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| Mar 1, 2013
The International diplomatic group of countries known as 'Friends of Syria' met in Rome to discuss the situation in the country. However, Russia criticized the decisions that emerged from this meeting, and found that it is encouraging extremists ...
Al Jazeera English
| Aug 6, 2012
There have now been 41 political and military defections from among President Assad's ranks and prime minister Riyad Hijab is the most high profile yet. In March, Brigadier General Manaf Tlass defected. He is the highest ranking militar...
— Jul 6, 2012 at 06:25 pm
...months ago, and heads the rebel Free Syrian Army's Farouk Battalion in Homs. "The Tlasses were pampered by the regime because they were the guar...
— Jul 6, 2012 at 09:02 am
...to appear. "Manaf is one of the regime's main figures," Bashar al-Heraki, a member of the Syrian National Council, the umbrella political group ...
— Nov 15, 2012 at 12:05 pm
...said on Sunday. Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak blames Hamas for the detonation of an explosives tunnel along the Gaza border which wounded ...
— Nov 18, 2012 at 01:29 pm
...against the Damascus regime. Defected Syrian general Manaf Tlass said that French secret agents helped him escape from Syria, where he had long ...
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