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Syria Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi declares that Syria has stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and that it plans to use them in case of a foreign attack, but never against its own citizens.
2012-07-23

Heavy fighting is reported in the capital Damascus overnight with claims of at least five deaths and dozens of injuries.
2012-07-16

Syrian opposition figures arrive in Russia for talks with the Russian government. [http:--www.gbcghana.com-index.php?id=1.959642 (Ghana Broadcasting Corporation)]date=August 2019
2012-07-11

The death-toll from the uprising reportedly surpasses 17,000, mostly civilians.
2012-07-9

Turkey sends rocket launchers and anti-aircraft guns to its border with Syria following the downing of a Turkish military plane last week.
2012-06-28

Turkey's deputy prime minister, Bülent Arınç, states that Syrian forces opened fire on a second Turkish plane, a CASA search and rescue plane searching for the wreckage of an F-4 fighter jet earlier shot down by Syria.
2012-06-25

Syrian uprising: Syrian regime forces kill at least 33 people with shells and gunfire in the city of Hama.
2012-04-23