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. | Moscow is also calling for the inclusion on this occasion of its trading partner Iran and US ally Saudi Arabia as a counterweight.
Weapons supply Russia, Syria’s most powerful remaining ally, continues to deliver arms to Assad’s regime, but claims that it has no real interest in seeing the president remain in power |
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. | A video which appears to show a west-backed terrorist in Syria taking a bite from the heart of a dead soldier. “I swear to God we will eat your hearts and your livers, you soldiers of Bashar the dog,” the man says referring to President Bashar al-Assad as he stands over the soldier’s corpse. The terrorist has been reported having ties to USA and France, having simillar activities in other countries following orders from those government supporting terror in Syria. |
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. | Israel’s Military Intelligence chief has presented Russian President Vladimir Putin with updated information on the turmoil in Syria, a senior Israeli official told Haaretz. The details are unclear, but the intelligence from Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi probably concerns chemical weapons and their use against the rebels in Syria’s civil war. |
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. | Russia and Britain agreed on Friday to work towards a transitional government in Syria, despite acknowledging differences in their approach to the Middle Eastern country’s civil war.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said after talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Black Sea resort of Sochi that they had agreed “that as permanent members |
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. | Syria’s information minister has given warning that Israeli air raids against three targets on the outskirts of Damascus “open the door to all possibilities”.
Omran al-Zoubie’s comments in Damascus on Sunday came after an emergency cabinet meeting organised to respond to what a Western source said was a new attack on Iranian missiles |
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. | A police officer has died and at least 10 other people have been injured after gunfire broke out on Syria’s border with Turkey, officials say.
The violence started on Thursday as Syrians trying to cross into the neighbouring country opened fire across the border towards the Turkish guards. An entry post |
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. | Without hard evidence, American accusations of chemical weapons use in Syria fall short of UN proof standards, says a UN chemical inspector. And in the way proposed, a probe would only result in an Iraqi scenario, the Syrian information minister told RT.
The anti-Assad lobby in the UN is using the chemical weapons scare as a new way to exert political and economic pressure on the Syrian government, the country’s information minister |
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. | “They are accommodated in training camps to then enter my country and spread destruction and sabotage, and shed innocent blood,” Ja’afari told the Security Council in comments that echoed what Assad said in a television interview on Wednesday.
RARE SECURITY COUNCIL AGREEMENT The bleak briefings pushed the deadlocked Security Council to reach a rare agreement on a non-binding statement. |
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. | Almost 35,000 Syrian refugees have returned home from Jordan since their country’s conflict broke out in March 2011, but a larger number joined the exodus last month alone, a government spokesman said on Friday.
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. | The Western arms pipeline to the Syrian rebels fighting Bashar Assad is starting to run dry since the discovery that some of the weapons are being resold and used by al Qaeda in its conquest of southern Syrian and takeover of positions on the Jordanian and Israel borders. French President Francois Hollande for this reason reversed his government’s |
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. | The UN always anticipated playing a humanitarian role.
But now it concedes it may have to go beyond that – as most countries have shown little interest in getting involved. |
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. | Iran, North Korea and Syria have blocked adoption of a UN treaty that would regulate the multibillion-dollar international arms trade which required agreement by all 193 UN member states.
“There is no consensus for the adoption of this text,” Peter Woolcott, Australian Ambassador and the meeting chair, said on Thursday after the three countries confirmed their opposition |
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. | Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the emir of Qatar, opened the conference on Tuesday by inviting Moaz al-Khatib, the president of the Syrian National Coalition, to take Syria’s seat.
He told the audience |
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. | Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani, the Qatari prime minister, said that he regretted Khatib’s decision, and urged him to reconsider.
FSA rejects rebel PM Meanwhile, the armed Syrian opposition |
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. | “Senior cleric Dr. Mohammed Saeed Ramadan al-Bouti was martyred in a terrorist suicide attack at the Iman Mosque in Mazraa in Damascus,” the channel reported, adding that there were reports of more dead and wounded.
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