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Smoke rises after a bomb was thrown from a helicopter, hitting a rebel position during heavy fighting between troops loyal to president Bashar Assad and opposition fighters, in Idlib province, Syria Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013 ,(photo credit: AP)
October 20, 2013, 11:19 am
Car bomb kills 30 in Hama, Syria
Explosion reportedly targets government checkpoint in central city
By AP and TOI staff
A man, covered in a blanket, is helped to disembark as he arrives at the Valletta harbor, Malta after a Maltese brought 143 survivors from a capsized smugglers' boat, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Lino Arrigo Azzopardi)
October 13, 2013, 5:51 pm
Syrians in Egypt pay with lives for European dream
Civil war refugees brave the choppy waters of the Mediterranean at great personal risk
By Aya Batrawy
Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar Assad take their position during clashes against Syrian rebels, in Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, May 26, 2013 (photo credit: AP Photo/SANA)
October 7, 2013, 8:44 pm
Syrian army retakes crucial road to Aleppo
Securing supply line deemed critical to retaining regime forces' presence in country's north
By Bassem Mroue
A rebel fighter fires a gun in a valley in an unidentified location in Latakia province, Syria, August 11, 2013 (photo credit: AP)
August 13, 2013, 1:55 pm
Syrian opposition fights for the coast
Morsi's detention is extended while the Lebanese growing increasingly upset with Hezbollah's control of the airport
By Elhanan Miller
Protesters chant slogans and wave revolutionary flags during a rally after Friday prayers at al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo, Egypt, December 28, 2012. (AP/Khalil Hamra)
August 10, 2013, 7:15 pm
Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood faces uphill battle
Its downfall in Egypt has deepened distrust of the secretive movement and raised suspicion over its religious agenda
By Zeina Karam
Members of the Grandson of the Prophet rebel brigade operating near Hama. (photo credit: image capture from NYTimes video)
From the WebJune 5, 2013, 2:25 pm
Syrian rebels meet setbacks on a new front
NY Times: Opposition brigades launch summer offensive to break deadly stalemate; Assad forces respond with airstrikes, artillery
A Syrian woman sits on the ruins of her house, which was destroyed in a recent government airstrike that killed 11 members of her family, in Aleppo, Syria, on Thursday (photo credit: AP/Abdullah al-Yassin)
February 8, 2013, 1:47 pm
Bus stop bombing kills 54 in Syria
Assad's air force bombs roads surrounding Damascus, rebels say
By AP and TOI staff
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, right, flanked by Syrian National Coalition vice-president Riad Seif attend a press conference during the International support meeting of the Syrian National Coalition in Paris, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013 (photo credit:AP/Francois Mori)
January 29, 2013, 8:00 am
France warns extremists could prevail in Syria
If Syrian people won't 'achieve their freedom... massacres and antagonisms' will have the upper hand, FM Fabius tells opposition gathering
By Elaine Ganley and Zeina Karam
A Syrian man carries an elderly woman after a government airstrike hit the Hama suburb of Halfaya, Syria, on Sunday December 23, 2012. (photo credit: Shaam News Network via AP video)
December 25, 2012, 1:01 pm
Syrian rebels claim recent alleged chemical attack not the first
Opposition forces say government has used mysterious and deadly toxic gas 18 times in recent battles
By Asher Zeiger and Stuart Winer
Rebel fighters rush to the scene of a Syrian airstrike on a bakery (at right) in Halfaya, where more than 60 people were reported killed on Sunday. (photo credit: image capture from YouTube video)
December 23, 2012, 7:52 pm
Over 60 killed in airstrike on Syrian bakery
Attack comes as UN envoy meets with officials in Damascus to end violence
By AP and TOI staff
Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, meets with the speaker of the Iranian parliament, Ali Larijani, in Damascus, Syria, October 2012. (photo credit: AP/SANA)
December 7, 2012, 3:06 am
Assad may be preparing to take chemical weapons with him in a retreat from Damascus, Israeli expert says
Dictator's own father said to have used hydrogen cyanide against Muslim Brotherhood activists when killing 20,000 in Hama in 1982
By Mitch Ginsburg
A member of the Syrian opposition fires at regime forces in Aleppo, Sunday (photo credit: Narciso Contreras/AP)
November 5, 2012, 6:31 pm
Palestinians in Syria take sides in ongoing civil war
Refugees who oppose Assad join rebel fighters in battle for Damascus
By Bassem Mroue
November 5, 2012, 2:48 pm
50 reportedly dead in Syrian suicide bombing
At least 137 dead across the country in clashes between rebels and government forces
By AP and TOI staff
October 6, 2012, 9:58 pm
Syria — Iran’s Czechoslovakia, an opportunity for the West
Here is an opportunity -- a relatively easy one -- for the US and allies to defeat a dangerous enemy, and the Obama regime will not take it
By Dana Gordon
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90/File)
September 7, 2012, 10:15 pm
UN asks to double humanitarian aid to Syria
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says original budget of $180 million is not enough
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