Syria Civil War
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Red Cross barred from Syrian towns
World | Jun 02, 2013, 07:44 PM ISTBeirut, June 2: Syria's State-run news agency said the country's foreign minister has told U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon that humanitarian aid won't be allowed into an embattled rebel-held Syrian town until the fighting there is
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Syrian opposition won't participate in Geneva talks
World | May 30, 2013, 06:19 PM ISTBeirut, 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, 11:34 PM ISTBaghdad, 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, 07:07 PM ISTBeirut, 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 | Mar 02, 2013, 06:09 PM ISTNew 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 | Jan 29, 2013, 09:20 PM ISTBeirut, 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 | Dec 29, 2012, 05:52 PM ISTMoscow,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 | Dec 13, 2012, 09:27 PM ISTBeirut, 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 | Dec 09, 2012, 04:41 PM ISTBerlin, 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 | Dec 04, 2012, 08:29 PM ISTBeirut, 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