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LOOK: Syrian Massacre Survivors Speak Out

Posted 05.30.2012

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In footage reportedly shot on Monday and uploaded by activists, survivors recount the details of a horrific massacre allegedly carried out by pro-regi...

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Dozens Of Children Killed In New Syria Attack

AP | BEN HUBBARD | Posted 05.27.2012

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BEIRUT — Gruesome video Saturday showed rows of dead Syrian children lying in a mosque in bloody shorts and T-shirts with gaping head wounds, ha...

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Over 50 Reportedly Killed By Syrian Forces

Reuters | Posted 05.26.2012

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BEIRUT, May 25 (Reuters) - At least 50 people, including 13 children, were killed when Syrian forces tried to break into the town of Houla in Homs p...

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Is it Possible to Salvage the Faltering Syrian "Ceasefire"

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 04.25.2012

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An absence of imaginative, strategic diplomacy as the year-long crisis in Syria unfolded has caught the U.S. with dwindling options as the oxymoronic UN ceasefire collapses. Consequences abound as a result for U.S. interests across the region.

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UN Sending Food Aid For 500,000 Syrians

AP | Posted 04.24.2012

GENEVA -- The U.N. food agency says it will soon deliver help to 500,000 people in Syria, a tenfold increase since December. Even after the increase,...

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Bloodshed In Damascus And Hama As Monitors Visit Douma

AP | BEN HUBBARD | Posted 04.25.2012

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BEIRUT — Syrian troops heavily shelled a suburb of the capital Tuesday, and satellite imagery showed that Syria has failed to withdraw all of it...

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Observers Visit Homs

AP | KARIN LAUB | Posted 04.22.2012

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BEIRUT — Five unarmed U.N. truce monitors toured the battered city at the heart of the Syrian uprising on foot Saturday, encountering unusually ...

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Heavy Shelling In Homs

AP | BASSEM MROUE | Posted 04.21.2012

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BEIRUT — Syrian troops fired tear gas and bullets on thousands of protesters who spilled out of mosques after noon prayers Friday, activists sai...

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Syrian Troops Open Fire On Opposition As UN Monitors Arrive

AP | BASSEM MROUE | Posted 04.20.2012

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BEIRUT -- Syrian troops clashed with army defectors in an eastern city Thursday, leaving at least one person dead, while government forces bombarded r...

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Risking Their Lives for the Story

Kyla Pigoni | Posted 04.18.2012

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In my journalism ethics class last year, we were taught to keep a healthy distance from the story, thus allowing for proper objectivity. But does this rule always apply?

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'The Annan Plan Is The Last Chance'

AP | BEN HUBBARD | Posted 04.19.2012

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BEIRUT — Syrian security forces opened fire Wednesday on anti-regime demonstrators surrounding the cars of a U.N. team meant to monitor a shaky ...

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PHOTOS: Syria's Homs Shattered After Months Of Shelling

Posted 04.17.2012

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After months of shelling by security forces, parts of Syria's city of Homs have been left in ruins. Homs has been the capital of resistance in the...

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Mortar A Minute

AP | ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY and BEN HUBBARD | Posted 04.18.2012

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BEIRUT — Artillery shatters homes in opposition areas. Regime tanks roll though city centers. Civilians dig graves for dozens of corpses, scrawl...

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Syrian Regime Observes Ceasefire, Troops Remain In Place

AP | ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY and ZEINA KARAM | Posted 04.13.2012

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BEIRUT — Syria's opposition called for widespread protests Friday to test the regime's commitment to an internationally brokered cease-fire that...

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Satellite Photos Of Syria Fighting Reach The Web

iWatch News | Posted 04.05.2012

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In 1995, U.S. spy satellites photographed telling moments in the massacre over four days of an estimated 7,800 Bosnians by Bosnian Serb forces near th...

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Syrian Regime Claims Troop Pullout

AP | BEN HUBBARD | Posted 04.05.2012

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BEIRUT — Syrian artillery pounded the rebellious city of Homs and tanks and troops stormed towns in the north and south on Wednesday, deepening ...

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The Syrian Regime and the Opposition

American Anthropological Association | Posted 04.02.2012

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In other parts of the Arab world there was unity between classes and sects, at least for the duration of the protests in public squares, but this is not the case in Syria.

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Shelling And Killing Despite Ceasefire Pledge

Reuters | Posted 04.03.2012

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By Erika Solomon and Dominic Evans BEIRUT, April 2 (Reuters) - Syrian government forces bombarded opposition targets in the city of...

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This Week In Syria

Posted 03.30.2012

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Each week, HuffPost World will provide the top stories out of Syria and a recap of events in the country's year-long uprising, as President Bashar Ass...

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Relentless Clashes In Northern Syria

AP | ZEINA KARAM | Posted 05.30.2012

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BEIRUT — Clashes and protests broke out across many parts of Syria Friday, further complicating a peace mission by U.N. envoy Kofi Annan who urg...

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UK To Send Aid To Syrian Opposition

AP | DAVID STRINGER | Posted 05.29.2012

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LONDON -- Britain allocated 500,000 pounds (US$795,000) Thursday to supply non-lethal aid to Syria's opposition, pledging assistance to groups inside ...

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WATCH: Syria's President Visits Devastated Homs Neighborhood

Reuters/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.27.2012

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BEIRUT, March 27 (Reuters) - Syria has accepted a U.N.-sponsored peace plan, international envoy Kofi Annan said on Tuesday, as troops loyal to Presid...

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Turkey Closes Syrian Embassy, Syrian Forces Shell Homs

AP | BASSEM MROUE | Posted 05.26.2012

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BEIRUT — Syrian forces fired shells at a central city that has come to symbolize the anti-government uprising Monday, activists said, while the ...

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Russia Warns Of 'Last Chance' For Syria

AP | ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY | Posted 05.25.2012

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BEIRUT — Syrian forces attacked flashpoint areas Sunday, carrying out raids and clashing with rebels as President Bashar Assad's allies in Russi...

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Activists: Syrian Troops Storm Northern Town

AP | BASSEM MROUE | Posted 05.24.2012

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BEIRUT — Syrian troops shelled rebellious areas in central and northern Syria on Saturday in the latest push to quash the uprising against Presi...

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