March 29, 2012 (vol. 122, iss. 118) • Page Image 3
…. Arab nations dividedover how to deal with Syrians Lawyer: traumatic incident in Iraq triggered anxiety OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - The U.S. soldier accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians suffered a traumatic…
… deadly mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The jury awarded the families of two slain students $4 million each, but the state asked the trial judge to enforce the $100,000 cap on claimsxgainst the sta a…
… shops that have been pillaged and looted. * The reports of 40 people dead in Saraqeb since Sunday come as Arab leaders meeting in Bagh- dad remain deeply divided over how to help solve Syria's year- long…
… Daily wire reports BAGHDAD (AP) - Arab lead- ers gathering here today will call for Syria to implement a cease- fire, but there's little faith that President Bashar Assad will do anything to halt his…
… crackdown on the year-old uprising. That could set the stage for Gulf Arab nations, eager to see Assad's downfall, to take stron- ger action on their own. Arab governments are divided over how strongly to…
… intervene to stop the bloodshed in Syria, and' their divisions illustrate how the conflict has become a proxy in the region's wider rivalry - the one between Arabs and power- house Iran. Sunni-led nations of…
… other Arab nations are reluctant to openly call for that step yet. Iraq, the host of the one-day Arab League summit, is in a par- ticularly tight spot because its Shiite-led government has close ties to…
…. It also supports the mission of joint U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, who has put forward a peace plan to end the regime's crackdown that the U.N. esti- mates has killed more than 9,000 people since…
… the uprising began in March 2011 as part of the Arab Spring. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshy- ar Zebari acknowledged to the media that the summit will offer "nothing new" on Syria, but will complement…
… Council. "We have no trust in the current regime. ... We have to see that they have stopped killing civilians." The Assad regime has pre- emptively rejected anything coming out of the Arab League summit, a…









