Source: GulfToday.ae
DAMASCUS: President Bashar Al Assad scotched any suggestion he might flee Syria and warned that any Western military intervention to topple him would have catastrophic consequences for the Middle East and beyond. S ...
Nov 8 2012, 3:50pm CST
Source: Hurriet Daily News
Secretary of State John Kerry was returning to the Middle East Monday, aiming to shore up peace efforts as he seeks to help end the Syria war and coax Israel and the Palestinians back to talks. The new top US diplomat -- making his fou ...
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Source: GulfToday.ae
Source: The White House
President Obama and President Sleiman spoke by phone today to discuss their shared commitment to preserving Lebanon’s stability, sovereignty, and security, particularly in relation to the ongoing conflict in Syria. President Obama expressed h ...
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Source: Hit and Run
Credit: Dirk Vorderstraße/wikimediaSecretary of State John Kerry is heading to the Middle East today for talks on setting up a Syria peace conference that will bring together representatives from the Assad regime and its opp ...
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Source: GlobalSecurity.org
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has stressed Iran's influential role in settling the Syria unrest, underlining the need for the inclusion of Iran in an upcoming international conference on Syria. "If we admit that Iran has a ...
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Source: GlobalSecurity.org
The Syrian army has restored security in the western city of al-Qusayr in the central province of Homs, after taking back control of 50 percent of the city from foreign-backed militants. The army said it has killed ...
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Source: GlobalSecurity.org
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry travels Monday to the Middle East for talks on holding a Syrian peace conference. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said he doubts the U.S./Russian initiative can stop the fighting. The latest effort to end Syrian v ...
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Source: PerthNow
A SYRIAN government assault on the rebel bastion of Qusayr has raged into a second day, with at least 28 members of Lebanon's Shi'ite group Hezbollah reported killed as they fought alongside the army. As official media reported that the ar ...
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Source: Humanitarian News
As of today, there are 193.767 Syrian citizens staying at the 14 Tent Cities, 1 Temporary Admission Centre and 3 Container Cities established by Prime Ministry AFAD for those coming from Syria. AFAD has erected a total of 14 tent-ci ...
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Source: AntiWar.com
“Almost every time someone calls for a war to be entered on humanitarian grounds, there’s a way to save more lives more cheaply and reliably with philanthropic spending,” he explains. “And even if it’s true that doing nothing [in Syria] will resu ...
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