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Syria Crisis: Aleppo's Few Remaining Doctors Plead With Obama for Help - NBCNews.com Thu, 11 Aug 2016 21:40:00 GMT

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Syria Crisis: Aleppo's Few Remaining Doctors Plead With Obama for Help
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Fifteen of the last remaining doctors in rebel-controlled areas of the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo challenged President Barack Obama on Thursday to intervene and "prove that you are the friend of Syrians." "For five years, we have faced death from ...
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Syria conflict: Aleppo 'chlorine gas attack' investigatedBBC News
Wall Street Journal
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The Latest: Turkey: No joint strikes with Russia in Syria - Washington Post Thu, 11 Aug 2016 14:26:15 GMT

Washington Post

The Latest: Turkey: No joint strikes with Russia in Syria
Washington Post
BEIRUT — The Latest on the developments in civil war (all times local): 5:30 p.m.. Turkey's foreign minister has clarified comments on conducting joint operations with Russia against the Islamic State group in Syria, saying Turkey wanted greater ...
Strikes on Islamic State-held city in Syria kill at least 20SFGate
Syria conflict: 'Russian air strikes' cut water supply to IS capital RaqqaBBC News
SitRep: Turkey, Russia Planning Joint Ops in Syria; Crimea …Foreign Policy (blog)
RT -AMN Al-Masdar News (registration)
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Syria: Good News And Bad - Huffington Post Thu, 11 Aug 2016 18:50:27 GMT

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Syria: Good News And Bad
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News that Syrian rebels have, at least temporarily, broken the siege of Aleppo is good. Despite the best efforts of Russia, Iran, and the Assad regime to terrorize the city into submission, some 300,000 Syrians will be spared, for the time-being, from ...
Turkey unlikely to drop Syria rebels in latest realignmentYahoo News
How Media Distorted Syrian Ceasefire's BreakdownCommon Dreams (press release)
Oil, Drugs And Militants: Controlling Turkey's Syrian BorderOilPrice.com

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London schoolgirl who travelled to Syria to join IS 'feared dead' - BBC News Thu, 11 Aug 2016 21:34:57 GMT

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London schoolgirl who travelled to Syria to join IS 'feared dead'
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One of three schoolgirls who left east London last year to join so-called Islamic State (IS) is believed to have been killed in a Russian air strike in Syria, her family solicitor has said. Kadiza Sultana was 16 when she left Bethnal Green along with ...
Bethnal Green schoolgirl who joined Isil is killed in SyriaTelegraph.co.uk
London schoolgirl who joined Isis believed killed in Syria airstrike ...The Guardian
Girl Who Fled UK For IS Feared Dead In StrikeSky News
ABC Online -Huffington Post UK -ITV News
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The War on Syria's Doctors - Foreign Policy (blog) Thu, 11 Aug 2016 20:31:00 GMT

Foreign Policy (blog)

The War on Syria's Doctors
Foreign Policy (blog)
Since March 2011, at least 738 Syrian doctors, nurses, and medical aides have died in more than 360 attacks on medical facilities, according to Physicians for Human Rights (PHR). The independent human rights group holds the Syrian government and its ...

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Turkey offers Russia joint operations against Islamic State in Syria - ABC Online Thu, 11 Aug 2016 11:38:10 GMT

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Turkey offers Russia joint operations against Islamic State in Syria
ABC Online
Turkey has called on Russia to carry out joint operations against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria, after crucial talks between President Vladimir Putin and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan aimed at ending the crisis. "We will discuss all ...
What Russia and Turkey Bring to SyriaNew York Times
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Hurriyet Daily News
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Body of man who died fighting IS in Syria 'may not return to UK' - BBC News Thu, 11 Aug 2016 12:06:38 GMT

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Body of man who died fighting IS in Syria 'may not return to UK'
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The father of a man who died fighting so-called Islamic State in Syria says he doesn't know where his son's body is or if it will ever return to the UK. Dean Carl Evans, 22, from Reading, died in July in the city of Manbij after joining a Kurdish ...
Colorado family says son, 22, died fighting ISIS in SyriaNew York Daily News
British in Syria rename themselves Bob Crow Brigade and break off from fighting ISISDaily Mail

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Millions of Syrians in 'free fall' as raging battles across country hinder aid access – UN - UN News Centre Thu, 11 Aug 2016 22:18:45 GMT

UN News Centre

Millions of Syrians in 'free fall' as raging battles across country hinder aid access – UN
UN News Centre
“Civilians on both sides of the conflict – on both sides of Aleppo – are in danger of being surrounded and affected by shortages and bombings,” UN Special Envoy for Syria told reporters in Geneva, where he stressed that as the fighting in Aleppo has ...
Syria: UNHCR gravely concerned by situation in Aleppo city and attacks on IDP settlements in IdlebUNHCR

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Orders for U.S. Forces in Syria: 'Don't Get Shot' - Bloomberg Thu, 11 Aug 2016 13:54:08 GMT

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Orders for U.S. Forces in Syria: 'Don't Get Shot'
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U.S. special operations forces in Syria do many things in the war against the Islamic State. They gather intelligence, build relationships with local communities, help spot targets for air strikes and train and advise local forces on the ground. One ...


Russian Airstrikes on ISIS in Syria Kill 30, Including 24 Civilians - TIME Thu, 11 Aug 2016 12:40:14 GMT

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Russian Airstrikes on ISIS in Syria Kill 30, Including 24 Civilians
TIME
Russian airstrikes have killed 30 people including 24 civilians in the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa in Syria, according to a report citing humanitarian officials. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported the deaths as well as dozens of injuries to ...
Russian bombers destroy ISIS chemical weapons plant near Raqqa ...RT

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