Hundreds killed in Syria as violence threatens new regime’s hopes to ease tensions with US
The new Syrian government has yet to firmly establish a safe foothold in the country and faces threats from Assad sympathizers who supported his decades-long rule.
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Dozens killed in clashes between Syria's security forces and al-Assad loyalists
More than 70 people have been killed and dozens injured in clashes between Syrian security forces and fighters linked to the toppled leader Bashar al-Assad, according to a war monitor. Syria's new ...
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Syrian forces seek to snuff out nascent Alawite insurgency
Syrian authorities face insurgency by Assad's Alawite sect Over 120 reported killed, toll unverified by Reuters Saudi Arabia supports Syrian government against insurgency DAMASCUS, March 7 ...
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Syrian forces wage deadly clashes with militants linked to al-Assad’s ousted regime
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Thursday that 28 fighters “loyal” to ousted President Bashar al-Assad were killed by security forces in fighting in the Latakia province town of ...
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Syrian forces clash with Assad-linked militants in escalating violence
DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Fighters linked to Syria's ousted leader Bashar al-Assad mounted a deadly attack on government forces on Thursday, authorities said, in some of the worst violence against the ...
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Syria sees worst violence since Assad’s toppling with dozens killed in clashes between army and ex-regime loyalists
dozens of people have been killed or wounded in clashes between the security forces and supporters of former President Bashar al Assad this week. (CNN) — In the worst outbreak of unrest since ...
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'Where's the gold?': How the Assads sucked Syria dry
Many of the bases of the elite Fourth Division formerly run by toppled president Bashar al-Assad's feared younger brother Maher now lie looted. But papers left strewn behind reveal how the man ...
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Syria clashes kill dozens in worst violence since fall of Assad regime
Video posted to social media shows violence in Homs, Syria. Fighters linked to Bashar al-Assad mounted a deadly attack on government forces in Homs on March 6. (Video: Reuters) In the months since ...
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Syrian forces search former Assad stronghold after suspected loyalist attacks
after two defence ministry members were killed in an attack blamed by state media on remnants of Bashar al-Assad's ousted government. The coastal region of Latakia area has emerged as one of the ...
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More than 100 killed as Syrian government fights al-Assad loyalists, threatening return to warfare
The centre of the fighting was the coastal region of Latakia, home to much of Syria’s Alawite minority community, and the ancestral homeland of the country’s former dictator, Bashar al-Assad.
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Over 70 killed in Syria clashes between govt forces, Assad loyalists: monitor
"He is accused of hundreds of assassinations during the era of the criminal Hafez al-Assad," Bashar al-Assad's father and predecessor. Huweija, who headed air force intelligence from 1987 to 2002 ...