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The army has tried for months to secure the capital and to crush rebels positioned in the outer belt of Damascus, particularly in the south and in the east
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11/1/2013 10:04:38 AM
Brahimi, who met with President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday, said 'the Syrian government has agreed to participate in Geneva'
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10/31/2013 6:46:37 PM
Of the dead, 42,495 were civilians, including 6,365 children and 4,269 women, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says
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10/31/2013 10:13:28 AM
The success of any political solution is linked to putting an end to support funnelled to terrorist groups, Basar Al-Assad tells UN-Arab League envoy
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10/30/2013 1:59:15 PM
The Syrian regime says it will take part in the Geneva II based on the exclusive right of the 'Syrian people' to choose their political future, rejecting interference from outside
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10/30/2013 10:29:38 AM
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10/28/2013 6:59:19 PM
Riyadh has been key backer of rebel groups fighting to topple government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since March 2011
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10/28/2013 10:31:40 AM
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers says the United States 'has to repair a friction with Saudi Arabia soon'
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10/27/2013 9:53:12 AM
The National Coalition is to meet on November 9 to decide whether to take part in the peace talks but has stated emphatically it will only attend if there are guarantees they Assad will step down
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10/25/2013 6:19:21 PM
Sunni and Alawite gunmen have been fighting in the Bab al-Tebbaneh and Jabal Mohsen districts of Tripoli since Monday and were still exchanging gunfire on Friday afternoon
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10/25/2013 6:05:46 PM
The UN Security Council, largely divided over the 31-month-old conflict, agreed to a non-binding statement this month calling for unhindered humanitarian access
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10/25/2013 4:46:00 PM
The car exploded while the terrorists were packing it with explosives near the Osama Bin Zeid mosque. Terrorists and civilians were killed, Syria's state news agency reported
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10/25/2013 4:01:29 PM
The meeting comes as UN-Arab League envoy Brahimi tours the region in a bid to build a consensus for holding a peace conference next month in Geneva between regime and rebel representatives
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10/25/2013 2:27:32 PM
Car bombings have plagued several areas of Syria in recent months, killing scores of people
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10/24/2013 10:06:03 PM
The patriarch of the Maronite Church asks Qatar to help secure the release of two bishops abducted in Syria in April
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10/24/2013 12:54:37 PM
Al-Yaarubia border crossing with Iraq is seen as a key supply route for arms and fighters
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10/23/2013 10:10:11 AM
Saudi Arabia threatens break from US citing the country's inefficiency in acting against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad or in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and for growing closer to Tehran
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10/23/2013 9:31:30 AM
Two, including 13-year-old child, killed in Tripoli in clashes between supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
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10/22/2013 8:54:09 PM
The 13-year-old victim was from Jabal Mohsen, a majority Alawite neighbourhood in Tripoli whose residents support Al-Assad's regime
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10/22/2013 1:49:34 PM
William Hague, the British Foreign Secretary, says it is crucial that all of Syria's opposition groups join peace talks in Geneva in hopes of ending the conflict
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