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UN Pulling out Some Staff From Syria | Synopsis

UN Pulling out Some Staff From Syria

Syrian refugees holds up their shoes during a protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad at Reyhanli refugee camp in Hatay province on the Turkish-Syrian border March 15, 2012
Syrian refugees holds up their shoes during a protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad at Reyhanli refugee camp in Hatay province on the Turkish-Syrian border March 15, 2012 by FreedomHouse2
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Fighting between rebels and government forces raged near the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday, forcing an inbound commercial jet to turn back while the U.N. said it was withdrawing staff because of deteriorating security conditions. Lebanese security officials said Jihad Makdissi, a polished Foreign Ministry spokesman known for defending the regime of President Bashar Assad in fluent English, flew from Beirut to London. But it was not immediately clear whether he had defected. The fighting over the past few weeks in and around Damascus has been the most serious in the capital since July, when rebels captured several neighborhoods before a swift government counteroffensive swept them out. The spike in violence recently is concentrated in the ring of mostly poor suburbs around Damascus but often bleeds into the capital itself as rebels bring their fight closer to Assad's seat of power.

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President Bashar Assad

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Jihad Makdissi

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Radhouane Nouicer

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-0.620827"The security situation has become extremely difficult, including in Damascus," said Radhouane Nouicer, ...
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City: Damascus

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Country: Syria

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Organization: U.N.

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Company: EgyptAir

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