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Syria
Kurdish and jihadist fighters clashed in Hasakah province after a convoy of female Kurdish fighters was attacked; at least 19 Al Nusrah Front fighters and 10 Kurdish fighters are said to have been killed. The head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff said President Obama has asked him to determine whether the US “could” stage a military intervention in Syria. The outgoing head of the British army warned that the imposition of a no-fly zone would lead to war. The UN reported that about 6,000 Syrians are fleeing the country every day, a rate comparable to that of the…
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Syria
Momentum Shifts in Syria, Bolstering Assad’s Position
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Al Nusrah Front
Aid workers ‘targetted by jihadists in Syria’
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Al Nusrah Front
Kurdish-Islamist fighting spreads to Syrian oil fields
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Syria
Ruins in a Center of Syria’s Uprising
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Britain
Britain Said to Step Back From Push to Arm Syrian Rebels
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Pakistani Taliban ‘has a global agenda,’ commander says
A aide to Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan emir Hakeemullah Mehsud said that al Qaeda’s operational commander in Syria requested that the Taliban send fighters to wage jihad.
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Free Syrian Army arming al Qaeda, ISIL commander claims
A leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed the Free Syrian Army is selling weapons to the terror group.
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
In Syria, infighting between al-Qaida groups and mainstream rebels undermining revolt
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Syria
Israel scratching its head after US officials (again) leak Syria strike
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Satellite imagery of Israeli strike in Latakia released
Satellite imagery of the recent purported Israeli strike in Latakia reveals that a number of storage warehouses were struck. At least one of the facilities appears to have been completely destroyed.
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Free Syrian Army
No Quick Impact in US Arms Plan for Syria Rebels
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Syria
Government forces attacked rebel-held areas on the outskirts of Damascus. The al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claims to be buying weapons from the Free Syrian Army in Aleppo. A senior FSA commander said he welcomes ISIL as long as it doesn’t impose sharia. “Hundreds” of Pakistani jihadists are said to be in Syria. Syrian rebels holding nine Lebanese kidnapped in Aleppo in May 2012 blamed Hezbollah for a breakdown in negotiations for the release of a number of Syrian women held in regime prisons. The Red Cross delivered 5,000 food rations to the besieged Aleppo…
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Meeting al-Qaeda in Syria
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Hundreds of Pakistani jihadists reported in Syria
Many of the fighters are from the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan and the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, the anti-Shia terror group that serves as muscle for al Qaeda.
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Syria
Legal Fears Slowed Aid to Syrian Rebels
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Syria
Syria Weighs Its Tactics as Pillars of Its Economy Continue to Crumble
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Free Syrian Army commander says al Qaeda is ‘welcome’
A member of the US-backed Supreme Military Council said that the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant is “welcome if they help us fight the regime,” just days after the ISIL murdered a senior Free Syrian Army commander.
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Syrian rebels fear ‘side war’ as infighting spirals
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Syrian Rebel Infighting Undermines Anti-Assad Effort
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
NGO: Syria rebels, Qaeda affiliates fight in northwest
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Free Syrian Army issues ultimatum to al Qaeda over murder of commander
A 24-hour deadline to turn over the al Qaeda commander has already passed. The FSA is using the incident to demand weapons from the West.
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Syria
Syrian rebels vowed to retaliate for the killing of Free Syrian Army commander Kamal Hamami yesterday in Latakia by gunmen from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Accounts differed as to how he was killed. US officials confirmed that Israel carried out a strike against Yakhont missiles near Latakia on July 5. President Obama told Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah that the US still plans to send arms to the Syrian rebels. The Pakistani Taliban have established a base in Syria to aid jihadists.
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US officials confirm Israeli strike on Yakhont missiles in Syria
US officials have confirmed that Israel recently carried out a strike against Yakhont missiles near Latakia, Syria on July 5. This is the fourth reported strike by Israel against Syria since the start of the uprising against Bashar al Assad.
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Syria
In rural Syria, a rare peace threatened by sectarian war
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Pakistani Taliban establish ‘base’ inside Syria
The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan has sent experts in warfare and information technology to Syria to establish a base, aid in joint operations, and monitor the fighting there.
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
New front opens in Syria as rebels say al Qaeda attack means war
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Al Qaeda
Money, guns flowing from Kuwait to Syria’s most radical rebel factions
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Al Qaeda
Hezbollah fears attacks from al-Qaeda-linked groups
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Libya
How Libya sends weapons to Syria’s rebels.
