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RPT-ANALYSIS-Saudi role in Syria driven by fear of Shi'ite "full moon"
Reuters(Repeats story, text unchanged) * Saudis increasingly frustrated at lack of tougher U.S. action * Growing alarm at rebels' capacity after fall of Qusair * Riyadh believes Assad win would boost Iran across Middle East By Angus McDowall RIYADH, June 18...Tags: Jihad, WikiLeaks, National Government, Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Government
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Lebanese Sunni Muslim politician warns of state collapse
ReutersBEIRUT, June 18 (Reuters) - Lebanon's main Sunni Muslim political party pleaded with the presidency on Tuesday to prevent "state collapse", blaming the Shi'ite Hezbollah group for dragging the country into the war in neighbouring Syria. Iranian-backed...Tags: Bashar Assad, Michel Suleiman, Fouad Siniora, Government, Religion and Belief
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Lebanese minister accuses Syria of "ethnic cleansing" of Sunnis
Reuters* Wael Abu Faour says Syria driving refugees into Lebanon * U.N. refugee agency chief appeals for more aid for Lebanon By Erika Solomon BEIRUT, June 18 (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces have begun ethnically cleansing Sunni...Tags: National Government, Government, Wars and Interventions, Islam, Religious Conflicts
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Lebanese minister accuses Syria of 'ethnic cleansing' of Sunnis
ReutersBEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces have begun ethnically cleansing Sunni Muslims and deliberately pushing refugees across the border into Lebanon, the Lebanese caretaker minister for social affairs said on Tuesday. Assad is...Tags: National Government, Government, Wars and Interventions, Islam, Religious Conflicts
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WRAPUP 1-Syria peace talks delayed as Russia and West clash
Reuters* Syria peace talks seen unlikely before August * Heavy fighting reported in Aleppo * Russia at odds with West at G8 summit By Andrew Osborn and Oliver Holmes ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland/BEIRUT, June 18 (Reuters) - D ifferences between Russia and...Tags: Peace Negotiations, National Government, Vladimir Putin, Summits, Science and Technology
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Obituary: Doris Freeman
Doris Freeman 1920-2013 HARRODSBURG — Doris Freeman, 92, of Lebanon, Ohio, died Saturday. Born Nov. 5, 1920, in Harrodsburg, she was a daughter of the late Garfield and Annie Bunnell. She was the valedictorian of the Harrodsburg High School... -
Syria-related clashes in Lebanon's Sidon, one dead
ReutersBEIRUT, June 18 (Reuters) - Militants supporting opposing sides of Syria's civil war clashed in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon on Tuesday, killing one, a security source said, rocking a city where divisions have been simmering for months. Syria's...Tags: Bashar Assad, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Wars and Interventions, Islam, Religion and Belief
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Lebanese minister accuses Syria of "ethnic cleansing"
ReutersBEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces have begun ethnically cleansing Sunni Muslims and deliberately pushing refugees across the border into Lebanon, the Lebanese caretaker minister for social affairs said on Tuesday. Assad is...Tags: National Government, Government, Wars and Interventions, Islam, Religious Conflicts
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Drama examines suicide bombing from both sides
At one time the phrase "banned in Boston" was, for some, a reason to read a book or view a film. "The Attack," opening in South Florida theaters on June 28, was banned in 21 countries by the Arab League because its Lebanese director made the film in...Tags: Movies, Suicide, Film Festivals, Arts and Culture, Lake Worth
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Gunmen kill four Shi'ite Lebanese in Bekaa Valley
ReutersBEIRUT, June 16 (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead four Shi'ite Muslim men in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley in an ambush on Sunday, security sources said, in the latest sectarian violence close to the border with Syria. The civil war just a few miles across the...Tags: Bashar Assad, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Wars and Interventions, Islam, Religion and Belief
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Rebel brigades check loyalist advances in Aleppo -opposition
ReutersBy Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN, June 16 (Reuters) - Rebel brigades fought Hezbollah-backed forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in and around Syria's commercial hub of Aleppo on Sunday, trying to claw back territory lost to an assault that threatens...Tags: Free Syrian Army, National Government, Government, Wars and Interventions, Islam
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