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Syrian opposition leaders urge election boycott

Beirut Exiled Syrian opposition figures on Sunday urged voters to boycott an upcoming parliamentary election, dismissing it as a cynical attempt by President Bashar Assad to hold on to power.

Syrian troops clash with army defectors

Syrian troops battled army defectors on Sunday in clashes that set several military vehicles ablaze. The fighting and other violence around the nation killed at least eight people.

The next chapter in Arab Spring: Syria's Assad will fall

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's departure was "inevitable", a senior US official said on Wednesday, while earlier in the day troops shot dead eight pro-democracy protesters and wounded in 25 at a funeral in the capital Damascus, activists said.