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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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  Blast near Damascus kills 16, state media say

  World | December 13, 2012 21:27 IST

  Beirut, Dec 13: Syria's state news agency said on Thursday that a bomb blast near a school in a Damascus suburb killed 16 people, at least half of them women and children.The Deputy Foreign Minister

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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