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Russia vetoes UN demand for end to bombing of Syria's Aleppo - Reuters Sat, 08 Oct 2016 19:29:46 GMT

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Russia vetoes UN demand for end to bombing of Syria's Aleppo
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UNITED NATIONS Russia vetoed a French-drafted U.N. Security Council resolution on Saturday that would have demanded an end to air strikes and military flights over Syria's city of Aleppo, while a rival Russian draft text failed to get a minimum nine ...
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Middle East|Syria Provokes an American Anxiety: Is US Power Really So Special? - New York Times Sat, 08 Oct 2016 21:37:47 GMT

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Middle East|Syria Provokes an American Anxiety: Is US Power Really So Special?
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Underlying the Syria issue is a set of questions that have animated every major debate over foreign policy for a century: What is America's role in the world, what are its obligations, and what happens if it falls short of meeting them? One strain of ...

Amid Syrian chaos, Iran's game plan emerges: a path to the Mediterranean - The Guardian Sat, 08 Oct 2016 19:25:58 GMT

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Amid Syrian chaos, Iran's game plan emerges: a path to the Mediterranean
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Instead, while the Iraqi army attacks Mosul from the south, the militias will take up a blocking position to the west, stopping Isis forces from fleeing towards their last redoubt of Raqqa in Syria. Their absence is aimed at reassuring the Sunni ...

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Syrian government, allies advance as Russia vetoes UN demand - Reuters Sat, 08 Oct 2016 20:15:00 GMT

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Syrian government, allies advance as Russia vetoes UN demand
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BEIRUT Russia vetoed a French-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution on Saturday that would have demanded an immediate end to air strikes and military flights over Syria's Aleppo city and called for a truce and humanitarian aid access ...

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IS 'loses more than a quarter of its territory' in Syria and Iraq - BBC News Sat, 08 Oct 2016 23:05:01 GMT

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IS 'loses more than a quarter of its territory' in Syria and Iraq
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So-called Islamic State (IS) has lost more than a quarter of the territory it once controlled, new data shows. Security and defence analysts IHS say the group's control has shrunk by 28% since its height in January 2015. In the first nine months of ...

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Russia has its permanent air base in Syria. Now it's looking at Cuba and Vietnam. - Washington Post Fri, 07 Oct 2016 18:59:18 GMT

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Russia has its permanent air base in Syria. Now it's looking at Cuba and Vietnam.
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Russia ratified a treaty with Syria on Friday that gives Moscow its first permanent air base in the Middle East, a symbol of the Kremlin's desire to project strength overseas, as Russian officials considered renewing other Soviet-era bases in Cuba and ...

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Jihadi bride who fled Syria uses life on probation as lesson - Fox News Sat, 08 Oct 2016 12:08:00 GMT

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Jihadi bride who fled Syria uses life on probation as lesson
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BRUSSELS – Her hair pulled back neatly from her face, eye shadow dramatic and flawless, Laura Passoni bears little resemblance to the jihadi bride she was less than two years ago, when she fled in darkness across a barbed-wire fence, her pregnant body ...

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Pence steps past Trump on Syria, underscoring differences - Fox News Sat, 08 Oct 2016 06:46:00 GMT

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Pence steps past Trump on Syria, underscoring differences
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ROSSFORD, Ohio – Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence has ventured beyond Donald Trump's ambiguous posture toward war-torn Syria. The Indiana governor said during a debate with Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine that the ...

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Exclusive: Russia builds up forces in Syria, Reuters data analysis shows - Reuters Fri, 07 Oct 2016 16:59:00 GMT

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Exclusive: Russia builds up forces in Syria, Reuters data analysis shows
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MOSCOW Russia has built up its forces in Syria since a ceasefire collapsed in late September, sending in troops, planes and advanced missile systems, a Reuters analysis of publicly available tracking data shows. The data points to a doubling of supply ...

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Tension With Russia Rises as US Halts Syria Negotiations - New York Times Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:15:05 GMT

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Tension With Russia Rises as US Halts Syria Negotiations
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“Cooperation over Syria was the Obama administration's last and best shot for arresting the downward spiral in the bilateral relationship with Russia,” said Andrew S. Weiss, a former White House expert on Russia who is vice president for studies at the ...
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