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Iran slams Turkey’s missile plan

Source: Arkansas Online, Nov 24 2012, 4:21am CST

Syrian President Bashar Assad (right) meets Friday in Damascus with the speaker of the Iranian parliament, Ali Larijani.BEIRUT Iran lashed out Friday at Turkey for requesting that NATO supply it with Pat ...

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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 skill needed to ...

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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 Syri ...

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25 weeks ago


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"I don’t think democracy can be achieved through rocket-propelled grenades"


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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 statements by Syria ...

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Syria told Iran three years ago it would not defend Iran against Israeli strike

Source: Israel Matsav  |   May 18 2013, 7:28pm CDT

According to a cable sent by the US embassy in Damascus in December 2009, Syria warned Iran that it would not help the Iranians to fight Israel in the event of an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, and that Hamas and Hezbullah ...

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West outraged. Russia continues to lie and mislead

Source: Kavkaz Center  |   May 18 2013, 7:25pm CDT

While Russia and the United States, with the participation of UN Secretary General, promoted the idea of an international conference on Syria, the American and European press continues to be indignant, accusing Moscow o ...

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Q&A: Crisis Escalates as International Community Fails Syria

Source: Inter Press Service  |   May 18 2013, 6:10pm CDT

ATHENS, May 18 2013 (IPS) - With no end in sight for the ongoing two-year war in Syria, the ensuing humanitarian crisis continues to escalate, with over 1 million refugees having fled to neighbouring countries and ...

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Assad tells Argentine newspaper he won't step down

Source: Daily Nation   |   May 18 2013, 6:05pm CDT

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Saturday he welcomed a US-Russian peace initiative to end Syria's civil war but had no plans to resign, in an interview with an Argentine newspaper. "To resign would be to flee," he told Clarin when asked if he woul ...

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Father of senior Assad minister kidnapped

Source: ABC (Australia) Online  |   May 18 2013, 5:28pm CDT

Gunmen have abducted the elderly father of Syria's deputy foreign minister Faisal Muqdad, apparently in reprisal for the arrest of one of their relatives. There has been no immediate claim of responsibility for the abduct ...

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Syria's Assad: Little Chance Peace Talks Would Succeed-Newspaper

Source: International Herald Tribune  |   May 18 2013, 5:08pm CDT

Speaking in Syria with the newspaper Clarin, Assad said he was doubtful that mediation the United States and Russia have proposed could settle a deadly conflict that has convulsed the country for two years. "There is confusion in the world between a p ...

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