Sunday, April 22, 2012

Syria crisis

  • BEIRUT — Syrian troops stormed and shelled districts in a suburb of the capital Damascus Sunday, activists said, a day after the Security Council voted to expand the number of U.N.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • since Syria had ignored so many provisions of the peace plan, including by restricting the movements of the advance team.
  • (New York Times)
  • WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military is working on additional ways to try to halt the unending violence in Syria, but diplomacy remains the foremost option, Pentagon leaders told Congress on Thursday. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Army Gen.
  • (Politico.com)
  • (AP) UNITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday the crisis in Syria is getting worse and claiming more lives every day even though President Bashar Assads government insists it is withdrawing troops ahead of a U.N.
  • (CBS News)
  • It was the first council resolution on the Syria crisis that China and Damascus close ally, Russia, did not veto. They vetoed two earlier resolutions.
  • (The Guardian)
  • BEIRUT: Hezbollah's number two Sheikh Naim Qassem ruled out over the weekend the departure of President Bashar Assad, citing a U.N.
  • (Lebanon Daily Star)
  • A United Nations-brokered pullout deadline expired in Syria overnight Monday, with fighting continuing and a cross-border shooting into a refugee camp in Turkey threatening to widen the 13-month conflict.
  • (The Christian Science Monitor)
  • PanARMENIAN.Net - Syria faces a catastrophic civil war if both sides in the crisis that has gripped the country for over a year fail to take advantage of the current fragile ceasefire there, Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Friday, April 20.
  • (PanARMENIAN Network)
  • Syrian President Bashar al-Assad appears to have restrained his security forces, but not completely silenced their guns.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • He stressed that Syrias losses in the sector of railways have been estimated at 1.7 billion Syrian pounds (27.8 million U.S. dollars) over the past 13 months. The Syrian government blames the year-long crisis on armed groups working out a foreign conspiracy.
  • (Xinhua News Agency)

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