Syria tightens noose on protest hubs: activists (AFP)
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| DAMASCUS (AFP) - Syrian forces tightened the noose Tuesday on key protest hubs, including flashpoint Banias, sealing off neighbourhoods and arresting leaders of the anti-regime dissent movement, activists said. ... |
Syria sees Assad's rule past 'dangerous moment'
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 | Syria's government said the threat from a seven-week uprising against President Bashar al-Assad was receding as security forces tightened control over protest centres across the country. ... |
Syria says Assad's rule has passed "dangerous moment" (Reuters)
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| AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's government said the threat to President Bashar al-Assad from the seven-week-old uprising was receding as security forces tightened control of hotbeds of protest across the country. ... |
Syria sees Assad's rule past "dangerous moment" (Reuters)
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| AMMAN (Reuters) - Syria's government said the threat from a seven-week uprising against President Bashar al-Assad was receding as security forces tightened control Tuesday over protest centers across the country. ... |
Syrian forces relax grip on town of Banias (Reuters)
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| AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian security forces have released 300 people detained in the coastal city of Banias and restored basic services, a rights group said, within hours of the government saying the threat from protests was receding. ... |
Raids net hundreds in Syria
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| Syrian security forces arrested hundreds of activists and anti-government protesters in house-to-house raids yesterday, part of an escalating government crackdown aimed at stamping out a revolt engulfing the country.The Government's... ... |
Syria tightens noose on protest hubs (AAP)
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| Activists say Syrian forces have tightened the noose on key protest hubs, sealing off neighbourhoods and arresting leaders. ... |
Syria tightens noose on protest hubs
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| Syrian forces have tightened the noose on key protest hubs, arresting leaders of the dissident movement. ... |
Syria releases veteran opposition figures: activists (Reuters)
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| BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian authorities have released several activists and opposition figures who were arrested as part of a crackdown to crush an uprising against the 11-year rule of President Bashar al-Assad. ... |
Syria activists call new protests as thousands held (AFP)
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| DAMASCUS (AFP) - Syrian activists called countrywide protests on Tuesday in solidarity with thousands of anti-regime activists rounded up by the security forces, setting the scene for another round of bloody clashes. ... |
Syrian activists call more protests as 1000s held (AFP)
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| DAMASCUS (AFP) - Syrian activists called countrywide protests on Tuesday in solidarity with thousands of anti-regime activists rounded up by the security forces, setting the scene for another round of bloody clashes. ... |
Syrian activists call more protests as thousands held (AFP)
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| DAMASCUS (AFP) - Syrian activists called countrywide protests on Tuesday in solidarity with thousands of anti-regime activists rounded up by the security forces, setting the scene for another round of bloody clashes. ... |
EU imposes sanctions against Syria
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| The European Union has announced sanctions against Syria, imposing an arms embargo as well as financial restrictions. Related Stories Syrian army pulls back from Deraa Syrian forces kill six during Hama protest Three shot at all-women protest in Syr ... |
Heavy gunfire heard in Damascus suburb-witness (Reuters)
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| AMMAN (Reuters) - The sound of heavy gunfire was heard on Tuesday in the southwestern Damascus suburb of Mouadhamiya, which had seen intensifying demonstrations against President Bashar al-Assad's rule, a witness said. ... |
Syria rounds up thousands in crackdown: activists (AFP)
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 | DAMASCUS (AFP) - Syrian security forces rounded up thousands of men as they went house to house in a bid to crush an anti-regime protest movement in the coastal city of Banias on Monday, as shots rang out in a Damascus suburb surrounded by troops, ac ... |
Syria rounds up thousands in crackdown
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| Syrian security forces have rounded up thousands of men in a bid to crush an anti-regime protest movement. ... |
Assad tightens grip on Syria's restive third city (Reuters)
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| AMMAN (Reuters) - Government forces backed by snipers on rooftops tightened their grip on Syria's third city on Monday, rights groups said, after President Bashar al-Assad sent in tanks in a sharpening crackdown on protests against his rule. ... |
Syria rounds up thousands in crackdown (AAP)
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| Syrian security forces rounded up thousands of men in a bid to crush an anti-regime protest movement in the coastal city of Banias on Monday. ... |
Syrian forces arrest scores in Banias, Homs - activists (Reuters)
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| AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian security forces arrested scores of people on Monday in two restive cities where President Bashar al-Assad has sent troops to crush a seven-week-old revolt against his authoritarian rule, a human rights group said. ... |
Four dead as security forces fire on Yemen protest (Reuters)
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| SANAA (Reuters) - Yemeni forces fired at protesters blockading a government building on Monday, killing a shopkeeper and three protesters in Taiz, a city that has seen some of the largest demonstrations against President Ali Abdullah Saleh, witnesses ... |
Sources: Six killed in Yemen protests
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 | Yemeni security forces opened fire on protesters in Taiz on Monday, killing at least six and injuring hundreds, a medical official in the southwestern city said. ... |
Syria accused of using soccer stadiums as prisons
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 | Syrian security forces were using soccer stadiums as makeshift prisons Monday after raiding homes and arresting hundreds of residents in at least two cities, the directors of two human rights organizations said. ... |
09:43 Hundreds held in fresh Syria raids
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 | Supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad during a funeral for soldiers and security force members More photos: Monday May 09 2011 Syrian security forces have been carrying out house-to-house raids across the country, detaining hundreds of people ... |
Syria: Hundreds Detained In House Raids
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 | Syrian security forces have detained hundreds of people in door-to-door raids as part of a widening crackdown on anti-government protests across the country. ... |
HRW calls for probe over Uganda food protest deaths (Reuters)
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| KAMPALA (Reuters) - Human Rights Watch said on Monday Ugandan security forces shot dead at least nine unarmed people -- including three in the back as they fled -- during protests against soaring inflation, and called for an independent probe. ... |
VIDEO: Syria security forces enter Homs
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| Syrian security forces have moved into parts of the city of Homs, a centre of the nationwide protests against President Bashar al-Assad. ... |
Syrian Forces Accused Of Protester Deaths
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 | Syrian security forces have killed at least two unarmed demonstrators when they opened fire on a demonstration in the eastern city of Deir al-Zor, according to eyewitness reports. ... |
Syrian Forces Accused Of Killing 12-Year-Old
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| A Syrian activist has accused security forces of killing a 12-year-old boy in a violent crackdown on rebels in the city of Homs. ... |
