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Why Russia Will Almost Certainly Back Down In Syria
Russia's spokesman for international cooperation in fighting terrorism Alexander Zmeyovsky said that Russia is "gravely concerned" about U.S. reports of Assad's chemical weapons use in Syria, according...
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Russian Lawmaker Accuses US Of Fabricating Chemical Weapons Evidence To...
A senior Russian lawmaker and Syria's government are accusing the U.s. of fabricating evidence of chemical weapons use by the regime of Bashar al-Assad to justify intervention in the 27 month-old civil...
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Syrian Rebels Unleash Unprecedented 6-Ton Car Bomb, Killing 60
An activist on the ground in Syria told Al Jazeera that the car bomb which reportedly killed at least 60 government soldiers in Syria was packed with 6 tons of explosives.The target was a military...
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Political Protesters In Paris Were Out In Full Force This Weekend [PHOTOS]
France has a culture of political protest that is, to say the least, robust. I'm in town to report on the Paris Air Show, and walking around town this weekend, I came across three different...
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John Kerry Has Been Pushing For Air Strikes In Syria
Secretary of State John Kerry "vociferously" pushed for air strikes on Syrian airfields at a White House meeting last Wednesday, reports Jeffrey Goldberg of Bloomberg.Kerry was shot down by Chairman of...
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In Syria's Uprising, Death Has Left A Wide And Indiscriminate Wake
In Syria, death finds those who seek it, and those who flee. It finds the loyal soldier and the rebel. It finds fathers and brothers, sisters and mothers. Sons and daughters.The UN's "conservative...
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Forget 'Red Lines,' The US Shouldn't Start Wars To Preserve Global Street-Cred
Jeffrey Goldberg makes a questionable assertion on Iran and Syria:Whether we like it or not, we are in a conflict with Iran, and our credibility is on the line.It’s true that many American politicians...
View ArticleA Syrian Man's Chilling Account Of Being Held In A State Prison
“Prison is for real men” is an old saying we have in Syria, and one that I kept repeating to myself as I paced anxiously back and forth across my small, dingy cell in an almost hypnotic trance of...
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REPORT: The CIA Has Been Secretly Training Syrian Rebels For Months
The CIA and US special operations forces have been training Syrian rebels for months, since long before President Barack Obama announced plans to arm the opposition, the Los Angeles Times reported...
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The West Should Intervene In Syria For Many Reasons
IN 2009 Iran was on the verge of electing a reformer as president. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, subverted the vote and crushed the ensuing protests. Last week the same desire for change...
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Ambassador Susan Rice Slams UN Failure To Intervene In Syria As 'Moral And...
US ambassador Susan Rice left the United Nations on Tuesday slamming the Security Council's failure to act over the worsening Syria conflict as a "moral and strategic disgrace."But while Rice...
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Last Entries In Ambassador Chris Stevens' Diary Show Desperate Need For More...
Judging from the diary of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, it's incredible that there wasn't more security at the embassy in Benghazi.Last year, on the anniversary of 9/11, Libyan militants...
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Four US Special Operators From The Benghazi Security Team Are Writing A Book...
Four members of the elite security team stationed at the CIA annex in Benghazi are being paid $3 million to write a book about the tragic night of September 11, 2012, Keith Kelly of The New York Post...
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The Bloody Battle In Homs Is The Most Important Fight In Syria's Civil War
President Bashar al-Assad's forces pounded Sunni Muslim rebels in the city of Homs with artillery and from the air on Sunday, the second day of an offensive to expand loyalist control over Syria's...
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Robert Gates Says Syria Is A Tornado, And The US Should Keeps Its Hands Out
Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham think attacking Syria to establish a no-fly zone will somehow stem Iranian nuclear ambitions, while Dr. Robert Gates says the whole mess is like"sticking your...
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BASHAR ASSAD: IT'S OVER, I WIN
BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's President Bashar Assad claimed in an interview published Thursday that his opponents have "used up all their tools" and failed to overthrow his regime. The remarks came as...
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Rebel Groups In Northern Syria Are Fighting Each Other
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Rebels clashed with an opposition unit linked to al Qaeda in northern Syria, activists said on Saturday, in a deadly battle that signals growing divisions among rebel groups and...
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Report: Israeli Raid Likely Culprit For Destruction Of Russian Missiles In Syria
New reports of strikes on Russian anti-ship missiles near the port of Latakia, Syria, seem to indicate another possible Israeli strike, Reuters reports.This would be the fourth such strike this...
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Russia Turns The Tables On US Chemical Weapons Claims In Syria
Chemical weapons were "clearly" used in Syria— but most likely by Syrian rebels, not the Syrian army, according to Moscow's ambassador to the United Nations.A team of Russian experts made the...
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Bashar al-Assad May Be The Biggest Winner Of Egypt's Coup
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The fall of the Muslim Brotherhood inEgypt has put a new spring in the step of Bashar al-Assad, who sees it as a sign that Islamists - including those spearheading the...
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