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Rebels seize 'large part' of army airport near capital: activists

Source: Lebanon Daily Star, Nov 25 2012, 4:10am CST

A handout picture released by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on November 24, 2012, shows Syrian cadets performing military exercises during their graduation ceremony in Damascus. AFP BEIRUT: Syrian rebels ...

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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 bef ...

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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 residue. Th ...

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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 support of rebel forces in Syria, British broadc ...

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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 doubts about a U.S-Ru ...

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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 ...

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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 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 ...

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Damascus blast: 3 dead, 5 injured

Source: Ynetnews  |   May 18 2013, 3:29pm CDT

Syrian state TV said three persons were killed and five injured in the explosion that rocked Damascus Saturday night. The channel referred to a "terrorist attack," the term by which Bashar Assad's ...

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In rare interview, Bashar al-Assad says he will not step down

Source: DebkaFile  |   May 18 2013, 2:59pm CDT

The Syrian ruler said in an interview Saturday from his palace in Damascus with the Argentine newspaper Clarin, that he welcomed dialogue. But the continuing lack of unity among the myriad rebel groups meant that the opposit ...

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Assad to the world: I'm not stepping down

Source: Washington Times  |   May 18 2013, 2:51pm CDT

BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a newspaper interview Saturday he won’t step down and will instead “face the storm,” raising new doubts about a U.S-Russian effort to get Assad and his opponents to negotiate an end to the country’s civil wa ...

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