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Tanks, Reinforcements Sent to Besieged Syrian City

BEIRUT -- The Syrian army sent more tanks and reinforcements into Daraa on Wednesday as part of a widening crackdown against opponents of President Bashar Assad's authoritarian regime, and gunfire and sporadic explosions were heard in the tense southern city. In addition to the unrest in Daraa - where the uprising began...

Hundreds Detained After Bloody Syrian Crackdown

CAIRO -- Syrian forces heaped more punishment Tuesday on residents of restive towns, detaining hundreds in raids or at checkpoints, firing on people trying to retrieve the bodies of anti-government protesters and even shooting holes in rooftop water tanks in a region parched by drought, witnesses said. In the southern...

Thousands of Syrian Troops Raid Rebellious City

BEIRUT -- Thousands of soldiers backed by tanks and snipers moved in before dawn to the city where Syria's anti-government uprising began, causing panic in the streets when they opened fire indiscriminately on civilians and went house-to-house rounding up suspected protesters. At least 11 people were killed and 14 others...

White House Considering Targeted Sanctions Against Syria

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has begun drawing up targeted sanctions against Syrian President Bashar Assad and his inner circle, officials said Monday, as the White House escalated U.S. condemnation of the increasingly violent crackdown against anti-government protesters in which more than 300 people have been...

5 Killed in New Syria Clashes, Witnesses Say

BEIRUT -- Syrian troops backed by tanks stormed at least three towns early Monday and snipers fired from rooftops, killing at least five people as the crackdown intensifies on a five-week uprising against President Bashar Assad's authoritarian regime, witnesses and activists said. The most serious violence appeared to be...

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05/30/12 13 corpses found in Syria amid massacre fallout Source: Sina Thirteen bound corpses, many apparently shot execution-style, have been discovered in eastern Syria, U.N. observers said Wednesday, days after the massacre of more than 100 people provoked international outrage and the coordinated expulsion of Syrian diplomats from world capitals.
05/30/12 More sanctions for Syria as US targets bank Source: The Christian Science Monitor The Obama administration added new sanctions on a Syrian bank Wednesday as a top White House official said the U.S. wants to economically throttle the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad and cut off salaries of pro-government thugs blamed for the grisly massacre in Houla.
05/30/12 Syria's honorary US consul resigns over violence Source: The Modesto Bee Syria's honorary consul general in California says he has defected from the regime of President Bashar Assad in protest of the killings last week in the town of Houla.
05/30/12 Editorial Roundup: Excerpts From Recent Editorials Source: WPXI - Pittsburgh PA Syria has become a lesson in how to achieve nothing.
05/30/12 Weighing The 'Yemen Option' For Syria Source: WBUR - 90.9 - Boston MA The Obama administration says that Syrian President Bashar Assad has forfeited his right to lead Syria, and grisly murders in the town of Houla over the weekend reinforce that argument.

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Bashar Hafez al-Assad (, ', ‎‎‎)‎; born 11 September 1965) is the current President of Syria and Regional Secretary of the Syrian-led branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party.

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