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Syrian intervention: Some questions
WASHINGTON -- For all the armchair generals advocating U.S. military intervention in Syria, I have a few questions: Is human suffering the reason for the United States to act? That is the noblest and most altruistic of motives, and the estimated 70,...
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, International Military Interventions, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Wars and Interventions
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4 U.N. peacekeepers seized in Syria near Israeli border
BEIRUT — Four United Nations peacekeepers were seized Tuesday in southern Syria, close to the Israeli border, the international body said, marking the second time this year that its observers have been taken in the volatile area. U.N. Secretary-...Tags: Bashar Assad, Armed Forces, Israel, Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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U.N.'s Carla del Ponte says Syrian rebels may have used sarin
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.BEIRUT — A leading member of a United Nations investigatory commission says there are “strong concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof” that Syrian rebels have used the nerve agent sarin. Carla del Ponte, a former...Tags: Bashar Assad, White House, Jay Carney, BBC, Biological and Chemical Weapons
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Letters to the Editor: Syria, Meals on Wheels, executions, Bill Clinton
Syria: Keep our distance Our political right continues to agitate for intervention in Syria. Our middle is wavering. It's rumored that even Hillary Clinton has advocated stronger support of the rebellion. The intervention case rests on the estimated...
Tags: Seminole County, Bill Clinton, Homophobia, Death Penalty, Health and Safety at School
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Obama's red line on Syria gets squiggly
The hawks are squawking. Congressional conservatives and the right-wing media are blasting President Barack Obama for going soft on the Syrians. The president insists there is a "game-changing" red line the Syrian government will have crossed if it is...
Tags: Barack Obama, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, George W. Bush, Lindsey O. Graham
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The struggle for Syria
My cousin, Ramez, was dead before the echoes of the gunshot that killed him stopped ringing. His 4-year-old daughter, Zeynab, watched him fall on a narrow street in Damascus, but she never heard the shot because she is deaf. She held onto his lifeless...
Tags: Lebanon, International Military Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, Petroleum Industry
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Israel says strikes in Syria target arms for Hezbollah
JERUSALEM — With three airstrikes against Syria since January, Israel has inserted itself forcefully into the "Arab Spring's" most intractable conflict, heightening fears that Syria's civil war could spiral into a regional conflagration. The...
Tags: Lebanon, Beirut (Lebanon), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Government, Politics
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Syria: Huge new bombing in Damascus kills at least 13
BEIRUT -- A powerful bomb exploded Tuesday in the center of Damascus, authorities said, causing dozens of casualties and marking the second consecutive day that a deadly explosion rocked the Syrian capital. The official Syrian news agency reported...
Tags: Explosions, Bombings, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, Disasters and Accidents
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Obama must find the best bad option in Syria
Having vowed that any use of chemical weapons by Syria would cross a U.S. "red line" and provoke a strong American response "with enormous consequences," President Barack Obama now finds himself under increasing pressure to act, following reports by U.S....Tags: Libya, Barack Obama, International Military Interventions, Wars and Interventions, World War I (1914-1918)
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Google gives a virtual nod to 'Palestine'
Google has switched the tagline on its Palestinian website, replacing the words “Palestinian territories” with “Palestine” in both English and Arabic. Google spokesman Nathan Tyler said the company consulted "a number of...
Tags: Palestine, BBC, Science and Technology, Standards, Google Inc.
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Obama has accomplished more than you think
To the writer of the laundry list of things he claims President Obama did not accomplish, let's counter with a list of things that he has accomplished and those that he is trying to accomplish: Let us not forget that President Obama inherited one of...Tags: Boynton Beach, Barack Obama, Unemployment Benefits, U.S. Congress
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Opposition says Syrian forces rounding up people in Tartus region
BEIRUT — Syrian opposition groups charged Friday that government forces were continuing to round up people in a village near Syria's Mediterranean coast where an alleged massacre left scores dead. A major opposition umbrella group, known as the...
Tags: Human Rights, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, National Government, Government
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