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UN inspectors confirm Syria chemical attack
UN inspectors have confirmed that chemical weapons have been used in the Syrian conflict, definitely in a widely publicised August 21 attack near Damascus and probably in four other locations between March and late August.
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‘Whole families murdered’: Syrian rebels execute over 80 civilians outside Damascus
Over 80 civilians in a town northwest of the Syrian capital of Damascus have been executed by Islamist rebels, sources within the Syrian military told RT. Many others were kidnapped to be used as human shields.
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U.S. Weighing Closer Ties With Hardline Islamists in Syria
As the moderate faction of the Syrian rebellion implodes under the strain of vicious infighting and diminished resources, the United States is increasingly looking to hardline Islamists in its efforts to gain leverage in Syria's civil war. The development has alarmed U.S. observers concerned that the radical Salafists do not share U.S. values and has dismayed supporters of the Free Syrian Army who believe the moderates were set up to fail.
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UK to help in destroying Syria's chemical weapons
The United Kingdom's foreign office has reportedly announced that it will help in the international mission to destroy Syria's chemical weapons. The UK agreed to destroy 150 tons of industrial-grade chemicals from Syria's stockpile at a commercial facility. According to News24, the US, Russia, China, Denmark, Norway and Finland are already committed to the mission.
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Bashar Al Assad: An Intimate Profile of a Mass Murderer
How Syria's polite, genocidal dictator won.
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Chilling Pictures Taken By The Teenage Photographer Who Was Killed In Syria
Molhem Barakat was a freelance photographer for Reuters covering the fighting in Aleppo.
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'Jihad Tourism': From Germany To The Syrian Battlefield
More than 240 people have left Germany to join the civil war in Syria.
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Bomb in Beirut Kills Politician, a Critic of Syria and Hezbollah
A powerful bomb shook central Beirut on Friday morning, killing at least six people, officials said, and injuring dozens more. Among the dead was Mohamad B. Chatah, a former Lebanese finance minister and ambassador to the United States who was a vocal critic of the government in neighboring Syria and its ally Hezbollah, the Shiite Lebanese militia.
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In message to Pope, Syrian President says he's ready for peace talks
In a message to Pope Francis, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says he's ready for peace talks, but outsiders must stop supporting terrorists in the civil war.
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Moscow sending troops to Syria
The Moscow-controlled government in Chechnya is creating “special units” to battle Islamic fighters in Syria, according to Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. The goal is to keep Muslim fighters from Chechnya from returning, out of concern for possible terrorist attacks during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
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Report: 70 journalists killed on the job in 2013
At least 70 journalists were killed on the job around the world in 2013, including 29 who died covering the civil war in Syria and 10 slain in Iraq, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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The Syrian Electronic Army Rings In The New Year By Hacking Skype’s Social Media Accounts
The Syrian Electronic Army is at it again. The group just hacked Skype’s blog and twitter accounts, spreading an anti-NSA, anti-Microsoft message in the process. “Don’t use Microsoft emails (hotmail,outlook), They are monitoring your accounts and selling the data to the governments”, says one posting. “Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army.. Stop Spying!”, says another. Skype, the service itself, does not appear to be affected.
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Skype social media platforms hacked by 'Syrian Electronic Army'
The social media platforms of Skype have been hacked by a group claiming to be the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA). The group posted anti-surveillance messages, including a message telling people not to use email services of Microsoft, the owner of Skype. It claimed "they are monitoring your accounts and selling the data to the governments".
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Syria rebels lay siege to Al-Qaeda-linked fighters
Rebel fighters, including ones from the newly formed Islamic Front, laid siege Monday to Al-Qaeda-linked fighters in their northern stronghold of Raqqa, freeing 50 captives, including a Turkish journalist, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Raqqa emerged as a new front Sunday in fighting among rebels battling to oust President Bashar al-Assad, with various groups joining forces against Al-Qaeda affiliate the Islamic State of Iraq and and the Levant (ISIL).
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Chemical Weapons Have Begun to Leave Syria
After a number of setbacks concerning security and weather in Syria, the mission to rid the country of deadly chemical weapons is back on track. The United Nations reports that the first shipment of chemical weapons has left Syria, on its way to the American naval vessel, the MV Cape Ray, where the weapons will be destroyed.
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Syrian Electronic Army hijacks Microsoft blog and Twitter account
On New Year's Day, the Syrian Electronic Army hacked Skype's Twitter account and its official Microsoft blog, allegedly in order to warn people away from Microsoft's email services. Today, the hackers appear to be at it again. This morning, they broke into the Microsoft News Twitter account, and now they've hijacked the entire Official Microsoft Blog, turning it into a giant automatic redirect to their own propaganda website.
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France warns Europe could be 'overwhelmed' by jihadis returning from Syria
France's interior minister, Manuel Valls, warns Europe could be 'overwhelmed' by hundreds of jihadis returning from Syria
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The New, Go-To Place for Illegal Organs
A massive wave of desperate Syrian refugees could create a new market in Lebanon for the illegal human organ trade On a recent night in south Beirut, a group of young men sat exchanging bits of neighborhood gossip in a tiny café. Slumped into a corner, and wearing a ball cap pulled down low, one of them slowly nodded along in obvious physical pain. Like a growing number of Syrian refugees here desperate for cash, he had just sold one of his kidneys on the black market.
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Iran exclusion from Geneva 2 a mistake, pushed by those who want Assad out - Lavrov
The UN Secretary General’s decision to revoke his invitation to Iran to take part in the upcoming Syria peace conference was ‘a mistake’ but not ‘a catastrophe’, says Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Ban Ki-moon revoked the invitation on Sunday a day after sending it. He cited Iran’s failure to adhere to the so called “Geneva communiqué”, the document adopted by the first international conference on the Syrian crisis in Switzerland in June 2012.
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Al-Qaeda slaughters on Syria's killing fields
Al-Qaeda fighters have struck a bloody blow in scenes of medieval violence in Syria's northern border-town of Jarabulus. Fighting came to a head on January 17, between rebel groups Liwa al-Tawhid Brigade and the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the town, when reinforcements arrived from Raqqa and reclaimed the city in a brutal four-hour battle.
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