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Reuters 05 Nov 2012
Moscow is supplying arms to Syria under Soviet-era commitments, and were meant for defense against external threats,...
Reuters 01 Nov 2012
Syrian rebels said on Wednesday they had begun arming sympathetic Palestinians to fight a pro-Assad faction in a...
AFP 30 Oct 2012
Clashes erupted between Syrian rebels and troops backed by Palestinian fighters near Damascus Tuesday as the UN-...
AFP 26 Oct 2012
Fierce clashes between rebels and Syrian regime forces broke out today around a military base near the northern town of...
Reuters 25 Oct 2012
Syria's army command announced a ceasefire on Thursday to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha but said it...
Reuters 25 Oct 2012
President Bashar al-Assad's forces fired heavy tank and rocket barrages at a Damascus suburb on Thursday, killing...
Reuters 24 Oct 2012
Syria said on Wednesday its military command was still studying a proposal for a holiday ceasefire with rebels —...
Reuters 24 Oct 2012
Syrian rebels are battling to seize an army base close to the main north-south highway and say its capture would be a...
Reuters 21 Oct 2012
A car bomb exploded near a police station in the central Bab Touma district of Damascus on Sunday, witnesses said, and...
Reuters 20 Oct 2012
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Saturday he suspected the assassination of a senior Lebanese intelligence...