the washingtonpost

Rebels claim to take key city in southern Syria

الثوار يدعون أخذ المدينة الرئيسية في جنوب سورية
BEIRUT — Rebels took control of the city of Dael in southern Syria on Friday, according to activists and rebel fighters, a notable victory for the opposition in a conflict that has left at least 70,000 Syrians dead.
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the washingtonpost

Iraq says it will stop and search more aircraft bound for Syria to check for weapons

العراق تقول انها سوف توقف الطائرات المتجهة إلى سورية وتفتشها بحثا عن الاسلحة

BAGHDAD — Iraq says it will stop more aircraft moving through its airspace and vehicles traveling overland to search for weapons being sent to the Syrian civil war, a senior Iraqi official said Friday.
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the wall street journal
Inside Obama's Syria Debate
أوباما داخل نقاش سورية
With the death toll mounting in the Syrian rebellion, the Obama administration has stepped up calls for strongman Bashar al-Assad to give up power.
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real clear world
The Balkanization of Syria
بلقنة سورية
Perhaps years from now, a new term along the lines of "Syrianization" will take over the significance of the sweeping (and some say inaccurate) concept of Balkanization. The northern Levant is quickly overtaking every other part of the world as the paradigm of complete fragmentation of a geographic and political entity.
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real clear world

The Syrian Gulf War

حرب الخليج السورية
The Syrian National Coalition's assumption of the regime's seat at the Arab League yesterday accomplished little practically but symbolically it represents a bodkin in Bashar al-Assad's side. He has now been officially informed that the Sunni Arab world is united against him and is preparing for a future Syria without him
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cnn
Mortar shells hit Damascus college; deaths reported
قذائف هاون ضربت كلية دمشق ووقوع حالات وفيات
Mortar fire hammered a college in Syria's capital, the government and rebels said, killing at least 10 people.
Shells hit the Architecture College at the University of Damascus.
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