Syrian civil war News
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Baghdad -
For President Obama, Iraq is the anti-war horse he rode to victory in 2008. Many political analysts say opposition to the Iraqi war was the club he used to first pound Clinton then Republicans into submission.
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Homs -
Activists report that Syrian rebels have negotiated a ceasefire near the city of Homs. The ceasefire came into effect Friday. Earlier negotiations led to rebels giving up Homs while they were transported with weapons to rebel-held areas.
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Damascus -
Fighting between rival radical Islamist groups has claimed the lives of 62 militants and forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes to avoid the violence.
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Homs -
While there may be no progress in Syria peace talks there have been local ceasefires from time to time. A new ceasefire deal has been reached between rebel and Syrian commanders.
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New York -
Lakhdar Brahimi the UN and Arab League joint special representative on Syria is said to be planning to resign in the near future. He told reporters almost a year ago in New York that he thought about resigning every day.
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Damascus -
The speaker of the Syrian parliament announced on April 28 that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would seek a third term in office in an election that is to be held on June 3.
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Beirut -
Clashes between pro and anti-Assad gunmen in the Lebanese capital of Beirut has left at least 13 people wounded according to police.
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Aleppo -
The radical Jabhat al-Nusra Front recognized by Al Qaeda gave rivals Islamic State in Iraq and Levant(ISIS or ISIL or AQI) five days to agree to mediation over control over the areas of northern Syria ISIL occupies.
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Damascus -
Syrian state-run news outlets report that Syrian forces ambushed fighters of the Jabhat al-Nusra faction of rebels linked to Al Qaeda killing 175 and wounding many more.
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Aleppo -
Abu Khaled al Suri died in a suicide bombing in Aleppo Syria. He was a member of Ahrar al-Sham and close to current Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. The death was confirmed by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
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Istanbul -
The former commander of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) General Salim Idriss rejected his dismissal as military head of the group. He claims that the whole chain of command needed a "total restructuring".
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Geneva -
UN mediator Lakhdar Brahimi said that high-level Russian and U.S. diplomats promised to try and keep the Geneva 2 peace talks alive as they are now at a deadlock after very little progress.
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Geneva -
The Geneva 2 peace talks have resumed as of Monday February 10th. On the first day the two sides did not meet together but the UN Special Envoy met separately with each side and took messages back and forth.
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Homs -
In spite of mortar fire and shooting yesterday, a total of six hundred people have now been evacuated from besieged parts of Homs mostly women, children, and the elderly.
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Homs -
The UN welcomed reports that an agreement had been reached to allow evacuation of civilians from besieged areas of Homs and for aid to be delivered as well.
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Moscow -
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told reporters that the Syrian government will take part in the second round of talks at Geneva 2.
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Aleppo -
Syrian government helicopters and war planes have launched air strikes on 15 opposition-held neighbourhoods in the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday.
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Geneva -
The first round of peace talks designed to end the ongoing civil war in Syria have now ended. There was no breakthrough achieved. Each side blamed the other for the lack of progress.
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Damascus -
Yarmouk is a Palestinian refugee camp a short distance south of Damascus. The camp was set up for Palestinian refugees after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that resulted in the creation of Israel but displaced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
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Damascus -
In another development that will help improve the humanitarian situation in the Syrian civil war, a ceasefire has been arranged between government forces and rebels in an area of Damascus held by rebels.
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Homs -
While Geneva 2 may not be able to stop the fighting in the civil war, even at this early stage the meetings have resulted in agreement on a positive humanitarian move.
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Damascus -
Just a day before the Geneva 2 talks began, the Kurds in Syria declared a provincial government in the northeast area of Syria that they control.
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Montreux -
Objections by the United States and the Syrian opposition has resulted in the UN doing a complete about-face as it has uninvited Iran to the Geneva 2 talks after a last-minute invitation just a day ago.
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Montreux -
After delaying a decision that was to be made yesterday, today the Syrian National Coalition, the main western-backed rebel group agreed to attend the Geneva II peace talks sponsored by the UN, Russia, and the U.S.
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Damascus -
Barely a week before the Geneva peace conference about the protracted Syrian civil war, US secretary of State John Kerry ruled out Bashar al-Assad’s stake in the Syria’s future if he fails to discuss a political transition in favor of rebels.
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Paris -
As part of the preparations for the Geneva II talks scheduled for January 22, both Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and United States Secretary of State John Kerry have broached the idea of "localized ceasefires."
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Geneva -
The members of the main Western-backed Syrian opposition group, the Syrian National Coalition(SNC) have postponed a vote to decide whether or not they will attend the Geneva II conference on Syria scheduled for January 22.
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Aleppo -
After steadily expanding the area it controls for some time, often at the expense of other rebel groups, The Islamic State in Sham (ISIS) — also known as Al Qaeda in Iraq — has relinquished control of some areas in northern Syria.
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Amman -
Rebel fighters in Syria claim their is an operations command center in Amman Jordan staffed by western and Arab military officials who give support to rebels fighting on the southern front.
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Damascus -
The Islamic Front an umbrella group of rebels who want an Islamic state in Syria has refused to have talks with the United States. Ambassador Robert Ford said that the US remains open to "talk to all parties and political groups in Syria".
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Syrian civil war Image
File photo: Scott Bobb
Doctors and medical staff treating injured rebel fighters and civilians in Aleppo
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IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation
Syrian child refugees in Lebanon
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Voice of America
Free Syrian Army rebels chant slogans against President Bashar Al-Assad in Damascus.
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With permission by Reuters / Bassam Khabieh
People carry as they lower the bodies of the five civilian activists, who were killed during what activists said was an ambush, into their graves during their funeral in eastern al-Ghouta, near Damascus November 24, 2013. Fierce fighting to the east of Damascus has killed more than 160 people in the past two days as Syrian rebels struggle to break a months-long blockade by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad
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In this citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, Syrians search under rubble to rescue people from houses that were destroyed by a Syrian government warplane in Idlib province, August 30, 2013
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A FSA fighter engaged in a shootout in Aleppo
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A Syrian man holds the head of a severely wounded man at the entrance of a house that is used as a hospital in Bab Amr. Feb. 6, 2012
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With permission by Reuters / Bassam Khabieh
People carry as they lower the bodies of the five civilian activists, who were killed during what activists said was an ambush, into their graves during their funeral in eastern al-Ghouta, near Damascus November 24, 2013. Fierce fighting to the east of Damascus has killed more than 160 people in the past two days as Syrian rebels struggle to break a months-long blockade by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad
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Free Syrian Army fighters in Idlib governorate.
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File photo: An image grab taken from a video uploaded on YouTube, allegedly shows a tank from forces loyal to the Syrian government being hit by a projectile in the town of Izaz, on the Turkish-Syrian border
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Syria: Wounded civilians
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With permission by Reuters / Mohamed Abdullah
A U.N. chemical weapons expert, wearing a gas mask, holds a plastic bag containing samples from one of the sites of an alleged chemical weapons attack in the Ain Tarma neighbourhood of Damascus August 29, 2013
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In this image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, U.N. investigators gather potential evidence in a Damascus suburb, August 28, 2013
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Scott Bob report from Azaz, Syria.
Residents pick up after aerial bombings by government forces in the rebel-held Azaz section of Aleppo, August 16, 2012.
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Elizabeth Arrott - Voice of America
Anti-riot police in central Damascus, Jan. 16, 2012.
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With permission by Reuters / Bassam Khabieh
A man holds the body of a dead child among bodies of people activists say were killed by nerve gas in the Ghouta region, in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus August 21, 2013
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Syrian children
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks on Syria at the U.S. Department of State in Washington
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October 3, 2012 - Aleppo, Syria: A series of car bombs detonated in the central Saadallah al-Jabiri square in Aleppo, destroy an Officer's Club, hotel and a cafe. At least 44 are killed and 122 are wounded. The al-Qaida-linked al-Nursa Front claimed responsibility for the attack.
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