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8/14/2012 11:56:18 AM
A special adviser to President Bashar Al-Assad will meet Chinese Foreign Minister ahead of a UN Security Council meeting on the future of its mission in the war-torn Syria
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8/13/2012 2:26:16 PM
Regime forces shell the centre of the capital and carry out massive crackdowns and arrests in the biggest operation of its kind since the start of the uprising
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8/9/2012 12:24:20 PM
Amid indications of diplomatic failure, Iran is to host an international conference on Syria to discuss the possibility of ending the bloodshed there
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7/26/2012 12:43:53 AM
Tensions mount between Syria allies Russia, China and Western-backed UN Security Council as the latter seeks to end 16-month conflict
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7/20/2012 9:39:51 PM
The UN Security Council votes to extend the mandate of its observer mission in Syria despite increasing violence that led to the death of 4 top Syrian officials last Wednesday
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7/20/2012 11:00:39 AM
Britain vows to 'give more practical support' to the Syrian rebels as Russia and China vetoed a UN Security Council resolution against President Bashar Al-Assad
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7/19/2012 7:19:29 PM
Washington condemns the Russian-Chinese veto on a UN Security Council resolution threatening sanctions against the Syrian regime and asserts the future of the country 'will not include Bashar Al-Assad'
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7/19/2012 5:08:54 PM
Russia and China on Thursday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would impose sanctions against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad if he does not end the use of heavy weapons
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7/18/2012 6:13:07 PM
Britain says UN-Arab League envoy to Syria Kofi Annan requested to delay a vote on Western-drafted sanctions on the war-torn state due to political disagreements with Russia
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7/17/2012 8:18:53 PM
Diplomats unveil the concern of the UN Security Council over 'pressures on the Lebanese border' in the coming period as thousands of Syrian refugees fled to the neighboring state to escape the regime's bloody crackdown
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7/17/2012 5:08:03 PM
A member of the political bureau in the Sudan Liberation Army says rebels in the conflict-preoccupied Darfur region shot down a military helicopter, killing seven people
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7/17/2012 12:11:36 PM
Government troops battle rebels outside of Damascus for the first time since Syrian uprising started; diplomatic pressure builds ahead of key UN Security Council vote over possible renewal of UN mission
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7/11/2012 2:04:30 PM
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7/6/2012 11:14:22 AM
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7/1/2012 11:56:29 AM
A U.N. Security Council committee is set to remove Saudi dissident Saad al-Faqih from the United Nations' al Qaeda sanctions list this weekend if no council member demands that the 15-nation body intervene
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6/30/2012 4:34:00 PM
The Palestine Liberation Organisation called on Saturday for an emergency UN Security Council meeting on Israel's policy of building Jewish settlements on Palestinian land
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6/26/2012 10:09:36 AM
Turkey stopped short of asking the UN Security Council to take action against Syria for downing their fighter jet, but is considering taking non-militaristic unilateral action
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6/18/2012 10:07:45 AM
Iran's president Ahmadinejad says Tehran is ready to halt enrichment of uranium to 20% if the West commits to deliver the Islamic Republic nuclear power needed for its reactor
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6/17/2012 12:03:25 PM
Iran is ready to take a "positive step" at talks in Moscow on Tehran's disputed nuclear programme, President Ahmadinejad says, adding that he hopes for progress at next week's crucial meeting
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6/17/2012 10:39:45 AM
The Syrian National Council calls the UN Security Council to weaponize the monitor's mission to Syria under Chapter VII of the UN Charter and not to suspend its activities in the country
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