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Breaking News on Syria - Al-Jazeera Evening News, August 6:
رئيس الوزراء السوري رياض حجاب يعلن انشقاقه عن النظام و يتوجه إلى الأردن
Syria's prime minister Riad Hijab declares his separation from the regime and leaves for Jordan.
التلفزيون السوري: تكليف المهندس عمر غلاونجي بتسيير أعمال الحكومة بعد إقالة رياض حجاب
According to Syria's [state] TV, the engineer Omar [Ghalauniji] has been instructed to take over the duties of government after the dismissal of Riad Hijab.
According to Al-Jazeera, the former prime minister should have joined the rebels who helped him to get out of the country.
Official U.S. sources say the defection of Syria's PM is showing that Assad's government is "crumbling from within".
Syrian president Assad (right) and defected PM Hijab (left).
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Latest information from Al-Jazeera's Arabic website on August 6, 2012, and after Syrian rebels captured 48 alleged revolutionary guards near Damascus:
طهران تناشد أنقرة التوسط للإفراج عن مواطنيها
Tehran appeals to Ankara to act as a mediator for the release of their citizens.
إيران تحذر وألمانيا تستبعد تدخلا عسكريا بسوريا
Iran is cautious and Germany refuses any military intervention in Syria.
لاريجاني اتهم الولايات المتحدة ودولا أخرى بدعم المعارضة السورية عسكريا
Larijani [president of the Iranian parliament] accuses the United States and other countries for military support of the Syrian opposition.
Larijani, the president of Iran's parliament (above).
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German Position Towards Syria:
On May 29, 2012, Germany cut diplomatic ties with Syria as a consequence of the Al-Hula massacre. Regarding any military intervention whatsoever, the government of chancellor Merkel has always been cautious. Even after the retreat of U.N. special envoy Kofi Annan from his mission to Syria, Germany's minister of defence, Thomas de Maizière, declared German support for the people of Syria should be restricted to humanitarian aid and logistic support for the rebels (August 6).
[Main source: dradio.de - Deutschlandfunk on August 6, 2012]
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