Syria conflict has 3rd anniversary amid offensive (AP) Syrian troops advanced in a major rebel-held town near the Lebanese border amid heavy bombardment from warplanes, artillery and tanks as the country’s bloody conflict marked its third anniversary Saturday, state media and activists said. The conflict, which began amid Arab Spring protests across the region, started off as protests that turned into an armed insurgency and eventually and full-blown civil war that activists say has killed more than 140,000 people and has seen 2 million people flee the country. Peace talks between the government of President Bashar Assad and Syria’s divided opposition haven’t found a diplomatic solution to the crisis, which has seen sectarian violence rise as Islamic extremists entered the fight. The main Western-backed opposition group, the Syrian National Coalition, vowed in a statement Saturday marking the conflict’s third anniversary “to bring down the Assad regime that is the main source of the Syrian people’s suffering.” State media in Syria did not mention the anniversary. On Saturday, Syrian state television said troops advanced in the town of Yabroud, near Syria’s border with Lebanon, and now control of much of the area between the two countries. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Syrian air force [...] newsinfl/syria-conflict-has-3rd-anniversary-amid-offensive/
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 15:45:32 +0000
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