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Syria's Assad vows not to leave country as rebels seek unity

Source: Deutsche Welle, Nov 8 2012, 7:52am CST

Syrian President Bashar Assad on Thursday rejected calls that he should leave the country and warned the conflict could have "global consequences." "I am Syrian, I was made in Syria,” said Assad said in an interview with state-backed Rus ...

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Car bomb kills eight in Syria - Indiatalkies.com

Source: India Talkies  |   May 19 2013, 2:01am CDT

Damascus, May 19: At least eight people were killed and 10 others wounded when a car bomb ripped through a Damascus district Saturday night, local media and activists said. A huge explosive device was planted under a car in t ...

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Report: Syria has missile batteries aimed at Tel Aviv

Source: Rantburg  |   May 19 2013, 1:51am CDT

'The Sunday Times' reports reconnaissance satellites reveal preparations made by the Syrian army to deploy surface-to-surface Tishreen missiles ready to fire at Israel should J'lem conduct another airstrike on the Assad regime. The paper reports re ...

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"The humanitarian situation is getting worse despite the scope of the operation increasing ... We can't cope with the worsening of the situation."


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Despite Horrific Repression, The US Should Stay Out Of Syria – OpEd

Source: Eurasia Review  |   May 19 2013, 1:08am CDT

The worsening violence and repression in Syria has left policymakers scrambling to think of ways the United States could help end the bloodshed and support those seeking to dislodge the Assad regime. The desperate des ...

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Report: Syria has missile batteries aimed at Tel Aviv

Source: Jerusalem Post  |   May 19 2013, 1:01am CDT

Syria has surface-to-surface Tishreen missiles aimed at Tel Aviv and is ready to use them should Israel decide to conduct a strike on Syria, British newspaper The Sunday Times reported on Sunday. The paper reports reconnaissance ...

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Jeffrey Goldberg: Dithering on Syria leaves no good option

Source: Memphis Commercial Appeal  |   May 19 2013, 12:56am CDT

Syria’s dictator, Bashar Assad, isn’t the only leader who is crossing “red lines” these days. President Barack Obama has also crossed a few. Here are three of them: He crossed a red line by asserting the existence of ...

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Assad skeptical about proposed Geneva peace talks

Source: Russia Today  |   May 19 2013, 12:45am CDT

Syrian President Bashar Assad has welcomed the proposed peace talks for Syria agreed by Russia and the US, but voiced his skepticism about their prospects for success, saying that many forces don't really want to see a s ...

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Syria: No Oil Means No Intervention.

Source: Arutz Sheva  |   May 19 2013, 12:32am CDT

Many have been confounded with the lack of any real intervention being proposed in regards to the violence that only keeps escalating in the Syrian civil war. The West continues to be bombarded daily with images of violence an ...

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Assad says he won't quit

Source: Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer  |   May 19 2013, 12:02am CDT

This citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows black smoke rising from what rebels say is a helicopter that was shot down at Abu Dhour military ai ...

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Al-Qaeda takes over oilfields that once belonged to Assad

Source: Rantburg  |   May 18 2013, 11:50pm CDT

Al-Qaeda's Syrian arm is helping to fund its activities by selling the product of oilfields once used to prop up the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Up to 380,000 barrels of crude oil were previously produced by wells around the city of Raqqa and in the regi ...

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