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Marines have arrived in Syria to fire artillery in the fight for Raqqa - Washington Post Wed, 08 Mar 2017 20:52:29 GMT

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Marines have arrived in Syria to fire artillery in the fight for Raqqa
Washington Post
Marines from an amphibious task force have left their ships in the Middle East and deployed to Syria, establishing an outpost from which they can fire artillery guns in support of the fight to take back the city of Raqqa from the Islamic State, defense ...
Marines arrive in Syria to provide artillery support in fight against ISISABC News
Marines arrive in Syria in support of fight for Raqqa, defense official saysFox News
Marines Set Up Outside Raqqa, Escalating US Involvement in SyriaNew York Magazine
U.S. News & World Report -Business Insider
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With a show of Stars and Stripes, US forces in Syria try to keep warring allies apart - Washington Post Wed, 08 Mar 2017 22:34:43 GMT

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With a show of Stars and Stripes, US forces in Syria try to keep warring allies apart
Washington Post
BEIRUT — The U.S. military is getting drawn into a deepening struggle for control over areas liberated from the Islamic State that risks prolonging American involvement in wars in Syria and Iraq long after the militants are defeated. In their first ...
Top US General Discusses Syria With Counterparts From Russia and TurkeyNew York Times
Turkey Pushes Syria Safe ZonesVoice of America
Russian, Turkish and US commanders meet to calm worsening Syrian 'proxy war'The Independent
Bloomberg -Al-Monitor -Financial Times
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Searching for a light: Syrian children struggle with trauma - Aljazeera.com (blog) Wed, 08 Mar 2017 12:42:00 GMT

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Searching for a light: Syrian children struggle with trauma
Aljazeera.com (blog)
This week, Save the Children released a report warning that Syrian children are grappling with a growing mental health crisis. The global charity provides mental health and psychosocial support to children living in Syria, as well as countries that ...
Children in Syria scarred by war attempt suicide, self-harmUSA TODAY
Syrian children show symptoms of 'toxic stress' after 6 years of war, report saysCBC.ca
“Broken generation”VICE News
ABC News -BBC News -euronews
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Review: 'Cries From Syria' is an unsparing, must-see documentary - New Haven Register Wed, 08 Mar 2017 18:14:00 GMT

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Review: 'Cries From Syria' is an unsparing, must-see documentary
New Haven Register
Its HBO premiere and limited run in Los Angeles and New York movie theaters falls on nearly on the sixth anniversary of Syria's murderous war, one so brutish, the U.N. has lost count of the death toll. Most estimates put it over 400,000. The government ...

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Netanyahu heads to Moscow to discuss Syria - Jerusalem Post Israel News Wed, 08 Mar 2017 23:08:30 GMT

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Netanyahu heads to Moscow to discuss Syria
Jerusalem Post Israel News
The Golan Heights should not be discussed in any conversation about the future of Syria, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to tell Russian President Vladimir Putin when the two meet in Moscow on Thursday. The Prime Minister's Office issued ...
Israeli PM to visit Russia for security meetings on SyriaYnetnews

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Rebuilding Syria's rubble as the cannons roar - IRINnews.org Wed, 08 Mar 2017 08:24:43 GMT

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Rebuilding Syria's rubble as the cannons roar
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The fighting in Syria isn't even nearly over yet, but the international community is already starting to look ahead to post-war reconstruction—or rather, wartime reconstruction. Many are working on the assumption that while the country will be trapped ...

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Syrian doctor denied re-entry to US to complete study at Brown University - The Independent Wed, 08 Mar 2017 19:35:00 GMT

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Syrian doctor denied re-entry to US to complete study at Brown University
The Independent
Dr Khaled Almilaji, a Brown University graduate student, is stuck in Turkey since January because of President Trump's travel ban on Syrian citizens entering the country while his pregnant wife is in the US. He now plans on moving to Canada. The latest ...

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US Strengthens Its Forces in a Crowded Syrian Battlefield - New York Times Sun, 05 Mar 2017 21:25:38 GMT

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US Strengthens Its Forces in a Crowded Syrian Battlefield
New York Times
WASHINGTON — The United States has increased its forces near the northern Syrian town of Manbij as concerns have grown that fighting could erupt among the complex array of militias and Syrian and Turkish troops who are operating on the crowded ...
Pentagon: US troops play new role in SyriaMilitary Times
US Stryker Deployment to Manbij, Syria Appears to Have Been a Blocking MoveThe Drive
US and Russian troops patrol neighboring villages in SyriaTelegraph.co.uk
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Iraq PM: Assad gave 'approval' to bomb Syria targets - The New Arab Wed, 08 Mar 2017 17:38:27 GMT

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Iraq PM: Assad gave 'approval' to bomb Syria targets
The New Arab
Baghdad will continue to strike Islamic State group militants outside the country's borders, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Wednesday, following a number of air raids by the Iraqi air force in neighbouring Syria. "I will not hesitate to strike ...

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Syria's Manbij council urges aid for 130000 displaced - Reuters Wed, 08 Mar 2017 10:24:00 GMT

Syria's Manbij council urges aid for 130000 displaced
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BEIRUT Some 130,000 people who have fled to the northern Syrian city of Manbij and nearby rural areas are in dire need of international aid, the head of a Manbij civil affairs council said on Wednesday. The displaced had mostly left areas near Manbij ...

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