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Deadly car bombing hits central Syria - Aljazeera.com Thu, 09 Jan 2014 14:50:13 GMT

Washington Post

Deadly car bombing hits central Syria
Aljazeera.com
A car bomb has exploded near a school in the central Syrian province of Hama, killing at least 18 people and wounding dozens more, according to a monitoring group. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Thursday that the ...
Syria car bomb kills 18 near schoolLos Angeles Times
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Car bomb explodes in Hama, SyriaWashington Post
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Obama, Kerry surrender Syria and the Middle East to Iran - Fox News Fri, 10 Jan 2014 02:08:59 GMT

Obama, Kerry surrender Syria and the Middle East to Iran
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President Obama and Secretary Kerry, however, have allowed Iran to drive the end game in Syria – and to drive America into irrelevancy. This administration's capacity for appeasement, weakness and dysfunction with regard to foreign policy ...

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Syria Militants Said to Press to Attack US - New York Times Fri, 10 Jan 2014 02:28:30 GMT

Syria Militants Said to Press to Attack US
New York Times
WASHINGTON — Islamic extremist groups in Syria with ties to Al Qaeda are trying to identify, recruit and train Americans and other Westerners who have traveled there to get them to carry out attacks when they return home, according to senior American ...
FBI chief says Americans could be learning terrorism in SyriaNBCNews.com (blog)

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Germany agrees to help destroy Syria's chemical weapons - BBC News Thu, 09 Jan 2014 22:39:24 GMT

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Germany agrees to help destroy Syria's chemical weapons
BBC News
Germany is joining international efforts to destroy Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons, the foreign and defence ministries have announced. The decision is in response to a request for help from the UN and OPCW, co-ordinators of the destruction plan.
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Syrian Opposition Group on Brink of Collapse - ABC News Thu, 09 Jan 2014 20:04:22 GMT

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Syrian Opposition Group on Brink of Collapse
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Two weeks ahead of an international peace conference on Syria, the country's main Western-backed opposition group stands on the brink of collapse, dragged down by outside pressures, infighting and deep disagreements over the basic question of whether ...
Russia again blocks anti-Assad resolution at UN, as Kerry heads for Syria summitFox News
Syria Opposition Holds 'Unified' Meeting Ahead of Peace TalksVoice of America
Syria's Western-backed opposition group on brink of collapseLos Angeles Daily News
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US Considers Resuming Nonlethal Aid to Syrian Opposition - New York Times Fri, 10 Jan 2014 03:28:17 GMT

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US Considers Resuming Nonlethal Aid to Syrian Opposition
New York Times
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is considering the resumption of nonlethal military aid to Syria's moderate opposition, senior administration officials said on Thursday, even if some of it ends up going to the Islamist groups that are allied ...
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Polio in Syria Is Said to Be Under Control - New York Times Fri, 10 Jan 2014 02:28:30 GMT

Polio in Syria Is Said to Be Under Control
New York Times
The first polio outbreak in Syria in 14 years, which caused alarm when detected last September in the war-ravaged country, appears to have been contained halfway through an emergency vaccination effort for millions of children in the Middle East, two ...


Syria, Iraq and al-Qaeda The jihadists may have gone too far - The Economist Fri, 10 Jan 2014 01:32:05 GMT

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Syria, Iraq and al-Qaeda The jihadists may have gone too far
The Economist
Since then, rebels of all stripes, including al-Qaeda's slightly milder Syrian affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra, other Islamist brigades and moderate Western-backed groups known as the Free Syrian Army, have joined forces, rapidly sweeping ISIS from ...
Car bomb blast in Syria; deaths reportedCNN International
Jihadist gains in Syria, Iraq raise stakes in MideastDallas Morning News
US response muted to Al Qaeda affiliate's gains in Syria and IraqLos Angeles Times
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Russia blocks UN condemnation of Syria raids - Aljazeera.com Thu, 09 Jan 2014 12:41:55 GMT

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Russia blocks UN condemnation of Syria raids
Aljazeera.com
Russia has blocked a British-drafted UN Security Council statement condemning the Syrian government attacks on the city of Aleppo, diplomats said. It was the second time in a month that Russia objected to a western bid to slam President Bashar al-Assad ...
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Syria Lurches From Bad to Worse - Huffington Post Thu, 09 Jan 2014 23:51:35 GMT

Syria Lurches From Bad to Worse
Huffington Post
In three years of bloodshed, more than 125,000 people have been killed in Syria. Tens of thousands have been maimed. Barrel bombs filled with explosives and shrapnel dropped from helicopters are the regime's newest way to inflict death and suffering.

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