Bashar's bowlers picked up wickets at regular intervals on a slow and uneven pitch on Wednesday.
The strongmen of the last decades, Messrs Khaddam, Tlass, Aslan, Suleiman - though not Bashar's Uncle Rif'at - are waiting in the wings and some of them could still have their own ambitions to rule Syria.
Syria's ambassador to the UN, Bashar Ja'fari, confirmed Damascus accepted the 10 April deadline but told reporters Mr Annan must get similar commitments from the opposition.
President Bashar Assad's troops regained control of the Wadi Sayeh district in the center of Homs early Thursday morning, the Observatory said.
And Turkey has turned against Bashar Assad's regime in Syria, though Mr Erdogan has not explicitly told the Syrian president to go, nor has he downgraded relations with Damascus.
In an interview with Britain's Sky News over the weekend, US President Barack Obama was asked whether he is planning to accept Syrian President Bashar Assad's invitation to visit Damascus.
The now irreversible breach between Mr Erdogan and Syria's president, Bashar Assad, may have revived Mr Assad's friendship with the PKK. Growing discord between Iraq's Kurds in Erbil and the Shia-led central government in Baghdad is another worry.
Mr. Keane and Ms. Pletka also fail to understand what Bashar al-Assad's reaction to an attack might be.
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If they decline to come but President Bashar al-Assad's delegation turns up it could be highly awkward for those who back the opposition.
But most of its ire is reserved for President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
Venezuela now counts among its allies Belarus, China, Iran and Russia, as well as Syria's Bashar al-Assad, and previously Libya under Muammar Gaddafi.
Qatar has been supportive of the Syrian rebels fighting against President Bashar al-Assad's regime, and al-Jazeera has covered the Syrian conflict extensively since it began.
There have been no details released about the meeting between King Abdullah, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Kuwaiti ruler Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad and Syria's Bashar al-Assad.
Bashar Jaafari, Syria's ambassador to the United Nations, told reporters Thursday that armed groups had eight violations of the cease-fire that resulted in several deaths Thursday.
The U.S. and allied governments also are concerned about developments in Syria, worried that the Brotherhood or a more radical form of Sunni power could gain power as President Bashar al-Assad's rule weakens.
Both have focused on the threat posed by Bashar al-Assad's stockpiles of chemical weapons, warning that their use inside Syria, or their transfer to Hezbollah in Lebanon, would cross a "red line" that could trigger a military response.
The campaign was backed by a UN resolution, but Russia, a longstanding ally of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, has blocked a similar resolution on Syria.
Syria's U.N. ambassador, Bashar Jaafari, slammed the council for not issuing an official condemnation of Wednesday's bombing, although he noted that Kofi Annan, joint envoy to Syria for the United Nations and the Arab League, condemned it.
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Syria's leader, Bashar Assad, may rather wait for a new American president before entering into direct negotiation.
Syria's embattled President Bashar al-Assad has surrounded himself primarily with members of his Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
Mr Erdogan frequently met Syria's president, Bashar Assad, and his wife.
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Influential Arab leaders, including Syria's president, Bashar Assad, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and the wealthy emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad al-Khalifa, flew in to calm nerves.
Syrian President Bashar Assad this week told Italy's La Repubblica newspaper that he and outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert were just a stone's throw away from a peace deal last year.
Syrian Ambassador Bashar Jaafari objected to the draft treaty's failure to include an embargo on transferring arms to "terrorist armed groups and to non-state actors".
The decision comes on the heels of a visit two weeks ago by Middle East envoy George Mitchell to Syria, where he said he had "serious and productive discussions" with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad about President Obama's goal of a "comprehensive peace, " which includes peace between Israel and Syria, and Israel and Lebanon.
Iran is the chief regional ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad and is considered close to Iraq's Shiite Muslim-dominated government.
Robert Mood, the U.N. chief military observer in Syria, said the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad had committed to Annan's peace plan.
Syria's U.N. ambassador, Bashar Jaafari, called the resolution a "piece of theater" that serves the interests of other countries in the region.
Earlier this year, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad announced a plan to resolve his country's.
President Bashar al-Assad, in an interview with the UK's Sunday Times newspaper, said it was "nonsense to suggest" that the conflict was about his future as leader.
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