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Backed by relentless Russian airstrikes, Syrian troops and allied militiamen on yesterday pushed deeper into a major rebel stronghold in the northwestern province of Latakia, a day after seizing a key rebel-held town in the strategic region overlooking the coast, the government and opposition activists said.

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Most Syrian rebels have withdrawn from a northern border town near Turkey as a result of the advancement of Syrian government troops, activists and the state news agency SANA said on Saturday.

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The Syrian government evacuated some 5,000 people yesterday from an embattled industrial town near Damascus where al-Qaida-linked rebels have been battling government troops for more than two weeks, the state news agency said.

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Syrian rebels and Hezbollah guerrillas battled yesterday in their worst clashes yet inside Lebanon, a new sign that the civil war in Syria is increasingly destabilizing its fragile neighbor.

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Backed by elite troops of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group, Syrian government forces fought rebels in a strategic opposition-held Syrian town near the Lebanese border for the third straight day yesterday.

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President Bashar Assad vowed Friday to "wipe out" Muslim extremists in Syria, blaming them for a suicide bombing at a mosque that killed dozens of people, including a top cleric who supported the embattled regime in the civil war.

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With the growing presence of radical Islamists affiliated with al-Qaeda in Syria, fear and apprehension have crept up among the moderate Syrians, sending chills down their spines about the vague and uncertain future of their country.

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The UN observer mission to Syria is just about ready to concede that this forsaken country is in a state of civil war.

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The UN observer mission to Syria is just about ready to concede that this forsaken country is in a state of civil war.

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