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Syria Meets Deadline for Submitting Destruction Plan for Chemical Weapons - New York Times Mon, 28 Oct 2013 03:30:36 GMT

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Syria Meets Deadline for Submitting Destruction Plan for Chemical Weapons
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Published: October 27, 2013. GENEVA — Syria submitted a formal declaration of its chemical weapons program and its plans for destroying its arsenal three days ahead of the deadline, the international chemical weapons watchdog said Sunday.
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Syria 'cooperative' on chemical weapons, OPCW chief says - CNN Wed, 09 Oct 2013 11:40:20 GMT

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Syria 'cooperative' on chemical weapons, OPCW chief says
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A U.N. Security Council resolution gives Syria until mid-2014 to destroy that arsenal, which the United States estimated at about 1,000 tons of blister agents and nerve gas. The Syrians provided an initial declaration of its stockpile and must submit a ...
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Syria mounting anti-polio campaign in wake of suspected outbreak - CNN Fri, 25 Oct 2013 22:15:15 GMT

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Syria mounting anti-polio campaign in wake of suspected outbreak
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(CNN) -- The Syrian government has been mounting a campaign to boost vaccination among children in Syria after at least 20 suspected cases of polio were reported -- from government and opposition sources -- near the eastern city of Deir Ezzor. Though ...
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Hardships Mounting for Refugees Inside Syria - New York Times Fri, 25 Oct 2013 20:46:39 GMT

Hardships Mounting for Refugees Inside Syria
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The long civil war has forced two million Syrians outside the country's borders, but more than twice that number face mounting privations at home, and the toll keeps rising. The deepening humanitarian crisis threatens to set the country's development ...

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Syria meets deadline for chemical weapons destruction plan - CNN Sun, 27 Oct 2013 11:43:20 GMT

Syria meets deadline for chemical weapons destruction plan
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(CNN) -- Syria has met its deadline for submitting a plan for getting rid of its chemical weapons, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said Sunday. Damascus also sent a declaration covering activities not prohibited by the chemical ...


Syria says terrorist attack causes country-wide blackout - CNN International Wed, 23 Oct 2013 20:08:43 GMT

Syria says terrorist attack causes country-wide blackout
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(CNN) -- Syria was plunged Wednesday into a nationwide blackout, the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency reported. A "terrorist attack on the gas feeder line for a power plant" in southern Damascus led to "power outages in all provinces" and efforts were ...


Syria Fires Official Who Tried to Broker Peace - New York Times Wed, 30 Oct 2013 11:06:48 GMT

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Syria Fires Official Who Tried to Broker Peace
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Syrian government on Tuesday fired a deputy prime minister who has lately been its most outspoken voice in favor of reform and who recently held meetings with American and Russian officials about peace talks that world leaders ...
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Destruction of Syria's chemical weapons begins, UN says - CNN Sun, 06 Oct 2013 21:54:54 GMT

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Destruction of Syria's chemical weapons begins, UN says
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(CNN) -- Syrians began destroying their country's chemical weapons program Sunday, according to an international team tasked with overseeing the effort. Syrian personnel are using "cutting torches and angle grinders to destroy or disable a range of ...
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Bomber Tied to Al Qaeda Kills Dozens in Syrian City - New York Times (blog) Mon, 21 Oct 2013 00:20:11 GMT

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Bomber Tied to Al Qaeda Kills Dozens in Syrian City
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — A suicide bomber detonated a truck filled with propane tanks at a crowded military checkpoint in central Syria on Sunday, killing more than 30 people, most of them civilians, in the second such attack by fighters linked to Al Qaeda ...


Swap Frees Lebanese Held by Syrian Rebels in Exchange for Turks - New York Times (blog) Sun, 20 Oct 2013 00:54:14 GMT

Swap Frees Lebanese Held by Syrian Rebels in Exchange for Turks
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — A flurry of back-room Middle East diplomacy led to an ambitious international prisoner swap on Saturday that freed Lebanese citizens held by Syrian rebels and Turkish pilots kidnapped by Lebanese gunmen.