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Syrian activists say rebels have seized key security buildings in the northern city of Raqqa where opposition fighters had been battling the last pockets of resistance by government troops. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says
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Syrian rebels battled pockets of regime loyalists in the northern city of Raqqa on Tuesday after capturing the governor of the northern province in fierce clashes overnight, activists said. Rebel fighters pushed government troops from most of Raqqa,
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Syrian rebels pushed government troops from most of the northern city of Raqqa Monday, setting off celebrations in a central square where scores of cheering protesters tore down a bronze statue of President Bashar Assad's late father and predecessor,
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Rebel forces captured the key city - tore down Assad Statue Syrian insurgents say they have taken control of the provincial capital of Raqqa not far from the border with Turkey. If it turns out that the rebel has really taken
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Turkey upstream to Syria, Iran and Iraq below - alone account for the unprecedented loss. The Middle East is strained by the rapid loss of critical water reserves and mounting political tensions. University of California-Irvine scientists and
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Dead Sea has been lost in parts of the Middle East due to poor management, increased demands for groundwater and the effects of a 2007 drought. The study, to be published Friday in Water Resources Research, a journal of the American Geophysical Union
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It was the first time Syrian state media had reported such an incident on the Euphrates, which runs from the mountains of southeastern Turkey through Syria and Iraq. In Syria the river passes through the cities of Deir az-Zour, Raqa and Albu Kamal,
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Few archaeological sites seem as entwined with conflict, ancient and modern, as the city of Karkemish. The scene of a battle mentioned in the Bible, it lies smack on the border between Turkey and Syria, where civil war rages today. Twenty-first
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A former Marine thinks working in nature can help veterans heal their war-wounded spirits. Kane County Forest Preserve restoration ecologist Ben Haberthur has started the Veterans Conservation Corps of Chicagoland, and has planned its first outing
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Iraq, 5 October 2003 Nadje balances his boat in a choppy waterway as he reaches out to gather reeds an age-old scene in the marshlands of southern Iraq, yet one that is strangely unfamiliar to most in his village. The ancient culture of Iraq's Marsh
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