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(Photo: AP)UN to discuss action on Syria
A Syrian army defector, waves the Syrian revolution flag and shouts slogans shortly after he defected with other soldiers and join the anti-Syrian regime protesters at Khalidiya area in Homs province, central Syria, on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012...Full Story

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(Photo: AP / Nasser Nasser)Arms from Libya could reach Boko Haram, al Qaeda - U.N.
A Libyan rebel carrying a parachute flare shell left behind by pro-Gadhafi forces, walks by a rebels pickup truck armed with a rocket launcher with a pre Gadhafi flag and Arabic that reads "February 17th, Free Libya" at the western gate of Ajdabiya, Libya Wednesday, April 13, 2011....Full Story

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Syrian families 'slaughtered', 74 dead
| Two days of bloody turmoil in Syria have killed at least 74 people, including small children, as forces loyal to President Bashar Assad shelled residential buildings and fired on crowds in a dramatic escalation of violence, activists said yesterday. | Video posted onl...Full Story
Furore over slaughter of women and children in Homs
| Beirut: Armed forces loyal to President Bashar Al Assad barraged residential buildings with mortars and machine-gun fire, killing at least 30 people, including a family of women and children during a day of sectarian killings and kidnappings in the besieged Syria...Full Story
Heading towards showdown
Saudi Arabia's decision to recognise the Syrian National Council as the 'official representative' of the Syrian people will have a dual impact. | It is likely to boost the Syrian opposition and undermine President Bashar Al Assad's legitimacy and standing among the regi...Full Story
No appetite for intervention
For 10 months, the world has watched in horror as Bashar Al Assad's regime carries out regular massacres against unarmed civilians across Syria in a bid to quell the unrest gripping the country. | No doubt inspired by the successes of their Arab brethren elsewhere, thou...Full Story
Syria violence kills 37, UNSC to meet
Amman: Security forces killed 37 people in Syria on Friday, activists and residents said, as people in Homs mourned 14 members of a family they said were slain by militiamen in one of the worst sectarian attacks in a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad. | The UN Se...Full Story
Battlefield of the future
| A secret war is being waged that is changing the nature of conflict. The internet is the new combat zone, where nation strikes against nation, spy against spy and corporation raids corporation. Phil Taylor reports | Late last year Australia and the United States decla...Full Story
West needs to consider league's solution for Syria
| DICTATORS and autocrats seeming to promote democracy should be treated with scepticism. But as an Arab League delegation heads to New York to brief the United Nations on its latest pitch for peace in Syria, it needs to be heard - carefully. | Think tanks are circulati...Full Story
Syrian make-over awaits league's next peace pitch
| WASHINGTON: Dictators and autocrats seeming to promote democracy should be treated with scepticism. But, as an Arab League delegation heads to New York to brief the United Nations on its latest pitch for peace in Syria, it needs to be heard - carefully. | Think tanks ...Full Story
Syria violence kills 37, U.N. Security Council to meet
| AMMAN (Reuters) - Security forces killed 37 people in Syria Friday, activists and residents said, as people in Homs mourned 14 members of a family they said were slain by militiamen in one of the worst sectarian attacks in a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad. S...Full Story
UN Security Council discusses Syrian crisis
| The U.N. Security Council on Friday was discussing an Arab League-backed plan to respond to the crisis in Syria, diplomats said as they headed into the closed-door consultations. | French Ambassador Gerard Araud said council members expected a presentation by the Moro...Full Story
>Pentagon Confused By Its Own ‘Subs vs. Terrorists’ Plan
| The Pentagon has a dream that it won’t give up: blasting any target on the planet with a submarine’s missile. Nothing seems to stop it, not even years of protest that the project could accidentally spark a nuclear war. But now, the Pentagon swears, it̵...Full Story
Ex-President Bush Lied To FBI Director About Warrantless Surveillance: Book
| Former President George W. Bush lied to FBI Director Robert Mueller in the Oval Office to protect White House programs that secretly eavesdropped on Americans, according to an upcoming book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tim Weiner. | In "Enemies," the former Ne...Full Story
New U.N. draft resolution gives Syria 15 days to comply
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE | The Cable has obtained a copy of on Syria currently being discussed inside the U.N. Security Council. It calls on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to hand over power to his deputy and says additional measures would be tak...Full Story
Steve Hunegs
| Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 | The United Nations International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust commemorates the Red Army's liberation of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945. | In the end, it was only the might of the ...Full Story
Damascus Battles Risk Tipping Capital Into Chaos
By NOUR MALAS | Syrian dissident soldiers said Friday they are teaming up with armed civilians to temporarily occupy neighborhoods on Damascus's outskirts, a new phase of Syria's conflict that holds the potential to move the long-quiet capital toward chaos. | For the fi...Full Story
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Fri 27 Jan 2012
Russia "disappointed" with UN Syria draft: envoys
Yahoo Daily News | UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told a closed-door meeting of the Security Council on Friday that he was "deeply disappointed" with a European-Arab draft resolution endorsing an Arab League plan for Syria, diploma...
Children among 74 dead in 2 days of Syrian turmoil
Yahoo Daily News | BEIRUT (AP) — Two days of bloody turmoil in Syria killed at least 74 people, including small children, as forces loyal to President Bashar Assad shelled residential buildings and fired on crowds in a dramatic escalation of violence, activists sai...
Children among 74 dead in 2 days of Syrian turmoil
The Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) -- Two days of bloody turmoil in Syria killed at least 74 people, including small children, as forces loyal to President Bashar Assad shelled residential buildings and fired on crowds in a dramatic escalation of violence, activists said F...
Children among 74 dead in 2 days of Syrian turmoil
Palm Beach Post | BEIRUT — Two days of bloody turmoil in Syria killed at least 74 people, including small children, as forces loyal to President Bashar Assad shelled residential buildings and fired on crowds in a dramatic escalation of violence, activists said...
UN Security Council discusses Syrian crisis
Palm Beach Post | UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council on Friday was discussing an Arab League-backed plan to respond to the crisis in Syria, diplomats said as they headed into the closed-door consultations. | French Ambassador Gerard Araud said council ...
The best type of CI Operation for the United States: Part 2 of 3
The Examiner | What is the most effective type of counterintelligence (CI) for the United States Intelligence Community (USIC) to use against espionage threats against the United States? As I mentioned in the first part of this series, there are basically two bas...
Syria Crisis: Putin's Russia Keeps Up Syria Support
Huffington Post | By Steve Gutterman | MOSCOW, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Russian warnings to the West and its Arab allies to keep their hands off Syria hide a slight chance for compromise on a U.N. resolution aimed at halting bloodshed in the country, but a demand for Pres...
Dozens killed in 2 days of Syrian turmoil
The Guardian | ZEINA KARAM | Associated Press= BEIRUT (AP) — Two days of bloody turmoil in Syria killed at least 64 people, including small children, as forces loyal to President Bashar Assad shelled residential buildings and fired on crowds in a dramatic escal...
Children among 74 dead in 2 days of Syrian turmoil
Atlanta Journal | BEIRUT — Two days of bloody turmoil in Syria killed at least 74 people, including small children, as forces loyal to President Bashar Assad shelled residential buildings and fired on crowds in a dramatic escalation of violence, activists said...
Dozens killed in 2 days of Syrian turmoil
Yahoo Daily News | BEIRUT (AP) — Two days of bloody turmoil in Syria killed at least 64 people, including small children, as forces loyal to President Bashar Assad shelled residential buildings and fired on crowds in a dramatic escalation of violence, activists sai...
Yavlinsky to Appeal Presidential Bid Rejection
Novosti | Grigory Yavlinsky, the founder of the liberal Russian opposition party Yabloko, said on Friday he plans to appeal the decision by the Central Election Commission (CEC) to reject his application to take part in the presidential race. | “We are...
Rogozin Proposes State Body on Aerospace Defenses
Novosti | Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin on Friday proposed setting up a government body responsible for consolidating efforts aimed at the creation of an effective aerospace defense network in the country. | “We need to set up some sort ...
Election Commission Head Urged to Cut Beard over Vote Fraud
Novosti | The Russian Communist Party presented a pair of scissors to Central Election Commission head Vladimir Churov on Friday, calling on him to live up to his promise and get rid of his beard following reports of mass fraud in December parliamentary elec...
Russian Press - Behind the Headlines, January 27
Novosti | Nezavisimaya Gazeta | Government Considers Leasing Far Eastern Croplands to Foreign Investors | Russia may lease millions of hectares of idle cropland in the Far East to foreign agribusinesses as a contribution to international food security during...
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