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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 all 7,859 news articles »

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Islamic militants in Syria introduce stoning as latest form of punishment ... - National Post Sat, 09 Aug 2014 20:26:02 GMT

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Islamic militants in Syria introduce stoning as latest form of punishment ... National Post The killings were the first of their kind in rebel-held northern Syria, where jihadis from ISIS have seized large swaths of territory, terrorizing residents with their strict interpretation of Islamic law, including beheadings and cutting off the hands ... Jihadists Stoned Women To Death In SyriaDaily Caller all 31 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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Lebanese villagers repel fighters who crossed from Syria -Lebanese sources - Reuters Sat, 09 Aug 2014 18:23:33 GMT

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Lebanese villagers repel fighters who crossed from Syria -Lebanese sources Reuters Kfar Qouq is near the Bekaa Valley town of Rashaya and some 100 km (60 miles) south of the border town of Arsal that was seized last Saturday by Islamist militants who crossed from Syria. That incursion was the most serious spillover yet of Syria's ... War victims flee back to Syria as refugee camp in Lebanon is burned to the ...Daily Mail Lebanese villagers repel Islamist fighters who crossed from SyriaSydney Morning Herald all 39 news articles »

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Could ISIS retaliate against the West? - CNN Fri, 08 Aug 2014 23:17:52 GMT

CNN	Could ISIS retaliate against the West? CNN ISIS, which calls itself the Islamic State but formerly was known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, is thought to have tens of millions of dollars in cash reserves and it operates training camps on a scale last seen in Taliban-run Afghanistan ...

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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 ...

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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 ABC News 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 ... Isis, the jihadists who turned the tablesThe Guardian all 15 news articles »

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Thousands of Yazidi Flee ISIS in Iraq and Into Syria - NBCNews.com Sat, 09 Aug 2014 20:32:07 GMT

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Thousands of Yazidi Flee ISIS in Iraq and Into Syria NBCNews.com Kurdish fighters have reportedly opened up a passage allowing thousands of members of a minority group under attack by ISIS militants to flee Iraq and into Syria, another country torn by conflict. The claim by Kurdish official Juan Mohammad that more ...

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HSBC accused of closing UK bank accounts held by Syrians - The Guardian Sat, 09 Aug 2014 06:30:32 GMT

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HSBC accused of closing UK bank accounts held by Syrians The Guardian 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?Noosa News all 18 news articles »

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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 ABC News 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 BBC News -Deutsche Welle -New York Times all 913 news articles »