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Syria
Rebels clashed with regime and Hezbollah forces near the Khalid bin al-Walid mosque in Homs, but were pushed out, leaving most of Khaldiyeh in regime control. Some 29 people, mainly children and women, were killed yesterday when a regime missile aimed at Islamist and rebel forces in Aleppo missed its target. Helicopters yesterday bombarded Kurdish YPG fighters as well as Islamist and allied rebels in Hasakah province. About 120 fighters have been killed in two weeks of clashes between Islamist and Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria. The president of the Syrian National Coalition claimed that the Kurdish opposition was likely…
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Analysis: Al Qaeda’s Iraqi, Syrian affiliates jointly battle Kurds
Despite a dispute between the emirs of the Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the two al Qaeda branches are jointly fighting against their Kurdish enemies.
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Al Qaeda
Worries Mount as Syria Lures West’s Muslims
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
War in Syria inspires Kurdish unity
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‘Ansarul Muhajideen’ claims double suicide attack in Kurram
The group said it killed more than 50 Shia at a market in Parachinar, Pakistan to avenge Sunnis killed in Syria.
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Afghanistan
Al Qaeda is Back
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Hezbollah
Once a ‘King of Romance,’ Now an Angry Militant
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Al Nusrah Front and Ansar al Khilafah seize town near Aleppo, execute Syrian soldiers
Both groups claimed credit for overrunning the Syrian military and Hezbollah in Khan al Asal, a town where chemical weapons are reported to have been used in the past.
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Qatar-funded Syrian rebel brigade backs al Qaeda groups in Syria
The Ahfad al Rasoul Brigade said that it would join al Qaeda’s affiliates and fight a Kurdish militia. It is funded by Qatar and is represented on the US-backed Supreme Military Command.
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Syria
Rebel forces in Khan al-Asal in Aleppo killed 150 members of the regime forces, of whom 51 were summarily executed. Four Islamist groups — the Al Nusrah Front, Ahrar al-Sham, the Ahfad al-Rasoul Brigade, and the Islamic Kurdish Front — issued a joint statement on July 24 vowing to drive Kurdish PYD fighters out of the contested town of Ras al Ayn in Hasakah. Clashes between Kurdish and Islamist forces continued in Raqqah. The Syrian National Coalition yesterday asked the US for weapons, and today at the UN called on Russia to end its support for the Assad regime.
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Syria
Syrian Kurds’ struggle for autonomy threatens rebel effort to oust Assad
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant eulogizes Tunisian suicide bomber
Hamza al ‘Awni said that on the ground, the ISIL and the Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, another al Qaeda affiliate in Syria, are “without differences.”
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Al-Qaeda tries to soften image with ice cream
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Syria
The UN said the Syrian conflict has now claimed over 100,000 lives, and US Secretary of State Kerry said there is no military solution to the conflict. Rebels disillusioned by infighting with Islamist fighters are said to have begun accepting reconciliation offers from the Assad regime. A car bomb blamed on “terrorists” exploded in Reef Damashq, killing at least 17 people and wounding many more. The Syrian National Council plans to meet in Istanbul in early August to try to form a provisional government.
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Pakistani Taliban leader discusses ‘global jihad,’ Syria in al Qaeda video
Maulana Asim Umar, a Pakistani Taliban and al Qaeda propagandist, is featured in a new message disseminated by As Sahab. Umar calls on Indian Muslims to take part in the “global jihad” and emphasizes the importance of the fight in Syria.
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Jordan
Syrian refugees stranded along Jordanian border; humanitarian crisis feared
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Syria
Syria: disillusioned rebels drift back to take Assad amnesty
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Syria
The UN Security Council will hold an informal meeting on Syria this week; Middle East envoy Robert Serry said Syria was “increasingly turning into a regional, if not a global, battleground.” The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights called again for the release of two bishops kidnapped near Aleppo by “rebel fighters from the Caucasus.” The Al Nusrah Front warned civilians not to use the Aleppo-Salamiya road and vowed to target any vehicle passing through. Kurdish and Islamist forces clashed in Hasakah for the seventh day; fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and from the Al Nusrah…
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Syria
Syrian Sunnis fear Assad regime wants to ‘ethnically cleanse’ Alawite heartland
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Iraq jailbreak highlights al-Qaeda affiliate’s ascendancy
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American passport found at al Qaeda base in northern Syria
American and Egyptian passports belonging to Amiir Farouk Ibrahim, who was born in Pennsylvania, were among a number of travel documents found after the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant abandoned a base in northern Syria.
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Syria
A top UN official said both sides in the conflict risk prosecution as war criminals for atrocities against children. A reporter for the pro-rebel Syrian Observatory for Human Rights was killed in Aleppo. Al Nusrah Front fighters targeted a military branch and a checkpoint with two suicide car bombs in Homs. Among a number of foreign fighter passports found at an abandoned Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant base in Ras el-Ein was that of an American. Five Islamist fighters were killed in the sixth consecutive day of clashes in Hasakah between the Kurdish YPG and the Al Nusrah…
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Syria
UK ‘terror’ airport stops under new scrutiny
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Bulgaria
EU Terrorist Group Designation to Have Little Impact on Hezbollah
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Syria
Kurdish rebels reportedly freed Abu Musaab, the local commander of the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), in exchange for the return of 300 Kurdish civilians taken hostage by ISIL. Kurdish fighters have been trying to expel ISIL and Al Nusrah Front militants in Hasakah province over the past week; over 60 people are said to have been killed in recent clashes between the Kurds and the al Qaeda forces. Regime forces ambushed rebel forces in a Damascus suburb, killing at least 49 people, activists claimed. ISIL and rebel forces from the Hamza Assad Allah Brigade…
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Iran
Enlisting Damascus Residents to Answer Assad’s Call
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Kurds free Qaeda-linked rebel commander in Syria after clashes
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Al Qaeda, Kurdish rebels fight along Turkish border
The Al Nusrah Front, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and reportedly the Free Syrian Army are fighting the PKK-linked YPG in northern Syria.
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Tunisian jihadist calls for clerics, youth to fight in Syria
The video was released by the Muhajireen Army, but is credited to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria.
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Al Qaeda
Libyan weapons fuel Syria bloodshed
