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Topic: Syria

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September 21, 2012
11:34 pm

In this Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012 photo, a wounded woman, still in shock, leaves Dar El Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)

Iraq bars Syria-bound plane with suspected arms

Decision could close supply line for Assad; US seeks ban of Iranian aircraft with similar cargo

By Karin Laub

September 21, 2012
11:28 pm

Al Nas TV guest claims Bashar Assad is Jewish. (photo credit: Channel 10 screenshot)

Assad’s a Jew, claims Egypt TV guest

Dictator’s family descends from Iranian Jewish origin, so-called expert asserts, in interview on station that also first broadcast Arabic-dubbed clip of anti-Islam film

By Times of Israel staff

September 21, 2012
9:56 pm

Sunni hardline preacher Sheikh Ahmad Assir speaks during a protest against an anti-Islam movie, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday. (AP Photo/Ahmad Omar) Sunni hardline preacher Sheikh Ahmad Assir speaks during a protest against an anti-Islam movie, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday. (AP Photo/Ahmad Omar)

In Lebanon, anti-film protests underscore divide

The urge to defend Islam’s most unifying figure, the Prophet Muhammad, is not enough to bring together divided Sunnis and Shiites

By Zeina Karam

September 21, 2012
5:43 pm

Demonstrators in Tel Aviv express their rage at the Maariv newspaper’s impending closure and the possibility that many will not receive full compensation from the company. (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

Goodnight Maariv, and good evening Netanyahu

One of Israel’s oldest papers may be nearing its demise, and the prime minister is forced to cut back on a free dinner

By Ilan Ben Zion

September 21, 2012
4:34 pm

A Syrian child lies in a safety seat while his family takes refuge at the Bab Al-Salameh border crossing, in hopes of entering one of the refugee camps in Turkey. (file photo credit: AP/Muhammed Muheisen)

Turkey: Five accused of spying for Syria

Suspects charged with passing information on officers who fled and trying to abduct army lieutenant

September 21, 2012
2:11 pm

Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, meeting with the UN-Arab League's special envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi earlier this month (photo credit: AP/SANA)

Assad vows to defeat Syrian rebels

Foreign military intervention that toppled Gaddafi ‘will not be repeated’ here, president says

By AP and Times of Israel staff

September 21, 2012
3:51 am

US ambassador to the UN Susan Rice (photo credit: Courtesy UN)

West accuses Iran of shipping arms to Syria

United Nations ‘can’t be complacent’ about Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, US ambassador says

September 20, 2012
6:44 pm

A Syrian man touches the body of his son during a funeral for four men who were killed in a government airstrike on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. (photo credit: AP/Muhammed Muheisen)

Dozens killed in airstrike on gas station in northern Syria

Reports of up to 70 killed in explosions; military helicopter crashes after clipped by plane; Western coalition aims for Assad’s wallet

September 20, 2012
3:16 am

Free Syrian Army soldiers sit at a check point in Ain al-Arous town in Raqqa, Syria on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. (photo credit: Ugarit News/AP video)

Syrian rebels seize border crossing with Turkey

Strategic boost allows fighters to ferry supplies into the country

By Nebi Qena

September 19, 2012
10:27 pm

Bashar Assad at the parliament in Damascus in June (photo credit: AP/SANA)

Civil war targets ‘entire Axis of Resistance,’ Assad says

President claims the ‘ongoing battle’ is against Iran and Hezbollah as well as Syria

By Philip Podolsky

September 19, 2012
9:47 pm

Illustrative photo of an Iran Air 747 aircraft (photo credit: CC BY-SA contri, Flickr)

Washington pinpoints Iranian planes ferrying arms to Assad

117 aircraft bring weapons to Syria under the guise of humanitarian aid shipments

September 19, 2012
8:24 pm

Smoke rising from a bombing in Damascus on September 19. (photo credit: Image capture from YouTube video uploaded by Freeeeelibyan)

Twin blasts rock Damascus

‘Many’ casualties reported in bombings

By AP and Ilan Ben Zion

September 19, 2012
6:03 pm

A Turkish military investigator with remains from the downed Turkish reconnaissance jet. (photo credit: image capture from YouTube clip uploaded by Today's Zaman)

Turkish jet was downed by Syrian missile in June, Ankara says

Military probe rules out Damascus claim of anti-aircraft fire as cause of crash