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May 27, 2014, Washington Post A letter from Virginia state Sen. Richard Black praising Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was posted to the Syrian president’s Facebook page Sunday. Black (R-Loudoun County) confirmed sending the letter in a phone call with The Post’s Laura Vozzella. “I write to thank the Syrian Arab Army …

May 27, 2014, Antiwar.com Reports citing senior administration officials say President Obama is planning to announce direct training of Syrian rebels in the coming days, saying it would focus on “moderate” factions and aimed at stemming the power of al-Qaeda’s factions in the rebellion. The US has already been organizing …

May 27, 2014, Sana News Seven citizens got injured when terrorists fired a mortar shell on al-Bairouni University Hospital for cancerous tumors in Harasta, Damascus Countryside on Tuesday. A source at police command in the province said that the shell landed in front of the Hospital, injuring seven people and …

May 27, 2014, al Akhbar Syria said Tuesday the United Arab Emirates has banned its expats from voting in the country’s June 3 presidential election, after similar moves by France, Germany and Belgium. On the eve of the election to be held abroad on Wednesday, “the UAE has joined the …

May 28, 2014, Irib World Service According to IRIB World Service, citing Fars news agency, more than 200,000 Syrians flock to the polling stations throughout 39 Syrian embassies overseas, on Wednesday, May 28, 2014, to elect their future president. The Syrian Foreign Ministry has issued a statement, announcing that the …

May 27, 2014, Sana News Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas criticized the French stances on the upcoming presidential elections in Syria, calling them ridiculous, politicized and morally unacceptable as Paris is taking a side in a struggle it should not interfere in. In an interview with SANA correspondent in …

May 27, 2014, Sana News With only a week left before the presidential elections are held in Syria, the Syrian people continue to take to the streets and organize activities to express support for this momentous event. The Trade Union in Hama organized a festival to voice support for the …

  May 27, 2014, Sana News Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said the United Arab Emirates has joined the club of the countries conspiring against Syria and followed suit by deciding to prevent a Syrian presidential vote from taking place on its land. “It is little wonder that the rage and …

May 27, 2014, Sky News Eleven members of a chemical weapons watchdog team thought to have been kidnapped are now safe and well. The team consisting of five Syrian drivers and six members of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons were travelling to a site of an alleged …

May 27, 2014, the National Eleven people, including six members of a UN chemical weapons fact-finding mission, have been abducted by armed groups in Syria, said the foreign ministry. The ministry said the abductions occurred in the countryside around Hama in central Syria on Tuesday. It blamed rebels fighting to …