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UN envoy in Syria for Aleppo truce talks - Al-Arabiya Sun, 14 Dec 2014 01:08:47 GMT

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UN envoy in Syria for Aleppo truce talks
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Ramzi Ezzedine Ramzi, deputy to the U.N. envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, is to hold a series of meetings in Damascus, their spokeswoman, Juliette Touma, told AFP via the Internet. At the start of the week, De Mistura held what Touma termed ...
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Still Failing Syria's Refugees - New York Times Sat, 13 Dec 2014 19:36:21 GMT

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Still Failing Syria's Refugees
New York Times
The international community is expected to offer shelter and support to more than 100,000 additional Syrian refugees, who have been forced from their homes by their country's bloody civil war. That is progress — but it is not nearly enough when ...
Conservatives' Syria refugee response labelled as 'discrimination'Globalnews.ca
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When Americans Head To Syria, How Much Of A Threat Do They Pose? - NPR Fri, 12 Dec 2014 20:01:52 GMT

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When Americans Head To Syria, How Much Of A Threat Do They Pose?
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Shannon Maureen Conley was just 19, barely out of high school and a convert to Islam, when she fell in love with a Tunisian man who said he was an Islamic State fighter in Syria. And, according to a criminal complaint, she wanted to leave her Denver ...

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Syrian Women Displaced By War Make Tragedy Of 'Antigone' Their Own - NPR (blog) Sat, 13 Dec 2014 14:03:23 GMT

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Syrian Women Displaced By War Make Tragedy Of 'Antigone' Their Own
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In fact, they're refugees from Syria, and this production of the Greek tragedy Antigone is a project designed to help them deal with their trauma. "The play Antigone was an opportunity for us to voice everything inside of us," says one woman, Wisam ...

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Kurdish forces kill 16 jihadists in Syria - Yahoo News Sat, 13 Dec 2014 20:01:20 GMT

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Kurdish forces kill 16 jihadists in Syria
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Beirut (AFP) - Kurdish forces killed at least 16 Islamic State group fighters in an attack on Saturday in northeast Syria near the border with Turkey, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The assault targeted IS positions south of the town of ...
Kurdish forces kill 16 jihadists in Syria: monitorInquirer.net
Kurdish forces kill 16 ISIL militants in NE SyriaPress TV
Kurdish Forces Kill 16 ISIL Terrorists in SyriaAl-Manar TV

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US-led warplanes hit militants in Syria and Iraq 27 times this week - Los Angeles Times Fri, 12 Dec 2014 21:43:01 GMT

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US-led warplanes hit militants in Syria and Iraq 27 times this week
Los Angeles Times
U.S.-led warplanes launched 27 airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria this week, officials said Friday. The three-day attack by jets and drones was focused on militants in Syria's second-largest city, Aleppo; the embattled Syrian ...
Is Iran getting a free pass on Iraq and Syria?Al-Arabiya
US, partners continue airstrikes on IS forces in Syria, IraqJournal of Turkish Weekly
US-led coalition hits Isis targets in Syria and IraqInternational Business Times UK

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Pentagon's Syria plan would see results in 2016 - The Hill Sat, 13 Dec 2014 17:45:03 GMT

Pentagon's Syria plan would see results in 2016
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The Pentagon said Friday that a year-long plan to train and equip 5,000 Syrian rebels to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria could stretch into early 2016. Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said during a Pentagon briefing that it ...

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Inside Syria's civil war - CBS News Sat, 13 Dec 2014 02:02:33 GMT

Inside Syria's civil war
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Life was so hard during the siege of Homs in Syria's civil war that residents like Simav were reduced to eating grass to survive. She says she even looked forward to the times when she had to go out looking for the grass, because it offered a diversion ...

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Two Australian women flee to Syria to become jihadi brides - The Australian Sat, 13 Dec 2014 22:20:01 GMT

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Two Australian women flee to Syria to become jihadi brides
The Australian
Up to 90 young men are believed to have travelled to Syria to fight with the Islamic State terror group, and a number of European women have fled their homes to become jihadi brides but this is the first time Australian women have made the journey. The ...
Two Sydney women flee to Syria to become IS jihahi terror bridesThe Daily Telegraph
Australian pair 'flee to Syria to offer themselves as ISIS jihadi brides'Daily Mail
Australian women off to be 'jihadi brides' in Syria: reportSBS

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UN still struggling to move aid into Syria - Fox News Sat, 13 Dec 2014 18:06:56 GMT

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UN still struggling to move aid into Syria
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July 14, 2014: Syrian Red Crescent trucks loaded with food parcels under the supervision of the U.N., the Red Crescent and in coordination with the Syrian government, prepare to distribute aid to tens of thousands of besieged Syrians inside the rebel ...
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