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Syria Allows Aid Into Rebel-Held Area as Peace Talks Stall - ABC News Tue, 02 Feb 2016 20:51:00 GMT

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Syria Allows Aid Into Rebel-Held Area as Peace Talks Stall
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The Syrian government allowed aid into a rebel-held area near Damascus on Tuesday in what appeared to be a goodwill gesture after U.N.-mediated indirect peace talks got off to a rocky start in Geneva. The Syrian Arab Red Crescent delivered 14 trucks of ...
Syria peace talks move tentatively into a second dayBBC News
New Offensive by Assad's Forces Overshadows Syria Peace TalksNew York Times
Russian airstrikes threaten Syria peace talks, opposition saysThe Guardian
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US killing more civilians in Iraq, Syria than it acknowledges - USA TODAY Tue, 02 Feb 2016 14:40:33 GMT

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US killing more civilians in Iraq, Syria than it acknowledges
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ISTANBUL, Turkey — Al Gharra is a mud-brick village built on hard, flat Syrian desert and populated by the descendants of Bedouin. It is a desolate place. Everything is dun colored: the bare, single-story houses and the stony desert they stand on ...
US-led coalition aims to recapture ISIS 'caliphate' in Iraq, SyriaReuters
Strikes Continue Against ISIL in Syria, IraqDepartment of Defense
US military commander in Iraq and Syria rejects GOP pledges to 'carpet-bomb' IsisThe Guardian

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US Spots Russian Commandos in Syria - Washington Free Beacon Tue, 02 Feb 2016 10:05:01 GMT

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US Spots Russian Commandos in Syria
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Russian special operations troops are working covertly in Syria to support an array of Iranian-backed fighters, including members of the international terrorist group Hezbollah, U.S. defense officials and counterterror experts say. The Spetsnaz ...
Western criticism of Russian operations in Syria is groundless - MoscowRT
UK And Russia In War Of Words Over Syria ConflictSky News
Britain accuses Russia of trying to carve out mini-state for Assad in SyriaThe Guardian
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Syria regime advances on besieged Aleppo villages - Yahoo News Tue, 02 Feb 2016 16:38:49 GMT

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Syria regime advances on besieged Aleppo villages
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Hardatneen (Syria) (AFP) - Syrian regime forces edged closer to breaking a long-running rebel siege on two government-held Shiite villages in Aleppo province on Tuesday, backed by heavy Russian air strikes.
Syrian regime troops 'on verge of encircling Aleppo'Telegraph.co.uk
Syrian military makes gains in prize city of AleppoRudaw
Syrian army, allies press major offensive north of AleppoReuters

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Russian jets + American boots = Neocon madness in Syria - RT Tue, 02 Feb 2016 16:59:28 GMT

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Russian jets + American boots = Neocon madness in Syria
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So why do US neocons insist that the only way to beat Islamic State forces in Syria is to put boots on the ground? Certainly not because the strategy has worked so effectively in the past. One possible explanation is that putting boots on the ground in ...

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Canadian army veteran who fought against Isis in Syria detained in Australia - The Guardian Wed, 03 Feb 2016 00:31:00 GMT

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Canadian army veteran who fought against Isis in Syria detained in Australia
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A Canadian army veteran who fought with a Kurdish militia in Syria has been detained by immigration authorities while trying to enter Australia. Robert Somerville had been fighting with the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) against Islamic State ...
Canadian man Robert Somerville detained in Brisbane after fighting Islamic State in SyriaABC Online

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ISIS Rebuffed in Iraq, Syria but Now Threatens Libya: Kerry - NBCNews.com Tue, 02 Feb 2016 16:12:03 GMT

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ISIS Rebuffed in Iraq, Syria but Now Threatens Libya: Kerry
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ROME — The international war on ISIS is "making a difference" in Iraq and Syria but the terror group is resurgent in Libya and could seize that nation's oil wealth, Secretary of State John Kerry warned Tuesday. Kerry credited the deployment of U.S ...
ISIS pushed back in Iraq, Syria, but a threat in Libya: KerryYahoo News
Islamic State pushed back in Iraq, Syria, but a threat in Libya - KerryTimes of Malta

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U.S. presidential envoy visits Kurdish rebel group in Syria - UPI.com Tue, 02 Feb 2016 21:41:00 GMT

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U.S. presidential envoy visits Kurdish rebel group in Syria
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KOBANI, Syria, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Officials say a U.S. presidential envoy visited northern Syria over the weekend to review Kurdish rebel forces that have been fighting the Islamic State but have been left out of Geneva talks aimed at ending Syria's civil ...
US official recalls the devastation he saw on secret trip to SyriaWashington Post
US envoy visits Kurdish-held northern SyriaReuters

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Inside Syria: The farm airstrip that's the center of the US fight against ISIS - CNN Tue, 02 Feb 2016 23:05:00 GMT

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Inside Syria: The farm airstrip that's the center of the US fight against ISIS
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Northern Syria (CNN) The rutted road stretches into the distance across the plains of Hasakah. Herdsmen watch over their few dozen sheep. A scattering of oil pumps nod lazily as they extract a few dollars of crude from deep below. Above, the contrails ...

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Syria conflict: Jordanians 'at boiling point' over refugees - BBC News Tue, 02 Feb 2016 05:27:42 GMT

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Syria conflict: Jordanians 'at boiling point' over refugees
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King Abdullah of Jordan says his country is at "boiling point" because of an influx of hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees. Ahead of a donor conference on Syria, the king told the BBC that there was enormous pressure on Jordan's social services, ...
'Half a million Syrians in Jordan considering heading to Europe' as country faces refugee crisisTelegraph.co.uk
Why Jordan is reaching its limits with Syrian refugeesPRI
Now JORDAN asks UK for aid to deal with Syrian refugees 'overloading' servicesExpress.co.uk

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