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ADO-World.org 10 Jul 2011 Sunday Telegraph Special Correspondent in Hama Syrian musician Ibrahim Qashoush sang of freedom – until he paid the price. But as The Sunday Telegraph saw during secret travels across the country, Syrians are determined to keep up pressure to oust President Assad. ———— He was no …

His Excellency Dr. Bashar al-Assad President of the Syrian Arab Republic Most Noble … We offer Your Excellency the most gracious greetings in our name and on behalf of all the Syrian Orthodox in the world, and wish to say: In these difficult circumstances through which our beloved country is …

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tells news conference recent outburst of violence in Syria disheartening; Says regime will face increasingly organized opposition if it does not reform.   ADO-World.org 01-JULY-2011 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday that Syria is running out of time and will face …

ADO-World.org 29-JUNE-2011 On June 29 the press conference of Mkrtich Minasyan, Head of the RA NA delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy, and Ruzanna Arakelyan, member of the delegation, took place, where the work and the outcome of the 18th annual General Assembly held in Paris on June 21-24, …

ADO-World.org 30-June-2011 SYRIA- Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Syria’s second largest city Aleppo on Thursday in a demonstration termed “The Aleppo Volcano.” They swept through the streets shouting anti-regime slogans, prompting official forces to use batons to disperse the crowds, according to activists. "Hundreds of people took …

By David Kenner Foreign Policy Tuesday, June 28, 2011 Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) raised a few eyebrows yesterday when CNN correspondent Hala Gorani revealed on Twitter that she had run into the congressman in Damascus. Kucinich said that he was on a "fact-finding" mission to Syria and Lebanon and had …

ADO-World.org June 29, 2011 Washington said on Wednesday it is setting sanctions on the Syrian Political Security Directorate for human rights abuses, citing two incidents when its agents shot down protesters in March and April. Also named in the sanctions were the country’s air force intelligence chief, Major General Jamil …

ADO-World.org By MOHAMMAD ALI ATASSI The New York Times: June 26, 2011 Beirut, Lebanon IN 2009, National Geographic published an article on Syria by a special correspondent, Don Belt, who had interviewed President Bashar al-Assad. In 2000, shortly after the funeral of his father, President Hafez al-Assad, the son entered …

Bloomberg, June 28, 2011 MOSCOW, Russia – ADO-World.org – Russia’s envoy to Africa Mikhail Margelov called for an end to "all forms of violence" in Syria and urged talks after meeting a delegation of human rights activists from the Middle Eastern country. "We want to see an end to all …

By DAVID NOWAK, Associated Press June 28, 2011 MOSCOW, Russia – ADO-World.org – A Kremlin Mideast envoy told a visiting Syrian opposition delegation on Tuesday that Russia sees no other friend in Syria than its people, saying "leaders come and go." Mikhail Margelov’s comments signal a possible softening of Russia’s …