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Jordan Shoots Down 'Aerial Target' Near Syria - ABC News Fri, 25 Jul 2014 17:44:56 GMT

Jordan Shoots Down 'Aerial Target' Near Syria
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Syria's civil war, now in its fourth year, has often spilled across the country's borders. Also, extremists from the Islamic State group last month seized a huge chunk of territory straddling the Iraq-Syria border, declared a self-styled caliphate and ...

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Islamic State fighters capture military base in Syria, behead soldiers - Los Angeles Times Fri, 25 Jul 2014 17:08:40 GMT

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Islamic State fighters capture military base in Syria, behead soldiers
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Militants with the Al Qaeda breakaway group Islamic State seized control of a military base in northern Syria late Thursday night, beheading dozens of soldiers and displaying their headless bodies, activists said. It is only the latest victory for the ...
Syria conflict: Isis 'overruns' Raqqa military baseBBC News
Islamist Militants Gain in SyriaWall Street Journal
Militants Said to Kill 50 at a Syrian BaseNew York Times
The Guardian -International Business Times
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Obsessing About Gaza, Ignoring Syria (and Most Everything Else) - The Atlantic Fri, 25 Jul 2014 04:02:47 GMT

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Obsessing About Gaza, Ignoring Syria (and Most Everything Else)
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I was struck, over the weekend, by the lack of coverage of the Syrian civil war, in which the death count recently passed 170,000. By Sunday night, it had become clear that the weekend in toll in Syria would stand at roughly 700 dead—a larger number, ...

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EU Targets Syria Commander, Oil Companies - Wall Street Journal Wed, 23 Jul 2014 15:04:06 GMT

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EU Targets Syria Commander, Oil Companies
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BRUSSELS—The European Union added one of President Bashar al-Assad's top commanders, a leading businessman and several oil companies to its Syria sanctions list on Wednesday as it seeks to raise pressure on the government. The bloc published ...
700 Syrians killed in two days of conflictAl Jazeera America
EU expands sanctions on SyriaThe Daily Star
'Syria Is With You, Gaza'Global Voices Online
RTE.ie -NDTV
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UN sends first Syria aid without government consent - BBC News Thu, 24 Jul 2014 21:45:44 GMT

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UN sends first Syria aid without government consent
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The United Nations has sent its first aid convoy into Syria without the consent of the government in Damascus. It comes a week after the UN adopted a resolution allowing aid deliveries without the Syrian government's approval. Nine trucks carrying food ...
Syria: So near, so farAljazeera.com
First 9 UN aid trucks enter Syria through TurkeyToday's Zaman
July 25th, 2014 · 2 min read Syria: The Executive Summary, 7/25Syria Deeply
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Jihadists kill at least 50 Syria troops in ambush - Yahoo News Sat, 26 Jul 2014 02:11:25 GMT

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Jihadists kill at least 50 Syria troops in ambush
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Beirut (AFP) - Jihadists from the Islamic State killed at least 50 Syrian soldiers in an ambush on Friday, summarily executing most of them after their capture, a monitoring group said. The assault in Raqa province, the IS jihadists' Euphrates valley ...
Jihadist assault on Syria regime territory kills 74The Daily Star
Jihadists kill at least 50 Syria troops in ambush, monitor saysAl-Arabiya

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The Dilemmas of the Kurds in Syria - Rudaw Sat, 26 Jul 2014 02:26:54 GMT

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The Dilemmas of the Kurds in Syria
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Since 2012, however, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria's militants have also been fighting Kurds in Syria very actively. Most recently, they used weapons and vehicles captured in Mosul to increase their pressure on Kobane and other cantons controlled ...

The Most Violent 48 Hours Of The Entire Syrian War Centered Around Gas Fields - Business Insider Thu, 24 Jul 2014 19:54:46 GMT

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The Most Violent 48 Hours Of The Entire Syrian War Centered Around Gas Fields
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It's perhaps understandable that attention on the three-year-long civil war in Syria, which has killed over 170,000 people and displaced around 9 million more, has waned as the balance of power in the country stabilizes and other international crises ...
Syria deaths mount as world looks onBBC News
How MH17 affects the calculus on aiding Syria's rebelsLos Angeles Daily News
In Syria, the People's Demands Are Still KeyHuffington Post (blog)
The Hill (blog)
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Operation Lifeline Syria - Foreign Policy (blog) Fri, 25 Jul 2014 13:05:41 GMT

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Operation Lifeline Syria
Foreign Policy (blog)
One consequence is that the humanitarian crisis in Syria threatens to become a sideshow -- not because things are getting better, but because complexity has become an excuse for inaction. Suffering on an appalling scale is now the new normal: In the ...

US official: Number of foreign fighters in Syria spikes - Fox News Fri, 25 Jul 2014 18:30:17 GMT

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US official: Number of foreign fighters in Syria spikes
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ASPEN, Colo. – Matthew Olsen, the outgoing director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said Friday there are 12,000 foreign fighters in Syria – a significant jump from previous estimates, indicating a “greater and more complex” threat than in ...
There Are Over 12000 Foreign Fighters in SyriaDefense One
Ex-FBI director warns that Gaza violence will fuel al-Qaida threatYahoo News

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