DTN News - SYRIA UNREST: Syrian Military Tank Catches On Fire During Clashes In Aleppo

DTN News - SYRIA UNREST: Syrian Military Tank Catches On Fire During Clashes In Aleppo

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - July 23, 2012: In this image made from amateur video released by the Ugarit News and accessed Monday, July 23, 2012, a Syrian military tank catches on fire during clashes with Syrian government troops in Aleppo, Syria. 

The Syrian regime acknowledged for the first time Monday that it possessed stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and said it will only use them in case of a foreign attack and never internally against its own citizens. Aleppo, Syria's biggest city with about 3 million residents, has been the focus of rebel assaults by a newly formed alliance of opposition forces called the Brigade of Unification.

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DTN News - SYRIA UNREST: Syria 'Will Not Use' Chemical Weapons On Its Own People

DTN News - SYRIA UNREST:  Syria 'Will Not Use' Chemical Weapons On Its Own People

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - July 23, 2012:  Syria has said it will not use chemical weapons against its own people, but would do so against an external attack.

Acknowledging their existence for the first time, Damascus said the weapons, stored and secured by the armed forces, would never be used "inside Syria".

Rebels have told the BBC's Paul Wood in Syria that they are encouraged by the killing of four top security officials.

But the refugee crisis has deepened, and Iraq has announced it is opening its borders to help people flee.

An estimated 1.5 million people are homeless within Syria, according to the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, which says the number is rising.

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DTN News - SYRIA UNREST: Assad Forces Retake Midan And Border Crossing

DTN News - SYRIA UNREST: Assad Forces Retake Midan And Border Crossing 

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - July 20, 2012: Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (C) stands with leaders of the army, including Fahad Jassim al-Freij (front L) and Daoud Rajha (front R) at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in a ceremony to mark the 38th anniversary of the 1973 October War with Israel, in Damascus in this October 6, 2011 file handout photo released to Reuters on July 18, 2012. Syria appointed General Fahad Jassim al-Freij as defence minister, state television said, to replace Daoud Rajha who was killed in a bomb attack on Wednesday. REUTERS

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DTN News - SYRIA UNREST: In Fleeing Pilot, Hints Of Trouble For Syria’s Assad

DTN News - SYRIA UNREST: In Fleeing Pilot, Hints Of Trouble For Syria’s Assad

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - July 18, 2012: To escape the government he served until it gave him an order he could not obey, Capt. Akhmed Trad, a pilot in Syria’s air force, needed a plan: how to spirit himself over a border quickly, and leave no family behind.

In hurried meetings between the pilot and his parents, and indirect conversations over cellphones, evading what they worried were monitored calls, the Trad family set a time and place for everyone to meet, and fled.

Now safely in Turkey, where he is providing information to the rebels and helping them plan attacks, Captain Trad represents one of the great challenges to the government of President Bashar al-Assad and his military.

The Syrian government hails from the Alawite minority. But much of its administration and its military ability depend on Sunni bureaucrats, soldiers and officers like Captain Trad, whose alienation has been growing and whose defections risk increasing as Syria’s internal war takes on deepening sectarian tones.

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DTN News - SYRIA UNREST: Syrian Troops Fighting Against Syrian Rebels In Damascus

DTN News  - SYRIA UNREST: Syrian Troops Fighting Against Syrian Rebels In Damascus

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - July 18, 2012: Syrian official news agency SANA purports to show Syrian troops fighting against Syrian rebels in the Al-Midan area of Damascus, Syria on Wednesday, July 18, 2012. 

A bomb ripped through a high-level security meeting Wednesday in Damascus, killing three top regime officials, including President Bashar Assad's brother-in-law, in the harshest blow to Syria's ruling family dynasty and the rebels' boldest attack in the country's civil war. 

(Photo - AP)

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DTN News - MID EAST HOT SPOTS: Syria Shot Down Turkish F-4 Phantom Fighter Jet

DTN News - MID EAST HOT SPOTS: Syria Shot Down Turkish F-4 Phantom Fighter Jet 

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - June 22, 2012:  Turkey has said it believes that one of its fighter jets has been shot down by Syrian security forces.

The F-4 Phantom disappeared over the Mediterranean, south-west of Hatay province, not far from Syria's coast.

PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan said initially that "the other side have expressed regret" but later was unable to confirm what had happened.

After an emergency security meeting, his office said it was understood that Syria had brought the plane down.

In a statement, it said a search for the two crew members was under way involving Turkish and Syrian coast guard ships. Once all the circumstances were established, it added that Turkey would respond decisively

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DTN News - SYRIA UNREST: UN Monitors Speaks With Syrian Soldiers During Visit To Syrian Military Outpost In Village Of Ain Hawr In Rif of Damascus

DTN News - SYRIA UNREST: UN Monitors Speaks With Syrian Soldiers During Visit To Syrian Military Outpost In Village Of Ain Hawr In Rif of Damascus

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 7, 2012: UN monitors speaks with Syrian soldiers as they climb on top of an army tank during a visit to a Syrian military outpost in the village of Ain Hawr in the Rif of Damascus on May 6, 2012. 

Three people died in violence overnight in Damascus province, one of them shot dead by regime troops and the other two killed in a blast, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. (Photo - Getty)

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DTN News - SYRIA UNREST: UN Moroccan Military Monitors Arrived In Damascus To Oversee Syria Ceasefire Between Assad's Government Forces And Opposition Activists

DTN News - SYRIA UNREST: UN Moroccan Military Monitors Arrived In Damascus To Oversee Syria Ceasefire Between Assad's Government Forces And Opposition Activists

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - April 18, 2012: UN monitors who arrived in Syria earlier this week walking through the lobby of a Damascus hotel on April 17, 2012. 

Moroccan advance team leader Colonel Ahmed Himmiche (front -L) acknowledged that a hard-won UN military observer mission to oversee a Syria ceasefire will be 'difficult.' (Photo - Getty)

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