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Residents flee as severe clashes erupt Aleppo, fight in Syria capital tense
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Residents flee as severe clashes erupt Aleppo, fight in Syria capital tense

Unprecedented clashes between troops and rebels raged into a second day in Syria's second city of Aleppo on Saturday, forcing…
Syrian security chief dies, activists report deadliest day
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Syrian security chief dies, activists report deadliest day

Syrian TV says the country's national security chief has died of wounds suffered in a rebel blast.
Nearly 100 killed across Syria on Wednesday, NGO says
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Nearly 100 killed across Syria on Wednesday, NGO says

  Nearly 100 people were killed on Wednesday in violence across Syria, including 16 in Damascus, said the Syrian Observatory…
Syrian rebels say they carried out Damascus attack
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Syrian rebels say they carried out Damascus attack

BEIRUT — Syria's rebel commander says his forces carried out an attack in Damascus that killed the defense minister and…
Update: Syrian state TV reports defense minister killed in Damascus bombing
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Update: Syrian state TV reports defense minister killed in Damascus bombing

Syria's defense minister and President Bashar al-Assad's brother in-law were killed in a suicide bomb attack in Damascus on Wednesday,…
Israel: Syria moving troops from Golan to Damascus
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Israel: Syria moving troops from Golan to Damascus

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has moved army forces from the Golan Heights area next to Israel toward Damascus and other…
Syrian forces surround rebels fighting in capital
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Syrian forces surround rebels fighting in capital

Syrian government forces encircled rebel fighters in Damascus on Monday, waging a second day of fighting that residents described as…
Blast hits Damascus, Turkey sends troops to border
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Blast hits Damascus, Turkey sends troops to border

BEIRUT/ISKENDERUN, Turkey — Rebel forces attacked Syria's main court in central Damascus on Thursday, state television said, while Turkey deployed…
Hamas says member assassinated in Damascus
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Hamas says member assassinated in Damascus

GAZA CITY — A senior Hamas leader says one of the Palestinian movement's members has been assassinated in Damascus.
Shelling kills 18 in cradle of Syrian uprising
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Shelling kills 18 in cradle of Syrian uprising

Eighteen people, including 12 women and children, were killed overnight by shelling in the Syrian town of Deraa, where the…
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