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UN Observers Head For Hotspot In Syria's South

AP | By BASSEM MROUE | Posted 04.28.2012

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BEIRUT -- The U.N. says international monitors have moved into another hot spot in Syria to try to stop violence. The monitoring team's spokesman, ...

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Activists: Syrian Fighters And Regime Troops Clash In Hama, Daraa

AP | BEN HUBBARD | Posted 05.22.2012

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BEIRUT — Syrian troops shelled and raided opposition areas and clashed with rebel fighters around the country Thursday despite U.N. efforts to s...

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Deadly Attack On Another Syrian City

AP | BEN HUBBARD | Posted 05.14.2012

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BEIRUT — Syrian forces fired mortars and heavy machine-guns Wednesday in an attack on the southern city where the anti-government uprising began...

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Syrian Security Forces Intensify Assaults

Reuters | Posted 05.14.2012

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By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN, March 14 (Reuters) - Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad attacked rebel strongholds...

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Car Bomb Rocks Southern Syria

Reuters | Posted 05.12.2012

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AMMAN, March 12 (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded in Syria's southern city of Deraa on Monday, activists said, killing up to three people in a neighbo...

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Crimes Against Humanity In Syria?

Reuters | Posted 04.17.2012

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By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN Feb 16 (Reuters) - Syrian troops attacked rebel strongholds in Deraa on Thursday where the uprising agai...

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VIDEO: Syrian Refugees Share Their Plight

Posted 02.06.2012

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On a day when the United States closed its embassy in Syria, Time showcases a video on the plight of Syrian refugees as they flee across the border fr...

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Activists: 200,000 Rally In Syria's Homs

AP | BASSEM MROUE | Posted 02.15.2012

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BEIRUT — Tens of thousands of Syrians, some of them calling for their president's execution, protested against the authoritarian regime on Frida...

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Deadly Attack By Rebel Troops

AP | BASSEM MROUE and ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY | Posted 02.13.2012

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BEIRUT — Army defectors killed 27 government forces Thursday in apparently coordinated attacks that were among the deadliest by rebel troops sin...

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Activists: Wave Of Violence Kills 90 In 1 Day

AP | BASSEM MROUE and ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY | Posted 01.15.2012

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BEIRUT — Army defectors ambushed dozens of Syrian troops and regime forces gunned down civilians during one of the bloodiest days of the 8-month...

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Syria: Killings, Torture in a Locked-Down City Under Siege

Human Rights Watch | Posted 08.01.2011

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Dispatches from Daraa by Nadim Houry, senior Syria researcher at Human Rights Watch Syrian authorities have tried to keep the world from getting imag...

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Syrian Forces Take Mosque In Besieged City, Killing 4

AP | BASSEM MROUE and DIAA HADID | Posted 06.30.2011

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BEIRUT — Syrian troops killed four people Saturday while storming a mosque that became a focal point for protesters in the besieged southern cit...

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Syria Protests Swell, Media Banned In Key City

AP | By ZEINA KARAM | Posted 05.25.2011

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DARAA, Syria -- Thousands of Syrians took to the streets Friday demanding reforms and mourning dozens of protesters who were killed during a violent, ...

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Syria Clashes Kill At Least 15

AP | BASSEM MROUE | Posted 05.25.2011

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DARAA, Syria — Syrian police launched a relentless assault Wednesday on a neighborhood sheltering anti-government protesters, fatally shooting a...

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Syria Protests Continue As Thousands Take To Streets

AP | BASSEM MROUE | Posted 05.25.2011

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DAMASCUS, Syria — Police fired live ammunition and tear gas Sunday at thousands of Syrians protesting in a tense southern city for a third conse...

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