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It Looks Like Iraq Has Joined Assad's Side In The Syrian War
At least 48 Syrian soldiers and eight Iraqis died on Monday when they were ambushed inside Iraq, The Associated Press reports.The circumstances indicate a blurred border between the countries and a...
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Syrian Rebels Are Holding UN Observers Hostage In The Golan Heights
Syrian rebels in the Golan Heights have captured a convoy of UN trucks and are demanding that Bashar al-Assad's forces to leave the area, James Miller of EA WorldView reports.Reuters reports the UN has...
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Syria Claims It Found Israeli Spying Devices Disguised As Rocks
Syria's state-run news agency claims that Israeli spying devices have been found in the country's coastal region, according to The Associated Press.SANA's report says the devices — some of which look...
View ArticleIslamic Radicals In Syria Blow Up 'Pagan Shrine,' Get Pelted With Cinder Blocks
Today on EA WorldView's Syria Live Coverage, Jame's Miller posted a YouTube video showing of a group of men in "northern Syria" saying well-known Muslim sayings and then blowing up a "pagan shrine"...
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Syria Rebels 'Launch Assault On Key Homs District'
Syrian rebels on Sunday launched a surprise dawn attack on Baba Amr, a former rebel stronghold in the central city of Homs, a year after it was taken by the army in a bloody battle, a monitoring group...
View ArticleUnreal Combat Footage Shot From Syrian Government Tank Shows Complete...
The footage below, uploaded to YouTube by the U.K.'s Channel 4, gives a startling glimpse into the Syrian war from an unusual perspective — the turret of a Syrian government tank.The video shows Darya,...
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US Vet Fighting With Syrian Rebels Got Full Disability Pay, His Dad Says
Eric Harroun is an Arizona native who rioted with rebels in Cairo and fought in Syria for Al Qaeda affiliate Jabhat Al Nusra.He's also a former U.S. Army servicemember who was discharged following a...
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CIA Effort In Iraq Places US Spooks On Syria's Three Largest Borders
Since 2011 the U.S. has been expanding the CIA's role in Iraqas radical Syrian rebels threaten the border region, according to Adam Entous, Julian Barnes, and Siobhan Gorman of The Wall Street...
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Internet Perverts Called 'RATters' Are Hacking Into Women's Webcams
Nate Andersen at Ars Technica published what I call a "rabbit hole" piece Sunday night detailing the secret Internet underbelly of a group of programmers called RATters.It's a rabbit hole because you...
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Syrian Christians Dream Of Life Without Assad Or Radical Islamists
Abu Ibrahim says he and his family are the only Christians left in Syria's devastated city of Deir Ezzor, and he is terrified Muslim extremists could make their already difficult life hell.Yet every...
View ArticleHow Syria Has Gone To Hell In Two Years
The Syrian revolution — which has since morphed into a full-blown civil war — began with a Arab Spring "Day of Rage" on March 15, 2011, when a group of 200 mostly young protesters gathered in the...
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Russia Is Desperate To Avoid A Sanctioned 'Proxy War' With The West In Syria
Iran is stepping up arms shipments to Syria. It has trained and funded 50,000 Lebanese Hezbollah fighters. And it has Russia as a political umbrella in the U.N, according to recent reports.While it...
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High-Ranking Syrian General Defects From Army
BEIRUT (AP) — A high-ranking general in the Syrian army defected on Saturday with the help of rebels and said morale is low among those still fighting for President Bashar Assad as the civil war enters...
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The Oldest City In Human History Is On The Verge Of Being Ravaged By War
The Syrian capital of Damascus— inhabited as early as 8,000 to 10,000 BCE — is arguably the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world.Syrian rebels — bolstered by an influx of Croatian weapons...
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A Chinese National Appears To Be Fighting With Al-Qaeda In Syria
There's been evidence of a Japanese trucker taking pictures in Aleppo and a Russian judge reporting on government troops near Damascus, and now it appears a Chinese national is fighting with jihadist...
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Syrian Government and Rebels Blame Each Other For Chemical Attack In Aleppo
Syria's government on Tuesday accused rebel forces of using chemical weapons for the first time, but the opposition denied the claim, saying instead that government forces might have used banned...
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It's Highly Unlikely The 2 Alleged Chemical Attacks In Syria Came From Rebels
There are reports that neighborhoods near both Aleppo and Damascus were hit with chemicals — suggesting a coordinated attack — and the circumstances make it unlikely rebels were responsible, James...
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New US-Educated Prime Minister Of Syria Has One Massive Problem
On Monday the Syrian opposition chose naturalized Syrian-born American citizen Ghassan Hitto to lead an interim government tasked with aiding rebels and serving as an alternative to the regime of...
View ArticleBBC Weather's Twitter Hijacked By Pro-Assad Hackers
The BBC's official weather account — @BBCWeather — has been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), a cyber clan that spreads propaganda in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.At about 9:00...
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CIA Feeding Intel To Free Syrian Army To Counter Supremacy Of Jihadists
The CIA is doing more to bolster non-radical Syrian rebels to counter the increasing dominance of jihadist groups, Adam Entous, Siobhan Gorman, and Nour Malas The Wall Street Journal report.The Agency...
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