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Hezbollah
Does Hizbollah’s partial exit from Syria mean anything?
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Syria
Regime forces, opposition fighters, and aid organizations cooperated to evacuate 1,800 civilians from the besieged town of Mouadamiya near Damascus, but thousands remain trapped inside. Syria’s deputy prime minister was dismissed for an unauthorized meeting with US officials to discuss peace proposals. The leader of the Omar bin al-Khattab battalion was assassinated in Deir Izzour. Video surfaced of a Syrian parliamentarian kidnapped by Ahrar al-Sham Islamic Movement and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham in Deir Izzour; also kidnapped were 71 men from the village of al-Shamitiya. A Tunisian foreign fighter was filmed desecrating a statue of the…
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Hamas
Shunned and isolated, Hamas reaches unprecedented low in Gaza
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Iran
Tracking the Iranian-backed fleet that’s fueling the Assad regime.
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Syria
Kurdish YPG fighters continued to clash with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, the Al Nusrah Front, and allied forces in Hasakah; a motorbike bomb detonated in Qamishli. Fighters from the Ahrar al Sham stormed al-Shmeitiya in Deir Izzour and seized a member of Syrian parliament and an al-Bousaraya tribal sheikh. ISIS set fire to an Armenian church in Raqqah. Regime forces recaptured the strategic Christian town of Sadad in Homs after heavy fighting; the al Qaeda-linked fighters who had seized it earlier are said to have withdrawn. Thirteen rebel groups in al Bab city in Aleppo released…
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Norway
Norway – Father of teen jihadis hires Breivik lawyer
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Iran
Iran’s secret night flights to arm Syria’s Assad revealed
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Hezbollah
Syria’s Breaking Bad: Are Amphetamines Funding the War?
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Rebel clashes highlight complexities of Syria’s civil war
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Syria
A group of 22 mainly Islamist brigades, including Suqour al-Sham, al-Tawhid, Ahfad al-Rasul, and Ahrar al-Sham, jointly declared that they would not participate in Geneva peace talks unless they result in the removal of President Assad. The Syrian National Coalition claimed that Iraqi and Kurdish militia forces battled against the Al Nusrah Front, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, and the Ahrar al Sham to take over the Yarubiya border crossing; other sources denied that Iraqi forces took part in the battle. ISIS is prescribing “religiously acceptable attire” for schoolgirls in Raqqah; a girl was detained for not…
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Syrian Kurds capture border crossing with Iraq
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Iran
Rice Offers a More Modest Strategy for Mideast
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Al Qaeda Sets Sights On Iraq’s Anbar Province
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Syria
Tunisia’s ‘sexual jihad’ – extremist fatwa or propaganda?
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Syria
Opposition sources said at least 15 Hezbollah fighters were killed in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta. Kurdish YPG forces clashed with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, the Al Nusrah Front, and rebels in Raqqah and in Hasakah, and took over the Tal Kawjar crossing on the Iraqi border from ISIS, which had held it for months. ISIS attacks killed at least seven regime soldiers in Hama. A regime colonel of military intelligence died of injuries in Homs. Ongoing clashes in Homs in the villages of Mahin and Sadad began when two suicide bombers detonated near the gas…
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
In Syrian civil war, emergence of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria boosts rival Jabhat al-Nusra
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Saudi Arabia
Angry Over Syrian War, Saudis Fault US Policy
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Al Nusrah Front
Syrian rebels cast doubt on leader’s ‘death’
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Al Nusrah Front denies emir killed by Syrian troops
Syrian government news agencies claimed that Abu Muhammad al Julani was killed, but the al Qaeda group denied the reports.
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Turkey, Iraq eye closer cooperation on Syria as relations thaw
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Syria
State media claimed that Al Nusrah Front emir Abu Mohammed al-Jolani was killed in Latakia; the report has not been verified. Regime aircraft bombarded several villages in Latakia this morning. Regime forces killed some 20 Al Nusrah fighters in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta. A car bomb detonated near a mosque in Reef Dimashq, killing at least 20 people. Kurdish YPG fighters clashed with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham in Aleppo. YPG fighters continued to clash with Al Nusrah, ISIS, the Ansar al-Khilafa battalion, and rebels in Hasakah; an Al Nusrah fighter died in Sefya possibly from…
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Syrian jihadists’ new recruitment technique: slick suicide attack videos
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Israel
On the border with Syria, the land of war
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Syria
In Syria, fear of spies pervades rebel and government ranks alike
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Lebanon
‘Four killed’ in Lebanon flare-up
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Norway
Norway weighing Syria chemical weapons task
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Norway
Norway’s Somalis worry extremism is spreading
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Syria
Syria has released 61 female detainees as part of a hostage swap. Regime and Hezbollah forces retook most of Hteitat al-Turkman in Reef Dimashq from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, the Al Nusrah Front, and rebel groups after days of heavy fighting. Kurdish YPG forces clashed with ISIS in Aleppo near Azaz, killing an ISIS commander from Jordan. YPG forces took over several bases from the ISIS and its allies in Hasakah after heavy fighting. An activist group claims to have documented the deaths of 30,000 regime fighters since the conflict began, and says the actual number…
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Syria
A rebel attack on a gas pipeline south of Damascus airport left much of Syria, including the city itself, in the dark. A large blast targeted a regime checkpoint in Damascus. Syrian authorities released 14 female detainees in a hostage swap. The Al Nusrah Front, aided by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, the al-Khadra’ battalion (“the battalion of martyrs”), Maghawir Baba Amr battalion, and allied rebels battled regime forces in Homs over the towns of Mahin and Sadad, which is mainly Christian. Residents fled Sadad; the Islamists seek to take over its hospital, and have seized a…
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Al Qaeda
Obama’s Uncertain Path Amid Syria Bloodshed
