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...wounded. Many of Lebanon's Sunni Muslims sympathize with Syria's Sunni-led uprising against Assad, whose father sent forces into Lebanon during its 1975-1990 civil war. The Syrian...
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Al-Assad must leave, Obama tells G-8 meet
...violence after U.S. President Barack Obama told G-8 leaders meeting at Camp David that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must leave power, and pointed to Yemen as a model of how a...
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Syrian monodrama mocks Assad reforms
...they chanted. More than 12,000 people, mostly civilians, have died since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's rule broke out in March 2011, according to the Syrian Observatory...
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US tells G8 Assad must go, cites Yemen as model
CAMP DAVID, Md. - US President Barack Obama told G8 leaders meeting at Camp David that Syrian President Bashar Assad must leave power, and pointed to Yemen as a model of how political...
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U.S. tells G8 Syria's Assad must go, cites Yemen as model
...and elsewhere was spreading across North Africa. Washington's patience with Assad has been wearing thin. Assad said he would adhere to a U.N.-Arab League peace plan but has failed to...
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Syria: 'Assad tortured my father'
...I found it very difficult to take the regime seriously when it denied engaging in acts of torture. Bashar al-Assad stated recently in an interview, "There was no command to...
Bashar al-Assad, in Rare TV Interview, Disparages Opponents
...repression of protesters. "The political course will not free us from terror," said Mr. Assad. Mr. Assad has been promising political reforms since 2001, when he inherited the...
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British officers could be deployed to Syria to increase pressure on Assad regime
British military personnel could be deployed to Syria to increase pressure on the Assad regime over human rights abuses, David Cameron has signalled. Britain is prepared to contribute...
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"You expect Bashar to step down? Why?" was often the response of government officials who, in off-the-record conversations, would call for change but not at the very top. "If Bashar al-Assad goes, the system would collapse," one official warned. "That's in no-one's interest, and most of all not in Syria's."
Dialogue eludes fragmented Syria BBC News | 1 day ago
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Why Bashar al-Assad stresses al-Qaida narrative
...fighters, but regime has been spinning terror line since last March to help justify state violence Bashar al-Assad claimed from the start of the Syrian uprising last March that his...
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Assad slams Ankara's Syria policy
POLITICS > Assad slams AnkaraaEUR™s Syria policy Syria President Bashar al-Assad addresses reporters following his meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the Elysee Palace in...
Assad says mercenaries are behind Syria unrest
BEIRUT - In his first interview since December, Syrian President Bashar Assad insisted Tuesday his regime is fighting back against foreign mercenaries who want to overthrow him, not...
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Assad says Syria is fighting foreign mercenaries
BEIRUT (AP) - In his first interview in nearly half a year, Syrian President Bashar Assad claimed Wednesday that his regime had captured foreign mercenaries who were fighting for the...
