Friday, February 24, 2012

DTN News: Syria Top Stories / Headlines News Dated February 24, 2012

DTN News: Syria Top Stories / Headlines News Dated February 24, 2012
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HAMAS DITCHES ASSAD, BACKS SYRIAN REVOLT

Reuters - 
By Omar Fahmy and Nidal al-Mughrabi | CAIRO/GAZA Feb 24 (Reuters) - Leaders of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas turned publicly against their long-time ally President Bashar al-Assad of Syria on Friday, endorsing the revolt aimed at overthrowing ...

DIPLOMATS SEEK WAYS TO END SYRIA BLOODSHED

Aljazeera.com - 
Officials from more than 70 countries gather for "Friends of Syria" meeting in Tunisia to explore options for peace.

TUNISIA AND EURO-MED STATES REACH OUT TO SYRIA

euronews - 
Tunisia is hosting a “Friends of Syria” conference in a bid to bring an end to the bloodshed in Syria. This comes on the heels of a call in Rome from 10 core countries of the Union for the Mediterranean for the multilateral partnership to be ...

'FRIENDS OF SYRIA' CALL FOR END TO VIOLENCE?

Aljazeera.com - 
Representatives of more than 70 nations in Tunisia for the "Friends of Syria" meeting have called for an immediate end to violence in the country and for new sanctions on the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

OBAMA WANTS 'EVERY TOOL AVAILABLE' TO STOP SYRIA KILLING

AFP - 
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama said Friday he wants "every tool available" to stop the "slaughter" of civilians in Syria, as he backed an international meeting on the crisis. Obama, speaking at the White House, said he was "encouraged by the ...

FEARS GROW FOR PROTRACTED WAR IN SYRIA

Financial Times - 
Close observers of the unrest unfolding in Syria have detected the use of anti-tank rockets by the rebels, but concluded they were obtained by pilfering Syrian military storehouses.

THREE QUESTIONS FOR MARWAN BISHARA: DETERMINING SYRIA'S FUTURE IN TUNISIA

Aljazeera.com - 
As officials from more than 70 countries gather to explore options for peace in Syria, Al Jazeera's senior political analyst offers his scrutiny of the meeting.

NATIONS WANT 'TSUNAMI WAVE' OF PRESSURE ON AL-ASSAD

CNN - 
By Elise Labott, CNN Tunis, Tunisia (CNN) -- World powers meeting Friday in Tunisia called for a political solution in Syria and what one diplomat calls a "tsunami wave" of pressure to peel away internal support for the embattled regime of Bashar ...

RED CROSS EVACUATES 7 FROM RESTIVE SYRIAN AREA

Houston Chronicle - 
BEN HUBBARD, AP This image from amateur video purports to show Edith Bouvier of Le Figaro in a makeshift clinic in Homs,Syria, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. Bouvier was wounded in shelling Wednesday in Homs. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY ...

CLINTON: ASSAD REGIME "HAS NO FUTURE"

CBS News - 
United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (right) and British Foreign Secretary William Hague (center) speak with United Arab Emirates' Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan at the first "Friends of Syria" conference in Tunis on ...

FRIENDS OF SYRIA PREPARE ULTIMATUM FOR ASSAD

Huffington Post - 
Assad allies Russia and China, which have blocked previous UN action on Syria and are eager to head off any repeat of the foreign intervention that happened in Libya, gave no sign they would agree to peacekeepers.

'FRIENDS OF SYRIA' SET TO DELIVER ULTIMATUM TO ASSAD

Haaretz - 
Western and Arab nations say can deliver humanitarian aid within 48 hours if Syria government stops assault on civilian areas and permitted access.

EXPATS UNITING FOR COMMON CAUSE

CNN - 
(CNN) -- It has been five years since Mohammad Z. left Syria to train as a doctor in Detroit. He works long hours. He's big on hockey.

IRAN, HEZBOLLAH ARE ON SYRIA'S SIDE: VELAYATI

Tehran Times - 
Russia and China have also joined the supporters of Syria since they have realized that “the situation in the world is changing,” Ali Akbar Velayati said in an address to a gathering of a number of personnel of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps in ...

EMBASSIES IN SYRIA WORK TO EVACUATE REPORTERS

DAWN.com - 
DAMASCUS: The French, British and Polish embassies in Damascus were scrambling on Friday to try to evacuate two Western journalists wounded in Syria and the bodies of two others, a Western diplomat told AFP. “The embassies of France, Britain and Poland ...

WHY THE WORLD MUST ARM SYRIAN REBELS

The Atlantic - 
REYHANLI, Turkey - Here on the border between Turkey and Syria, evidence abounds that Bashir Al-Assad is winning. Despite widespread rumors, no organized effort is under way to arm rebel fighters.

INTERNATIONAL TALKS SEEK SYRIA CONSENSUS

Outcome Magazine (blog) - 
24 (UPI) - International talks aiming to end bloodshed in Syria sought consensus on measures that could circumvent the problem of having to work without China and Russia, the two powers that continue to support Syrian President Bashar Assad.

ROCHE SAYS FAKE AVASTIN FOUND IN SYRIA IN 2009

Reuters - 
Feb 24 (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Roche said on Friday that fake versions of its cancer drug Avastin had been found in Syria in 2009, three years before bogus copies of the drug were traced to Egypt in a similar case involving US clinics.

 
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