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  Rebels attack air base in northern Syria

  World | June 07, 2013 16:06 IST

  Beirut, June 7: Human rights activists on Friday said rebels have attacked an air base in northern Syria but failed to capture it.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the fighting concentrated near the

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  UN says it can't feed one million hungry Syrians

  World | January 08, 2013 18:23 IST

  Geneva,Jan 8: The World Food Program (WFP) said on Tuesday it is unable to help one million Syrians who are going hungry.Spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs said that this month, the agency aims to help 1.5 million

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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

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  UN Says 3,500 Dead So Far In Syria Uprising

  World | November 08, 2011 20:02 IST

  Beirut, Nov 8: The U.N. human rights office on Tuesday raised the death toll from the eight-month Syrian uprising to 3,500, as activists on the ground reported that fresh attacks by Syrian troops killed two