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Turkey threatens retaliation if Syria strikes again
Turkey fortifies security and threatens to retaliate forcefully if its border with Syria is violated again.
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Syria ‘sorry’ for mortar attack on Turkey
Syria apologises for Wednesday’s mortar attack on Turkey, as the Turkish parliament gives the green light for military action outside the country’s borders if the government deems it necessary.
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Annan steps down as peace envoy on Syria
Kofi Annan quits as international mediator on Syria amid failure to halt the violence ravaging the country since the start of the uprising to oust President Assad 17 months ago.
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Wolfowitz: ‘too late to intervene in Syria’
Former US deputy defence secretary Paul Wolfowitz says the international community should have supported the Syrian opposition months ago and time has now run out.
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Bloody clashes in Syria’s ‘second city’ Aleppo
Troops with machine guns opened fire on rebels in Syria’s northwest commercial hub of Aleppo on Saturday amid reports of sniper fire and clashes in Damascus overnight.
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Up to 30,000 Syrian refugees may be fleeing for Lebanon
The UN says as many as 30,000 Syrian refugees may have crossed into Lebanon in the last 48 hours to escape the bloody uprising, and Syria’s intelligence chief dies of wounds sustained in a bomb blast.
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Assad ‘in Latakia’ after Damascus attacks
Clashes between Syrian troops and opposition fighters in Damascus continue amid claims from the opposition that President Assad is now in the coastal city of Latakia.
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Assad’s close advisors killed in bomb blast
Heavy fighting in the streets of Damascus follows a bomb blast which killed Syria’s defence minister, deputy defence minister – President Assad’s brother-in-law – and a senior military official.
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‘Up to 200 killed’ in new Syrian massacre
Kofi Annan says he is “appalled” by the massacre of up to 200 people in the Syrian village of Tremseh, one of the bloodiest incidents in the country’s ongoing conflict.
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Could EU’s new Iran sanctions work?
As the EU imposes sanctions which will affect the transportation of Iranian oil, Channel 4 News examines the extent of existing economic blocks on trade and their potential impact.
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‘Seven killed’ at pro-Assad TV station in Syria
Gunmen kill journalists and security guards at a pro-government television station near Damascus, after President Bashar al-Assad says the country is in a “state of war”.
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Syria weapons ship ‘turned back’ off Scottish coast
On the day the US and Russia call for an end to Syrian violence, a cargo ship believed to be carrying Russian-made attack helicopters to Syria turns back in British waters.
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Syria: another 17 dead in overnight shelling in Deraa
UN observers set out on another field trip on Saturday amid reports that 17 people were killed in overnight shelling in the Syrian town of Deraa, where the uprising began 15 months ago.
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Syrian diplomats expelled after Houla massacre
Britain and several other countries are expelling Syrian diplomats following the killing of 108 people, half of them children, in Houla.
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More deaths in Syria after Houla massacre
Forty people are killed in Syria as international mediator Kofi Annan arrives in Damascus following the deaths of more than 100, many of them children, in Houla.