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Syria
John Kerry, US Military Clash on Approach to Syria’s Rebels
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Jordan rearrests ex-Gitmo detainee once deemed a ‘high’ risk
A former Guantanamo detainee named Osama Abu Kabir has been arrested in Jordan. The charges have not been made public, but his arrest seems to be connected to Jordanian concerns about the jihad in Syria.
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Syria
Terror training in Syria makes attack on UK ‘inevitable’
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Syria
Father Frans van der Lugt, 75, a Dutch priest who had refused to leave the rebel-held and besieged city of Homs, was killed reportedly by a “masked gunman” in his house. The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front clashed with regime forces in Latakia; fought alongside the Jaish al Mujahideen in Aleppo; and battled regime forces in Reef Dimashq near Rankous and Ras al Ein, where an Al Nusrah suicide bomber detonated at a regime checkpoint. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham fought against the Islamic Front and Kurdish YPG forces in Aleppo. President Assad claimed that…
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Syria
A vehicle blew up in a market near a police station in rebel-controlled Homs city, killing 29 Islamic fighters, including two commanders. State media said the car was being packed with explosives, but some activists said an ammunition depot had been struck by a regime rocket, while a rebel said the Al Nusrah Front and others had been preparing a car bomb. A rebel mortar killed two people and wounded five when it hit the Damascus Opera House, state media said. In Latakia, the Nusrat al-Mathloum coalition threatened rocket attacks on Alawite neighborhoods in retaliation for regime barrel bombings, and…
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Al Nusrah Front
Rebel assault on Kasab, Syria, revives dark memories for Armenians
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CIA
Delays in Effort to Refocus CIA From Drone War
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Syria
The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front clashed with regime forces in Aleppo and in Latakia, where regime forces lost control of the town of Babolin, and two Moroccan field commanders of the Ahrar al Sham were killed in battle in Kasab. Turkey fired into Latakia in response to shelling that hit Hatay. The Islamic Front battled regime forces in Idlib, Homs, Quneitra, Reef Dimashq, and in Hama. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham clashed with regime forces in Hama, battled regime forces as well as Al Nusrah in Hasakah, and fought against the Islamic Front in…
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Jordan
One Syrian refugee killed in clashes with Jordanian security
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Al Nusrah Front
A journey through Syria’s Daraa
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Ahrar al Sham
Syria’s moderate rebels still losing ground to extremists
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Al Qaeda
Turkey admits Reyhanli was attacked by al Qaeda
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Syria
Al Qaeda emir Ayman al Zawahiri eulogized Abu Khalid al Suri, his representative to Syria, and warned against jihadist infighting. The US is planning to increase training and shipments of small arms to “moderate” rebels based mainly in Jordan. An opposition source said over 1,000 jihadists, many of them non-Syrian, were recently airlifted from Jordan to Turkey, from which they entered Syria to fight in Latakia. Regime forces continued to battle the Al Nusrah Front, the Islamic Front, the Sham al Islam, and the Junoud al Sham in Latakia; 35 regime soldiers and 64 Islamist fighters were killed there yesterday,…
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Zawahiri eulogizes al Qaeda’s slain Syrian representative
Ayman al Zawahiri has released an audio message eulogizing Abu Khalid al Suri, who was killed on Feb. 23. Zawahiri confirms that he knew al Suri since before the 9/11 attacks and that they had been in direct communication after the beginning of the Syrian revolution.
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Tajik, Kazakh, and Russian fighters killed in Syria
Jihadists from across the globe have been flocking to Syria over the past several years, and some are no doubt passing through training camps run by al Qaeda and allied groups.
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Former Guantanamo detainee killed while leading jihadist group in Syria
Ibrahim Bin Shakaran, a Moroccan who spent more than three years at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility before being freed, has been killed while leading Sham al Islam in Latakia. Bin Shakaran had run a recruiting network for Abu Musab al Zarqawi after being released by the US.
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Al Nusrah Front
Armenia Concerned Over Fate Of Families In Syria’s Kesab
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Syria
Former Guantanamo detainee Ibrahim Bin Shakaran, a.k.a. Brahim Benchakroun or Abu Ahmad al Maghribi, was reportedly killed in Latakia while leading his Sham al Islam group. Fierce fighting continued near a strategic hilltop in Latakia between regime forces and rebels, including the Al Nusrah Front, Ansar al Sham, Sham al Islam, Junoud al Sham, the Islamic Front, and Moroccan fighters from the Shab al Islam. The head of the UN chemical weapons mission said the regime must move quickly to meet the April 27 deadline for removing its chemical weapons from the country; shipments were stopped on March 20 due…
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Chief of Syrian Revolutionaries Front says al Qaeda is ‘not our problem’
Jamal Maarouf, who is backed by the West, admits to fighting alongside the Al Nusrah Front as well as providing weapons to the al Qaeda group.
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Free Syrian Army
The Free Syrian Armies: Institutional Split
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Syria
In a letter to the UN, Syria has accused “terrorist groups” of planning a gas attack in the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Jobar that would be blamed on the regime. The head of the ‘moderate’ Syrian Revolutionaries Front, a Free Syrian Army offshoot, said the group fights alongside the Al Nusrah Front and has no quarrel with it. Al Nusrah and the Islamic Front fought against regime forces in Hama, in Latakia, and in Reef Dimashq. Al Nusrah clashed with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham in Hasakah. Islamic fighters shelled a funeral procession for an NDF fighter…
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Al Nusrah Front
‘I am not fighting against al Qaeda… it’s not our problem’, says West’s last hope in Syria
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12 Azeri jihadists reported killed in Syria
The Azeris fought alongside the Muhajireen Army, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, or the Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, al Qaeda’s official branch in Syria.
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Muhajireen Army releases video of Syrian training camp
The video includes footage of the building and detonation of a small homemade bomb, as well as exercises in small fire team tactics and an obstacle course.
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Syria
The president of the Syrian National Coalition visited rebel troops in Latakia, where the Al Nusrah Front, Islamic fighters, and Free Syrian Army forces are battling regime troops. Al Nusrah claimed a joint offensive in Latakia with Ahrar al Sham, Ansar al-Sham, and Sham al-Islam; one of the commanders, Abu al Hassan, was said to be from core al Qaeda in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. Activists and rebels disputed the regime’s claim that it captured a key hilltop in Latakia. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham clashed with regime forces in Raqqah; and battled eastern front fighters, Ahfad Al-Mursalin…
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Iran
Apocalyptic prophecies drive both sides to Syrian battle for end of time
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Egypt
Converging Interests May Lead to Cooperation Between Israel and Gulf States
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Syria
Regime forces recaptured a strategic hilltop in Latakia during fighting with the Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front, and Syria’s information minister accused Turkey of helping foreign fighters enter the province. An observer group claimed that over 1,000 fighters have been killed in Latakia since March 21. The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front also clashed with regime forces in Hama, in Idlib, in Reef Dimashq, and in Aleppo.
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Syria
Turkish border province punishes Erdogan on Syria in polls
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Al Qaeda
France in new tack to fight roots of terrorism
