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A group of military defectors known as the Free Syrian Army is emerging as the first armed challenge to President Bashar Assad's authoritarian regime after seven months of largely nonviolent resistance.

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The hopes of the Arab Spring have, for some of the world's most established democracies, given way to a Summer of Despair.

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