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War In Context
| 7 months ago
To begin, not all Salafis are alike; the concept covers a gamut ranging from mainstream to extreme. Secondly, present-day Syria offers Salafis hospitable terrain violence and sectarianism; disenchantment with the West, secular leaders and pragmatic...
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Times of India
| 7 months ago
Syrian rebels said they had captured an air defence base with a cache of missiles outside Damascus, a rare advance on the city after a series of opposition setbacks in the capital. Rebel forces overran the base in the Eastern Gouta area, a few miles...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 7 months ago
He revealed that Hezbollah had requested a truce with the Syrian rebels lasting for several hours to retrieve their slain comrades from Syrian territory; however this request was rejected by the FSA leadership. Recalling details of the operation that...
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Mail Online UK
| 7 months ago
About 90 per cent of the wounded and the dead are civilians Serious fears: A Syrian boy helps his father sell birds at a street stall in Aleppo, where violent clashes are causing numerous casualties There are 70 Syrians currently receiving medical...
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Al Jazeera English
| 7 months ago
47 Rebels killed more than 100 government soldiers in two days, the syrian Observatory for Human Rights said [AFP] Syrian rebels have captured an air defence base east of Aleppo as government forces battled fighters on several fronts across the...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 7 months ago
A shadowy jihadi group believed to be linked to al-Qaida fought alongside rebels who seized a government missile defense base in Syria on Friday, activists said, heightening fears that extremists are taking advantage of the chaos to acquire advanced...
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The Daily Star
| 7 months ago
Anti-regime activists say Syrian rebels have seized an air defense base belonging to the Syrian military near the northern city of Aleppo. Videos posted online Friday show rebels inside the base, inspecting huge missiles and looting an ammunition...
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Israel National News
| 7 months ago
Diplomats in Brussels said, Thursday, that the measures will come up for a vote on Monday at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg. The new sanctions are aimed at Syria's airline, weapons industry and government officials. Twenty-eight of...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Latest first Oldest first Auto update: On Off Updates: Time is running out in Jordan report Time is running out for a deal between King Abdullah and Jordan's political parties, as elections early next year loom, an article in the Economist magazine...
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Los Angeles Times
| 7 months ago
Select a date range Create a custom date range GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan repeatedly castigated the Obama administration for calling Syrian President Bashar Assad a "reformer," though his security forces have killed an estimated 30,000...
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Star Tribune
| 7 months ago
Syria's conflict is the most violent to emerge from last year's Arab Spring, taking thousands of lives over the past 18 months. After dictatorships fell in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen, Syrian President Bashar Assad's government resorted to a...
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The Daily Star
| 7 months ago
The Daily Star More than any of the previous events in the Arab Spring, Syria's turmoil has presented serious difficulties for Western policymakers. Just as Syria comprises a more complex society than the other Arab countries currently in the throes...
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| 7 months ago
But the Israeli army asked some visitors to leave after a group of 50 Syrians, some of them armed, approached the Israeli border in the area of Mount Hermon, a winter ski resort area. The fighting between forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 7 months ago
Jordan (AP) From the edge of a steep mountain overlooking a desert compound built into an old rock quarry, machine gunfire echoes just outside hangars where U.S. special operations forces are training Jordanian commandos. The Americans, who arrived...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Reuters Syrian government Russia has retained its historical role as the key weapons supplier to Bashar al-Assad 's regime over the past 18 months. It is believed to have sent at least three shipments of heavy ammunition to the jointly run port of...
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War In Context
| 7 months ago
Some 335,000 and counting find themselves in refugee camps in neighboring Turkey and Jordan, the lucky among them in pre-fabricated structures provided in some of the Turkish camps, the vast majority huddled in tents. But for millions more back home,...
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Sky News
| 7 months ago
Tayyip Erdogan has said a Syrian passenger plane from Moscow which was forced to land in Ankara was carrying Russian-made munitions. It's believed the arms were destined for Syria's defence ministry. The Airbus A320, which had 37 passengers on board,...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
The UN's chief humanitarian coordinators for Syria, on a Gulf tour to seek aid, have warned that already scarce resources for the growing number of displaced in the war-torn country are quickly drying up. The UN's regional refugee coordinator, Panos...
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The Daily Star
| 7 months ago
Gunmen attacked a bus transporting Syrian workers at the Lebanon border on Thursday, killing eight passengers and wounding another eight, Syrian state television said. "An armed terrorist group attacked at dawn a bus carrying Syrian workers from...
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GMA News
| 7 months ago
Syria said on Thursday a Damascus-bound plane forced to land in Ankara by Turkish fighter jets while en route from Moscow had been carrying legitimate cargo. The Foreign Ministry said the Turkish action violated international law and showed Ankara'...
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Al Jazeera English
| 7 months ago
47 Moscow has accused Ankara of endangering Russian lives after Turkey forced a Syrian passenger plane to land and seized what it suspected was military equipment being ferried from Russia to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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The Daily Star
| 7 months ago
This picture taken in Athens on June 18, 2012 shows the winner of the Greek elections, conservative Antonis Samaras making statements to the press after his meeting with the political leaders in the Greek parliament. Plans are underway to provide...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Al-Jamaa al-Islamiya bloc MP Imad Hout said on Thursday that President Michel Suleiman's statements on the need to preserve Lebanon's sovereignty were angering the Syrian regime. The latest stances of Suleiman concerning Lebanon's sovereignty and the...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 7 months ago
Turkish fighters jets forced down a Syrian passenger plane on Wednesday, following accusations that it was carrying weapons to the Assad regime from Russia. Turkish authorities gave few details but local television said the plane was on a flight from...
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Sky News
| 7 months ago
Turkey has seized "illegal cargo" from a Syrian passenger plane after fighter jets forced it to land. Two military planes escorted the Damascus-bound Airbus A-320, carrying around 30 passengers, into the airport in Ankara. The plane, which was en...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 7 months ago
In a significant escalation in the tensions between the two countries, Turkey scrambled fighter jets to escort the passenger jet into the Ankara airport. Turkish authorities had received information that it was carrying "non-civilian" cargo which had...
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Foreign Affairs
| 7 months ago
A onetime high-ranking Syrian Army officer on the state of the revolt in Syria. Snapshot, April 16, 2012 The Alawites stand by Assad out of a historic fear of Sunni persecution. Although some Alawites are breaking ranks, most face a dilemma: by...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 7 months ago
Syria's main opposition bloc will restructure itself in Qatar next week to seek fresh impetus, Syrian National Council leader Abdulbaset Sieda said on Wednesday, after months of criticism that it is too fractious and influenced by Islamists. Sieda,...
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Mail Online UK
| 7 months ago
Villagers helped the families by ferrying them in small metal boats as they fled the violence in the Syrian border town of Azmarin where several mortar shells landed early on Wednesday. As heavy machine gun fire could be heard from the Turkish side,...
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War In Context
| 7 months ago
The shelling across the Turkish-Syrian border, now entering its seventh day, gives further testimony, as if any were needed, that Turkey's Syria policies have failed and that the civil war in Syria is also a regional, sectarian war, with no end in...
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Midland Park Suburban News
| 7 months ago
Syria's conflict is the most violent to emerge from last year's Arab Spring. The protests started peacefully but prompted a brutal crackdown by President Bashar Assad's government. The fighting has escalated into a civil war that has killed more than...
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The Daily Star
| 7 months ago
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (front 2nd L) places flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during a ceremony to mark the 39th anniversary of the 1973 October War with Israel, in Damascus, in this October 6. Damascus on Wednesday rejected a...
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The Daily Star
| 7 months ago
Facebook page of President Bashar 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...
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Canadian Free Press
| 7 months ago
Since the Islamic Revolution, Iran has not had any real ally, among the superpowers or in the region, other than Syria. The alliance between Iran and Syria has lasted more than thirty years, the longest alliance between any two states in the region...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 7 months ago
The private NTV television network reported the comments of armed forces chief of staff General Necdet Ozel, amid fears of a cross-border escalation of Syria's civil war. The military chief was inspecting troops on a tour of the heavily fortified...
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Newyork Times
| 7 months ago
News reports on Wednesday spoke of intensified fighting close to the Turkish-Syrian border near the Syrian frontier settlement of Azamarin, with mortar and machine-gun fire clearly audible from the Turkish side. As fighting near the 550-mile border...
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Mail Online UK
| 7 months ago
10 October 2012 A man and a woman have been arrested at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of committing terrorism offences. The pair, who are both aged 26, were held by officer's from the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command at 8.30pm yesterday...
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The Daily Star
| 7 months ago
A Syrian rebel cross a road in the Saif al-Dawla district during clashes with government forces of the northern city of Aleppo, on October 9, 2012. Syria: Aleppo News must surely be the world's smallest news agency, with a handful of amateur...
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Russia Today
| 7 months ago
US soldiers prepare their gear during the military exercise near the Jordan. (AFP Photo) A covert task force was sent to Jordan in case Syria loses control of its chemical weapons stockpiles, US officials said. The team will be stationed at a base 35...
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The Daily Star
| 7 months ago
The US military has sent a task force to Jordan to help it handle an influx of Syrian refugees and prepare for scenarios including loose chemical weapons, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The Times said the 150-strong force of planners and...
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The New York Times
| 7 months ago
Kirk-Cuomo/Agence France-Presse Getty Images Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta, left, meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan in August. The New York Times The task force, which has been led by a senior American officer, is based at a Jordanian...
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Scoop
| 7 months ago
I have conveyed my strong message to the Syrian Government that they should immediately declare a unilateral ceasefire, he told a news conference in Paris, after holding talks with French President Francois Hollande on the 19-month uprising against...
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Palestine Chronicle
| 7 months ago
22 10/09/2012 'We expected a greater Turkish response than this, but you know, every country has its own special affairs.' Taken alone, the remarks by Bashir Hajjo, introduced by BBC Arabic TV last Thursday as the spokesperson of the Tawhid Brigade,...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 7 months ago
Turkey, the alliance's top official said Tuesday, in a direct warning to Syria after a week of cross-border artillery and mortar exchanges dramatically escalated tensions between the two countries. Ankara has sent additional fighter jets to reinforce...
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The New York Times
| 7 months ago
The group, the Nusra Front for the People of the Levant, posted a statement with details of what it called three stages of the attack on a branch of the air force intelligence compound in Harasta, on the edge of Damascus. It released a video showing...
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Russia Today
| 7 months ago
Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told journalists before a defense ministers meeting in Brussels. Meanwhile, Turkish news agencies report that 25 F-16 jet fighters have arrived at the Diyarbakir base, 100 kilometers from the Syrian border.
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
He replaces Nawaf Fares who defected in July, "President Assad issued a decree appointing Sattam Jadan al-Dandah as Syrian ambassador to Iraq...Fares declared his defection on July 11 and withdrew from the ruling Baath party. He later called on the...
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Denver Post
| 7 months ago
Turkey amid artillery and mortar exchanges with Syria, its top official said Tuesday, as Ankara sent additional fighter jets to reinforce an air base close to the Syria border where tensions have escalated dramatically over the past week. Turkey and...
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Mail Online UK
| 7 months ago
Turkey from being attacked by Syria as tensions continue to escalate between the two countries , the head of the military alliance announced today. Turkey in an emergency meeting after Syrian shells struck a border town in Turkey killing five...
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The Daily Star
| 7 months ago
Syrian rebels patrol on their way to the frontline in the northern city of Aleppo on October 8, 2012. Tuesday it had drawn up plans to defend Turkey if necessary against any further spillover of violence from Syria's border areas where rebels and...
