Civil War In Syria -- News Updates October 10, 2012

In Shifting Syria Conflict, Assad Assumes Command Of Forces -- Reuters

(Reuters) - The picture is deceptively normal. Posted on the Facebook page of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, it shows the first lady Asma, dressed in jeans and a t-shirt, accompanying her daughter and three sons on their first day back at school. Two of the boys wear camouflage shorts with khaki t-shirts and caps, in keeping with the spirit of a ruler under siege. Yet when she dropped off Hafez, the eldest, named after his strongman grandfather, only one other child had arrived in class because of rebel attacks in Damascus that morning. More than 18 months into the battle for Syria, an estimated 30,000 people are dead and the country is disintegrating.

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More News On Syria's Civil War

Syria Live Blog -- Al Jazeera
Syria crisis: US sends troops to Jordan - Wednesday 10 October 2012 -- The Guardian

President Bashar Al-Assad Has Assumed Personal Command Of Syria's Military -- Business Insider
Opposition fighters gaining ground in Syria -- Al Jazeera
Syria rebels battle army in landmark Aleppo mosque -- Daily Star/AFP
Syria sends extra troops after rebels seize key town: activists -- Daily Star
Syria pounds rebels trying to seize strategic city -- L.A. Times
Syrian rebels seek to create buffer zone -- Al Jazeera
Wounded Syrians pack hospital as Aleppo shelled -- AFP
Some 180 People Killed in Syria -- Turkish Weekly

Syria rejects truce as rebels intercept reinforcements -- AFP
Syria rejects UN calls for unilateral truce -- Al Jazeera
U.N. Syria envoy to go to Damascus to seek ceasefire -- Reuters

Syria's cross-border salvos send a message to Turkey, West to keep away -- FOX News/AP
Turkey Is Sending More Than Two Dozen F-16s Toward The Syrian Border -- Business Insider Turkish general warns Syria -- UPI
Turkey ups stakes with Syria -- UPI

Syria's main opposition bloc to restructure, seek new impetus -- Reuters
Syrian Opposition Factions Unite for Transition to Power -- Arutz Sheva

Syria's civilians are trapped in a deadly no-man's land -- BBC Syrians flee across river to escape fighting -- NBC
Syrian refugees find respite near the Turkish border -- NBC
Syrian writer wins award; rebels shout to al-Assad: 'We are coming to get you' -- CNN

Are Syrian Rebel Forces as Bad as Assad? -- Raven Clabough, The New American
NATO Needs to Take Action on Syria -- Ross Wilson, US News and World Report
Chaos among Syrian rebels allows jihadists to thrive -- David Ignatius, Al Arabiya News