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Pentagon: US to begin to train and equip moderate Syria rebels - CNN Fri, 16 Jan 2015 20:54:32 GMT

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Pentagon: US to begin to train and equip moderate Syria rebels
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"Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar have agreed to host training sites, and we anticipate the program to train and equip the moderate Syrian opposition will take approximately 400 U.S. trainers, with the caveat that this number could fluctuate based on ...
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Islamic State conflict: Militants execute 15 people in Syria - BBC News Fri, 16 Jan 2015 17:20:40 GMT

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Islamic State conflict: Militants execute 15 people in Syria
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The Islamic State (IS) militant group is reported to have executed 15 people over the past 24 hours in Syria. Some of the victims were shot and crucified, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Horrifying images have also ...
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Getting serious: US troops headed to train Syrian rebels - Hot Air Fri, 16 Jan 2015 18:58:50 GMT

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Getting serious: US troops headed to train Syrian rebels
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The White House was dragged kicking and screaming into the war against ISIS. Politically and materially, the Obama administration saw few upsides to engaging in the fight against the brutish Islamist militants despite their rapid advance across Syria ...
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Two Italian Aid Workers Held Hostage in Syria Are Released - New York Times Fri, 16 Jan 2015 03:02:32 GMT

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Two Italian Aid Workers Held Hostage in Syria Are Released
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ROME — Two Italian women abducted by Islamist militants while doing aid work in northern Syria last year have been freed and are en route home, Italy's government announced Thursday. The women, Greta Ramelli and Vanessa Marzullo, believed to have ...
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Pentagon to deploy 400 troops to train Syrian rebels - Reuters Fri, 16 Jan 2015 06:13:38 GMT

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Pentagon to deploy 400 troops to train Syrian rebels
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military is planning to send more than 400 soldiers to train Syrian rebels to fight Islamic State along with hundreds of U.S. support personnel, a Pentagon spokesman said on Thursday. The training mission is expected to ...


End Syria's war, UN pleads, as Russia steps up diplomacy - Washington Post Thu, 15 Jan 2015 22:24:45 GMT

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End Syria's war, UN pleads, as Russia steps up diplomacy
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BEIRUT — A top U.N. official warned Thursday of the consequences of allowing Syria's war to rage unchecked for yet another year as Russia intensified the first diplomatic push in a year to end to the devastating conflict. Expectations that the Russian ...
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UN envoy says Syria set back 40 years by war, calls for renewed push towards ...UN News Centre
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Towie fan who travelled to Syria with her toddler son escapes from ISIS ... - Daily Mail Fri, 16 Jan 2015 14:57:10 GMT

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Towie fan who travelled to Syria with her toddler son escapes from ISIS ...
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A Towie fan who who ran away to Syria with her toddler son has escaped from the clutches of ISIS and fled to Turkey after begging border guards not to shoot her. Tareena Shakil from Burton-on-Trent in Staffordshire, crossed into Syria last year after ...
British mother who travelled to Isis-controlled Syria with toddler son 'flees ...The Independent

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Three young men killed in Syria war were from Ireland - Irish Independent Fri, 16 Jan 2015 10:59:19 GMT

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Three young men killed in Syria war were from Ireland
Irish Independent
It is not known if they knew each other, but they all lived in Leinster - in Navan, Drogheda and Dublin - before they travelled to Syria. The youngest victim was Libyan-born Shamseddin Gaidan (16), from Navan, who was killed in February 2013 after ...
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ISIS in fierce new attack on Kobani, Syria: activists - The Daily Star Fri, 16 Jan 2015 17:01:41 GMT

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ISIS in fierce new attack on Kobani, Syria: activists
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BEIRUT: ISIS launched a fierce new attack against Syrian Kurdish fighters in Kobani Friday, four months into a battle for the flashpoint town on Turkey's border, an activist group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the jihadis tried to ...

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How 400 US Troops Will Train Syria's Moderate Opposition to Fight ISIS - ABC News Fri, 16 Jan 2015 18:40:26 GMT

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How 400 US Troops Will Train Syria's Moderate Opposition to Fight ISIS
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Up to 400 American military trainers will begin this spring the next phase in the U.S. strategy against ISIS, training Syrian moderate rebels to fight the militant group inside Syria, Pentagon officials said today. But which rebels will be trained by ...