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US weighs a new front to create safe zone in Syria - Washington Post Mon, 01 Dec 2014 18:42:02 GMT

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US weighs a new front to create safe zone in Syria
Washington Post
The Obama administration is weighing the opening of a new front in the air war against the Islamic State in Syria, part of an offensive to push back militants along the western portion of Syria's border with Turkey and create a relatively safe zone for ...
Will U.S. and Turkey Create a Syria No-Fly Zone?Bloomberg View
US plays down idea of safe zone along Syria-Turkey borderReuters
US, Turkey Discussing 'Safe Zone' in Northern SyriaMilitary.com
Voice of America -Stuff.co.nz
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UN Cuts Food Aid to Refugees From Syria - New York Times Tue, 02 Dec 2014 01:23:58 GMT

Wall Street Journal
UN Cuts Food Aid to Refugees From Syria
New York Times
GENEVA — Facing what it described as a severe cash shortfall, the United Nations food aid organization said on Monday that it had been forced to suspend a voucher program that was helping to feed 1.7 million Syrian refugees in neighboring countries.
United Nations' Food Program Halts Aid to Syrian RefugeesWall Street Journal
1.7m Syrian refugees face food crisis as UN funds dry upThe Guardian
Syria conflict: WFP suspends refugee food aid schemeBBC News
NBCNews.com -UN News Centre
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A Long-Sought Fugitive Died Four Years Ago in Syria, Nazi Hunter Says - New York Times Tue, 02 Dec 2014 03:23:13 GMT

The Atlantic
A Long-Sought Fugitive Died Four Years Ago in Syria, Nazi Hunter Says
New York Times
JERUSALEM — A leading Nazi hunter said on Monday that Adolf Eichmann's top lieutenant, long one of the world's most wanted fugitives, died at least four years ago in Syria, where he had escaped justice and may have advised the government.
Eichmann's Best Man Lived and Died in SyriaThe Atlantic
Top wanted Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner 'almost certainly' died in Syria ...ABC Online
Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner 'died in Syria'BBC News
Fox News -Reuters Canada
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Facing Islamic State in Syria, US-trained rebels await more help - Reuters Mon, 01 Dec 2014 16:56:09 GMT

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Facing Islamic State in Syria, US-trained rebels await more help
Reuters
GAZIANTEP, Turkey (Reuters) - Syrian rebel commander Abdulaziz says U.S. military training helped his men kill at least 15 Islamic State fighters in a recent battle near Aleppo. Three months earlier, a similar engagement had gone the other way, with ...

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Straining to Make Room for Refugees as the War in Syria Floods the World - New York Times Mon, 01 Dec 2014 14:54:28 GMT

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Straining to Make Room for Refugees as the War in Syria Floods the World
New York Times
Three and a half years of war in Syria have produced the world's worst refugee crisis, the United Nations says. In Germany now, refugees are arriving by the thousands, and even in the country where a Nazi past constantly evokes reminders of a special ...

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Isis: US-led coalition conducts 55 air strikes against targets in Syria and Iraq - The Guardian Mon, 01 Dec 2014 20:32:44 GMT

The Guardian
Isis: US-led coalition conducts 55 air strikes against targets in Syria and Iraq
The Guardian
The Department of Defense and the State Department, meanwhile, appeared to differ over the idea of creating a buffer zone along the Syria-Turkish border, after a media report cited it as a possible concession to Turkey in return for the use of bases to ...
More US-led strikes hit Islamic State in Syria, Iraq, US saysReuters
Islamic State militants kill 16 Iraqi soldiers on Syria borderYahoo News
Iraq says ISIS transferring phosphate to Syria's RaqqaAl-Arabiya
Wall Street Journal -WTSP 10 News -New York Daily News
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Syria, Ebola Failures Highlight UN Shortcomings - ABC News Mon, 01 Dec 2014 19:18:02 GMT

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Syria, Ebola Failures Highlight UN Shortcomings
ABC News
The Ebola epidemic and the war in Syria have cast a spotlight on the inadequacies of the United Nations as it tries to operate in a globalized world with a power structure that hasn't changed since 1945. To many who know the U.N. well, the organization ...

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A Rare Look Inside Syria's War-Torn Kobani - Huffington Post Mon, 01 Dec 2014 19:57:57 GMT

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A Rare Look Inside Syria's War-Torn Kobani
Huffington Post
KOBANI, Syria (AP) — One of the few signs of life in this northern Syria border town is the old bakery, revived by Kurdish fighters battling the Islamic State group. Closed down for some 20 years, the production line now bakes two tons of doughy bread ...
Airstrikes mark shift in coalition focus to ISIS 'capital' Bombs over SyriaCNN International
Coalition airstrikes pound Islamic State stronghold in SyriaMilitary Times
US-led coalition airstrikes pound ISIS stronghold in SyriaFox News
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US-Led Coalition Carries Out 30 Air Strikes Against ISIS in Syria - TIME Mon, 01 Dec 2014 08:32:11 GMT

TIME
US-Led Coalition Carries Out 30 Air Strikes Against ISIS in Syria
TIME
Coalition forces led by the U.S. on Saturday carried out 30 or more air strikes against Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) militants in the northern Syrian province of Raqqa, said the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The area ...

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Syria: The Last Assignment - Aljazeera.com Mon, 01 Dec 2014 14:37:40 GMT

Syria: The Last Assignment
Aljazeera.com
On November 20, 2013, Iraqi freelance cameraman Yasser Faisal al-Jumaili crossed the Turkish border into Syria with his trusted Syrian fixer Jomah al-Qasem. The Syrian war had been raging for two-and-a-half years and now saw the various rebel groups ...

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