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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

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Why US bombs are falling on Iraq and not Syria
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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 ...
Terror havens in Syria and Iraq: Five reasons the West should worryCNN
Why Obama Will Bomb SyriaPOLITICO Magazine
ISIS storms one of last Syria army bases in RaqqaThe Daily Star
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'Wish You Were Here': Western Jihadis Unmask to Lure Others to Fight - ABC News Fri, 08 Aug 2014 20:29:14 GMT

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'Wish You Were Here': Western Jihadis Unmask to Lure Others to Fight
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From the same extremists slaughtering their way across Syria and Iraq, who post daily gruesome videos of mass executions of "non-believers," comes a new message this week to the west, with a tone that is more tourism bureau than army of darkness: "I ...

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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 ...
Hundreds return to Syria after Lebanon clashesgulfnews.com
Hundreds of refugees return to Syria after Lebanon clashesYahoo News
Syrian Islamist rebels 'withdraw from Lebanese town after truce'BBC News
Syria Deeply -Washington Times
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Fighting erupts in Lebanese border town held by Islamic extremists from Syria - Fox News Wed, 06 Aug 2014 12:20:36 GMT

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Fighting erupts in Lebanese border town held by Islamic extremists from Syria
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Thousands of Lebanese civilians and Syrian refugees packed cars and pickup trucks Monday, fleeing an eastern border town that was overrun by militants from neighboring Syria as Lebanese troops fight to liberate the area. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)The ...
Will the war in Syria spread to Lebanon?Aljazeera.com
World View: Syria War Spills into Lebanon as ISIS Attacks Town of ArsalBreitbart News
Syria conflict: France to speed up arms for LebanonBBC News
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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
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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 ...

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.
Syria war refugees allowed in Jordan, except if they're PalestinianThe Electronic Intifada (blog)
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HRW says Jordan deporting Palestinian refugees from SyriaMa'an News Agency
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HSBC accused of closing UK bank accounts held by Syrians - The Guardian Fri, 08 Aug 2014 12:54:00 GMT

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HSBC accused of closing UK bank accounts held by Syrians
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Manchester-based human rights group Rapar and the Syrian Rethink Rebuild Society, a not for profit organisation operating from the same city, said they have been working together to document cases in which Syrian nationals have been unfairly targeted ...
Why is HSBC closing Syrian refugees' bank accounts?Bundaberg News Mail

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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
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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
This Has Been The Most Violent Week Of The Entire Syria WarBusiness Insider
Is there a US response to the evidence of torture in Syria?Middle East Monitor
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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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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 ...