MIDDLE EAST: NORTH AFRICA: SITUATION UPDATE AS OF 24 JULY 2012, <SANITIZED>

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• Publication Date: July 24, 2012

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE
Middle East-North Africa: Situation Update as of 24 July 2012
24 July 2012
Syria Fighting: The regime claimed yesterday it had retaken control of Damascus by
overwhelming rebel strongholds in the city's suburbs
The UK-based
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights yesterday claimed at least 116 people were killed across
the country, including 81 civilians and rebel fighters and 35 regime soldiers
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Heavy fighting continued in Aleppo yesterday
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Oppositionists claimed to control several Aleppo neighborhoods,
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Jordanian residents near Ar Ramtha yesterday said that two Syrian mortar
shells hit inside the Jordanian border
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(U) This report was prepared by the CIA Middle East Task Force. Comments and queries are welcome
and may be directed to the Task Force
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(b)(3) Syria International: President Putin said yesterday that the Syrian crisis must be
resolved through negotiations and that toppling the regime would cause a civil war.
� Russian airline Aeroflot said yesterday that it will end its biweekly flights
between Moscow and Damascus as of 6 August
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Iraqi Prime Minister Noun i al-Maliki as of yesterday formally authorized the entry of
yrian re gees into Iraq signaling a change from last week
in which a government spokesman on 20 July said that Baghdad would be unable to provide help
for Syrian refugees because of the poor securitysituation in Iraq. No details were released
following the announcement.
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unrest.
Iranian Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani
proposed presidential elections in Syria as a way to end the
Lebanese President Sulayman tasked Foreign Affairs Minister Mansur yesterday
with delivering a letter of protest to Syria's envoy to Lebanon over recurrent violations of
(b)(3) Lebanon's border Sulayman deplored an incident over the
weekend which he said included the bombing of a house in Masharih al-Qa'a and the frequent
shelling of Lebanese villages particularly in the north
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In the incident, thirty Syrian Army soldiers over the weekend crossed the
order and raided homes in the Masharih al-Qa'a village of Al-Jura, approximately 500
meters inside Lebanese territory,
Yemeni activists as of 21 July launched a Facebook and Twitter campaign to expel
the Syrian Ambassador to Yemen and on 28 July plan to protest at the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs (MFA) in Sanaa, An MFA official stated that since
2011 there has not been a Syrian ambassador in the embassy, only an acting person responsible
for routine procedures.
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