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We have started to collect the most important news related to Syria in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
TurkeyThe Turkish parliament has approved a government request to send troops across the border into Syria, after yesterday's mortar attack, in which five Turkish civilians were killed.
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Turkey's parliament authorises military operations inside Syria after the deadly shelling of a Turkish town, but Ankara insists it is not a mandate for war.
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TurkeyTurkish artillery hits targets inside Syria in response to deadly cross-border shelling, with unconfirmed reports that Syrian troops have been killed.
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Kofi Annan has told the BBC that the conflict in Syria could "inflame the whole region", and said that if the UN security council didn't work together, the situation would get much worse.
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At least 34 people are killed and dozens wounded in a series of bomb explosions in the centre of Syria's second city, Aleppo.
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LebanonA senior military figure in the Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah is reported to have died in Syria, with rebels saying he was killed in an ambush.
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United StatesStates such as the US and Turkey which back rebels in Syria are supporting terrorism, the country's Foreign Minister Walid Muallem tells the UN.
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Yemen's defence ministry has denied that five soldiers reportedly being held by rebels in Syria were sent to fight alongside government forces.
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An assault launched by rebels to drive government forces out of Syria's second city, Aleppo, appears to have reached an impasse.
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YemenA video claims an Islamist group fighting government forces in Syria has captured five Yemeni soldiers sent to support Bashar al-Assad's regime.
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Your pictures of Aleppo's famous souk, ruined in the civil war
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A blaze has swept though ancient markets in Aleppo, activists say, as rebels and government forces seek to gain control of Syria's largest city.
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A blaze sweeps though ancient markets in Aleppo, activists say, as rebels and government forces seek to gain control of Syria's largest city.
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Lyse Doucet revisits a Damascus suburb as conflict deepens
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A first-hand on the fighting in Syria's second city, Aleppo.
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As fighting intensifies in Syria's second city, Aleppo, divisions at the UN on how to halt the conflict appear to be as wide as ever.
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Heavy fighting is being reported in Syria's biggest city, Aleppo, with state media saying rebels have suffered big losses in their latest assault.
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United StatesThe US says it has intelligence that Syria has moved some of its chemical weapons to safety, as the government continues to battle rebel forces.
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Fierce fighting is reported in Syria's second city of Aleppo, a day after the rebel Free Syrian Army said a "decisive" battle had begun.
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On the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has been speaking to the BBC about the situation in Syria.
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TurkeyTurkey's foreign minister tells BBC of need for action on Syria
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The Syrian rebel commander who expresses the conflict in verse
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United StatesHillary Clinton calls on the UN Security Council to act on Syria, as activists say Wednesday was the bloodiest day of conflict so far.
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IsraelThe Middle East has dominated the first day of the UN General Assembly, with Syria and the stalemate between Israel and the Palestinians high on the agenda.
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Four military guards were killed after suicide attackers drove car bombs into the military headquarters in the heart of Damascus, Syrian officials say.
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CCTV has been released showing the moment a suicide attacker targeted Syria's army headquarters in Damascus.
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IranUS President Barack Obama condemns violence and extremism as he addresses the UN General Assembly in New York.
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Allegations of sexual violence against Syrian prisoners
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EgyptThe path which led Egyptian jihadist to die fighting Assad
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Lyse Doucet on difficulties of getting the truth in Syria
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A Save the Children report finds numerous cases of horrific abuse against Syrian children and urges the UN to do more to document them.
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Syria's conflict is "extremely bad and getting worse", UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi says, as deadly government strikes are reported in Aleppo.
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Lyse Doucet finds grief and defiance at Syrian Alawite funeral
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While many of the casualties in the Syrian conflict are civilians, the region of Latakia in the west of the country is seeing more of its men die on the government's side.
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In Syria, a meeting of authorised opposition parties has called for the removal of President Bashar al-Assad's government and an immediate ceasefire.
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A rare meeting of Syrian opposition figures in the capital Damascus hears calls for the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad.
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TurkeyThe rebel Free Syrian Army announces it has moved its command centre from Turkey to "liberated areas" inside Syria.
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A government offensive against rebel districts in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo is reportedly continuing, with amateur video appearing to show the aftermath of an airstrike on the Al-Missar quarter.
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LebanonSyria's spreading conflict strikes fear in Beirut's glitzy malls
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EgyptPresident Bashar al-Assad of Syria is quoted by an Egyptian magazine as saying the Arab uprisings only brought chaos and the Syrian rebels cannot win.
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A Syrian warplane attacks a petrol station in the north-east of the country, killing at least 30 people and wounding dozens more, opposition activists say.
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A Syrian helicopter reportedly crashes after clipping the tail of a plane and an air strike is said to have caused heavy casualties near a petrol station.
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The UN secretary general says there may not be a military solution to Syria's conflict, though both sides seem intent on defeating the other by force.
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Amnesty International has warned that the civilian population in many parts of Syria is in a desperate state, with the conflict in the country in its eighteenth month.
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Damascus children return to their classrooms in war-torn city
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Heavy fighting hits Syria's capital Damascus, as Amnesty International says government forces are "indiscriminately" bombing civilians.
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The neighbourhood of Midan has long been the livliest and most popular in Damascus, and despite heavy shelling it is business as usual.
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A UN commission investigating human rights abuses in Syria says it has drawn up a new secret list of Syrians and units suspected of war crimes.
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Tony Blair, former prime minister and currently Middle East "quartet" representative, said he would be advocating "ramping up where we are" in Syria.
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The BBC's Paul Wood sees the deadly assault on Syria's second city, Aleppo
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IraqUN special envoy and actress Angelina Jolie has visited Syrian refugees in the Domiz camp in the northern Iraqi Kurdish province of Duhouk.
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Peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi warns the Syrian crisis presents a "threat to the world" after holding his first meeting with President Bashar al-Assad.
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800 years of failed Syrian interventions
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LebanonPope Benedict XVI urges religions to root out fundamentalism, as he visits Lebanon in the midst of anger over an anti-Islam film.
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The new UN-Arab League envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, is to meet an opposition group as his first mission to the war-torn country continues.
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