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Israel
Arab-Israeli’s 72-hours with al-Qaeda linked Syrian rebels
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Syria
The Assad regime reached an agreement “effective immediately” to allow UN inspectors to investigate the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Damascus. The information minister warned that US military intervention in Syria would “create … a ball of fire that will inflame the Middle East.” Some 400 tons of arms sent by Gulf countries for the rebels are being distributed to several Islamist brigades across the north. In Aleppo, Al Nusrah Front forces reportedly stormed houses of Kurdish civilians, and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is holding Kurdish officials hostage. The Al Nusrah Front vowed…
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Iran
Syria to give UN inspectors access to alleged chemical attack site — Iranian media
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Syria
Fighters from the Al Nusrah Front, Ahrar al-Sham, and Suqoor al-Shab took control of the Ariha area in Idlib, including a National Defense Fort. State TV claimed that a number of soldiers had suffocated after finding chemical weapon materials in “terrorist” tunnels in Jobar; some of the items allegedly found bore Qatari and Saudi labels. A medical aid group said Damascus hospitals recently treated about 3,600 patients with “neurotoxic symptoms,” and that 355 of them died. UN Under Secretary General Angela Kane arrived in Damascus for talks about setting up the UN chemical weapons inquiry.
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Syria
Syrian troops find chemical agents in tunnels used by rebels: state TV
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Syria
FBI director worried Americans fighting in Syria could bring tactics home
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Syria
Syria: have the Chemical Weapons gloves come off?
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Britain
Networks of Spies Aid Syria Gas Probe
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Iraq
Syrian Kurds Find More Than a Refuge in Iraqi Kurdistan
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Syria
An opposition activist group blamed the regime for bombardments that allegedly flattened three residential buildings in Aleppo and killed 61 people; the group said it was a war crime that should be referred to the International Criminal Court. A senior member of the Syrian National Coalition said the opposition had smuggled tissue samples out of Syria from alleged victims of the recent mass-casualty attack in Damascus; the SNC also said it would ensure the safety of UN investigators. The UN said the number of children who are refugees from Syria is now one million.
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Syria
American Tells of Odyssey as Prisoner of Syrian Rebels
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Ansar al Sharia in Libya criticizes Muslim Brotherhood
Additionally, the jihadist group praises Syria as “the land of jihad and epics, in particular, whose jihad is still continuing against all the forces of falsehood.”
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Syria
Syria chemical weapons: Sarin and mustard gas
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United States
Syria ‘chemical attack’: Distressing footage under analysis
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
American Tells of Odyssey as Prisoner of Syrian Rebels
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Syria
What are the West’s military options in Syria?
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Syria
US Weighs Plans to Punish Assad
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Syria
Reported Chemical Weapons Attack Could Kill Obama’s Syria Strategy
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Israel
The ground-based squadron guarding the Syrian border
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Syria
How Syria’s Jihadists Win Friends and Influence People
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Syria
A suicide bombing at an Aleppo city restaurant killed at least five civilians and injured over 20 more. Kurdish fighters continued to clash with the Al Nusrah Front, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and allied rebel factions in Hasakah and Raqqah. Regime bombardments continued in Ghouta, where rebels claimed hundreds were killed in chemical attacks yesterday, and in other parts of Damascus and elsewhere in Syria. The UN demanded immediate access for its investigative team to the site of the alleged chemical attack. The Free Syrian Army said local fighters found 29 projectiles that were allegedly used…
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Syria
Opposition: More bodies found after alleged Syria chemical attack
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Syria
Images of Death in Syria, but No Proof of Chemical Attack
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Syria
Video: Syrian chemical weapons use ‘hard to prove’
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Syria
Chemical weapon claims: Two Syrian activists’ diverging viewpoints
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Iraq
Putting Rivalries Aside, All Main Kurdish Parties To Meet For First Time
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Syria
The UN held an emergency meeting over allegations that chemical weapons were used in an attack today that reportedly killed at least 100 people. Syrian opposition groups blamed the regime for the attack, and some claimed that over 1,000 were killed. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said massive regime bombardments in the Ghouta area southeast of Damascus killed at least 136 people, and urged investigation into chemical weapons allegations. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the Al Nusrah Front, and allied rebel battalions attacked villages in Hasakah and in Raqqah.
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Israeli Arab who sought to fight with jihadists in Syria indicted
Israeli authorities today announced charges against an Israeli Arab who recently traveled to Syria, where he made contact with representatives of the Al Nusrah Front.
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Syria
U.S. Spies, Experts: Chemical Weapons Likely in Syria Attack
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Questions about alleged gas attack in Syria
Were chemical weapons used in Syria? And if so, who is responsible? How was the attack conducted?
