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By By ANNE BARNARD, on May 20th, 2013 Casualties among pro-Assad Hezbollah fighters rise as battle for control of Qusayr ripples across Lebanon.
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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 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, on May 19th, 2013 The Syrian military on Sunday launched an offensive to retake a strategic rebel-held town near the Lebanese border, a government official said.
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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 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Two prominent Saudi princes are involved in a London-registered company that supposedly facilitated “money laundering” for Hezbollah in Lebanon and helped smuggle precious stones out of Congo, according to allegations in court documents. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in the West Bank and Gaza on Wednesday to mark the 65th anniversary of their mass displacement during the war that followed Israel’s founding in 1948. Every May 15, Palestinians commemorate the “nakba”, or “catastrophe” – the term they use to describe their displacement. Hundreds of thousands fled or were driven out during the fighting. The dispute over the fate of those Palestinians and that of their descendants, now numbering several million people, remains at the core of the Arab-Israeli conflict. <!– 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 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 –>
Continue reading Israel walks fine line with Syria raids
By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Syrian rebels have made use of the deadly nerve agent sarin in their war-torn country’s conflict, UN human rights investigator Carla del Ponte has said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Evidence Syrian rebels used sarin, says UN investigator
By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned against escalating a fraught situation in Syria after Israel struck targets near Damascus on Sunday, targeting what its officials said were Iranian missiles bound for Hezbollah militants. Israeli officials said the raid, the second in 48 hours, was not connected to Syria’s civil war. It was aimed, rather, at stopping Lebanon’s Hezbollah, an ally of Iran, acquiring weapons that could be used to strike Tel Aviv if Israel followed through on threats to attack Iranian nuclear facilities. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 5th, 2013 
Israel launches a rocket attack the military research centre of Mount Qassioun in the Syrian capital, Damascus, state TV reports.
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By , on May 4th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Israeli warplanes have targeted a Syrian weapons shipment headed for Hezbollah in Lebanon, media quoted US officials as saying on Saturday, as Sunnis were fleeing a city for fear of a massacre. The news came as US President Barack Obama, under mounting criticism that he has allowed Bashar al-Assad’s regime to cross his own declared “red line” on using chemical weapons, came close to ruling out deploying US troops to Syria. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Israel air strike hits Syria as Sunnis flee ‘massacre’
By , on May 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A British millionaire was on Thursday jailed for 10 years for selling fake bomb detectors to the Iraqi government and other countries, by a judge who told him he had blood on his hands. James McCormick made an estimated £50 million (HK$604 million) from selling the devices, which prosecutors said were based on a novelty golf ball finder and had no scientific basis. Last week, a jury at London’s Old Bailey found the 57-year-old guilty of three counts of fraud. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Briton James McCormick jailed for 10 years for selling fake bomb detectors
By , on April 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The 46-year-old, one of the European Union’s youngest prime ministers, is then expected to unveil his programme in a parliamentary session on Monday, before the government is put to a confidence vote in parliament on Tuesday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Syria dismisses US, UK chemical weapons claims as lie
By By ISABEL KERSHNER, on April 25th, 2013 The Israeli military said it felled the drone as it was flying south from Lebanon along the Mediterranean coast.
Continue reading Israel Downs Drone Possibly Sent by Hezbollah
By , on April 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Six days of clashes in two Damascus suburbs may have killed hundreds of people, a dramatic spike in the rising death toll in the Syrian civil war, activists said on Monday. The reports came as President Bashar Assad’s forces pressed on with a major offensive in the suburbs against opposition fighters who have been closing in on parts of the Syrian capital. To the north, regime troops surged around the contested town of Qusair in Syria’s Homs province, near the frontier with Lebanon. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Activists fear large death toll near Damascus
By , on April 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Israel’s prime minister declined to rule out the possibility of providing arms to Syrian rebel groups, saying in a television interview broadcast on Thursday that the decision of whether to intervene in the neighbouring civil war is a “complicated question.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Israeli PM doesn’t rule out helping Syrian rebels
By , on April 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Syrian families have been burned in their homes, people bombed waiting for bread, children tortured, raped and murdered and cities reduced to rubble in Syria’s two-year-old war that has sparked a humanitarian catastrophe, the United Nations said on Thursday. The bleak assessment by top UN humanitarian officials motivated the Security Council, which has been deadlocked over how to deal with the crisis since it began, to reach agreement on a non-binding statement demanding an end to the escalating violence and condemning human rights abuses by all sides. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Syrian forces storm rebel bastion of Qusayr
<!– 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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