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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Syria’s main opposition group gathers on Thursday for a landmark conference in Istanbul, Turkey, to discuss peace talks with the regime, as rebels on the ground suffer a massive army onslaught. The National Coalition’s fresh round of talks is set to run for three days. It is the opposition group’s first meeting since the United States and Russia announced a peace initiative dubbed Geneva 2 to end the two-year conflict that has killed more than 90,000 people. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> US President Barack Obama will hold his first summit with President Xi Jinping in California next month, with Sino-US relations rattled by alleged Chinese cyber spying and tensions in the Pacific. Obama will welcome Xi to the plush Sunnylands estate resort in Palm Springs on June 7-8, as Washington seeks Chinese help to subdue North Korean belligerence and seeks a diplomatic breakthrough to end the slaughter in Syria. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Syrian troops backed by Lebanon’s Hezbollah on Sunday entered Qusayr, a strategic rebel stronghold linking Damascus to the coast, a day after President Bashar al-Assad insisted he would not step aside. The advance came as Assad’s opponents warned his regime’s “barbaric and destructive” assault on Qusayr could torpedo US-Russian attempts to organise a conference on ending more than two years of bloodshed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By ANNE BARNARD and HALA DROUBI, on May 19th, 2013 Pro-government fighters pushed into parts of Qusayr, in an advance that would be a serious setback for opponents of President Bashar al-Assad and further inflame regional tensions.
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Speaking in Syria with the newspaper Clarin, Assad said he was doubtful that mediation the United States and Russia have proposed could settle a deadly conflict that has convulsed the country for two years. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By BEN HUBBARD, on May 18th, 2013 Human Rights Watch said Friday that visits to two Syrian security centers contained proof of widespread, arbitrary detentions and torture by the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 The UN’s refugee agency says that more than 1.5m people have fled the conflict in Syria, and warns the total is likely to be far higher.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> US President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan insisted that President Bashar al-Assad must step down amid a flurry of moves to organise peace talks to end Syria’s bloody civil war. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Russia has shipped advanced anti-ship cruise missiles to Syria, a move that illustrates the depth of its support for the Syrian government led by President Bashar al-Assad, US officials said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Syrian rebel authorities have vowed to punish a fighter who was shown in a gruesome video apparently cutting out and eating the internal organs of a government soldier. The incident has highlighted war crimes allegations against the opposition and put the rebel leadership and its backers on the defensive. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Free Syrian Army pledged on Wednesday to punish atrocities amid outrage over a video showing the mutilation of a corpse, as the regime ruled out discussing President Bashar al-Assad’s departure in negotiations. The mainstream rebel group made the statement after a gruesome video of an alleged rebel fighter cutting out and apparently eating the organs of a regime soldier emerged online. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Syria is willing to carry out a joint investigation with Turkey into deadly attacks in the border town of Reyhanli that Ankara has accused Damascus of masterminding, a Syrian minister said on Tuesday. “If the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan calls for a joint, transparent investigation by the two countries, we have no objection, in order to find the truth,” Information Minister Omran al-Zohbi said. “The truth must be announced to the Syrian and Turkish people,” he was quoted as saying by state media. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Throughout Chinese history, the expression ya nei originally meant palace guards but later referred generally to children of government officials. In traditional Chinese opera and drama, they are immortalised as the worst of the worst – vile, violent and corrupt. Dressed in silk and drooped in gold, ya nei roamed the streets, beating people for no particular reason or kidnapping young girls and forcing them to become concubines. They usually escape punishment thanks to their powerful fathers and relatives. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By KAREEM FAHIM and SEBNEM ARSU, on May 12th, 2013 Turkish officials said the nine detained in the bombings that killed 46 people had been linked to the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad, a claim that Syria denies.
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A 29-year-old deputy county head of Jieyang in Guangdong has been demoted to the rank of clerk after internet users questioned whether his father, who held the post before him, had a hand in his son’s fast-track promotion. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Turkey would support a US-enforced no-fly zone in Syria, and also warned that Damascus crossed President Barack Obama’s “red line” on use of chemical weapons long ago. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> After months of sharp differences, Russia and the United States have agreed to push both sides in Syria to find an end to the bloodshed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Syrian army captured a strategic southern town from rebel fighters on Wednesday after a ferocious two-month bombardment, in an advance likely to result in President Bashar al-Assad’s forces regaining control of an international transit route, opposition sources said. The fall of Khirbet Ghazaleh, situated in the Hauran Plain on the highway to Jordan, came after a Jordanian-backed Syrian opposition military council failed to supply weapons to the town’s defenders. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By ANNE BARNARD, on May 8th, 2013 Trained to battle Israel, Hezbollah’s Lebanese Shiite guerrillas are pushing into a very different fight, against fellow Arab Muslims trying to topple President Bashar al-Assad.
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By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> With three air strikes on targets in Syria since January, Israel is inserting itself into the Arab spring’s most intractable conflict, heightening fears that the civil war could spiral into a regional conflagration. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Syria opposition to consider peace talks
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Syria’s main opposition group gathers on Thursday for a landmark conference in Istanbul, Turkey, to discuss peace talks with the regime, as rebels on the ground suffer a massive army onslaught. The National Coalition’s fresh round of talks is set to run for three days. It is the opposition group’s first meeting since the United States and Russia announced a peace initiative dubbed Geneva 2 to end the two-year conflict that has killed more than 90,000 people. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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