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Syria Militants Leave Lebanese Border Town - ABC News Thu, 07 Aug 2014 06:33:45 GMT

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Syria Militants Leave Lebanese Border Town
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Militants from Syria who overran a Lebanese border town mostly withdrew back across the rugged hills separating the two countries as a cease-fire appeared to hold Thursday, allowing Lebanese troops to free seven fellow soldiers and ambulances to ...
Fighting erupts in Lebanese border town held by Islamic extremists from SyriaFox News
Will the war in Syria spread to Lebanon?Aljazeera.com
World View: Syria War Spills into Lebanon as ISIS Attacks Town of ArsalBreitbart News
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Syria militants withdraw from Lebanese border town after days of clashes - U.S. News & World Report Thu, 07 Aug 2014 11:49:13 GMT

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Syria militants withdraw from Lebanese border town after days of clashes
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Lebanese army soldiers sit inside a Humvee as reinforcements arrive to the outskirts of Arsal, a predominantly Sunni Muslim town near the Syrian border in eastern Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014. Thousands of Lebanese civilians and Syrian refugees ...
Syrian Islamist rebels 'withdraw from Lebanese town after truce'BBC News
Arsal refugees refused entry into SyriaThe Daily Star

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ISIS storms one of last Syria army bases in Raqqa - The Daily Star Fri, 08 Aug 2014 02:17:34 GMT

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ISIS storms one of last Syria army bases in Raqqa
The Daily Star
BEIRUT: Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) militants stormed one of the Syrian government's last outposts in the northern province of Raqqa in an overnight attack and battled troops holed up in the area Thursday, killing dozens of soldiers ...
Islamic State's momentum complicates the fight in SyriaLos Angeles Times
Islamic State storm one of last Syria army bases in Raqqa: activistsReuters
The Dangerous Nexus Between Radicalism in Britain and Syria's Foreign FightersWar on the Rocks
Asharq Alawsat English
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German Intel: Extremist Flow to Syria Unbroken - ABC News Thu, 07 Aug 2014 10:31:25 GMT

German Intel: Extremist Flow to Syria Unbroken
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However, authorities are alert to the risk posed by radicals returning from Syria's civil war. A Frenchman who had fought in Syria is suspected of killing four people at Brussels' Jewish Museum in May. Maassen says that shows the return of fighters ...

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Jordan 'refuses' Palestinians fleeing Syria conflict - BBC News Thu, 07 Aug 2014 14:37:17 GMT

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Jordan 'refuses' Palestinians fleeing Syria conflict
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Jordan is turning away Palestinian refugees from Syria in violation of international law, the New York-based group Human Rights Watch says. It is said to have forcibly repatriated more than 100 asylum seekers, including women and children, since mid-2012.
HRW slams Jordan for rebuffing Palestinian refugees from SyriaAl-Arabiya
Jordan: Palestinians Escaping Syria Turned AwayThomson Reuters Foundation
Jordan accused of barring entry to Palestinians fleeing Syriaswissinfo.ch
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White House plan to help Syrian rebels stalls, and losses mount - The Hill Thu, 07 Aug 2014 10:16:42 GMT

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White House plan to help Syrian rebels stalls, and losses mount
The Hill
The White House proposed a plan two months ago for the Pentagon to train and equip vetted Syrian rebel forces in that nation's civil war. But since then, there's been lots of talk and not much action. Administration officials have agreed on the broad ...
US Rules Out Working With Syria's Assad to Counter al QaedaWall Street Journal (blog)
Playing Both Sides in SyriatheTrumpet.com
With More Evidence of Assad War Crimes, Is Transitional Justice Possible in ...World Politics Review

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Understanding Syria's four-front war - Middle East Eye Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:28:15 GMT

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Understanding Syria's four-front war
Middle East Eye
As the world media has been preoccupied with the Gaza conflict, Syria has just had the bloodiest week of its civil war. Some 1,700 were killed in seven days, with a renewed push from Islamic State (IS) accounting for much of the violence. Confident ...
Syrian Alawites horrified by rising death tollAl-Monitor
Is there a US response to the evidence of torture in Syria?Middle East Monitor
Safeguarding Heritage Sites in SyriaUS Department of State (press release)
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Remember Syria? Some fear world losing interest in deadly conflict - CNN Mon, 04 Aug 2014 13:24:23 GMT

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Remember Syria? Some fear world losing interest in deadly conflict
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(CNN) -- There are photos of bodies with limbs torn from their sockets and others showing people with their eyes gouged out -- even shots of people being crucified. But with crises in the Middle East and eastern Ukraine, does the world still care about ...

1500 refugee families transported back to Syria - The Daily Star Thu, 07 Aug 2014 15:51:01 GMT

The Daily Star
1500 refugee families transported back to Syria
The Daily Star
HERMEL, Lebanon: At least 1,500 Syrian refugee families were transported back into Syria Thursday with the help of Syrian and Lebanese authorities, a security source told The Daily Star. The families, who had taken refuge in the embattled Arsal ...

Kurds from Turkey, Syria enter Iraq to battle Islamic State - The Idaho Statesman Thu, 07 Aug 2014 23:57:57 GMT

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Kurds from Turkey, Syria enter Iraq to battle Islamic State
The Idaho Statesman
Thousands of Kurdish fighters from Turkey and Syria attacked Islamic State positions at Sinjar, one of three Iraqi cities that fell to the Islamic State over the weekend, while peshmerga militias loyal to Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government ...
The Islamic State Is Also on the March in SyriaYa Libnan
Assyrian Christians in Australia Protest Islamic State Treatment of Christians ...Breitbart News

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