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Turkey warns new military moves in Syria imminent - Washington Post Sat, 05 Aug 2017 18:22:30 GMT

Washington Post
Turkey warns new military moves in Syria imminent
Washington Post
ISTANBUL — Turkey's president reiterated Saturday that new cross-border operations into Syria are in the works as the country boosts its military presence along the border against threats from Kurdish militants in war-torn Syria. President Recep ...
Turkey reinforces military on Syria border - agencyThe Star Online
Turkey sends armored vehicles to rebels in northern SyriaAMN Al-Masdar News (registration)
Turkey 'to extend the dagger' in northern SyriaRudaw
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Syrian army takes ISIL-held town of al-Sukhna in Homs - Aljazeera.com Sun, 06 Aug 2017 00:30:01 GMT

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Syrian army takes ISIL-held town of al-Sukhna in Homs
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Syrian government troops and allied forces have taken the last major ISIL-held town in Homs province, according to a monitor. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on Saturday that the Syrian army had taken the town of ...
Syrian army takes last IS-held town in Homs: monitorReuters
Syria Army Takes Last ISIS-Held Town In Homs: MonitorNDTV
Rockets, gunfire test new Russia-backed truce near Syria's HomsEyewitness News
Rudaw -TRT World
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Democracy Advocate Executed In Syria - NPR Sat, 05 Aug 2017 12:12:41 GMT

Democracy Advocate Executed In Syria
NPR
It was reported this week that one of Syria's leading activists for democracy and free speech, Bassel Khartabil Sadafi, was executed by the Syrian government almost two years ago. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: It was reported this week that one of Syria's leading ...

Trump's War On ISIS 'Dramatically Accelerated' Coalition Gains in Iraq And Syria - Newsweek Sat, 05 Aug 2017 16:54:00 GMT

Newsweek
Trump's War On ISIS 'Dramatically Accelerated' Coalition Gains in Iraq And Syria
Newsweek
Brett McGurk, the special presidential envoy for the global coalition to defeat ISIS, in a briefing with reporters said that Trump's strategy in the battle against the jihadist group in Iraq and Syria had “dramatically accelerated” progress in the ...
US Envoy Says 2000 IS Fighters Battling For Survival In Syrian Stronghold Of RaqqaRadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
About 2000 IS militants remain in Syria's Raqqa: McGurkKurdistan24
US Says Will Defeat Daesh In SyriaTOLOnews
Financial Express -Jordan Times -SAMAA TV News Pakistan
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Heaviest clashes for months hit Syria's Hama province: monitor - Reuters Fri, 04 Aug 2017 14:09:11 GMT

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Heaviest clashes for months hit Syria's Hama province: monitor
Reuters
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The heaviest fighting and shelling for months hit Hama province in northern Syria on Friday, a war monitor said, but there were diverging accounts of how the battle started. The clashes were accompanied by heavy bombardment, with ...
Al-Qaida-linked militants' advance throws west's Syria plans into disarrayThe Guardian
US warns Syrian rebels against letting Islamists dominate last of resistance to Assad regimeThe Independent
Hezbollah chief says ready to battle IS on Lebanon-Syria borderThe Times of Israel
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Syria's doll-makers: 'I protect my children's dreams' - Aljazeera.com Sat, 05 Aug 2017 07:37:06 GMT

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Syria's doll-makers: 'I protect my children's dreams'
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More than 465,000 people have died in Syria's war and more than 12 million have been displaced - but two young women are determined to keep the humanity of those affected from disappearing into the numbers. "The names, struggles and words of these ...

Decolonising Syria's so-called 'queer liberation' - Aljazeera.com Sat, 05 Aug 2017 10:10:42 GMT

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Decolonising Syria's so-called 'queer liberation'
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On July 25, Mustafa Bali, the media relations director of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF - which includes YPG in its ranks), denied the "formation of such a battalion within the framework" of SDF. The following day, the IRPGF spokesperson, Heval ...

Syria war: 2000 IS fighters still in Raqqa - US envoy - BBC News Sat, 05 Aug 2017 04:45:41 GMT

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Syria war: 2000 IS fighters still in Raqqa - US envoy
BBC News
Some 2,000 Islamic State (IS) militants remain in the Syrian city of Raqqa amid an offensive to recapture the group's stronghold, a senior US official says. Brett McGurk, special envoy for the coalition against IS, says US-backed forces have seized ...
Airstrikes kill ISIS plotters in SyriaCNN
Is the Expanding US Military Presence in Syria Legal?The American Conservative
In Syria's Raqqa, 2000 ISIS Fighters RemainThe Wire
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No coordination between Lebanon and Syrian armies against IS ... - Reuters Sat, 05 Aug 2017 09:30:42 GMT

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No coordination between Lebanon and Syrian armies against IS ...
Reuters
The Lebanese army will not coordinate with the Syrian army to fight against Islamic State in the Lebanese-Syrian border zone, a military source told Reuters on ...
Hezbollah Pledges to Join Fight Against ISIS on Syria-Lebanon BorderThe Wire
Hezbollah will participate in the Ras Ba'albak offensive from Syria ...AMN Al-Masdar News (registration)
Lebanon army shells Daesh positions near Syria borderAnadolu Agency
The National -Jordan Times
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Americans, Need Help in Syria? Call the Czechs. - Foreign Policy (blog) Fri, 04 Aug 2017 16:46:32 GMT

Foreign Policy (blog)
Americans, Need Help in Syria? Call the Czechs.
Foreign Policy (blog)
Czechoslovakia — which, granted, was a different country and a different, communist regime — was a major economic partner of and arms exporter to Syria for decades, before and during the Assad years. Trade increased fivefold just between 1952 and ...

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