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10 Things to Know for Thursday
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Thursday: 1. FOUR AMERICAN CITIZENS KILLED BY DRONES The deaths have taken place in Pakistan and Yemen since 2009, the Obama administration reveals. 2. MAN...Tags: FBI, Pakistan, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Leslie Moonves, Wars and Interventions
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The path of hubris and war
William PfaffPARIS -- Great power rivalries created the conditions in which the First World War became possible, but the war itself was set off by an isolated and intrinsically unimportant act of terrorism by a Serbian nationalist. All that followed was driven by...Tags: Pakistan, Philosophy, Afghanistan, Culture, Boston Marathon
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Will Senate bid lure Rogers from his House seat?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Rep. Mike Rogers has pulled off a rare feat in a bitterly divided Congress — a working, productive relationship with Democrats in overseeing the nation's 16 spy agencies. The question now is whether the...
Tags: Bashar Assad, Saxby Chambliss, Parties and Movements, Gary Peters, Carl Levin
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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: Xi Jinping, China, Armed Conflicts, Beirut (Lebanon), Rebellions
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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, Rebellions, Lebanon, Tripoli (Libya), Human Rights
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Robert Rabil: U.S. should flex muscle to help Syria
The Syrian rebellion has become tightly linked to the ongoing shifts in the Saudi and Iranian-led regional axes of powers that have resulted from withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. At the same time, Washington's war-fatigued mentality and wariness about...Tags: Weaponry, Israel, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Jerusalem (Israel)
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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: Bashar Assad, Islam, Government, Skype, Armed Forces
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Tripoli fighting leaves one dead, several wounded
The Lebanon Daily StarTRIPOLI, Lebanon -- In renewed hostilities apparently linked to a Syrian offensive in the rebel-held strategic city of Qusair, supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad clashed in Tripoli Sunday, killing one man and wounding several...Tags: Armed Conflicts, Bashar Assad, Islam, Beirut (Lebanon), Rebellions
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Fears grow of clash between Israel and Syria
JERUSALEM — Fears about a possible escalation of violence between Israel and Syria grew Sunday amid renewed Israeli threats to destroy Syrian weapons caches and Syria's warnings of retaliation. After decades of relative calm along the two nations&...
Tags: Government, Bashar Assad, Weaponry, Tel Aviv (Israel), National Government
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Incapable politicians should leave posts: Rai
The Lebanon Daily StarMaronite Patriarch Cardinal Beshara Rai lashed out at politicians over their failure to form a government and draft an electoral law, saying leaders who fail to handle these tasks should not remain in their posts. "If they are not able to draft an...Tags: Government, Beirut (Lebanon), Elections, Lebanon, Jihad
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Rockets from Syria strike Hermel
The Lebanon Daily StarSix rockets launched from Syria hit the Lebanese city of Hermel Sunday, security sources told The Daily Star, as Syrian troops backed by Hezbollah launched an assault on the rebel-held town of Qusair nearby. The sources, who spoke on the condition of...Tags: Beirut (Lebanon), Rebellions, Lebanon, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions
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Syria's Assad dubious of U.S.-Russia peace initiative
BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar Assad has expressed skepticism that a planned U.S.-Russian peace conference could help stop the bloodshed in his country, according to an interview published Saturday in an Argentine newspaper. The Syrian leader...
Tags: Government, Bashar Assad, Russia, Moscow (Russia), Taliban
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