# damascus - Monday 6 May, 2013
A member of a UN panel investigating alleged war crimes says it appears that the rebels are using sarin gas.
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# damascus - Sunday 5 May, 2013
It is Israel’s second strike on Syria in three days.
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# damascus - Saturday 4 May, 2013
At least 70,000 people have been killed in Syria so far, including 122 people killed in violence yesterday.
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# damascus - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
The explosion took place in the central district of Marjeh, Syrian state television said.
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# damascus - Monday 29 April, 2013
Wael al-Halqi was travelling through Damascus when his convoy was targeted earlier today, Syrian state television reports.
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# damascus - Friday 22 March, 2013
The statement was made after a suicide bomb at the Iman Mosque in Damascus .
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# damascus - Monday 25 February, 2013
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem is the first high-ranking regime official to say the government is prepared to talk with rebels.
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# damascus - Friday 22 February, 2013
Almost 60 people were killed in the blast that rocked the city with many children among those wounded.
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# damascus - Thursday 31 January, 2013
Russia’s foreign ministry said it was “deeply concerned” by the Syrian claims and that it was taking “urgent measures” to clarify the situation.
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# damascus - Wednesday 30 January, 2013
The U.N. chief also appealed for a major boost in international relief aid for Syria.
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# damascus - Friday 4 January, 2013
Over 160 people died in violence across the country yesterday, including 72 civilians.
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# damascus - Saturday 29 December, 2012
In the midst of the conflict, death and hurt, some rare smiles and moments of joy are captured by some of the world’s bravest photographers.
# damascus - Monday 17 December, 2012
His comments came as the regime launched air strikes against a Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus .
# damascus - Sunday 16 December, 2012
The fall of the army installation in Syria’s largest city is the last blow to the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
# damascus - Wednesday 28 November, 2012
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for today’s suicide bombings.
# damascus - Friday 23 November, 2012
The official state news agency said that the man was the latest in a string of employees of pro-government media to be killed.
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# damascus - Thursday 8 November, 2012
The beleaguered Syrian president is defiant, telling Russian TV: “I am not a puppet, I was not made by the West”.
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# damascus - Monday 5 November, 2012
Air strikes continue as 50 pro-regime fighters are reported dead in the city of Hama.
# damascus - Friday 12 October, 2012
Germany will enter discussions on the steady deterioration of relations between Syria and Turkey, following deadly airstrikes.
# damascus - Wednesday 10 October, 2012
The foreign ministry said it had twice implemented a ceasefire – but rebels had used it as an opportunity to ” expand their armed deployment”.
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# damascus - Thursday 4 October, 2012
Khalil Ma’touq and his friend Mohammed Thatha went missing on their route to work which involves passing several government checkpoints.
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Turkey has fired on Syrian targets this morning in reprisal for deadly cross-border fire yesterday, as tensions in the region sharply escalate.
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# damascus - Thursday 20 September, 2012
Clashes across the country have continued today as some estimates now put the death toll from the civil war at over 29,000 since early last year.
# damascus - Saturday 15 September, 2012
The conflict’s death toll continues to rise with overnight air strikes killing 12 civilians and wounding 60 more.
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# damascus - Monday 10 September, 2012
Residents of the country’s second city are experiencing serious water shortages as a main water pipeline has been destroyed.
# damascus - Wednesday 5 September, 2012
Lakhdar Brahimi told the UN General Assembly that the destruction in the country is reaching “catastrophic proportions and the suffering of the people is immense”.
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# damascus - Saturday 1 September, 2012
A total of 125 people killed in violence nationwide on Friday including 74 civilians, 29 soldiers and 22 rebels according to one report.
# damascus - Monday 27 August, 2012
Meanwhile, French president Hollande says he is ready to recognise a provisional Syrian government.
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Butchers, barbers and students are now getting used to guns, tanks and warfare.
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Plus, images of a war: refugees play home in the many camps set up in neighbouring countries as thousands continue to flee the violence.
# damascus - Sunday 26 August, 2012
Footage posted online but not independently verified purports to show rows of bodies lined up at a graveyard and sprawled on Syrian streets.
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# damascus - Thursday 23 August, 2012
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Meanwhile, a harrowing first-hand report from Amnesty International workers documents a sharp increase in extrajudicial and summary executions of civilians in Aleppo.
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# damascus - Monday 20 August, 2012
As Eid al-Fitr is being celebrated in Syria, Aleppo and Daraa were being shelled, according to latest reports. Meanwhile, the last UN monitors are leaving the country.
# damascus - Saturday 18 August, 2012
International obligations towards civilians “have not been respected” by either side in Syrian conflict,
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# damascus - Friday 17 August, 2012
Passengers rounded up around €17,000 but the airline found another way to pay for the fuel on the emergency stopover in Damascus .
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# damascus - Friday 10 August, 2012
Meanwhile, Syrian rebels have been forced from key area of Aleppo.
# damascus - Wednesday 8 August, 2012
Images taken in and around Aleppo recently show increased use of heavy weapons in the area.
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# damascus - Tuesday 7 August, 2012
“The Syrian people and their government are determined to purge the country of terrorists and to fight the terrorists without respite,” Assad said in a televised address.
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# damascus - Sunday 5 August, 2012
The fighter jets have repeatedly hit areas held by the rebels in two districts of the city today.
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The rebels say that the Iranians kidnapped yesterday are actually Revolutionary Guards and not pilgrims, as was originally claimed.
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