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Assad forces foil Syrian rebels' attempt to free prisoners in Aleppo

Syrian rebels withdrew from a prison in the northern city of Aleppo Thursday after heavy fighting with government troops, an activist group said, as it more than doubled its tally of deaths from sectarian killings in a coastal city earlier this month.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights raised the death toll from the May 3 sectarian killings in the coastal city of Banias to 145 from 62. Activists said at the time that troops and pro-government gunmen stormed the predominantly Sunni Muslim neighborhood of Ras Nabeh and killed dozens.The violence in the coastal region of Syria underscored the sectarian nature of the two-year conflict, which has killed tens of thousands and forced more than 1 million Syrians to flee to neighboring countries.Syria's Sunni majority forms the backbone of the rebellion, while President Bashar Assad's minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, anchors the regime's security services and the military's officer corps. Other minorities, s...

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  2. Syrian troops repulse rebel attack in Aleppo

    Syria's state media said Monday that government troops repulsed a rebel attack on a police school in the northern city of Aleppo, one day after President Bashar Assa...

  3. Fears grow over fate of Syria's largest city, Aleppo , as regime prepares to crush rebels

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  4. Minaret of landmark mosque in Syria destroyed in clashes

    The 11th-century minaret of a famed mosque that towered over the narrow stone alleyways of Aleppo's old quarter collapsed Wednesday as rebels and government troops f...

  5. Syrian state media: Rebels attack prison in north

    Syria's state media say rebels have fired mortar shells at the central prison in an embattled northern city, killing and wounding several inmates.The pro-opposition ...

  6. Syrian rebels, government fight over key highways

    Syrian rebels cut on Saturday a newly built desert road linking the capital Damascus with the northern city of Aleppo, an activist group said, while the state media ...

  7. Syrian state media reports troops thwarted Aleppo attack by rebels

    Syria's state media said Monday that government troops repulsed a rebel attack on a police school in the northern city of Aleppo, one day after President Bashar Assa...

  8. Gunmen seize elderly father of Syria's deputy FM

    Gunmen on Saturday abducted the elderly father of Syria's deputy foreign minister, his office and a Lebanese TV station said.There was no immediate claim of responsi...

  9. Activists: Rebels, Syrian troops clash in Aleppo

    Syrian rebels have begun a major operation in the Aleppo region, aiming to strike at security compounds and bases around Syria's largest city, activists said Friday....

  10. Syria reports clashes near airport in contested Aleppo

    Syrian forces battled rebels near the airport in war-battered Aleppo, Syria's state media said Friday, in the first official acknowledgment that fighting has reached...

  11. At least 12 dead in twin suicide blasts near Damascus , Syria

    Two car bombs exploded in southern Syria and a rocket slammed into a building in the north, killing at least 12 people in a spike in civil war violence Friday that S...

  12. Syria opposition welcomes support for Assad ouster

    A spokesman says Syria's main opposition bloc welcomes renewed calls by its foreign supporters that Syrian President Bashar Assad give up power at the start of any p...

  1. Syrian rebels launch assault on Aleppo prison

    Syrian rebels attacked the main prison in the northern city of Aleppo Wednesday with a pair of car bombs in an attempt to free hundreds of regime opponents believed ...

  2. Activists: Rebel groups kidnap in Syria's Aleppo

    Syrian activists say that a wave of tit-for-tat kidnappings between rival Islamic militant groups in the northern city of Aleppo risks sparking large-scale internal ...

  3. Russia says Syrian government agreed to Geneva peace conference

    The Syrian government has agreed "in principle" to attend a conference proposed by Russia and the United States on ending the country's civil war, Russia's Foreign M...

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  5. Syria's Assad says he won't step down

    Syrian President Bashar Assad says he won't step down before elections are held in his war-ravaged country.The Syrian leader's comments, published Saturday in the Ar...

  6. AP Interview: Syria conflict uproots Palestinians

    Syria's fighting has uprooted more than half of the country's 530,000 Palestinians — descendants of refugees from a Mideast conflict half a century ago — and their s...

  7. Syria demands more details before committing to US-Russian peace talks

    The Syrian government wants more details before deciding whether to take part in a proposed U.S.-Russian initiative to negotiate a peaceful end to Syria's crisis, th...

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