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Syria activists look to a grave for evidence against Assad
WASHINGTON — The hunt for proof that Syrian government forces used banned chemical weapons may come down to a rotting corpse exhumed late last month from a makeshift cemetery near Damascus. The grave diggers — a Syrian doctor and several...
Tags: Politics, Turkey, U.S. Department of State, Wars and Interventions, U.S. Embassy
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Syria, Israel exchange fire across cease-fire line
BEIRUT -- Syria said Tuesday that its forces had destroyed an Israeli vehicle that crossed into Syrian territory from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, an account disputed by Israel, which said that shots were fired at a patrol inside Israeli-controlled...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Xi Jinping, Unrest, Conflicts and War, United Nations, Eurovision Song Contest (tv program)
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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: Politics, Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Lebanon, Islam
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New videos from Syria spotlight conflict's brutality
New video surfaced on the Internet on Thursday purporting to show Syrian rebel fighters killing 11 prisoners they accused of taking part in massacres by forces loyal to President Bashar Assad. It was the latest of many grisly videos that have...Tags: Politics, Murder, Massacres, Research, Prisons
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Iranians protest desecration of Syrian shrine
TEHRAN -- Iranians took to the streets Friday in the latest protest against the desecration last week by Syrian rebels of an ancient Shiite shrine outside Damascus, the Syrian capital. "We have to show our anger," declared Ebrahim Jalili, 80, a carpet...Tags: Politics, Tehran (Iran), Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Islam
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Syrian opposition says 42 soldiers killed in airstrikes
BEIRUT — A Syrian opposition group said Monday that more than 42 soldiers were killed and 100 others remained unaccounted for in reported Israeli airstrikes Sunday outside Damascus, providing the first unofficial accounting of casualties in attacks...
Tags: Politics, Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Rebellions, Government
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Israel says strikes in Syria target arms for Hezbollah
JERUSALEM — With three airstrikes against Syria since January, Israel has inserted itself forcefully into the "Arab Spring's" most intractable conflict, heightening fears that Syria's civil war could spiral into a regional conflagration. The...
Tags: Politics, Meet the Press (tv program), Unrest, Conflicts and War, United Nations, Lebanon
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The Sunday Conversation: Peter Sellars
Theater director Peter Sellars, a UCLA professor of world arts and cultures, will be honored by the Santa Monica Museum of Art at its 25th-anniversary Precognito Gala on May 9. Why are you based in Los Angeles instead of New York, which has a larger...
Tags: Music, Culture, Music Industry, Education, Arts and Culture
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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: Politics, Research, U.S. Military, Unrest, Conflicts and War, 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: Politics, Richard Nixon, Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Lebanon
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Arab hip-hop's El Rass takes on rap and revolution
BEIRUT — When Mazen El Sayed, a.k.a. El Rass, picks up a microphone, his provocative phrasings may lock in on any number of targets: Islamic clerics, the West, Arab regimes, social inequities. "We are all made from the same steel," the Lebanese hip-...
Tags: Tripoli (Libya), Music, Poetry, Journalism, Islam
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U.N. withdrawing staff from Syria, citing danger
BEIRUT -- The United Nations said Monday that it is temporarily withdrawing some of its international staff from Syria because of deteriorating security conditions, especially in the capital, Damascus, where rebel mortar attacks have escalated in recent...
Tags: United Nations, Bashar Assad
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