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Syrian army secures Damascus-Homs motorway - BBC News Mon, 09 Dec 2013 18:26:19 GMT

BBC News

Syrian army secures Damascus-Homs motorway BBC News Syrian government forces are reported to have taken control of the motorway linking Damascus with the city of Homs. The road has been closed for several weeks because of heavy fighting with rebels in the Qalamoun mountains, which run along the border ... Syria Chemical Weapons Deadlines May Be MissedWall Street Journal Delays Possible in Syria Chemicals Weapons MissionABC News Syrian army retakes road needed to ship out chemical armsReuters Los Angeles Times -Voice of America all 330 news articles »

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How the USA Lost Its Syrian Allies - Daily Beast Mon, 09 Dec 2013 10:48:52 GMT

Daily Beast

How the USA Lost Its Syrian Allies Daily Beast In turn, the Obama administration has begun reaching out to Syrian rebels who espouse an Islamist agenda and draw support from American allies in the region like Saudi Arabia as opposed to the United States directly. Peace talks scheduled for next ... Russia against using force as Syria solutionPress TV Regime seizes Syria town as conflict passes 1000th dayAhram Online New York Times Finally Sees Jihadist Threat In SyriaFrontPage Magazine Reuters AlertNet -The Daily Star -Economic Times all 122 news articles »

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Seeing Syria's Islamist fighters through the eyes of a journalist - PBS NewsHour Tue, 10 Dec 2013 03:18:37 GMT

Seeing Syria's Islamist fighters through the eyes of a journalist PBS NewsHour As the civil war has ground on, radicalization among Syrian rebels has grown and foreign jihadist fighters have come across the Arab and Muslim world. Margaret Warner talks to journalist Rania Abouzeid about her insight on various rebel groups and why ... and more »

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New Yorker, Washington Post Passed On Seymour Hersh Syria Report - Huffington Post Mon, 09 Dec 2013 21:33:52 GMT

RT

New Yorker, Washington Post Passed On Seymour Hersh Syria Report Huffington Post NEW YORK -- Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh accused the Obama administration Sunday of having “cherry-picked intelligence” regarding the Aug. 21 chemical attack in Syria that served as evidence for an argument in favor of striking ... Obama admin 'cherry-picked intelligence' to justify Syria strikeRT Obama aides deny Syria intelligence storyUSA TODAY Seymour Hersh: Obama administration nearly lied the US into war with SyriaSalon The Hill (blog) -National Journal -FAIR (blog) all 63 news articles »

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ASIO acting to prevent Australians fighting in Syrian war is not racist - Sydney Morning Herald Mon, 09 Dec 2013 13:30:42 GMT

Sydney Morning Herald

ASIO acting to prevent Australians fighting in Syrian war is not racist Sydney Morning Herald So now it has come to this. The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, headed by David Irvine, has been depicted as ''racist''. Why? Well, because ASIO has acted to prevent young Australian Muslims from travelling to Syria to fight in a civil ... Sydney 'jihadist' defends Syria lecturesNEWS.com.au (blog) all 34 news articles »

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Russian-speaking group offers bulletproof hosting in Syria, Lebanon - PCWorld Tue, 10 Dec 2013 01:44:24 GMT

Russian-speaking group offers bulletproof hosting in Syria, Lebanon PCWorld A Russian-speaking group is advertising “bulletproof” hosting for cybercriminals from data centers in Syria and Lebanon, an apparent effort to place new services in locales where Western law enforcement has little influence. The advertisement, for a ... and more »

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Syria's Internet is down again - NBCNews.com Mon, 09 Dec 2013 18:48:45 GMT

Syria's Internet is down again NBCNews.com As Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces claim control of a major highway needed to remove toxic chemicals by the Dec. 31 deadline, the country is experiencing almost complete outages for both Internet and telephone service, tech tracking firms ...

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Syrian Army Captures Town Near Key Highway - ABC News Sun, 08 Dec 2013 17:08:15 GMT

Al-Arabiya

Syrian Army Captures Town Near Key Highway ABC News Syrian troops captured a western town near the country's main north-south highway on Monday as the government forged ahead with a punishing offensive in a mountainous region near the border with Lebanon, state media said. According to the reports, the ... What to do about SyriaLos Angeles Times Nuns, Missing in Syria, Resurface in VideoNew York Times Fierce clashes in key Syria border townAl-Arabiya GlobalPost all 411 news articles »

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Syrian army captures key town - News & Observer Mon, 09 Dec 2013 20:12:28 GMT

News & Observer

Syrian army captures key town News & Observer Volunteers teach coloring and drawing to children who have lost their homes in Syria's civil war at an elementary school that has been turned into a shelter in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013. Around 44 families live in the school, just one set ... 17 children paralysed by polio in Syriagulfnews.com After polio outbreak in Syria, second leg of massive UN vaccination campaign ...Montreal Gazette Polio vaccination campaign launched in MideastIndependent Online all 41 news articles »

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OPCW: Hard to remove all chemical weapons from Syria by December deadline - Jerusalem Post Mon, 09 Dec 2013 13:26:32 GMT

OPCW: Hard to remove all chemical weapons from Syria by December deadline Jerusalem Post OSLO - It will be "difficult" to remove all of Syria's most toxic chemical weapons from the country by a December 31 deadline, Ahmet Uzumcu, the head of the global chemicals weapon watchdog OPCW said on Monday. But the head of the Organization for the ...