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US concern growing over pro-Syrian regime forces amassing near coalition training facility - ABC News Thu, 01 Jun 2017 21:15:00 GMT

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US concern growing over pro-Syrian regime forces amassing near coalition training facility
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The U.S. military is growing increasingly concerned about two groups of pro-Syrian regime forces near a coalition training facility at Tanf, Syria, and has asked some pro-regime forces to leave the area. The facility trains local partner forces to ...
US forces increasing combat power at Tanf, preparing for a fight with pro-Syrian regime militiasMilitary Times
Coalition Reinforces Positions Near Syrian al-Tanf After Attacking Syrian ArmySputnik International
US Ups 'Combat Power' at Syrian Base as Pro-Regime Forces Close InMilitary.com

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Syrian activists: IS news agency's founder killed in strike - Washington Post Thu, 01 Jun 2017 13:50:03 GMT

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Syrian activists: IS news agency's founder killed in strike
Washington Post
BEIRUT — The founder of the Islamic State group news agency was reported killed with his daughter in an airstrike last week in eastern Syria, opposition activists said Thursday. The militant group itself has not reported the death of the Aamaq agency ...
US arming Syrian militants on border with Iraq to block popular forcesPress TV

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Are Nicaragua and Syria the only countries not to sign Paris Agreement? - PolitiFact Thu, 01 Jun 2017 18:23:00 GMT

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Are Nicaragua and Syria the only countries not to sign Paris Agreement?
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Wasserman Schultz tweet left us wondering if she was right about only two nations — Syria and Nicaragua — not signing the agreement, and that the Central American nation refused to sign because the agreement "wasn't tough enough." Information from ...
US joins only Syria and Nicaragua on climate accord 'no' listThe Guardian
Why Nicaragua and Syria didn't join the Paris climate accordWashington Post
Paris pullout would join US with Nicaragua, SyriaCNN
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Syria's divided rebel factions look for allies they can trust - CBS News Thu, 01 Jun 2017 13:02:00 GMT

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Syria's divided rebel factions look for allies they can trust
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GAZIANTEP, Turkey -- They are veterans of Syria's rebellion, trying for years to bring down President Bashar Assad. But these days they're doing little fighting with his military. They're struggling to find a place in a bewildering battlefield where ...
Washington 'is Going to Want to Occupy Certain Portions of Syria'Sputnik International

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Thinking through US objectives in Syria - Foreign Policy (blog) Thu, 01 Jun 2017 14:09:26 GMT

Foreign Policy (blog)
Thinking through US objectives in Syria
Foreign Policy (blog)
Outside of a brief nod to the overall instability in Syria, his lack of comment on the broader issue of how the conflict might be brought to an end suggested that our attack was limited in focus — deterring the continued use of chemical weapons. There ...

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On the front line of Iran's shadow war in Syria - The Independent Thu, 01 Jun 2017 18:35:13 GMT

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On the front line of Iran's shadow war in Syria
The Independent
The injury had taken place during Zare's second journey to Syria's civil war. He was one among the contingents of thousands sent by Iran in a mission kept very much in the shadows, but one which has played a key role in ensuring the continuing survival ...
U.S. Hikes 'Combat Power' in Syria, With Eye on Iran-Backed MilitiaU.S. News & World Report
Syria Conflict Tilts Increasingly to East of War-ravaged CountryVoice of America
Analysis: How the Syrian Government Pushed East Along Three AxesNews Deeply
Task & Purpose -Business Insider -Aljazeera.com -Reuters
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Top ISIS figure killed in Syria - WSLS Thu, 01 Jun 2017 16:08:32 GMT

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Top ISIS figure killed in Syria
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(CNN) - One of ISIS' most important figures has been killed by an airstrike in eastern Syria, according to sources close to his family and Telegram accounts of ISIS supporters. Sources tell CNN that Turki al-Binali was killed in Mayadin, near Deir ez ...
Senior ISIS commander killed by coalition airstrike in eastern SyriaAMN Al-Masdar News (registration)
Double Blow For ISIS: Two Leaders Killed In AirstrikesVocativ

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US, Russia hold secret talks over south Syria safe zone - Al-Monitor Thu, 01 Jun 2017 22:00:41 GMT

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US, Russia hold secret talks over south Syria safe zone
Al-Monitor
The Trump administration priority on Syria “is to stop the killing," the source said. "That's why they are willing to watch what Russia is doing[.] They are willing to give Russia a major role to play … to find a solution … in a way that Assad, in ...

U.S. Helps Drive 200000 Syrians From Their Homes - Daily Beast Thu, 01 Jun 2017 04:29:08 GMT

Daily Beast
U.S. Helps Drive 200000 Syrians From Their Homes
Daily Beast
JARABLUS, Syria—The convoys arrive day after day, a motley cavalcade of old pickup trucks, motorbikes with sidecars, and cobbled-together three-wheel farm vehicles packed with destitute Syrians who are fleeing the U.S.-led offensive to oust the so ...
US Begins Arming Syrian Kurds for Final Assault on RaqqaNew York Times
As US forces advance on Islamic State capital in Syria, civilians brace for a siegeSyria Direct
US begins sending weapons to Kurdish YPG in SyriaAljazeera.com
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Could Syria's 'prosecutor without a tribunal' work? | War & Conflict ... - Aljazeera.com Wed, 31 May 2017 08:00:15 GMT

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Could Syria's 'prosecutor without a tribunal' work? | War & Conflict ...
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A new UN office is starting to support prosecutions of those responsible for atrocities in Syria, but there is a catch.

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