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Exclusive: Iran's support for Syria tested by oil price drop - Reuters Fri, 19 Dec 2014 18:36:27 GMT

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Exclusive: Iran's support for Syria tested by oil price drop
Reuters
In return, we are promising them more and more, and opening more and more doors for them to invest in Syria," he said. Oil production in Syria, which is under U.S. and European sanctions, has dropped sharply since the start of the conflict and as ...
Syrian Bomb Plot Marked Deadly Turn in Civil WarWall Street Journal
Analysis: Iran's support for Syria tested by oil price dropJerusalem Post
One Million People Wounded In Syria: WHOHuffington Post
Al-Arabiya
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One million people wounded, diseases spreading in Syria: WHO - Reuters Fri, 19 Dec 2014 10:11:55 GMT

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One million people wounded, diseases spreading in Syria: WHO
Reuters
More than 200,000 people have been killed in Syria's conflict, which began in March 2011 with popular protests against President Bashar al-Assad and spiraled into civil war after a crackdown by his security forces. "In Syria, they have a million people ...


ISIS offers teenage girls cash to travel to Syria, marry jihadist fighters - RT Fri, 19 Dec 2014 14:07:28 GMT

RT

ISIS offers teenage girls cash to travel to Syria, marry jihadist fighters
RT
Extremists in Britain acting as Islamic State intermediaries and recruiters are offering teenagers cash to lure them to Syria to join the militant group and marry its fighters, a Times investigation reveals. Two undercover reporters working for the ...
US Airstrikes in Iraq and Syria Have Cost $1 BillionABC News
ISIS extremists 'offer British teenagers cash to become jihadi brides in Syria ...Daily Mail
British mother lures girls to Syria with promise of 'an awesome life'The Times (subscription)
International Business Times UK -The Independent
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How Syria policy stalled under the 'analyst in chief' - Reuters Fri, 19 Dec 2014 22:48:25 GMT

How Syria policy stalled under the 'analyst in chief'
Reuters
Throughout 2012, as signs mounted that militants in Syria were growing stronger, the debate in the White House followed a pattern. In meeting after meeting, as officials from agencies outside the executive residence advocated arming pro-Western rebels ...

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Syria Response Plan 2015 launched in Berlin - World Health Organization (press release) Fri, 19 Dec 2014 18:02:27 GMT

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Syria Response Plan 2015 launched in Berlin
World Health Organization (press release)
Syria_response_plan The health sector is requesting over US$ 317 million to continue providing life-saving assistance to the affected population inside Syria. Photo credit: WHO/B.Khabieh19 December 2014, Damascus – On 18 December, donors gathered ...
UN: $8.4 Billion Needed for Syria and Neighbors Hosting RefugeesTIME
UN Seeks $8.4 Billion for SyriansNew York Times
December 8th, 2014 · 2 min readSyria Deeply
The Guardian -Deutsche Welle -UNHCR (press release)
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Texas plumber's truck spotted in Syria: 'We have nothing to do with terror at all' - The Guardian Thu, 18 Dec 2014 21:52:53 GMT

Texas plumber's truck spotted in Syria: 'We have nothing to do with terror at all'
The Guardian
Attempts to call the Olberholtzer family, who own Mark-1 Plumbing, reached only a recorded message or a disconnected line. On Tuesday Mark Olberholtzer told the Galveston Daily News he was mystified: “How it ended up in Syria, I'll never know.” His son ...


'How it ended up in Syria, I'll never know': Texas plumber shocked to learn ... - Sydney Morning Herald Fri, 19 Dec 2014 17:41:20 GMT

Sydney Morning Herald

'How it ended up in Syria, I'll never know': Texas plumber shocked to learn ...
Sydney Morning Herald
A Texas plumber says he has no clue how his old work truck wound up some 11,000 kilometres away in the hands of Islamic militants in Syria. But an extremist group, Ansar al-Deen Front, reportedly posted a photo of it on Twitter earlier this week ...

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'Over 200 bodies' found in Syria mass grave - Aljazeera.com Wed, 17 Dec 2014 19:41:50 GMT

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'Over 200 bodies' found in Syria mass grave
Aljazeera.com
The bodies of 230 people killed by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group have been found in a mass grave uncovered by their relatives in Syria's Deir Ezzor province, a monitoring group has said. The discovery brings the number of ...
Syria conflict: 230 bodies 'found in mass grave' in Deir al-ZourBBC News
Mass grave of 230 uncovered in Syria after ISIS slaughtered tribeDaily Mail
Syria conflict: Over 230 bodies found in mass grave says monitoring groupABC Online
The Independent -Long War Journal
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Watch: VICE news accompanies IDF unit giving medical aid to Syrian rebels - Ynetnews Fri, 19 Dec 2014 17:59:06 GMT

Watch: VICE news accompanies IDF unit giving medical aid to Syrian rebels
Ynetnews
VICE News has launched a five-part video news series entitled "The War Next Door" which gives a rare, behind the scenes glimpse of how the IDF has involved itself in the bloody conflict in Syria – by treating alleged Syrian rebels, some of which would ...

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Exclusive: As easy targets thin, Syria air strikes by US allies plunge - Reuters Thu, 18 Dec 2014 12:19:48 GMT

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Exclusive: As easy targets thin, Syria air strikes by US allies plunge
Reuters
Although President Barack Obama's administration announced the Syrian air strikes three months ago as a joint campaign by Washington and its Arab allies, nearly 97 percent of the strikes in December have been carried out by the United States alone, ...
US-led air strikes focus on Islamic State Kobani in SyriaYahoo News
Allies abandon US in Syria as America goes it virtually aloneAmerican Thinker (blog)

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