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Sydney man in Syria 'posts picture of son holding severed head' - The Guardian Mon, 11 Aug 2014 01:32:00 GMT

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Sydney man in Syria 'posts picture of son holding severed head' The Guardian A shocking image has been posted on Twitter showing a young boy, reportedly raised in the suburbs of Sydney, holding up the severed head of a slain Syrian soldier. The image, taken in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, was posted on the Twitter account ... The photo that will shock the world: jihadist Khaled Sharrouf's son, 7, holds ...The Daily Telegraph 'Barbaric' nature of ISIL on display with photos of boy holding decapitated ...Sydney Morning Herald 'The act of a lunatic': Islamic State jihadist Khaled Sharrouf's photograph of ...Yahoo!7 News all 54 news articles »

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Hillary Clinton Criticizes Obama on Syria Policy - TIME Sun, 10 Aug 2014 15:21:20 GMT

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Hillary Clinton Criticizes Obama on Syria Policy TIME Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton drew a foreign policy line between herself and President Obama in an interview this week, saying the President should have assisted Syrian rebels early in the bloody three-year conflict there, and issuing a dig ... Clinton critical of Obama foreign policy, says 'failure' to act in Syria ...Fox News Hillary Clinton criticises Barack Obama's policy on Syria and IsraelThe Guardian Clinton takes swipe at Obama over SyriaFinancial Times The Atlantic -MarketWatch -The Malay Mail Online all 107 news articles »

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British fighter reportedly killed during gun fight in Syria - The Guardian Sun, 10 Aug 2014 19:10:54 GMT

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British fighter reportedly killed during gun fight in Syria The Guardian A former supervisor at Primark who left the UK to fight in Syria has been killed, it has been reported. Muhammad Hamidur Rahman, 25, from Portsmouth is thought to be one of about 500 Britons who have travelled to Syria to fight for the Islamic State ... From Portsmouth's Primark to Syria's holy warChannel 4 News British jihadi who went to fight for ISIS after he was sacked from Primark is ...Daily Mail Briton fighting for ISIL Takfiris killed in Syria, reports sayPress TV Express.co.uk -Telegraph.co.uk -Portsmouth News all 13 news articles »

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Women stoned to death in Syria for adultery - SFGate Sun, 10 Aug 2014 15:13:01 GMT

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Women stoned to death in Syria for adultery SFGate The killings were the first of their kind in rebel-held northern Syria, where jihadis from the Islamic State group have seized large swaths of territory, terrorizing residents with their strict interpretation of Islamic law, including beheadings and ... Women stoned to death for 'adultery' in Syria as jihadi rebels impose strict ...Daily Mail Islamic State Thrives From its Base in Northern SyriaWall Street Journal (blog) Women stoned to death in SyriaThe Advocate Daily Caller all 78 news articles »

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Terror havens in Syria and Iraq: Five reasons the West should worry - CNN Fri, 08 Aug 2014 12:58:43 GMT

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Terror havens in Syria and Iraq: Five reasons the West should worry CNN (CNN) -- The Sunni Muslim extremist group ISIS has torn through eastern Syria and northern and western Iraq in recent months, seizing territory for what it says is its new Islamic caliphate and butchering those who stand in their way. The situation has ... Reporters to WH: Why Is Iraq Different from Syria?National Review Online (blog) Jon Karl to WH: Why Airstrikes in Iraq and Not Syria?Washington Free Beacon all 85 news articles »

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War victims flee back to Syria as refugee camp in Lebanon is burned to the ... - Daily Mail Sun, 10 Aug 2014 11:57:27 GMT

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War victims flee back to Syria as refugee camp in Lebanon is burned to the ... Daily Mail Having previously thought of Lebanon as a relatively safe haven from the long-running civil war between Syria dictator Bashar Assad and hard-line Muslim forces in the country, the Syrian victims found themselves in the firing line earlier this week ... Lebanese villagers repel Islamist fighters who crossed from SyriaSydney Morning Herald Lebanese villagers repel fighters who crossed from Syria -Lebanese sourcesReuters Stranded refugees return to Syria: ambassadorThe Daily Star Press TV all 69 news articles »

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Thousands From Iraq Minority Flee to Syria - ABC News Sat, 09 Aug 2014 23:22:52 GMT

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Thousands From Iraq Minority Flee to Syria ABC News At least 56 children died in the mountains, Juliette Touma of the U.N. children's agency estimated. Other Yazidis have settled in refugee camps in Syria: so desperate is their situation, they have sought safety in a country aflame in a civil war. The ... Desperate Iraqi Yazidis flee into Syria after Kurdish forces secure escape routeWashington Post Thousands Of Iraqi Yazidis Flee To Syria After Kurds Open Safe PassageHuffington Post Comment: Why US bombs are falling on Iraq and not SyriaSBS The Daily Star -NBCNews.com -POLITICO Magazine all 9,440 news articles »

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Why US bombs are falling on Iraq and not Syria - Washington Post (blog) Fri, 08 Aug 2014 19:35:51 GMT

Why US bombs are falling on Iraq and not Syria Washington Post (blog) Instead, it is striking one of Assad's biggest enemies, the extremist militia that calls itself the Islamic State. And this intervention is not in Syria, but in neighboring Iraq. Obama's calls for intervention in Syria ultimately failed, and now bombs ...

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Hezbollah MP rejects UNIFIL on Syria border - The Daily Star Sun, 10 Aug 2014 21:13:00 GMT

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Hezbollah MP rejects UNIFIL on Syria border The Daily Star BEIRUT: Loyalty to Resistance bloc member Ali Fayyad announced Sunday that Hezbollah opposes the extension of the U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701 to take effect on Lebanon's borders with Syria too. “The expansion the scope of the 1701 ...

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How Data Scientists Are Uncovering War Crimes in Syria - Mashable Fri, 08 Aug 2014 08:35:49 GMT

How Data Scientists Are Uncovering War Crimes in Syria Mashable For more than three years, Syria has been crippled by a bloody civil war that has laid waste to cities and exacted a heavy civilian toll. But because reporting in Syria is so dangerous, the bloodletting has largely taken place away from the media ...