Arab League News
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Syrian government forces and their Hezbollah allies from Lebanon pounded rebels yesterday in an offensive to retake the strategic city of Al-Qusair, as the country’s civil war escalates into a regional conflict.
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Communities inhabited by Shiite Muslims and President Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite minority will be “wiped off the map” if the strategic city of Al-Qusair in central Syria falls to government troops, rebel forces said.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will try during a weeklong Mideast tour to bring Syria’s warring parties to peace talks and to revive negotiations for a two- state agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.
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Djibouti is in talks with India, China, Brazil, Russia and Arab investors to finance infrastructure projects worth $5.9 billion, the head of the country’s ports authority said.
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Well, Bashar, now you’ve done it. We’ve seen that killing tens of thousands of your fellow Syrians with conventional weapons is more or less acceptable to the civilized world, as evidenced by the fact that the civilized world hasn’t stopped you from killing tens of thousands of your fellow Syrians with conventional weapons.
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The Syrian National Coalition, an opposition group recognized by the Arab League as representative of the Syrian people, urged the Islamist militia Jabhat al-Nusra to “stay within” ranks after the group merged with al-Qaeda.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, saying differences between Palestinians and Israelis can be overcome, declined to set deadlines or offer details on what he called a “quiet strategy” for resuscitating peace talks.
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The Syrian opposition urged the use of Patriot missile batteries manned by North Atlantic Treaty Organization personnel in Turkey to protect civilians in the north from Syrian government rocket attacks.
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Syrian security forces pounded parts of the restive governorate of Homs as the Arab League called for the formation of an Arab-United Nations peacekeeping force.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, saying differences between Palestinians and Israelis can be overcome, declined to set deadlines or offer details on what he called a “quiet strategy” for resuscitating peace talks.
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