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• Syrian rebels pierce Assad's siege lines in Homs: opposition
• Syrian refugee numbers could triple by year-end: U.N
• Jeb Bush: Is the world ready for a third Bush in the White House?
• Gunmen kill protest organizer in Iraq
• Freed U.N. peacekeepers cross into Jordan from Syria

Syrian rebels pierce Assad's siege lines in Homs: opposition Posted: 10 Mar 2013 03:49 PM PDT AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian rebels broke through government lines to ease a siege of their positions in the strategic central city of Homs on Sunday despite coming under fierce aerial bombardment, opposition campaigners said. The communally mixed city of Sunni Muslims and Alawites, the minority sect that has dominated Syria since the 1960s, has emerged as a major battleground in the two-year-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. The bloodshed has claimed about 70,000 lives so far, according to the United Nations. ...

Syrian refugee numbers could triple by year-end: U.N Posted: 10 Mar 2013 10:53 AM PDT ANKARA (Reuters) - The number of refugees outside Syria could triple by the end of the year from the 1 million now if there is no resolution to the conflict, the head of the U.N. refugee agency said on Sunday. The millionth Syrian refugee was registered in Jordan on Wednesday, following a dramatic acceleration in the number of civilians fleeing war in their homeland. Syrians started trickling out of the country nearly two years ago when President Bashar al-Assad's forces shot at pro-democracy protests inspired by Arab revolts elsewhere. ...

Jeb Bush: Is the world ready for a third Bush in the White House? Posted: 10 Mar 2013 10:06 AM PDT Is the world ready for a third President Bush, the possibility of barely more than a generation that would include 20 years of Bushes as the nation's chief executive, commander-in-chief, leader of the free world?

Gunmen kill protest organizer in Iraq Posted: 10 Mar 2013 01:17 AM PST BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say an anti-government protest organizer has been killed in a drive-by-shooting in the country's north.

Freed U.N. peacekeepers cross into Jordan from Syria Posted: 09 Mar 2013 07:51 PM PST AMMAN (Reuters) - Twenty-one United Nations peacekeepers held by rebels for three days in southern Syria crossed into Jordan on Saturday, after an ordeal which highlighted how Syria's civil war is ratcheting up tensions on its volatile borders. The Filipino peacekeepers - part of the U.N. Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) that has been monitoring a ceasefire line between Syria and Israel in the Golan Heights since 1974 - were seized by the Martyrs of Yarmouk rebel brigade on Wednesday. ...

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