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Syrian Kurds Hope to Establish a Federal Region in Country's North - New York Times Wed, 16 Mar 2016 23:00:01 GMT

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Syrian Kurds Hope to Establish a Federal Region in Country's North
New York Times
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syrian Kurdish parties are working on a plan to declare a federal region across much of northern Syria, several of their representatives said on Wednesday. They said their aim was to formalize the semiautonomous zone they have ...
Russia's Syria operation: Mission complete?BBC News
The Latest: Syrian group 'optimistic' about Geneva talksWashington Post
Kurdish moves on federalism cloud Syria peace driveReuters
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Obama's Syria failure is a perfect case study in how bad foreign policy is made - Vox Wed, 16 Mar 2016 16:00:30 GMT

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Obama's Syria failure is a perfect case study in how bad foreign policy is made
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The larger lesson of America's screwed-up Syria policy is not that American inactivity produced chaos or that American meddling made a bad situation worse. It is that the Washington sausage factory tends to produce an incoherent foreign policy that ...
The Obama DoctrineThe Atlantic

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How Syria's Uprising Spawned a Jihad - The Atlantic Wed, 16 Mar 2016 20:19:23 GMT

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How Syria's Uprising Spawned a Jihad
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This month marks five years since the start of the Syrian uprising—a movement that, for a brief period in March 2011, looked like it might bring peaceful change to an authoritarian state. By that point, the presidents of Tunisia and Egypt had already ...

Only justice can bring lasting peace to Syria - The Guardian Wed, 16 Mar 2016 10:00:27 GMT

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Only justice can bring lasting peace to Syria
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The barrel bombs are still falling and people still live in fear, but Syria's shaky “cessation of hostilities” has instilled some hope, a hope that Syria doesn't have to be like this, racked by conflict and suffering for interminable years to come ...
Peace in Syria Requires National UnityTIME

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Kurds want lands they control in Syria to become federation under Damascus - reports - RT Wed, 16 Mar 2016 14:34:35 GMT

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Kurds want lands they control in Syria to become federation under Damascus - reports
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Kurdish-controlled autonomous areas in northern Syria are expected to declare a federal system, local media and RT's sources on the ground have said. The conference to declare the federation of three Western Kurdistan enclaves will be in Rmelan.

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A Major Unexpected New Reality in Syria: What Does It All Mean? - AlterNet Wed, 16 Mar 2016 22:31:02 GMT

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A Major Unexpected New Reality in Syria: What Does It All Mean?
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Unexpectedly, Russia's Vladimir Putin announced early this week that the bulk of his armed forces would withdraw from Syria. Putin says Russia attained its objective in this intervention. What were its aims? They were three, and each has been ...

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ISIS Loses Almost 1/4 of Territory in Iraq and Syria in 15 Months, IHS Data Shows - NBCNews.com Wed, 16 Mar 2016 13:47:00 GMT

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ISIS Loses Almost 1/4 of Territory in Iraq and Syria in 15 Months, IHS Data Shows
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Data published by IHS on Wednesday showed that since January 2015 the militant group has lost 22 percent of its territory in Iraq and Syria — and 8 percent of the losses were in the past three months. "The tide of the war is turning against" ISIS ...
Military Strikes Continue Against ISIL Terrorists in Syria, IraqDepartment of Defense

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What Syrians want you to know - CNN Tue, 15 Mar 2016 01:27:57 GMT

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What Syrians want you to know
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Mouneer, 24, was a student in Damascus before the war; now he's a hip hop musician in Amman. He never thought the war would go on like this, he says. “But I am proud as hell to be Syrian and I wouldn't change anything about that.” "A lot of people try ...
Angelina Jolie visits refugees fleeing civil war in Syriastv.tv
Voices from Syria: 'This camp is a paradise compared to life back home'The Guardian

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In search of Syria's pigeon smugglers - BBC News Wed, 16 Mar 2016 01:26:56 GMT

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In search of Syria's pigeon smugglers
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Many people in the Middle East love pigeons - it's a passion that can dissolve all religious and national divisions. Some of the finest birds were bred in Syria until the civil war intervened. Now Syrian birds are being smuggled to Lebanon, across ...

Syria War: Five Years of Hunger, Horror, Heartbreak - NBC News - NBCNews.com Tue, 15 Mar 2016 15:12:21 GMT

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Syria War: Five Years of Hunger, Horror, Heartbreak - NBC News
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Tuesday marks five years since demonstrators first took to Syria's streets in anti-government protests.

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