Opinion | In Syria, an Account of Life Under al-Assad
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Opinion | In Syria, an Account of Life Under al-Assad

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines From Ghouta, Ms. Al-Khalil kept a diary, fragments of her experience under bombardment and siege. Like some 113,000 Syrians who have been forcibly disappeared since 2011, she was abducted, on Dec. 9, 2013. We still don’t know where she is or if she…

Syria’s Interim President Calls for Unity Amid Fresh Fighting
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Syria’s Interim President Calls for Unity Amid Fresh Fighting

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Syria’s interim president, Ahmed al-Shara, appealed on Sunday for calm and for unity as he moved to reassure the nation after days of clashes that a monitoring group said had killed hundreds of people. “We must preserve national unity and civil peace,” he…

Violence Sweeps Coastal Syria, Sowing Chaos: ‘We Have to Get Out of Here’
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Violence Sweeps Coastal Syria, Sowing Chaos: ‘We Have to Get Out of Here’

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The gunfire began at dawn on Friday in the town of al-Haffa on Syria’s Mediterranean coast. At first, Wala, a 29-year-old resident of the town, leaped off her bed to the corner of the room in her first-floor apartment, flattening herself as the…

What We Know About the Clashes in Syria
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What We Know About the Clashes in Syria

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group, has reported attacks on Alawite civilians, frequently by unknown gunmen. The country’s new rulers have pledged to bring all armed groups under the state’s control, but the security situation remains unstable, with some…