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UN Security Council backs Kofi Annan’s Syria peace plan
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UN Security Council backs Kofi Annan’s Syria peace plan

UNITED NATIONS – The previously divided UN Security Council sent a strong and united message to the Syrian government and…
Syria’s Idlib: A city under fire
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Syria’s Idlib: A city under fire

IDLIB — “Leave Homs alone and shell us instead,” read the banner hoisted by the people of the Syrian city…
Human Rights Watch accuses some Syrian opposition forces of abuses
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Human Rights Watch accuses some Syrian opposition forces of abuses

BEIRUT — Armed elements of the Syrian opposition have carried out serious abuses including the kidnapping and torture of security…
Syria troops fight rebels in rare Damascus clashes
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Syria troops fight rebels in rare Damascus clashes

BEIRUT — Syrian security forces clashed Monday with gunmen in an upscale neighborhood of the capital Damascus that is home…
Explosion strikes near Syrian security building in Aleppo, regime troops restrict marches
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Explosion strikes near Syrian security building in Aleppo, regime troops restrict marches

BEIRUT — An explosion struck near a Syrian government security building in the northern city of Aleppo Sunday while a…
Syria opposition to rally to mark year of struggle
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Syria opposition to rally to mark year of struggle

BEIRUT — Syrian opposition groups are calling for protests Sunday in the capital Damascus and elsewhere to commemorate the one-year…
Turkey considers Syria border buffer zone
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Turkey considers Syria border buffer zone

ANKARA — Turkey said on Friday it might set up a border "buffer zone" to protect growing numbers of Syrian…
Gulf Cooperation Council: Gulf Arab states close Syria embassies
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Gulf Cooperation Council: Gulf Arab states close Syria embassies

Four more members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have decided to close their embassies in Syria over its violent crackdown…
Pro-Assad show, ‘massacre’ mark Syria anniversary
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Pro-Assad show, ‘massacre’ mark Syria anniversary

Huge rallies showed support for Syria's president on Thursday despite a new "massacre" report and a refugee exodus to Turkey, as a…
UK paper claims to have Syrian leader’s emails
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UK paper claims to have Syrian leader’s emails

LONDON — Thousands of emails purported to be from the private accounts of Bashar al-Assad and his wife show the…
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