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                    [Title] => Russia launches new wave of air raids in Syria
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Russian warplanes have attacked the Islamic State group and other insurgents in central and northern Syria with a wave of new airstrikes, Syrian and Russian military officials said yesterday as an activist group said Russia's air raids have killed 39 civilians over the three past days.

[DatePublished] => 2015-10-03 15:46:43 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 785751 [Title] => Annan to hold 2nd meeting with Syrian president [Summary] =>

United Nations envoy Kofi Annan will hold a second meeting with the country's President Bashar Assad on Sunday to discuss proposals for stopping violence and starting a political dialogue, a U.N. official in Damascus said.

[DatePublished] => 2012-03-11 16:30:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 708180 [Title] => Around 8,000 Syrian refugees return home from Turkish camps: paper [Summary] =>

Around 8,000 Syrian refugees have returned home so far from Turkish camps, which were setup earlier to receive the Syrians who fled the violence in the northwestern town of Jisr al-Shghour, local daily al-Watan reported Thursday.

[DatePublished] => 2011-07-21 17:00:07 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 696452 [Title] => Syria expands military campaign against dissent [Summary] =>

Terrified Syrians ran for their lives as elite army units swept through a restive northern province, expanding a deadly operation to crush signs of dissent against President Bashar Assad.

[DatePublished] => 2011-06-16 13:25:19 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 695830 [Title] => Behind barbed wire, Syrians find refuge in Turkey [Summary] =>

Syrians streamed across the border into neighboring Turkey, finding sanctuary in refugee camps ringed by barbed wire and offering a frightening picture of life back home where a deadly crackdown on dissent is fueling a popular revolt.

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Elite Syrian troops backed by helicopters and tanks regained control Sunday of a town where police and soldiers joined forces with the protesters they were ordered to shoot — a decisive assault from a government prepared for an all-out battle to keep power.

[DatePublished] => 2011-06-13 09:02:04 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 694825 [Title] => Syrian troops sweep through north; unrest kills 32 [Summary] =>

Elite Syrian forces moved swiftly through the country's restive north on Friday, raining tank shells on rebellious towns, torching farmland and shooting protesters who tried to tear down a poster of President Bashar Assad, activists and refugees said.

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 Syrian state television says the army has begun operations in a restive northern town near the Turkish border.

[DatePublished] => 2011-06-10 14:33:24 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 694503 [Title] => Fleeing Syrians tell of revolt, mutiny and mayhem [Summary] =>

Syrian policemen turned their guns on each other, soldiers shed their uniforms rather than obey orders to fire on protesters, and three young men who tried to escape were beheaded by forces loyal to President Bashar Assad.

[DatePublished] => 2011-06-10 08:59:10 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 694236 [Title] => UN rights chief deplores crackdown on Syria town [Summary] =>

The U.N.'s top human rights official on Thursday accused Syria of trying to "bludgeon its population into submission" by attacking anti-government protesters with snipers, tanks and artillery.

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