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Putin says Russia will assist Syria if attacked
At a press conference at the Group of 20 conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country would "assist" Syria if attacked, according to press reports from there.
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Putin calls Kerry a liar on Syria
Things aren't exactly warming up between the Obama administration and Vladimir Putin, even as President Obama arrived in St. Petersburg for the G-20 summit. Putin called Obama Secretary of State John Kerry a liar over Kerry's testimony this week before Congress.
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Pope Tweets Against Syria Strike
Pope Francis has written a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, host of the G-20 summit that President Obama is attending, urging world leaders to oppose a military intervention in Syria.
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Not Just Russia: Italy, Other Europeans Sold Plenty Of Weapons To Syria
Way back in 1998, Bill Clinton bet on the young Assad. He was to be his father’s successor, and the United States believed that the young Bashar al-Assad, once he reached power, would be the person to bring Syria back into the fold among the civilized nations of the world.
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Americans are no longer interested in policing the world, Mr. Obama
However Congress votes on Syrian intervention, the White House will have problems escaping the fallout. After 12 years of endless war; after Afghanistan, after Iraq, after Libya, after the drones in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, the American people have had enough. There is perhaps no better explanation for the rather remarkable situation unfolding right now in Washington.
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Saudis sent death-row inmates to fight Syria
Saudi Arabia has sent death-row inmates from several nations to fight against the Syrian government in exchange for commuting their sentences, the Assyrian International News Agency reports.
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Obama Is Going On A Furious Media Push To Sell A Syria Strike
President Barack Obama will embark on a furious push to sell his plan for military intervention in Syria beginning on Monday, when he will give interviews to six news networks.
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Who Are The Syrian Rebels?
When it comes to Syria's rebels, the conventional wisdom in Washington has been that there are countless factions with a range of agendas and it's difficult, if not impossible, to know exactly who they are.
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Give up weapons, Russia urges Syria
Russia has asked Syria to put its chemical weapons stockpiles under international control and then have them destroyed, in an attempt to avoid US military strikes.
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Final Tally: Americans Were 12 Times More Interested in Miley Cyrus Than Syria
That Miley Cyrus captures more attention than escalating war in Syria is, by now, conventional wisdom. But an exhaustive survey of news sources now reveals exactly how much attention Miley steals: Americans viewed twelve times as many pages about Miley Cyrus as they did about Syria — even though the news sources published 2.4 Syria articles for every one about Miley.
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Think Bashar al Assad Is Brutal? Meet His Family
In the late 1980s Patrick Seale wrote an excellent account of the al-Assad family—well before it was clear that Bashar, its bookish, quiet, second-oldest son, would one day lead the Syrian government in massacring its own people. At the time, his older brother Bassel was the heir apparent to their father Hafez, while Bashar was just a lowly future ophthalmologist. But Bassel died in a 1994 car crash, and, in 2000, Bashar took the country’s helm.
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The absurd social media accounts of Syrian Electronic Army
The Syrian Electronic Army is the most intriguing anonymous hacking organization since, well, Anonymous. It's loosely tied with the ideology of President Bashar al-Assad's government, which stands accused by the U.S. of using chemical weapons against civilian rebels.
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Ikea flatpack refuge tent for use in Syria
Swedish furniture giant Ikea is working with the UNHCR to produce a flatpack refugee shelter that can be rapidly assembled in crisis zones, such as in Syria, where over one million people have fled the country.
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The 5 Military Commanders Who Could Run Obama's Syrian War
With Obama seemingly determined to use military force to intervene in the conflict in Syria, here are the military commanders who could lead the charge.
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Assad: US 'foolish' to strike Syria
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has warned of the regional repercussions if the US was to launch military action against Syria. Speaking to Charlie Rose in a PBS interview, the president said the US would be "foolish" to pursue strikes.
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Can Obama sway the nation on Syria?
President Barack Obama's remarks to the nation tonight will be historic. The man who ran for president partly by emphasizing his opposition to the Iraq war will ask Americans to support the U.S. military getting involved in Syria's civil war.
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What Obama Really Thinks About Syria
The president’s TV interviews reveal the naked truths behind his posturing.
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Obama speaks to nation on Syria and chemical weapons
In a prime-time speech that followed two weeks of high-stakes drama, President Obama asked the American people to support a military strike against Syria, even as he pursued a diplomatic solution to the standoff.
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Obama's Shift On Syria: A Show Of Strength Or Fear?
One line President Obama might have borrowed for his speech to the nation Tuesday night was a famous one from John F. Kennedy's inauguration address: "Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate."
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Why Russia Is Now in Control of the Syria Crisis
The deal Putin has offered plays off of Obama's nonproliferation interests and keeps Assad in power.
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