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Al-Qaeda affiliate fighting in Syria added to U.S. terror lists
Aleppo :: Syria | 6 months ago
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State and Treasury Departments placed the terrorist group known as Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda-affiliated group, on both agencies' terrorism lists on Tuesday. U.S. officials accuse the Islamist group of trying wrest control of the Assad government's
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Vicious infighting in Assad's hometown
Latakia :: Syria | 9 months ago
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Vicious infighting in Assads hometown 03/10/2012 Asharq Al-Awsat London, Asharq Al-Awsat -The situation remains tense in the Syrian town of Qardaha, where Republican Guards and security forces have intervened by force to stop clashes between the
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Syrian rebels accused of war crimes
Aleppo :: Syria | 10 months ago
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Human rights groups have accused Syrian rebels of war crimes for carrying out summary executions and imposing arbitrary justice on hundreds of regime detainees in makeshift prisons. Blindfolded and bearing the welts of beatings, captured regime
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Shabiha member: I raped and killed for $450 a month
Tripoli :: Libya | 11 months ago
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A Shabiha member has revealed how he was transformed into a killer-for-hire at the hands of the Bashar al-Assad regime, and how he used to kill and rape for the equivalent of $450 per month before he fell captive to the Syrian rebels. Mohammed (not
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UN probe hints at gov't blame for Syria massacre
Aleppo :: Syria | 12 months ago
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The violence in Syria has worsened since a cease-fire deal in April and the bloodshed appears to be taking on dangerous sectarian overtones, the U.N. said Wednesday. Investigators say they have concluded that Syrian government troops could be behind
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UN: Syrian loyalists 'behind massacre'
Geneva :: NY :: USA | 12 months ago
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Syrian government loyalists 'may be responsible' for massacre UN report UN-appointed human rights experts say shabiha forces had better access to site in Houla, where more than 100 were killed Associated Press in Geneva People gather at a mass burial
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Turkey calls for NATO meeting over Syria
Ankara :: Turkey | 12 months ago
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Syria's downing of a Turkish jet in what Turkish leaders insist was international airspace. The incident has deepened the regional turmoil caused by the conflict in Syria, where reports Sunday said more than a dozen people had died in the latest
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Mass Killing Reported in Syria, Apparently a Rebel Ambush
Aleppo :: Syria | 12 months ago
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The official Syrian Arab News Agency reported that armed terrorist gangs, the standard government description for all opposition forces, carried out what it described as a brutal massacre of the men, described as kidnapping victims, in Daret Azzeh,
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Sectarian Violence Undermines Syrian Regime
Latakia :: Syria | 1 year ago
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Jun 17, 2012 The Syrian upheaval has gone through several stages. It began with relatively peaceful protests by crowds in a handful of small and medium-size cities outside the large metropolitan areas of Damascus and Aleppo. Severe repression by the
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Siniora condemns massacre in Syria's Al-Kubeir
Damascus :: Syria | 1 year ago
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Future bloc leader MP Fouad Siniora condemned Friday the massacre that rocked Syria's Al-Kubeir and called on Moscow to reconsider its stance on the Syrian crisis. Once again [the Syrian regime] has proved that it is drowning, [but at the same time]
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