Thursday 12 April 2012

Civil War In Syria -- News Updates April 12, 2012







Protesters Take To Streets Amid Syria's Fragile Truce -- CNN

(CNN) -- Guns largely fell silent in Syria Thursday after an early morning cease-fire took effect and cast an eerie calm over restive cities and towns that had been pounded by government forces in recent days.

Amid the fragile truce, opposition groups called for peaceful demonstrations as though to test whether the government would stick to its word.

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More News On Syria's Civil War

Syria: Overview -- Yahoo News
Syria tense as Annan ceasefire deadline passes - live updates -- The Guardian
Syria Live Blog -- Al Jazeera
Syria ceasefire: latest -- The Telegraph

Syrian ceasefire lasts just six hours before civilian is shot dead and roadside bomb kills officer dashing hopes that regime would stop slaughter -- Daily Mail
Syria mostly calm as tenuous truce takes hold -- CBS/AP
Syrian opposition says ceasefire only partly observed -- Reuters
Syrian truce fragile as troops, tanks deploy in cities -- Jerusalem Post
Syria calm after UN truce deadline, but troops defy some of Annan's demands -- FOX News/AP
Syrians Take to Streets in Test of Annan Cease-Fire Plan -- Bloomberg Businessweek
New Syria bloodshed tests UN peace plan -- AFP
Protests in Syria as truce 'partly observed' -- Al Jazeera

Syrians cower in Turkish camp as bullets and fear draw closer -- Reuters
Syrian refugees call on Turks to return their dead -- AFP
Syria refugees ridicule Assad’s commitment to peace -- Euronews

Turkey says NATO is option to defend Syrian border -- Reuters
Turkey says it could seek NATO’s help if Syrian troops violate its borders again -- Washington Post/AP
Turkey steps up pressure on Damascus after border crisis -- AFP

U.N.'s Ban says onus on Syria to match words and deeds -- Reuters
UN chief says Syria must prove it wants peace -- AJC/AP

Syria's minorities unite against Assad -- Deutsche Welle
Syria cease-fire takes hold, but could be tested by Friday protests -- Ariel Zirulnick, Christian Science Monitor
Will Annan's Syria peace plan succeed? -- Al Jazeera
The Victims of Assad: Photographs by Peter Hapak -- Time
Photos: Faces of Syrians Fleeing Violence -- Danger Room

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