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WRAPUP 1-Hezbollah suffers big losses in Syria battle-activists
Reuters* Fiercest fighting involving Hezbollah in Syria - activists * Israel threatens more strikes to keep arms from Hezbollah * Assad says planned peace talks won't stop "terrorists" By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Dominic Evans AMMAN, May 20 (Reuters) -...Tags: Armed Forces, Activism, Free Syrian Army, Russia, Armed Conflicts
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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: News Agency, Emergency Incidents, Wars and Interventions, Politics, Government
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WRAPUP 2-Hezbollah suffers big losses in Syria battle-activists
Reuters* Fiercest fighting involving Hezbollah in Syria - activists * Israel threatens more strikes to keep arms from Hezbollah * Assad says planned peace talks won't stop "terrorists" (Adds funerals, Syrian TV) By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Dominic Evans...Tags: Russia, Armed Conflicts, Politics, Bashar Assad, Government
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Video shows Syrian Islamists flogging men over illegal marriage
ReutersBEIRUT, May 20 (Reuters) - Islamist rebels in the northern Syrian town of Saraqeb have publicly flogged two men for violating an Islamic ban on marriage to recently divorced women, according to an internet video uploaded this week. The video showed a...Tags: Punishment, Religion and Belief, Islam, Wars and Interventions, Bashar Assad
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Tensions over Syria convulse Lebanese city again, 3 killed
ReutersTRIPOLI, Lebanon, May 20 (Reuters) - Three people have been killed and about 40 wounded in two days of fighting in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli, security sources said on Monday, as sectarian violence spilled over from the civil war in Syria....Tags: Religion and Belief, Islam, Bashar Assad, Wars and Interventions, Lebanon
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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: Armed Forces, Religion and Belief, News Agency, Activism, Politics
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Outlook dim as Syria diplomacy gathers force
Reuters* "Friends of Syria" to hear Kerry peace talks plan on Wednesday * Arab League, Syrian opposition to meet on Thursday * EU summit to consider lifting arms ban for rebels By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Peter Graff AMMAN/LONDON, May 20 (Reuters) - The...Tags: Economic Sanctions, Russia, Bashar Assad, Politics, Government
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Hezbollah steps up Syria battle, Israel threatens more strikes
ReutersAMMAN (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...Tags: Activism, Free Syrian Army, Bashar Assad, Politics, Government
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Syrian army, Hezbollah attack rebels in border town-opposition
Reuters* Border town vital to Assad if Syria fragments * Heaviest clashes involving Lebanese group so far * Hezbollah also backed by Iran By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN, May 19 (Reuters) - Syrian troops supported by Hezbollah militants launched an offensive to...Tags: Bashar Assad, Wars and Interventions, Armed Conflicts, United Nations, Religious Conflicts
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Netanyahu takes aim at weapons leakage in Syria
ReutersJERUSALEM (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...Tags: Vladimir Putin, Russia, Bashar Assad, Tzipi Livni, Military Equipment
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WRAPUP 1-Hezbollah steps up Syria battle, Israel threatens more strikes
Reuters* Fiercest fighting involving Hezbollah in Syria-activists * Israel threatens more strikes to keep arms from Hezbollah * Assad says planned peace talks won't stop "terrorists" By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN, May 19 (Reuters) - Lebanese Hezbollah...Tags: Activism, Jerusalem (Israel), Politics, Career and Workplace, Religious Conflicts
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One killed in northern Lebanese city of Tripoli
ReutersTRIPOLI, Lebanon, May 19 (Reuters) - One person was killed and a dozen people were wounded by gunfire on Sunday in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, security sources said, in the latest outbreak of sectarian violence fuelled by the civil war in...Tags: Religion and Belief, Islam, Bashar Assad, Lebanon
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