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Mortar kills 15 at Damascus University, Syria says
Reuters 29 Mar 2013
Fifteen Syrian students were killed when rebel mortar shells hit a Damascus University canteen on Thursday, state-run...
Turkish soldiers in a military vehicle patrol near the Akcakale border gate, on the Turkish-Syrian border, southern Sanliurfa province
Turkey deports Syrian refugees over camp unrest: officials
Reuters 28 Mar 2013
Turkey has sent hundreds of refugees back to Syria after clashes with Turkish military police at their camp near the...
Jordanian border officers check the papers of a vehicle at the Jaber border crossing between Jordan and Syria, 95 kms north of the capital Amman, April 25, 2011. Syria sealed off its Ramtha-Daraa border with Jordan, the kingdom's information minister Taher Adwan said, but the Jaber border crossing remained open with limited movement.
Jordan closes main border crossing with Syria
Reuters 25 Mar 2013
Jordan closed its main border crossing with Syria on Monday after two days of fighting there between Syrian troops and...
Members of the Free Syrian Army climb up stairs during clashes with pro-government forces in Haram town, Idlib Governorate, 30 October 2012.
Blast 'injures Free Syrian Army commander Asaad'
AFP 25 Mar 2013
Riad Asaad, commander of the rebel Free Syrian Army, was injured overnight in a blast that hit his car in eastern Syria...
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, questions a witness during a hearing about the recent popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, Washington, DC, March 17, 2011.
Kerry: Iran-Syria Iraq overflights 'helping to sustain Assad'
AFP 24 Mar 2013
US Secretary of State John Kerry pressed Iraq to stop allowing Iranian flights apparently carrying military equipment...
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, questions a witness during a hearing about the recent popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, Washington, DC, March 17, 2011.
Kerry on surprise Iraq trip to urge Syria cooperation
AFP 24 Mar 2013
US Secretary of State John Kerry made a surprise trip to Baghdad on Sunday to press for more help over the conflict in...
Sheikh Moaz Alkhatib, President of the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces and US Vice President Joe Biden, right, meet for bilateral talks during the 49th Conference on Security Policy in Munich 2 February 2013. REUTERS/Michael Dalder
Syrian National Coalition head Khatib stands down
Reuters 24 Mar 2013
Syria's opposition chief Moaz al-Khatib has resigned from the Syrian National Coalition for Opposition and...
A Sunni gunman fires his weapon during a clashes, in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Sunday, 13 May 2012. Gunfire broke out in the city Saturday and continued through the night primarily between a neighborhood populated by Sunni Muslims who hate Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and another area with many Assad backers from his Alawite sect. Lebanon's national news agency NNA said one soldier was shot dead by a sniper in the city early Sunday. Another man was found dead on the side of a road while a third died after a shell landed in a residential neighborhood. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Lebanon without government as Syria simmers
AFP 24 Mar 2013
BEIRUT — Lebanon on Saturday was without a government after the surprise resignation of premier Najib Mikati and...
Fighters from the Syrian opposition rest at a former primary school in Aleppo on July 25, 2012.
CIA provides intelligence to Syrian rebels
AFP 23 Mar 2013
The US Central Intelligence Agency has been feeding information to select rebel fighters in Syria to try to make them...
Syria rebels 'gain ground in Golan': watchdog
AFP 21 Mar 2013
Syrian rebels have gained ground in the Golan Heights, which is partly occupied by Israel, launching coordinated...