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War In Context
| 8 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
| 8 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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Mail Online UK
| 8 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
| 8 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
| 8 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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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
At least 4,000 fugitives from President Bashar al-Assad's relentless assault on rebel-held areas of northern Syria are trapped inside a spartan camp, waiting for permission to reach the safety of Turkey. The people of Bab al-Salam refugee camp cannot...
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The Guardian
| 8 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
| 8 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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International Herald Tribune
| 8 months ago
Five of the 12, all born in France and between the ages of 19 and 25, were released Thursday, but seven were kept in detention as the counterterrorist police continued to investigate a cell of Islamists that tried to blow up a kosher grocery store...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
A rebel directs members of the government forces exiting a building as they surrender to rebel forces in Maaret al-Numan. Syria: Blown-up buildings, deserted streets and corpses of regime soldiers bear testimony to a fierce 48-hour battle before the...
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Jerusalem Post
| 8 months ago
Umit Bektas Prime Minister Recep Tayep Erdogan said in a speech this week that Turkey was not interested in war but we're not far from it either. This rather confused phrase perfectly sums up the dilemmas in which Turkey's policy toward Syria and the...
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j.
| 8 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
| 8 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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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
A powerful blast rocked the military justice building in Damascus on Thursday evening, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported, as state television spoke of a terrorist attack. The Observatory said the blast in the western Mazzeh district of...
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The Economist
| 8 months ago
Greater efforts are being made to build a rebel front and to unify local commands in particular cities and provinces. Last month, for instance, the Aleppo Military Council said it had brought a variety of fighting groups in the city under its control.
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Syrian rebel fighters brandish their weapons and flash the "V" for victory sign near a post in the rebel-held Syrian city of Minbej on October 10, 2012. Powerful Syrian Islamist brigades, frustrated at the growing divisions among rebels, have joined...
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The Courier-Mail
| 8 months ago
Syrian rebels have completely cut off the highway linking Damascus with second city Aleppo, choking the flow of troops to battlefields in the north, an AFP reporter said. Rebels were in full control of a five kilometre stretch of highway near the key...
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GMA News
| 8 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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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Rebels on Thursday completely cut off the highway linking Damascus with the northern city of Aleppo, choking the flow of regime troops to battlefields in the north, an AFP reporter said. Rebels were in full control of a five kilometer stretch of...
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GMA News
| 8 months ago
Rebels attacked a Syrian army base near the main northern highway on Thursday to try to consolidate their control over the supply line to Aleppo, days after capturing a strategic town in the area, opposition activists said. Rebels used at least one...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 8 months ago
UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi waded back into the Syrian fray on Thursday, even as rebels and regime troops fought pitched battles for control of key northern towns leaving dozens dead. The envoy, who has previously held out little prospect...
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Fox News
| 8 months ago
Oil prices rose Thursday as growing tensions between Turkey and Syria caused worries about the reliability of Middle East crude supplies. Benchmark oil for November delivery was up 36 cents to $91.61 per barrel at midday Bangkok time in electronic...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 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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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Turkey intercepted Wednesday a Syrian passenger plane suspected of transporting banned cargo from Moscow to Damascus as the U.S. announced it had military planners in Jordan to prepare for any chemical weapons threat. Meanwhile, on the ground in...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Former Prime Minister Fouad Siniora appealed to President Michel Sleiman and top Shiite political and religious leaders Wednesday to intercede with Hezbollah over the party's alleged involvement in the unrest in Syria. Siniora warned that the party's...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
The Syrian regime rejected a UN call for a unilateral ceasefire on Wednesday as rebels confronted columns of tanks and troops sent to retake a town on the road to main battleground city Aleppo. President Bashar al-Assad's regime, on the back foot...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
A Syrian rebel carries a sand bag in the Saif al-Dawla district during clashes with government forces of the northern city of Aleppo on October 9, 2012. Syrian rebels overrun Maaret al-Numan, a strategic Idlib province town on the highway linking...
