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Syria's grim reality: Neither side can 'win'
DAMASCUS, Syria – It's early Friday morning, a holy day in Syria's capital. But war is no respecter of dawn or devotion; dense smoke is rising from several suburbs and the birdsong is punctured by the thud of falling artillery shells.(5/19/2013 9:12:31 PM) |
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Syria to supply new arms, says Hezbollah
A Shi'ite leader says Syria will supply Lebanon's Hezbollah with 'game-changing weapons'(5/19/2013 11:15:26 PM) |
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Outlook dim as Syria diplomacy gathers force
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Peter Graff AMMAN/LONDON (Reuters) - The world's diplomats will make a major new push in the coming days for negotiations to end Syria's civil war, but their chances of achieving a peace deal look as remote as ever. President Bashar al-Assad poured scorn on new plans for peace talks announced unexpectedly by the United States and Russia two weeks ago and planned for ...(5/19/2013 7:28:09 PM) |
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In Syria, 'winning' is a relative term
News analysisDAMASCUS, Syria – It's early Friday morning, a holy day in Syria's capital. But war is no respecter of dawn or devotion; dense smoke is rising from several suburbs and the birdsong is punctured by the thud of falling artillery shells.This is Damascus today; a city filled with the noise of war. MiG warplanes swoop overhead en route to rebel targets, mortars land amid dense housing ...(5/19/2013 8:16:06 PM) |
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Syria gunfire hits Israel-occupied Golan
Shots fired from Syria hit the central Israeli-occupied Golan Heights overnight, a military spokeswoman said Monday morning, causing no harm or damage.(5/20/2013 1:09:48 AM) |
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Netanyahu takes aim at weapons leakage in Syria
By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held out the prospect on Sunday of further Israeli strikes inside Syria, pledging to act to prevent advanced weapons from reaching Hezbollah and other militant groups. Although Israel has not publicly taken sides in the civil war between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and rebels trying to topple him, Western and Israeli ...(5/19/2013 12:02:59 PM) |
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Hezbollah steps up Syria battle, Israel threatens more strikes
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN (Reuters) - Lebanese Hezbollah militants attacked a Syrian rebel-held town alongside Syrian troops on Sunday and Israel threatened more attacks on Syria to rein the militia in, highlighting the risks of a wider regional conflict if planned peace talks fail. Activists said it was the fiercest fighting in Syria's two year-old civil war involving Hezbollah, a Shi'ite ...(5/19/2013 6:13:27 PM) |
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Hezbollah says Syria to supply new arms
A Shi'ite leader says Syria will supply Lebanon's Hezbollah with 'game-changing weapons'(5/19/2013 11:27:33 PM) |
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Syria's Assad: Little chance peace talks would succeed - newspaper
LIMA (Reuters) - Proposed peace talks for Syria would not curb "terrorism" in the country and it is unrealistic to think they would succeed, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview published in an Argentine newspaper on Saturday. Speaking in Syria with the newspaper Clarin, Assad said he was doubtful that mediation the United States and Russia have proposed could settle a deadly ...(5/18/2013 6:13:20 PM) |
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Syria offensive threatens massacre in Qusair
Syria declared today it had launched a major assault on a rebel-held town where tens of thousands of opposition sympathisers have been encircled by regime forces and Hizbollah. (5/19/2013 4:44:13 PM) |
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