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Nearly 700 killed in Syria rebel infighting - CNN Sun, 12 Jan 2014 23:34:29 GMT

Aljazeera.com

Nearly 700 killed in Syria rebel infighting CNN (CNN) -- Nearly 700 people have been killed in nine days of fierce clashes between an al Qaeda affiliate and other Islamist and rebel groups, activists said Sunday. Forces from the al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and Syria have increasingly ... Report: Al-Qaeda Syria unit executes rivalsAljazeera.com Treading Water on SyriaNew York Times Nearly 700 dead in Syria rebel-on-rebel clashesFox News Telegraph.co.uk -ABC Online all 667 news articles »

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Top Envoys Insist Syria Peace Talks Must Proceed - ABC News Sun, 12 Jan 2014 10:17:56 GMT

RT

Top Envoys Insist Syria Peace Talks Must Proceed ABC News Syria's Western-backed opposition came under steely pressure Sunday to attend peace talks in just over a week, as envoys from 11 countries converged to try and restore the credibility of a rebel coalition sapped by vicious infighting and indecision. Friends of Syria group urges opposition to attend Geneva talksReuters Syria opposition pressed to attend talksAljazeera.com Friends of Syria urges opposition to attend talksRTE.ie RT all 630 news articles »

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War turns Syria into major amphetamine producer and consumer - CBS News Sun, 12 Jan 2014 13:06:01 GMT

Telegraph.co.uk

War turns Syria into major amphetamine producer and consumer CBS News BEIRUT - Syria has become a major amphetamines exporter and consumer as the trauma of the country's brutal civil war fuels demand and the breakdown in order creates opportunity for producers. Drugs experts, traders and local activists say Syrian ... Syria's civil war being fought with fighters high on drugsTelegraph.co.uk Insight: War turns Syria into major amphetamines producer, consumerReuters all 15 news articles »

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Sydney woman Amira Ali dies with husband Yusuf in Syria - The Australian Sun, 12 Jan 2014 13:07:05 GMT

SBS

Sydney woman Amira Ali dies with husband Yusuf in Syria The Australian A SYDNEY woman who travelled to meet her husband in Syria has become Australia's first female fatality in the deadly conflict, after the couple died amid vicious infighting between the rebel forces. Amira Ali, 22, left her home in Granville in Sydney's ... Two Australians feared killed by rebels in SyriaABC Online DFAT trying to confirm Aussie Syria deathsSBS Australian woman blown up in SyriaNEWS.com.au (blog) all 12 news articles »

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Kerry: 'No Other Alternative' To Ending Violence In Syria - NPR Sun, 12 Jan 2014 21:57:59 GMT

Kerry: 'No Other Alternative' To Ending Violence In Syria NPR Secretary of State John Kerry is in Paris preparing for a long-delayed peace conference on Syria next week. He's urging the Syrian opposition to negotiate with a regime they've been trying to topple. The war in Syria has raged for three years and has ...

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'Friends of Syria' says talks only option - Aljazeera.com Sun, 12 Jan 2014 16:20:49 GMT

'Friends of Syria' says talks only option Aljazeera.com The Friends of Syria, an alliance of mainly Western and Gulf Arab countries who support the Syrian opposition, has said that the only way for a political solution to end the Syrian war is for peace talks in Geneva to take place. "There is no other ...

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UN concerns mount over besieged Syrians - BBC News Sun, 12 Jan 2014 15:14:25 GMT

BBC News

UN concerns mount over besieged Syrians BBC News The UN humanitarian affairs chief has expressed deep concern for communities cut off in Syria by months of fighting between government and rebel forces. Valerie Amos told the BBC she had heard accounts of near starvation, including in the capital, ... Syria donor meeting aims to raise over $1.5B – UN aid chiefGMA News UN worried about beseiged in SyriaRadio New Zealand China offers Syria 3.3 mln USD worth of humanitarian aidCCTV Reuters UK all 64 news articles »

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Syrian troops push towards Aleppo city - Aljazeera.com Sun, 12 Jan 2014 13:12:31 GMT

Syrian troops push towards Aleppo city Aljazeera.com The Sunday meeting of the "Friends of Syria" group at the French Foreign Affairs Ministry was to include ministers from 11 countries that support the so-called Geneva 2 peace process, along with Ahmed Jarba, the president of Syria's main opposition ...

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Syria's Conflict Told Through a Caustic Wit - New York Times (blog) Sat, 11 Jan 2014 23:03:41 GMT

Syria's Conflict Told Through a Caustic Wit New York Times (blog) A video produced by the Kafranbel Media Center uses three groups of cavemen to depict the conflict in Syria: anti-government protesters, regime fighters who attack the protesters, and the international community that watches the violence without ...

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Qatar: Syria rebels' tiny ally in the background - Los Angeles Times Sun, 12 Jan 2014 16:50:51 GMT

Gulf Times

Qatar: Syria rebels' tiny ally in the background Los Angeles Times DOHA, Qatar — As the hot sun cut through the morning haze of the seemingly perpetual summer of this Persian Gulf city, commanders of Syria's Western-backed opposition forces convened for a series of high-level meetings. The participants, leaders of ... FM attends Friends of Syria meetPeninsula On-line all 9 news articles »