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Syria: Stampede at Damascus mosque kills four, injures 16
Damascus: A stampede at the landmark Umayyad Mosque in Syria's capital on Friday killed four people, a Damascus health official told state media. "Damascus Health Director Dr Mohammed Akram ...
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Watching Syria’s War
Written in graffiti across the mosque wall is a sad plea for calm: "No and a thousand no's to sectarian strife." Beginning as an Arab Spring protest movement, Syria's civil war has taken on a ...
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Syria’s interim president calls clashes ‘expected challenges’ as death toll tops 600
Syria’s interim leader has called days of ... We must preserve national unity and civil peace in the country,” Sharaa said at a mosque in Damascus he said he used to pray at two decades ...
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Syria leader vows to hunt down those responsible for bloodshed
There has been widespread violence between government supporters (pictured on Saturday) and Assad loyalists in Syria's coastal regions ... address from a Damascus mosque. A Syrian security source ...
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US aid cuts risk riots, breakouts at Islamic State-linked camps in Syria
Aid workers and camp officials - led by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-led force that helps run a semi-autonomous zone in northeastern Syria - have long called for the ...