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An Ever-Bleaker Syria, From All Vantage Points - New York Times Sat, 14 Mar 2015 18:46:15 GMT

New York Times

An Ever-Bleaker Syria, From All Vantage Points
New York Times
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Government helicopters rained barrel bombs on villages across Syria last week, killing civilians and demolishing homes. Hundreds of combatants died in battles that failed to move the front lines. And activists spread videos of hungry ...
Syria four years on: What prospect for peace?Aljazeera.com
Syria — unacceptable humanitarian failureJakarta Post
Syria: 83% of Lights Extinguished After 4 Years of CrisisHuman Rights Watch
Al-Arabiya -UN News Centre
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Syrian Rebels Will Face ISIS, But The US May Not Have Their Backs - NPR Sat, 14 Mar 2015 13:50:53 GMT

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Syrian Rebels Will Face ISIS, But The US May Not Have Their Backs
NPR
The U.S. air war in Iraq and Syria against the self-proclaimed Islamic State is now in its eighth month. American officials say dropping bombs won't be enough to defeat that group; it will also require fighting on the ground. So the U.S. is trying to ...
How Four Years of Civil War Has Destroyed SyriaNewsweek
With World's Attention Turned To ISIS, The Syrian Regime Ramps Up Bombings ...Huffington Post
Moderate Syrian Rebels Seek More US HelpVoice of America
Al Jazeera America -Reuters
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Syria girls: First missing London schoolgirl named - BBC News Sat, 14 Mar 2015 20:45:34 GMT

BBC News

Syria girls: First missing London schoolgirl named
BBC News
The first of four missing London schoolgirls who have travelled to Syria has been named as Sharmeena Begum. The 15-year-old, from Bethnal Green, is thought to have left the UK in December to join Islamic State (IS) militants. Sharmeena's father told ...
First British teen to join Islamic State in Syria namedChannel 4 News
ISIS: First London schoolgirl to join terror group in Syria is namedmirror.co.uk
Father of first girl who fled to Syria 'warned police to watch friends'ITV News

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Latest video footage reportedly shows London teenagers en route to Syria - The Guardian Fri, 13 Mar 2015 17:40:40 GMT

The Guardian

Latest video footage reportedly shows London teenagers en route to Syria
The Guardian
Video footage has emerged of three British teenage girls who are believed to have entered Syria to join Islamic State, showing them seemingly being told by a middleman to use Syrian passports while changing transport in Turkey. The shaky mobile phone ...
Video purportedly shows missing UK teens at Turkey-Syria borderCNN
Turkish video alleges spy aided UK girls en route to SyriaReuters
Syria girls: Video appears to show missing British trioBBC News
Telegraph.co.uk -Huffington Post UK -Washington Post
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Kurdish, Christian forces gain on IS in NE Syria battles - Yahoo News Sat, 14 Mar 2015 14:21:13 GMT

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Kurdish, Christian forces gain on IS in NE Syria battles
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BEIRUT (AP) — Kurdish fighters and Christian militiamen are making gains against the Islamic State group in northeastern Syria, with intense clashes amid airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition, an activist group and a Kurdish official said Saturday.
Kurds battle Islamic State in Syria, US-led coalition jets strikeReuters
Kurdish, Christian forces gain on ISIS in Syria battleswwlp.com
Islamic State pushed back in SyriaIrish Independent

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Melbourne people smuggling ring was also sending would-be fighters to Syria - Sydney Morning Herald Sat, 14 Mar 2015 13:15:49 GMT

Sydney Morning Herald

Melbourne people smuggling ring was also sending would-be fighters to Syria
Sydney Morning Herald
A people-smuggling ring that was promising to bring Lebanese asylum seekers to Australia by boat was also believed to be secretly helping people to travel to Syria to join the fighting there. The revelations that a lawyer, accountant, a "travel agent ...
REPORT: Australian people smugglers are now sending jihadi fighters to SyriaBusiness Insider Australia

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Jason Kenney doesn't rule out expanding ISIS mission into Syria - CBC.ca Sat, 14 Mar 2015 17:54:47 GMT

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Jason Kenney doesn't rule out expanding ISIS mission into Syria
CBC.ca
Canada's six-month mission in Iraq comes to a close at the end of March, but Defence Minister Jason Kenney isn't closing the door on an expanded special forces mission or an air war over Syria that would potentially be part of the next phase of Canada ...

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A Plea for Action: Gruesome Photos Smuggled From Syria on Display at UN - Newsweek Fri, 13 Mar 2015 19:20:20 GMT

Newsweek

A Plea for Action: Gruesome Photos Smuggled From Syria on Display at UN
Newsweek
The startling exhibit, Caesar Photos: Inside Syrian Authorities' Prisons, which opened Tuesday evening, is co-hosted by the U.N. missions of the United States, France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Kingdom, and co-sponsored by those of ...
Syrian Torture Images on Display at UN: To Look or Look AwayABC News

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Four years of hell: Aid groups say world is failing Syria's civilians - CNN Thu, 12 Mar 2015 11:08:41 GMT

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Four years of hell: Aid groups say world is failing Syria's civilians
CNN
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based monitoring group, has reported that 2014 was the deadliest year so far in the grinding conflict that began in March 2011 as an uprising against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad and ...
Satellite photos show how Syria has entered 'the Dark Ages'Washington Post (blog)
83 percent of Syria's lights have gone out. See for yourself what that looks like.Vox
Chilling Syrian numbers: 83% of electricity cut, life expectancy drops 20 yearsToronto Star
Huffington Post -Los Angeles Times -BBC News
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The lights have gone out over Syria, just like our humanity - The Guardian Fri, 13 Mar 2015 06:01:35 GMT

The Guardian

The lights have gone out over Syria, just like our humanity
The Guardian
He is also a stark and eloquent defender of the Syrian revolutionaries who set out to overthrow Assad back in 2011, first through civic resistance and later taking up arms to defend themselves from the onslaught of Assad's army and torturers. Unlike ...
US nowhere in fielding rebel force in SyriaUSA TODAY
After four years of Syria's war, no end in sightAl Jazeera America
Former US envoy: no autonomy for Syria's Kurds nowRudaw
Reuters -Al-Arabiya -Irish Independent
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