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Al Nusrah Front
‘Islamist posturing’ is a strategy to raise funds, says Syrian rebel
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Syria
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham clashed with rebels in Idlib. ISIS imposed ‘sharia’ restrictions on clothing for schoolgirls in Idlib. ISIS, the Al Nusrah Front, and other Islamist rebels clashed with regime forces in east Reef Aleppo and near the 80th brigade base. Gunmen kidnapped a media activist in Deir Hafer in Aleppo. The head of the dissident National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change said he did not know why regime forces kidnapped party secretary Rajaa Nasser, but that he and Nasser had been planning to meet with Russia’s foreign minister on Nov. 26 in Geneva.
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OPCW
Companies, port sought to destroy Syria poisons
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Briton ‘doing his duty’ by fighting for group linked to al Qaeda in Syria
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Syria
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, along with the Al Nusrah Front, carried out four suicide car bombings today in the Qalamoun region, killing at least seven regime soldiers. ISIS, Al Nusrah, and two allied rebel groups attacked regime positions in Reef Dimashq. Regime forces in Damascus reportedly detained Raja al-Nasser, the General Secretary of the National Coordination Body for Democratic Change in Syria. Al Nusrah raised its flag over a Shiite shrine in Raqqah after the rebel group controlling the area pledged allegiance to Al Nusrah. ISIS publicly executed two captive Kurdish YPG fighters in Raqqah. ISIS,…
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Al Nusrah Front
US officials warn of insurgents streaming into Syria
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Lebanon
Young Palestinian Refugees Join Jihadists Fighting in Syria
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Britain
Briton killed fighting in Syria civil war
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Caucasus Emirate
Chechens drawn south to fight against Syria’s Assad
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Al Qaeda-linked group strengthens hold in northern Syria
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Meet the Syrian Rebel Commander Assad, Russia and the US all fear
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Syria
How an unemployed blogger confirmed that Syria had used chemical weapons
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IMU praises slain Syrian Islamist brigade commander
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan’s condolences for the death of the commander of the Al Tawhid Brigade speaks volumes as to how the Syrian Islamist group is perceived by global jihadists.
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Al Qaeda
No tolerance for militants headed to Syria, Turkish FM Davutoğlu says
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Syria
The Syrian military claimed to have taken full control of Qara in the Qalamoun region and to have killed a “large number of terrorists.” The Al Nusrah Front withdrew from Qara, but activists from Al Nusrah and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham say they will return. At least 68 regime soldiers were reportedly killed in the Nov. 17 explosion at the Harasta base in Reef Dimashq. ISIS continued to clash with regime forces near the 80th brigade base in Aleppo. A sharia court ordered that the crossing between rebel and regime-occupied Aleppo be open two hours a…
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Abdullah Azzam Brigades claims credit for attack on Iranian embassy
The Abdullah Azzam Brigades, an al Qaeda-linked group, has claimed responsibility for twin suicide attacks on the Iranian embassy in Beirut.
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Hezbollah
Inside Syria’s Next Big Battle
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Al Nusrah Front
‘Syria is not a revolution any more – this is civil war’
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Germany
From Soccer to Jihad: German Football Talent Killed in Syria
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Syria
Why Has the U.N. Given Assad a Free Pass on Mass Murder?
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Al Nusrah Front
Big push by Syrian military suspected as refugees pour into Lebanon
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Syria
Abdelqader Saleh, head of the Islamist al-Tawhid Brigades, died in a Turkish hospital after being wounded in Aleppo on Nov. 14. A rebel bombing at a military base near Harasta in Reef Dimashq killed three generals, a brigadier general, and 27 soldiers. Ten fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham and 18 regime soldiers were killed in clashes in Tal’aran in Aleppo. A fighter jet was shot down in Aleppo, and ISIS blew up a bridge near Tal Hasel. The sharia court in Reef Aleppo publicly whipped several detainees. ISIS detained a rebel fighter in Raqqah. Turkish…
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Syria
West Faces Challenge in Moving Syrian Chemical Arms Through Battlefields
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Syria
A regime helicopter exploded in the sky over Jassim village in Raqqah. Kurdish YPG fighters clashed with the Al Nusrah Front, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, and rebels in Raqqah. Al Nusrah and several rebel units belonging to the sharia council captured the Koniko gas facility in Deir Izzour city, considered the biggest gas facility in Syria. Fighters are reportedly massing for a major battle in Qalamoun in Reef Dimashq; thousands of Hezbollah fighters are said to be gathering near the Lebanese border, and thousands of Al Nusrah and rebel fighters are said to be gathering nearby.…
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Lebanon
Syrian Government’s Forces Gain, but a Siege War Goes On
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Russia
St. Petersburg Sends Contractors to Syria
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Iran
Exclusive: US and Iran Poised to Meet to Tackle Syria Aid Together
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Syria
A top commander in the Iraqi Abou Fadl el-Abbas brigade, which is fighting in support of the Assad regime, was killed in clashes with rebel forces outside Damascus. After fierce fighting with the Al Nusrah Front, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, Maghaweer Baba Amr, al-Khadra’ battalion, and rebels, regime forces took over the Mahin arms depots and the towns of Howarin and al-Hadath in Homs. ISIS, Al Nusrah, and rebel forces withdrew to a stronghold in Tal Hasel in Aleppo and seized the road between Aleppo international airport and al-Safira city. Al Nusrah publicly executed a man…
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Albania
Chemical Arms Monitor Debates Syrian Plan to Destroy Weapons
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Kuwait
Tweeting Gulf Arabs Wire War Chest to Fight Assad on Every Front
