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Rebels Have Captured Syria's Largest Dam And Are Pushing Into Damascus
Syrian rebels captured the country's largest hydroelectric dam as others launched their biggest push into the capital since July, according to Reuters.In the north opposition forces led by Sunni...
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Radical Syrian Rebels Are About To Blur The Border With Iraq
Following Monday's capture of Syria's largest dam and Tuesday's capture of a key regime airfield, Syrian rebels have surrounded the strategic eastern city of Deir al-Zor, Reuters reports.Seizing the...
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Russia Is Supplying Syria And Mali With Arms
Russia said Wednesday it was delivering military hardware and light weapons to the governments of Syria and Mali as it expands sales and maintains its footing in some of the world's deadliest...
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Yemen Is Sending Thousands Of Young Men To Fight With Al-Qaeda In Syria
Recruited by Islamist leaders and financed by Qatar and Saudi Arabia, more than 5,000 young men have traveled to Turkey over the last four months to fight with al-Qaeda in Syria, Yemeni journalist...
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Syria Is Heading For The Worst Possible Scenario
After 23 months the Syrian civil war has become an increasingly volatile stalemate with no end in sight."Just as loyalist forces seem unable to regain control of the country, there looks to be little...
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Iranian Revolutionary Guards Commander Shot Dead In Syria
Assailants shot dead a senior Iranian official in Syria while he was travel ling by road towards the Lebanese capital overnight, the Iranian authorities said on Thursday.The Iranian embassy in Beirut...
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American Appears To Be Fighting Alongside The Syrian Rebels
Two unconfirmed amateur videos posted to YouTube appear to show an American fighting alongside rebel forces in Syria against Bashar al-Assad.The first, posted by Abu Adam Hourani on Jan. 15, identifies...
View ArticleAmerica Has A Sordid Connection To The Chemical Weapons Reported In Syria
The world drew a sharp breath as reports came out of Homs, Syria, about possible use of BZ (or, similarly, Agent 15), a chemical "incapacitant" that causes deep confusion and hallucinations for upward...
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Assad's Seat Of Power Is Not Invincible
The predominant view on the Syrian war, as told by Reuters journalist Samia Nakhoul, is that "there looks to be little chance the rebels can storm the center of Damascus and attack the seat of Assad's...
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Iranian Commander Killed In Syria Was A Major Enemy Of Israel
Iran vowed revenge against Israel after a senior commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) was shot dead in southwestern Syria last week while traveling to Lebanon.A closer look at General...
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The Syrian Civil War Has Officially Spread Into Lebanon
An October car bombing that killed Lebanon's police chief hinted that the Syrian civil war had spilled over into the neighboring country, but now it appears to be official.Both state and rebel...
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Israel Grants First Golan Heights Oil Drilling License To Powerful US Company
Israel has granted a U.S. company the first license to explore for oil and gas in the occupied Golan Heights, John Reed of the Financial Times reports.A local subsidiary of the New York-listed company...
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The Country Formerly Known As Syria
“MY COUNTRY is being destroyed,” sobs Ahmad, a student from the eastern city of Deir ez-Zor who joined the protests when they began in March 2011. “The regime is killing us, many of the opposition...
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US And UK Draw Up Plans To Seize Or Destroy Syria’s Chemical Weapons
They fear that nerve agents and chemical weapons held by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad’s regime could fall into terrorists’ hands if the government collapses entirely.Senior officers have...
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How To Save Syria From Al Qaeda
Tactically, President Obama is operating true to form in Syria; he’s wisely avoiding ever creeping military measures on behalf of rebels, many of whom might well turn out to be even worse than the...
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Pro-Assad Hackers Take Over @AFPphoto And Tweet Graphic Propaganda
Pro-Assad hackers took over the Agence France-Presse (AFP) Twitter at about noon Tuesday and started posting pro-Assad/anti-Obama tweets and images.Spokespeople at AFP promptly issued an apology to...
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How To Take Incredible Pictures And Stay Alive In A War Zone
International war photographer Goran Tomasevic has been covering conflicts all over the world for 22 years.The Serbia native began working for Reuters as a freelance photographer in 1996, and most...
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Iraqi Prime Minister Says War Will Spread If Syrian Rebels Win
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki said armed conflicts will break out in Iraq and Lebanon if Syrian rebels topple Bashar al-Assad, according to an interview he gave to Adam Schreck and Qassim...
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Love Letter To War Photographer Killed In Syria Leaves Journalist In Choked...
A BBC Radio 4 presenter was so overcome by emotion that he fell silent on air for more than ten seconds today after hearing a moving poem by the girlfriend of a French photographer killed in...
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As Syrian Rebels Conquer Their First City, Assad Makes Bizarre Comments About...
President Bashar al-Assad said his regime has conquered the "conspiracy" against it, even as rebels overran the capital of Raqa province and captured its governor in the biggest success of their...
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