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Lugar: Syrian rebels need safe zones in Turkey
WASHINGTON (AP) — The ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says the U.S. should work with Turkey to establish safe zones for retreating Syrian rebels. Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana says the so-called safe zones would be on...Tags: Turkey, Washington, DC, Turkey (animal), Richard Lugar, Wars and Interventions
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Hezbollah leader affirms support for Assad in Syria
BEIRUT — The leader of the militant group Hezbollah on Saturday aligned his powerful movement squarely behind the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad and vowed victory against Syrian rebels, whom he assailed as proxy warriors for the West...Tags: Religious Conflicts, Government, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), National Government, Michel Suleiman
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Syrian opposition struggles for unity as battle rages
ReutersISTANBUL (Reuters) - Syria's opposition resumed talks on Saturday aimed at closing their fractious ranks, as government forces launched a fierce onslaught on a rebel-held border town to try to gain the upper hand in the civil war. A failure of the...Tags: Religious Conflicts, Government, Human Rights, Iran, Wars and Interventions
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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...
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Two rockets hit Hezbollah-held district in Beirut -residents
ReutersBEIRUT, May 26 (Reuters) - Two rockets hit a Hezbollah-controlled district in the southern part of Lebanon's capital on Saturday, residents said, wounding several people. The attack may have been a response to a speech by the militant group's leader...Tags: Lebanon, Beirut (Lebanon)
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CORRECTED-Two rockets hit southern Beirut district -residents
Reuters(Corrects day in first paragraph) BEIRUT, May 26 (Reuters) - Two rockets hit a Hezbollah-controlled district in the southern part of Lebanon's capital on Sunday, residents said, wounding several people. The attack may have been a response to a speech by...Tags: Lebanon, Beirut (Lebanon)
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Rockets hit south Beirut after Hezbollah vows Syria victory
ReutersBEIRUT (Reuters) - Two rockets hit a Shi'ite Muslim district of southern Beirut on Sunday and wounded several people, residents said, a day after the leader of Lebanese Shi'ite militant movement Hezbollah said his group would continue fighting in Syria...Tags: Religious Conflicts, Wars and Interventions, Islam, Religion and Belief, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present )
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Fractious Syrian opposition says it has formed a united coalition
World NowThe deeply divided Syrian opposition said Sunday that its myriad factions had reached an initial agreement to form a new coalition -- the Syrian National Coalition -- to oversee a push to oust the government of President Bashar Assad.... -
Israeli army fires warning shots into Syria
World NowJERUSALEM -- Israel fired warning shots into Syria on Sunday after an apparently errant mortar shell struck an Israeli military post in the Golan Heights, the latest example of regional spillover from Syria’s civil unrest. The Syrian mortar caused... -
Syrian-linked death toll grows in Lebanon's Tripoli
ReutersTRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - The death toll in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli reached 25 on Saturday in the seventh straight day of clashes between factions supporting opposing sides in Syria's two-year civil war, security sources said. Residents...Tags: Religion and Belief, Islam, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Lebanon
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France rules out Iran taking part in Syrian peace talks
Reuters* French foreign minister says Iran cannot be part of talks * Fabius says Tehran is involved in Syrian conflict * He is due to meet Russia's Lavrov, U.S. Kerry on Monday By John Irish ABU DHABI, May 25 (Reuters) - France's foreign minister on Saturday...Tags: France, Russia, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), United Arab Emirates, European Union
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Nasrallah says Hezbollah will bring victory in Syrian conflict
ReutersBEIRUT, May 25 (Reuters) - The leader of Lebanese guerilla movement Hezbollah said his group would stay in the Syrian war "to the end of the road" and bring victory to its ally President Bashar al-Assad. Hassan Nasrallah, head of the militant Shi'ite...
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