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Syria rebels seize dam, blast on Turkish border - Reuters Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:17:15 GMT

Business Insider

Syria rebels seize dam, blast on Turkish border Reuters AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Rebels have captured Syria's biggest hydro-electric dam and battled army tank units near the center of Damascus, activists said as the opposition renewed an offer on Monday to negotiate the departure of President Bashar ... Rebels seize Syria's largest dam, controlling water and electricity supplies ...Washington Post Rebels Have Captured Syria's Largest Dam And Are Pushing Into DamascusBusiness Insider Rebels Capture Syria's Largest Hydroelectric DamFox Business Irish Independent -Al-Arabiya all 24 news articles »

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The Obama Doctrine — look the other way - Washington Post Tue, 12 Feb 2013 01:00:53 GMT

The Obama Doctrine — look the other way Washington Post Leon Panetta, the departing secretary of defense, and Hillary Rodham Clinton, until recently the secretary of state, wanted to arm the Syrian rebels. So did then-CIA Director David Petraeus. The White House vetoed this proposal, ostensibly on the ... and more »

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Blast on Syria-Turkish border amid rebel gains - Washington Post Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:22:53 GMT

Voice of America

Blast on Syria-Turkish border amid rebel gains Washington Post It was unclear, however, whether the blast was deliberate, and Turkish officials said they are investigating the cause and circumstances of the explosion, which coincided with heightened Turkish concerns that the violence raging in Syria could spill ... Blast kills 13 at Turkish customs gate on Syrian borderCNN Blast Kills 12 at Syria-Turkey BorderVoice of America Syria crisis: 'Powerful' minibus explosion kills 13BBC News Aljazeera.com -The Guardian all 72 news articles »

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Fuel, food aid draw Iraq, Syria Kurds closer - Reuters Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:33:41 GMT

Fuel, food aid draw Iraq, Syria Kurds closer Reuters FISHKHABOUR, Iraq (Reuters) - Kurds on either side of the river Tigris that runs between Syria and Iraq are linked by kinship, a history of oppression and now by fuel lines and boats ferrying food and medical aid across the waters that divide them. The ... and more »

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Syria's Palestinians, Refugees Again - Daily Beast Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:47:04 GMT

Daily Beast

Syria's Palestinians, Refugees Again Daily Beast But unlike their fully Syrian counterparts, the only U.N. agency allowed to help the Palestinian Syrians is the United Nations Reliefs and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the desperately overstretched refugee body that was ... PA heads to Syria to stop attacks on PalestiniansJerusalem Post PA delegation in Syria in bid to protect refugeesThe Times of Israel Number of Palestinian refugee deaths in Syria increasing, UN agency warnsUN News Centre Algemeiner -+972 Magazine - Independent commentary from Israel and the Palestinian territories -UPI.com all 25 news articles »

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Violence In Syria's Capital Escalates, Along With Refugee Crisis - NPR Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:03:07 GMT

Violence In Syria's Capital Escalates, Along With Refugee Crisis NPR Fighting in Damascus has escalated, and the U.N. says 5,000 Syrian refugees are fleeing every day. The humanitarian crisis is growing along the borders with Turkey and Lebanon, and Israel launched its first airstrike inside Syria on Wednesday ...

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Any Solution to Syria? - New York Times Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:42:03 GMT

New York Times

Any Solution to Syria? New York Times SHOULD the U.S. intervene to stop the bloodshed in Syria? I find myself torn between four different perspectives — from New Delhi, Baghdad, Tel Aviv and the U.N.. Last week, I met with a group of Indian strategists here at the Institute for Defense ... and more »

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Opposition "would talk to Assad in northern Syria" - Reuters Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:09:32 GMT

Opposition "would talk to Assad in northern Syria" Reuters AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian National Coalition leader Moaz Alkhatib said on Sunday he was willing to hold talks with President Bashar al-Assad's representatives in rebel-held areas of northern Syria to try to end a conflict that has killed about 60,000 ...

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Syria-Turkey border blast kills at least 13 - Financial Times Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:02:17 GMT

Syria-Turkey border blast kills at least 13 Financial Times The deaths highlighted the growing instability along parts of Turkey's 900km border with Syria. Although the US and other western powers are reluctant to intervene directly, and Turkey itself has sought to avoid full out conflict with Damascus, many ...

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Syria: Authorize Cross-Border Humanitarian Aid - Human Rights Watch Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:54:36 GMT

Human Rights Watch

Syria: Authorize Cross-Border Humanitarian Aid Human Rights Watch (New York) – Syria should urgently agree that humanitarian aid may be brought into the country across all of its borders, including from Turkey. Syria's allies, including Russia, should press Syria to consent to such transfers, Human Rights Watch said ... and more »