activist Ahmad Kassem said. He said opposition fighters fired back, inflicting
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The Syrian state news agency - which gives the government's view of the uprising as a foreign-funded conspiracy - said six people were killed by a bomb planted by "terrorists" in the central
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Syrian security forces earlier killed at least four anti-government protesters on Friday when they opened fire on demonstrations in the northern city of Aleppo and the outskirts of the capital Damascus, activists said.
The fringes of
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There was no independent confirmation of any of those accounts from within Syria, which has limited
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The United Nations, which six weeks ago put forth a plan for a ceasefire aimed at paving the way for a political end to Syria's bloodshed, said on Friday that recent bomb attacks in Syria
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"The sophistication and size of the bombs point to a high level of expertise, which may indicate the involvement of established terrorist groups," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Security Council in
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A day earlier, the global body said both Syrian government forces and the insurgency that has sprung up alongside what began as a mass protest movement had committed serious human rights abuses.
In a report documenting 207 killings
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The global body said it can no longer track casualties in the uprising, after estimating at least
cheap michael kors 9,000 people have been killed. Syria says "terrorists" have killed about 2,600 security and military personnel.
The envoy overseeing the U.N. peace plan, Kofi Annan, is due in Syria shortly, Annan's spokesman said. It would be his first visit since presenting
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KABUL, Afghanistan French President Francois Hollande, on an unannounced visit to Afghanistan, defended France's controversial decision to end its combat role ahead of schedule, and insisted
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The newly inaugurated leader met with President Hamid Karzai and visited French troops, who are mainly deployed in Kapisa province, east of the capital.
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