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Syria No-Flee Zone: 100000 seek refuge as Turkey closes camps

By dog | Published: September 4, 2012

In Syria, the ongoing bloodshed is provoking a large-scale humanitarian crisis. The UN says around 100-thousand escaped the conflict last month – the largest number so far. Most of the escapees are now in Turkey, but the authorities have closed the border to those with no passports, as the camps swelled by more than 80 [...]

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Turkey protesters march in support of Assad

By dog | Published: September 3, 2012

Thousands of Turkish supporters of Bashar al-Assad have marched through the town of Antakya, in southern Turkey, demanding that their government end its support for Syria’s opposition. Many protesters are fed up with the number of Syrian refugees who have fled into Turkey, something that has become a political issue along the tense border region. [...]

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Lakhdar Brahimi talks to Al Jazeera

By dog | Published: September 3, 2012

The new UN-Arab Envoy to Syria is has been holding meetings at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Lakhdar Brahimi will officially take over the position on Tuesday after Kofi Annan resigned in early August. Brahimi told Al Jazeera that “change [in Syria] is necessary, indispensable, unavoidable”. “What kind of change and what phases [...]

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Inside Syria – Buffer zone raises tough questions

By dog | Published: September 3, 2012

To be effective, a buffer zone would also need a no-fly zone and that requires a UN Security Council resolution. One that is not likely to come easily. Teymoor Nabili speaks to Halla Diyab, Daniel Ser-wer & , Birol Baskan

Posted in Al Jazeera | Also tagged ahmet, al-assad, aljazeera, ankara, atlanta, bashar, baskan, birol, blogs, buffer, daniel, davutoglu, diyab, doha, east, foreign, georgetown, halla, inside, insidesyria, institute, leicester, middle, of, president, professor, school, ser-wer, service, spokeswoman, syrian, university, writer, youtube, zone | Comments closed

New UN envoy Brahimi says change in Syria “unavoidable”

By dog | Published: September 3, 2012

Lakhdar Brahimi, who has succeeded Kofi Annan’s role as a special envoy to Syria, told Al Jazeera that “change [in Syria] is necessary, indispensable, unavoidable”. Brahimi, as joint United Nations-Arab League envoy, is tasked with mediating a seemingly intractable conflict between President Bashar al-Assad’s increasingly embattled government and rebels who say they will not lay [...]

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Double bombing strikes heart of Syrian military

By dog | Published: September 3, 2012

The earlier explosions in Damascus happened close to Omayyad Square, in the heart of the capital. State TV says the attack was on a military checkpoint close to the army and air force headquarters. The office of Syria’s Vice-President Farook al-Shara’a is also in the area. The blast happened just hours after a reported 15 [...]

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Syrian conflict affects trade with Jordan

By dog | Published: September 3, 2012

The flow of refugees from the fighting has forced the Jordanian government to ask for international help. Jordan and the UN refugee agency say $700m is needed to help 140000 Syrians there. But, it is not just the government in Jordan that is affected, small businesses who used to move goods across the border are [...]

Posted in Al Jazeera | Also tagged al, aljazeera, clip, ferguson, jane, jazeera, jordan, ramtha, The, traders, war, within, youtube | Comments closed

Fight spreads in Syria’s northwest mountains

By dog | Published: September 3, 2012

Near the town of Kasab, tucked into the wooded ridges of northwest Syria, camouflaged rebels attack a government checkpoint with rocket-propelled grenades and small arms. It’s the latest skirmish in a spreading fight near the Turkish border, a region where many people identify ethncially as Turkmen and have felt treated unfairly by their fellow Syrians. [...]

Posted in Al Jazeera | Also tagged aljazeera, checkpoint, clip, kasab, latakia, mediterranean, middleeastnews, mountains, rebels, rpgs, sea, turkey, turkmen, youtube | Comments closed

‘Nightmare if West invades Syria’

By dog | Published: September 3, 2012

Read script on.rt.com RT speaks to the director and founder of the European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center, Claude Moniquet about the Arab Spring and terrorism in the Middle East and Europe. RT LIVE rt.com Subscribe to RT! www.youtube.com Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com Follow us on Google+ plus.google.com RT [...]

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‘Military attack on Iran suicidal for Israel’

By dog | Published: September 2, 2012

RT’s Peter Oliver discusses Syria, Libya, Israel & Iran as he talks to foreign affairs expert and German left-wing politician Jan van Aken. RT LIVE rt.com Subscribe to RT! www.youtube.com Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com Follow us on Google+ plus.google.com RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from [...]

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‘Assange embassy standoff a distraction from WikiLeaks key revelations’

By dog | Published: September 1, 2012

Read on on.rt.com The West’s “perverse” empire is leading to the collapse of human rights, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said. The whistleblower, currently holed up in the UK’s Ecuadorian embassy, expects to leave in a year if Sweden drops its case against him. RT talks to Loz Kaye, leader of the UK Pirate Party. RT [...]

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Interview with Syria’s news personality, Ola Abbas, who defected from Assad’s regime

By dog | Published: August 31, 2012

Several high-profile figures have defected from President Bashar al-Assad’s government in recent months, among them media personalities. One of them, Ola Abass, now lives in Paris. She says much of the Syrian media’s portrayal of the conflict has been based on lies. Al Jazeera’s Andrew Simmons caught up with her.

Posted in Al Jazeera | Also tagged abass, al, andrew, assad, bashar, media, ola, paris, personality, simmons, youtube | Comments closed

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