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Syria rejects new Arab League plan to end violence

Fox News - Jan 23, 2012
BEIRUT – Syria rejected Monday a new Arab League plan aiming to end the country's 10-month crisis by calling on the government and the opposition to form a national unity government within two months. The Syrian statement carried by the state-run news ...

Syria rejects new Arab League plan to end crisis

Jakarta Post - Jan 23, 2012
Syria rejected Monday a new Arab League plan aiming to end the country's 10-month crisis by calling on the government and the opposition to form a national unity government within two months. The Syrian statement carried by the state-run news agency ...

Report: Russia to deliver combat jets to Syria

The Associated Press - Jan 23, 2012
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has signed a contract to sell combat jets to Syria, a newspaper reported Monday, in apparent support for President Bashar Assad and open defiance of international condemnation of his regime's bloody crackdown. ...

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Syrian defectors 'buying weapons from army'

Al Jazeera has gained exclusive footage from inside Syria of the army defectors fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad's government. The Free Syrian Army is claiming that a steadily increasing number of defected soldiers are joining its ranks. The group is believed to number anywhere between 1000 and 25000 troops, divided over 22 battalions spread across the country. The soldiers say their former comrades are selling them weapons. Al Jazeera's Charles Stratford reports.

 

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Streams of blood, mounting deaths choke Syria

The Arab League has renewed calls for the Syrian government to end bloodshed and allow more observers in the country. But the group, monitoring the implementation of a peace plan, stopped short of asking the UN for help. The Arab League mission itself has been heavily criticised for failing to stop the violence. And, as RT's Sara Firth reports, many in the country say they're paying too high a price for change. RT on Twitter twitter.com RT on Facebook www.facebook.com

 

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Arab League considers UN help in Syria

Arab League foreign ministers are preparing to meet in Cairo to discuss whether to ask the United Nations to help their mission in Syria. The Qatari government has accused Syria of ignoring the Arab League peace deal that includes pulling its forces out of cities and stopping the violence. Al Jazeera's Hashem Ahelbarra reports from Antakya in n

 

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Libya rebels go gunning for Syria to topple Assad

Former Libyan rebels are now chanting for Syrians to follow their revolutionary path. Hundreds of mercenaries, some of whom are said to be former terrorists, are ready to pick up arms again to help overthrow President Assad. RT on Twitter twitter.com RT on Facebook www.facebook.com

 

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'Massacre' in Syrian opposition stronghold

About 200 people have been killed by Syrian security forces who launched an offensive against defected troops in the northwestern opposition stronghold of Idlib. The latest fighting has prompted the Syrian opposition to call for an emergency meeting of the Arab League. The Syrian National Council also wants an emergency UN Security Council session to discuss what they call the Assad regime's massacres. Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports.