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IAEA Chief: Syria Tried to Build Nuclear Reactor

PARIS -- The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency on Thursday said for the first time that a target destroyed by Israeli warplanes in the Syrian desert in 2007 was a covertly built nuclear reactor, appearing to counter assertions by Syria that it had no atomic secrets to hide. Previous reports by the...

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...

Enormous Statue of Powerful Pharaoh Unearthed in Egypt

CAIRO -- Archaeologists unearthed one of the largest statues found to date of a powerful ancient Egyptian pharaoh at his mortuary temple in the southern city of Luxor, the country's antiquities authority announced Tuesday. The 13 meter (42 foot) tall statue of Amenhotep III was one of a pair that flanked the northern...

US Urges Americans to Leave Syria Amid Violence

WASHINGTON - The State Department on Monday told American citizens to leave Syria as soon as they can and ordered some personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Damascus to depart the country, as the Syrian government steps up a brutal crackdown against pro-reform demonstrators. In a new warning, the department urged Americans to...

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Both Sides Now: Consensus on Bain, Trump, Syria, Frisks & Edwards

Sitting in for Huffington and Matalin, Eliot Spitzer and ex-Rummy deputy Torie Clarke find consensus on nearly everything.

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Clinton Pressures Russia For Syria Intervention

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday pressed Russia to join international efforts for a political transition in Syria that would see President Bashar Assad driven from power, and suggested greater flexibility could come from a previous recalcitrant Moscow.

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U.S. To Russia: Syria Needs Transition Strategy

Washington reached out to Syria's most important ally and protector Saturday, urging Russia to join a coordinated effort to resolve the deadly conflict as the violence spilled across the border into Lebanon, a senior State Department official said.

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What's Going On In Syria?

Fifteen months after the start of protests against the regime of President Bashar Assad, Syria is in a dire situation.

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James Zogby: Three Years After Cairo: Partisan Obstruction Continues to Block Change

One year ago, on the second anniversary of President Obama's historic Cairo University address to the Muslim World, we released the results of our 2011 Arab World polling.

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06/04/12 Clashes intensify in Syria following Assad tough... Source: Middle East Online Dozens of soldiers were killed in battles between Syrian government forces and armed rebels, a watchdog reported, as the EU and Russia aimed Monday to work together to end the 15-month-old crisis in Syria.
06/04/12 Rebels kill 80 Syrian soldiers at weekend: watchdog Source: moneycontrol.com Syrian rebels killed at least 80 army soldiers at the weekend, an opposition watchdog said on Monday, in a surge of attacks that followed their threat to resume fighting if President Bashar al-Assad failed to observe a U.N.-backed ceasefire.
06/04/12 UN chief calls for global talks on Syria Source: The Daily Telegraph - Australia "Our priority at this time is to help the Syrian people... I want to welcome a wider international discussion on the future course of actions," Ban said after a meeting with Organisation of Islamic Cooperation chief, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, in the Saudi port city of Jeddah.
06/04/12 Assad: Syria crackdown like surgery Source: Ellesmere Port Pioneer - Ellesmere Port - Cheshire - UK Syrian president Bashar Assad has defended his government's crackdown on opponents, saying a doctor performing emergency surgery does not have blood on his hands if he is trying to save a patient.
06/04/12 Syria releases kidnapped Lebanese far ... Source: The Sunday Independent Syrian authorities have released two Lebanese farmers kidnapped last Wednesday by unidentified gunmen in Lebanon's north and taken across the border into Syria, the Lebanese army said.

Background on syria

Syria ( ; ' or '; ; ), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ), is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest.

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