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BEIRUT —  On Nov. 13, 1970, a young air force officer from the coastal hills of Syria launched a bloodless coup. It was the latest in a succession of military takeovers since independence from France in 1946, and there was no reason to think it would be the last. Yet 50 years later, Hafez Assad’s family still rules Syria. The country is in ruins from a decade of civil war that has killed half a million people, displaced half the population and wiped out the economy. Entire regions are los...

>> no, no, no. yesterday, four trucks tried to go in to deliver food, flour, medicine, and hygiene kits. and two made it in. two big trucks made it in. and two others were shot at and had to retreat and didnt make it in. so what theyre doing now is the same, the same trucks that didnt go in are going to be the same stuff, is going to be put into a bunch of suvs that belong to the united nations. these are armored suvs and will be taken that way in like different batches, basically. throughout th...

One day after a humanitarian convoy came under a ferocious attack in syria, aid workers will try again to good food and medicine to help the civilians there. >> yeah, this convoy came under fire as it was rolling into the war-torn city of homs yesterday. take a look at this. oh, my goodness. it was shelled, there was gunfire, the taken had to break away for safety. sam dagher is the middle east correspondent for the "wall street journal". he is there and we talked to him minutes ago about the si...

Take in food that they werent able to take in yesterday, and its going to pack in armored suvs and its going to try to take them in that way. because yesterday they tried to take them in in two big trucks. im sorry, in four big trucks. and they were shot at and they were, you know, mortars were fired at them and snipers shot them. so today, theyre coming in differently. and they seem to be determined. and theyre going to try to evacuate those civilians, an area thats been under siege for almost ...

Again with the head of the mission in syria, and he said it was a deliberate targeting of this convoy, and its a breach of international law. >> sam dagher there in honems, syria. syrian peace talks scheduled to resume tomorrow in geneva and well be following that. still to come, a change of heart for the man who wanted to put george zimmerman in the ring against rapper dmx. yesterday, right here on "new day," he defended the fight. today, hes calling it off. ok ml have symptoms. [ sneeze ] [ ...

Differently. and they seem to be determined. and theyre going to try to evacuate those civilians, they believe, the area thats been under siege for almost 18 months. >> sam, we know this has been going on for some time, but im reading your reporting for the journal, and you write that rebels insisted that four red crescent trucks go in, damascus insisted only two trucks go in. i mean, was this specific incident started just because they couldnt agree on the number of trucks that would go in? its...