |   May 18 2013, 3:31pm CDT

The overall geostrategic characteristic of the Syrian military picture is a robust armed struggle for supply routes, lines of communication, major highways and key choke points that is somewhat similar to the initial phase of the first Arab-Israeli War ...

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