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Syrian activists say envoys to Cyprus, UAE defect

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A Free Syrian Army soldier stands at the Bab al-Salam border crossing to Turkey on 22 July 2012. Anatolia reported that rebel fighters took Salam on 22 July after hours of fighting during the night, and that the sounds of the battle could be heard from the Turkish side of the border.

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Syrian opposition activists say the country's ambassador to Cyprus and the most recent ambassador to the United Arab Emirates have defected.

Syrian National Council spokesman Yassin al-Naggar in Qatar says Damascus' envoy to Cyprus, Lamia al-Hariri, has arrived in the Gulf nation's capital Doha.

Al-Hariri's husband, Abdel Latif Dabbagh, is the former Syrian ambassador to the UAE.

SNC member Shadi al-Khesh in the Emirati capital Abu Dhabi says Dabbagh has also defected.

Dabbagh lost his accreditation as ambassador when Gulf nations ordered Syrian envoys out, but he remained in the UAE.