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  Kerry 'pleased' with Syria chemical disarmament

  World | October 07, 2013 9:50 IST

  Bali, Indonesia : U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday that the United States and Russia are “very pleased” with the progress made so far in destroying Syria's chemical weapons stocks.Kerry, speaking at a

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  UN votes to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons

  World | September 28, 2013 11:24 IST

  United Nations: The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Friday night to secure and destroy Syria's chemical weapons stockpile, a landmark decision aimed at taking poison gas off the battlefield in the escalating 2 ½-year

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  US resolution on Syria sets 60-day deadline

  World | September 04, 2013 15:11 IST

  Washington: The legislation, however, would “strictly prohibit American boots on the ground”.The Syria war resolution drafted by members of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee permits up to 60 days of military action against the

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  Syrians bracing for possible US strike

  World | August 31, 2013 11:32 IST

  Washington:  Edging toward a punitive strike against Syria, President Barack Obama said Friday he is weighing “limited and narrow” action as the administration bluntly accused Bashar Assad's government of launching a chemical weapons attack that

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  Syrian opposition: 200 civilians trapped in mosque

  World | July 14, 2013 18:23 IST

  Amman, July 14: Syria's main Western-backed opposition said on Sunday that 200 civilians are trapped in a mosque in a suburb of the Syrian capital as fighting rages outside between rebels and forces loyal to

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  Syrian opposition won't participate in Geneva talks

  World | May 30, 2013 18:19 IST

  Beirut, May 30: Syria's main Western-backed opposition group says it will not participate in U.S.-Russian sponsored peace talks while the regime is carrying out massacres in Syria.Thursday's announcement came at the end of weeklong opposition

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  Syria to attend Geneva peace talks

  World | May 26, 2013 23:34 IST

  Baghdad, May 26: The Syrian government says it has agreed “in principle” to take part in an international conference in Geneva next month aimed at ending the country's civil war.Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem says

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  Israeli strike kills 42 Syrian soldiers

  World | May 06, 2013 19:07 IST

  Beirut, May 6: A Syrian activist group says Israel's weekend airstrike on a sprawling military complex near the Syrian capital Damascus has killed at least 42 Syrian soldiers.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said

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  Syria reaches out to India

  India | March 02, 2013 18:09 IST

  New Delhi, Mar 2: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is sending his top aide Buthaina Shabaan to India to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and brief him about the ongoing conflict in the country.Ms. Buthaina, who

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  65 bodies found in Aleppo, say Syria activists

  World | January 29, 2013 21:20 IST

  Beirut, January 29: Syrian activists say at least 65 bodies, some of them with their hands tied behind their back, have been found on a river bank in the northern city of Aleppo.The head of

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  UN envoy says Syrian collapse threatens region

  World | December 29, 2012 17:52 IST

  Moscow,Dec 29: The United Nations envoy for the Syria crisis is warning that further deterioration of conditions in the country could send an unbearable stream of refugees into neighbouring countries.Speaking on Saturday after meeting in

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  Assad regime won't survive, says German spy chief

  World | December 09, 2012 16:41 IST

  Berlin, Dec 9: Germany's foreign intelligence chief says the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad won't survive, but it's impossible to say how long it will hang on.The head of the Federal Intelligence Service, Gerhard

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  Syrian forces battle rebels near Damascus

  World | December 04, 2012 20:29 IST

  Beirut, Dec 4: Syrian forces fired artillery at rebel targets in and around Damascus on Tuesday as the country's civil war closed in on President Bashar Assad's seat of power and the international community grew

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  Syrian City Shelled, UN Truce Observers To Arrive

  World | April 18, 2012 10:04 IST

  Beirut, Apr 15: Syrian troops shelled residential neighbourhoods dominated by rebels in the central city of Homs on Sunday, activists said, hours before the first batch of United Nations observers were to arrive in Damascus