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Syrian Rebels Trade Fire With Troops From UN - New York Times Sat, 30 Aug 2014 22:44:58 GMT

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Syrian Rebels Trade Fire With Troops From UN
New York Times
The clashes were a violent new turn in the confrontation between the United Nations force responsible for monitoring the demarcation line between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and rebels fighting a civil war against the Syrian government.
Philippine troops 'attacked in Syria's Golan Heights'BBC News
Filipino peacekeepers safe from rebels in Golan HeightsUSA TODAY
UN peacekeepers in Syria freed in firefightAljazeera.com
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Fighting in Syria spawns separate civil war in global jihadist movement - Fox News Sat, 30 Aug 2014 17:25:55 GMT

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Fighting in Syria spawns separate civil war in global jihadist movement
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Syria's bloody civil war has spawned a separate rift with ramifications well beyond the region known as the Levant -- a battle for the very soul of the global jihad movement. Islamic militants who poured into the embattled nation to help the Free ...
Obama Cools Talk of Strikes Against Islamic State in Iraq or SyriaWall Street Journal
How would airstrikes impact Syria's humanitarian crisis?CBS News
Jihadists Kill Dozens of Captured Syrian SoldiersABC News
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US military carries out airstrikes, aid drops to Iraqi town surrounded by ISIS - CNN Sun, 31 Aug 2014 02:06:52 GMT

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US military carries out airstrikes, aid drops to Iraqi town surrounded by ISIS
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In the past few weeks, ISIS has "distributed" to its rank and file about 300 female members of the persecuted religious minority, says the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group aligned with the opposition in Syria. Those ...
Why US Air Strikes in Syria Would Damage But Not Destroy ISISABC News
Report: ISIS selling Yazidi women in SyriaKSAT San Antonio

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Obama Again Tips the Scales Toward Caution on Syria - New York Times Sat, 30 Aug 2014 01:03:38 GMT

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Obama Again Tips the Scales Toward Caution on Syria
New York Times
WASHINGTON — When President Obama said on Thursday that he had no strategy yet for dealing with lethal Sunni militants in Syria, he seemed out of sync with his top military advisers and aides, who only days earlier had taken a more aggressive tone ...
Obama's no 'strategy yet' comment on ISIS in Syria sparks a political uproarCNN
Obama admits 'no strategy' on IS in SyriaAljazeera.com
Why Obama doesn't "have a strategy yet" in SyriaCBS News
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Miliband calls for tougher action on Britons travelling to Iraq and Syria - The Guardian Sat, 30 Aug 2014 22:52:53 GMT

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Miliband calls for tougher action on Britons travelling to Iraq and Syria
The Guardian
"The increase in the threat level is related to developments in Syria and Iraq where terrorist groups are planning attacks against the west," May said. "Some of those plots are likely to involve foreign fighters who have travelled there from the UK and ...
UK raises terror threat level, citing risks out of Syria, IraqCNN
Britons use 'dead letter box' system to smuggle their way into Syria and Iraqgulfnews.com
Britain raises its terrorism threat level over Syria, IraqReuters UK
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Brooklyn Man Fights In Syria. Is He A Threat To The US? - NPR (blog) Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:22:20 GMT

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Brooklyn Man Fights In Syria. Is He A Threat To The US?
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"Everyone had a different opinion about Ahmed," says Layla, a Yemeni-American waitress at the cafe who asked that we only use her first name to protect her privacy. "Everyone said that he went to Syria, he went to go fight, stuff like that. And then ...

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What Going to War in Syria Would Really Mean for the US - The Atlantic Fri, 29 Aug 2014 14:18:15 GMT

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What Going to War in Syria Would Really Mean for the US
The Atlantic
To ignore its downsides would be to misunderstand the real choices America faced. Today in Syria, the United States faces another set of harrowing tradeoffs. Syria's leader, Bashar al-Assad, is a murderous dictator. The various rebel groups trying to ...
Takfiris execute 250 Syrian soldiers at airbase, reports sayPress TV

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Syria conflict: Will US expand air strikes? - Aljazeera.com Sat, 30 Aug 2014 20:09:20 GMT

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Syria conflict: Will US expand air strikes?
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The United Nations says almost half of all Syrians have now been forced to abandon their homes, as the number of those affected by the conflict continues to rise. Three million refugees are now registered in neighbouring countries while the number of ...
Syria conflict: UN says more than 3m have fled warBBC News
UN: Nearly half of Syria's population uprooted by civil warWashington Post
Syrian refugees top 3 million, half of all Syrians displaced: UNReuters
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A Weary Rebel Retreats to Fight Another Day - New York Times Sat, 30 Aug 2014 03:03:34 GMT

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A Weary Rebel Retreats to Fight Another Day
New York Times
BEIRUT, Lebanon — AS he rode onto the base of the Fourth Division, the formidable Syrian Army unit that had been starving and bombarding his town near Damascus for months, Kassem Eid prepared for a moral reckoning tougher than any he had faced in ...

UN says detained peacekeepers in Syria are 'safe' - Yahoo News Sat, 30 Aug 2014 18:06:52 GMT

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UN says detained peacekeepers in Syria are 'safe'
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The rebels surrounded another group of 72 soldiers from the Philippines serving in the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) that is tasked with monitoring a ceasefire between Syria and Israel since 1974. The United Nations did not say whether the ...

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