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Official: Syria fires Scud missiles at rebels

Source: Deseret News, Dec 12 2012, 1:43pm CST

KABUL, Afghanistan — Syrian government forces have fired Scud missiles at insurgents in recent days, escalating the 2-year-old conflict against rebels seeking to overthrow the regime, U.S. officials said Wednesday. Speaking on condi ...

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Al-Qaeda plunders Syria's oilfields

Source: Irish Independent  |   May 18 2013, 11:11pm CDT

AL-QAEDA'S Syrian wing is financing its activities by selling oil from the fields that once helped to prop up the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Up to 380,000 barrels of crude oil were previously produced for the regime by wells ar ...

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Syrian rebel leader admits difficulty of unifying fighters

Source: Kansas.com  |   May 18 2013, 10:44pm CDT

ANTAKYA, Turkey — The defected Syrian general whom the United States has tapped as its conduit for aid to the rebels has acknowledged in an interview with McClatchy that his movement is badly fragmented and lacks the military sk ...

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22 weeks ago


Quote:
"Like saying, 'Oh, yeah? I'll call show you!'"


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Assad: I’m staying put

Source: New York Post  |   May 18 2013, 10:08pm CDT

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in a newspaper interview yesterday he won’t step down before elections are held, rejecting a demand by the country’s opposition that any talks on ending the nation’s civil war lead t ...

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Russia arm sales to Syria worries Israel

Source: Press TV  |   May 18 2013, 9:12pm CDT

"(Weapons) could reach others in Syria or Lebanon, and be used against Israel," Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni said on Saturday, Reuters reported. "These are not just any weapons, they are tie-breakers, and that's w ...

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Syria's Assad dubious of U.S.-Russia peace initiative

Source: Los Angeles Times  |   May 18 2013, 9:05pm CDT

The Syrian leader also repeated assertions that he had no intention of stepping down from office. "We have welcomed the Russian-United States rapprochement, and we hope that there is an international meeting to help the Syrians overcome the cr ...

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Syria prepares missiles to strike Tel Aviv – report

Source: DebkaFile  |   May 18 2013, 9:03pm CDT

The Sunday Times reports that Syria is deploying advanced Tishreen surface-to-surface missiles to strike Tel Aviv in case Israel launches another attack. The paper cites “information obtained by reconnaissa ...

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President Assad suggests peace talks are unlikely to succeed

Source: The Seattle Times  |   May 18 2013, 8:58pm CDT

BEIRUT — President Bashar 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 month, and to back away from earlier stateme ...

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Assad: Syria transition talks are internal matter

Source: Tampa Bay Online   |   May 18 2013, 8:43pm 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-Russian effo ...

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Syrian Arab Republic: Assad insists he will not quit, car bomb hits Damascus

Source: Humanitarian News  |   May 18 2013, 8:22pm CDT

DAMASCUS, May 18, 2013 (AFP) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad insisted he will not resign before the end of his mandate in 2014 as a car bomb exploded in the capital Damascus on Saturday killing at least thr ...

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