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Syria's military shows unexpected resilience
BEIRUT — The military onslaught this week against the strategic Syrian town of Qusair has dramatized a surprising combat resilience that has already put rebel forces on the defensive on other key fronts, including near the capital, Damascus. The...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Armed Forces, National Government, Petroleum Industry, Wars and Interventions
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Syria's government presses battle in key rebel city of Qusair
BEIRUT -- Renewed clashes were reported Monday in the strategic Syrian city of Qusair, where government forces pressed an offensive aimed at chasing rebels from the supply and logistics hub. There were conflicting accounts from the government and the...
Tags: Government, Unrest, Conflicts and War, News Agency, Emergency Incidents, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present )
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Government forces in Syria attack rebel stronghold of Qusair
BEIRUT — Syrian government forces launched a long-planned offensive early Sunday on the strategic city of Qusair and neighboring rebel-controlled villages near the Lebanese border, with heavy shelling that began shortly after midnight, according...
Tags: United Nations, Government, National Government, Politics, Rebellions
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Syria launches major assault on strategic rebel stronghold
BEIRUT — Syrian forces launched a large-scale assault Sunday on the city of Qusair, a rebel stronghold near the Lebanese border, in the government's latest effort to push back opposition fighters from strategic areas of the country. The opposition...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, News Agency, Activism, Armed Forces, National Government
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U.S. decries Russia weapons sale to Syria
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday condemned Russia's delivery of advanced antiship missiles to Syria and its buildup of warships in the eastern Mediterranean, arguing that the Kremlin's escalating support for its longtime ally in...
Tags: United Nations, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Wars and Interventions, Martin Dempsey
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The struggle for Syria
My cousin, Ramez, was dead before the echoes of the gunshot that killed him stopped ringing. His 4-year-old daughter, Zeynab, watched him fall on a narrow street in Damascus, but she never heard the shot because she is deaf. She held onto his lifeless...
Tags: United Nations, Unrest, Conflicts and War, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, U.S. Military, International Military Interventions
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Syria blames Israel for predawn blasts near Damascus
BEIRUT — Huge explosions were reported in Damascus early Sunday, just two days after a reported Israeli airstrike in Syria targeting surface-to-air missiles possibly destined for neighboring Lebanon and the militant group Hezbollah. Syrian state...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Biological and Chemical Weapons, U.S. Military, Wars and Interventions, Beirut (Lebanon)
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Syria blames Israel for new explosions in Damascus
BEIRUT -- Huge explosions were reported early Sunday in the Syrian capital, Damascus, and state-run media blamed Israel for a strike on a defense research facility outside the capital. State television said Israeli rockets had targeted a research...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Israel, National Government, Richard Nixon, Wars and Interventions
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Israel reportedly carries out airstrike against Syria
JERUSALEM -- Israeli officials were silent Saturday about reports that their forces had launched an airstrike from the Lebanese skies onto Syrian soil. A military spokeswoman declined to comment on reports by CNN, the Associated Press and others that...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Israel, Weaponry
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Amid reports of airstrike, Israel says it's keeping an eye on Syria
JERUSALEM -- Amid reports that Israeli warplanes struck a weapons cache in Syria this week, a senior Israel defense ministry official said Saturday his nation was closely monitoring unrest in its neighbor but remained confident that Syria’s chemical...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Government, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Weaponry
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Lebanon border region caught in Syria conflict
ARSAL, Lebanon — When Mustafa Ezzedine, a Sunni Muslim from this Sunni border town, wanted to buy some furniture, he undertook a clandestine trip into war-torn Syria rather than face harassment, or worse, from Shiite Muslim security officers or...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Kidnapping, Free Syrian Army, Religious Conflicts, National Government
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Syria's Assad will not be abandoned, Hezbollah leader says
BEIRUT -- The head of the powerful Hezbollah movement vowed Tuesday that the Lebanese group and other allies of Syrian President Bashar Assad would not allow the government in Damascus to be overthrown. “Syria has real friends, in the region and...
Tags: Government, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Religion and Belief, Armed Forces, National Government
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