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NBC Correspondent Richard Engel Tells Terrifying Story Of Being Kidnapped In...
In December NBC chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel and five others were kidnapped in Syria and held for five days by loyalists of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.In the newest issue of Vanity...
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Without International Support, Syrian Rebels Are Losing The Cyber War Against...
On Syria’s digital battlefield, hackers loyal to Syrian PresidentBashar al-Assad are defeating the rebels' cyber militias.Just as the Syrian opposition leans on the West to supply weapons and other...
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How CIA-Aided Arms Shipments To Syria Keep Ending Up In Radical Hands
In a new report detailing how the CIA helps Arab states buy and transfer arms for Syrian rebels, C. J. Chivers and Eric Schmitt of The New York Times reveal a major flaw in the West's strategy to arm...
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Video Of Boy Holding Gun To Hafez Assad Statue Exemplifies The New Syria
Syrian video extraordinaire Eliot Higgins aka Brown Moses— the man who first noticed Croatian weapons in Syria — tweeted this video of a young Syrian boy holding a gun to a statue of former Syrian...
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US Army Veteran Arrested For Fighting With Al-Qaeda In Syria
A U.S. Army veteran has been arrested and charged with conspiring with al-Qaeda to fight the Syrian regime, The Associated Press reports.Eric Harroun of Phoenix was charged Thursday in federal court in...
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Damascus Is 'Totally Exposed From The South' After Rebels Take Key Towns
In an unusual outburst broadcast live on state television, a member of Syria's government said that rebels have seized large parts of the country's southern Daraa province, Agence France-Presse...
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America May Start Drone Strikes In Two More 'Non-Battlefield' Countries
Iraqi officials requested U.S. drones strikes near their border after al-Qaeda-linked jihadists ambushed a Syrian convoy in Iraq earlier this month, Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Diaa Hadid of the Associated...
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Iran Reportedly Teaching Syrian Militias Guerrilla Warfare
The Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad is sending members of its militias for guerrilla combat training at a secret base in Iran, Reuters reports based on interviews with four trainees.There are...
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Syrian President Assad: There Will Be Contagion
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has warned that the fall of his regime would destabilise the region "for many years," as US President Barack Obama announced talks with Middle East allies over the...
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Syrian Exports Are Almost Nonexistent
Syria suffered in 2012 an unprecedented decline in foreign trade, with exports falling by nearly 100 percent from a year earlier, according to an official study published in a newspaper on Sunday.The...
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US Army Vet Who Fought With Al-Qaeda In Syria May Face Death Penalty
Eric Harroun, the U.S. Army veteran who allegedly fought with al-Qaeda-affiliated Syrian rebels, has been denied bail and could face the death penalty.Prosecutors told a Virginia court that Harroun,...
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Al-Qaeda In Iraq Announces Merger With Notorious Syrian Rebel Group
On Monday the Iraqi wing of al-Qaeda announced that it will merge with Jabhat al-Nusra — a highly effective Syrian rebel force deemed a terrorist organization by the U.S. — and operate under the title...
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The West Has 'Hard Evidence' That Assad Used Chemical Weapons In Syria
Western nations have "hard evidence" that chemical weapons have been used at least once by the Syrian army, diplomats told Agence France-Presse."In one case we have hard evidence," a western diplomat...
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Assad's Killing Of Syrian Civilians Has Reached Barbaric Proportions
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been ruthlessly bombing towns under opposition control since July.This week two report details, for the first time, the stunning extent of the indiscriminate death...
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Bashar al-Assad Is Finally Getting The Sectarian War He Always Wanted
The Orontes River valley is known as "the breadbasket of Syria." Its lush, fertile plains stretch some 30 miles through rural Idlib and Hama provinces, fed by a river whose banks have been the peaceful...
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Syrian Rebel With 49 Kills: This Fighting Is Not Natural, My Country Is Ruined
The Syrian rebel fighter says he has racked up 49 enemy kills so far – nearly half of them government army snipers, the rest pro-regime shabiha militiamen and ordinary soldiers. But the words “hope,”...
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Senior Israeli Official Says Assad Has Used Chemical Weapons In Syria
Israeli military official says Assad has used chemical arms in civil warTEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A senior Israeli military intelligence official said on Tuesday that Syrian President Bashar Assad used...
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It's Getting Hard To Ignore The Atrocities In Syria
Fighting in Syria has been relentless for more than two years. During this time as many as 120,000 people have been killed, including many women, children, and other civilians who wanted nothing to do...
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WHITE HOUSE: There Is Evidence Syria Has Used Chemical Weapons
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday that the Obama administration has evidence "to some degree of varying confidence" that Syria has used chemical weapons. The White House confirmed their...
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Assad Thinks He's Winning The Syrian War — And He May Be Right
Last week Syrian President Bashar al-Assadsaid that his regime has "no choice but victory."A fierce counteroffensive by his troops — including what appears to be the local deployment of chemical...
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