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UN Security Council to vote on Syria aid resolution Saturday - Reuters Thu, 20 Feb 2014 22:34:16 GMT

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UN Security Council to vote on Syria aid resolution Saturday
Reuters
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council will vote on Saturday on a resolution to boost humanitarian aid access in Syria, where the United Nations says 9.3 million people need help, although it is unclear if Russia and China will support or ...
As Syria devours itself, UN dithers on aidBBC News
Russia, China support unclear for UN Syria aid voteeuronews
UN Resolution on Syria Aid Faces Vote This WeekABC News
Times of India
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Spymasters gather to discuss Syria - Washington Post Thu, 20 Feb 2014 01:14:24 GMT

Antiwar.com (blog)
Spymasters gather to discuss Syria
Washington Post
Western and Arab intelligence services that support Syria's struggling opposition gathered for a two-day strategy meeting in Washington last week that appears to signal a stronger effort to back the rebels. The spymasters' conclave featured Prince ...
Saudi Arabia Replaces Key Official in Effort to Arm Syria RebelsWall Street Journal
Valued 'Ally' Saudi Arabia Supports Terrorism, Urges US War in SyriaAntiwar.com (blog)
On Syria, a spymaster's enclave: David IgnatiusThe Oregonian

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Obama may escalate role in Syrian war - Yahoo News Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:03:32 GMT

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Obama may escalate role in Syrian war
Yahoo News
In this photo taken on Monday Feb. 10, 2014, and released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a Syrian Arab Red Crescent member in red uniform carries a baby on to a bus to evacuate the battleground city of Homs, Syria. The Syrian government has ...

On Syria, Obama's past words collide with national security implications - Washington Post Thu, 20 Feb 2014 17:11:40 GMT

International Business Times (press release)
On Syria, Obama's past words collide with national security implications
Washington Post
In the same month, Syria's civil war began in the small southern border city of Daraa, where government forces moved violently to end weeks of protest. More than 140,000 Syrians have been killed since then in a country Obama acknowledged last week is ...
Obama Administration Stiffs Chemical Survivors on New ClaimDaily Beast
Obama's least bad options on SyriaLos Angeles Times
As long as Bashar Assad thinks he is winning, diplomacy will failThe Economist
International Business Times (press release) -Financial Times -RIA Novosti
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UK student Mohammad Azzam Javeed missing in Syria - BBC News Thu, 20 Feb 2014 10:50:06 GMT

Mirror.co.uk
UK student Mohammad Azzam Javeed missing in Syria
BBC News
A 19-year-old Briton believed to have travelled to Syria with a friend who was later killed in a gun battle, has gone missing in the country. Mohammad Azzam Javeed, from Levenshulme, Manchester, is thought to have travelled at the same time as ...
British teen 'missing in Syria' after travelling to country with friend later ...Mirror.co.uk

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Obama: Ukraine, Syria aren't 'Cold War chessboard' - USA TODAY Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:19:19 GMT

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Obama: Ukraine, Syria aren't 'Cold War chessboard'
USA TODAY
With the unrest in Ukraine, President Obama finds himself at odds again with Russia's President Vladimir Putin. In recent days, his administration has expressed its frustration with Syria blowing a deadline to turn over its chemical weapons, and has ...
Obama: 'Worth Noting' Russian Role in Ukraine, SyriaNBCNews.com
Obama's Syria 'red line' has echoes in his warning to UkraineReuters
Obama: Ukraine, Syria are not pieces on 'some Cold-War chessboard'Yahoo News
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Syrian wounded flee to hospitals in Israel: Derek Stoffel - CBC.ca Tue, 18 Feb 2014 20:15:31 GMT

Syrian wounded flee to hospitals in Israel: Derek Stoffel
CBC.ca
(Derek Stoffel/CBC). ​Yousef arrived in Israel suffering not only from severe injuries to his back, but also a life-threatening stomach infection contracted while he was offered stabilizing medical treatment in Syria. His condition was grave. But more ...

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Deadly blast rocks Syria border crossing - Boston.com Thu, 20 Feb 2014 17:01:05 GMT

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Deadly blast rocks Syria border crossing
Boston.com
BEIRUT (AP) — A powerful explosion ripped through a Syrian border post Thursday near a refugee camp on the border with Turkey, setting cars ablaze and killing at least five people, Syrian opposition activists and Turkish state media said. The blast ...
Car bomb hits refugee camp on Syria borderThe Daily Star
UN delivers food to district of Syria's capitalYahoo News
Blast strikes Syria border crossing with Turkey, killing at least 5 peopleU.S. News & World Report

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Why Are Syria's Brutally Crude Barrel Bombs so Effective? - Slate Magazine (blog) Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:51:48 GMT

Slate Magazine (blog)
Why Are Syria's Brutally Crude Barrel Bombs so Effective?
Slate Magazine (blog)
Given all the international attention that has been focused on Syria's chemical weapons stockpile, it seems almost like a cruel joke that the most brutally effective weapon in Bashar al-Assad's arsenal these days consists of metal containers packed ...
Meet Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN's Middleman on SyriaThe Nation.
A glimmer of Syrian hopeThe Hindu
New US Syria policy should engage IranAl-Monitor
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Lebanon dances into the abyss as Syria conflict crosses border - BBC News Wed, 19 Feb 2014 09:15:25 GMT

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Lebanon dances into the abyss as Syria conflict crosses border
BBC News
Lebanon is hosting around a million refugees from the conflict in Syria, which means that one in four people in the country are Syrian. But the impact on Syria's neighbour goes well beyond a humanitarian crisis, writes the BBC's Kim Ghattas. The ...
2 Deadly Blasts Rock Beirut, as Violence Seeps From SyriaNew York Times
As Syria Fighting Wears On, What's Next?Here And Now

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