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Syria backing off on chemical weapons use, U.S. says

Source: CBC News, Dec 11 2012, 9:19am CST

'Our concern is that if they feel like the regime is threatened with collapse, they might resort to these kinds of weapons.'âDefence Secretary Leon Panetta The Syrian government seems to have slowed preparations for the pos ...

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Syria's Assad continues to butcher his own people: White House

Source: Samaylive  |   May 22 2013, 11:27pm CDT

"There is no question that Bashar al-Assad continues to butcher his own people, to take brutal actions as he clings onto power. And there is no question that Hezbollah is assisting him in that effort," White House Press Secretary Jay Carne ...

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Obama discusses Syria with senior Russian official

Source: SINA English  |   May 22 2013, 11:26pm CDT

WASHINGTON, May 22 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday discussed with visiting Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev the need for a negotiated settlement of the protracted conflict in ...

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23 weeks ago


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"Steps that were put in place to try to deal with that threat I believe have been effective"


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32 minutes ago

Hizbullah-Backed Syrian Troops Advance in Northern Qusayr Town

Source: Rantburg  |   May 22 2013, 11:11pm CDT

[An Nahar] Syrian regime troops backed by Hizbullah fighters attacked the village of Hamadiyeh north of Qusayr of Wednesday, one of the last remaining rebel positions in the area, activists said. "The Syrian regime is re ...

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Sabra Urges Arab League, Lebanon to Stop Hizbullah Influx

Source: Rantburg  |   May 22 2013, 11:11pm CDT

[An Nahar] Syria's opposition urged the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usuall ...

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Kerry Says Thousands of Hizbullah Fighters in Syria, Party Dragging Lebanon into War

Source: Rantburg  |   May 22 2013, 11:11pm CDT

[An Nahar] U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, an ...

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Kerry vows wider support for Syrian rebels

Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch  |   May 22 2013, 11:10pm CDT

AMMAN, Jordan The United States and its partners will widen support for the Syrian rebels, potentially by sending more weapons or taking other measures short of sending American forces, if diplomacy fails to en ...

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Team Obama’s endless Syria bungling

Source: New York Post  |   May 22 2013, 10:58pm CDT

Since his inauguration, President Obama’s gullibility about Syria’s brutal dictatorship and its ally Russia’s Middle East objectives has injured America’s stakes in the region. In the third year of Syria’s bloody, grinding civil war, Assad remains in ...

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U.S. support for Syrian rebels to expand if talks falter, Kerry says

Source: Cleveland.com  |   May 22 2013, 10:36pm CDT

AMMAN, Jordan -- The United States and its partners will widen support for the Syrian rebels, potentially by sending more weapons or taking other measures short of sending American forces, if diplomacy fails to end a civil war that has killed “up ...

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Kerry: U.S. ready to step up aid to rebels

Source: Pittsburgh Entertainment  |   May 22 2013, 10:31pm CDT

AMMAN, Jordan â The United States and several key allies looked again Wednesday for a strategy to end Syria's civil war, their united efforts unable at the moment to stem the Assad regime's military gains and Washingto ...

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