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U.S. troops leaving Syria and heading to neighboring Iraq do not have permission to stay in the country, Iraq's military said Tuesday as American forces continued to pull out of northern Syria after Turkey's invasion of the border region.
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A video showing a group of Germans surrounding a bus carrying refugees, at which they chanted "we are the people," has gone viral. German authorities have expressed their shock at the scenes.
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A Syrian family caught between two worlds tries to build a new life in a strange land, with strange laws and customs, because going home isn't an option.
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As the European Migrant Crisis deepens, authorities have discovered that not all Syrian refugees now seeking a new life in Europe are from the war-ravaged country.
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U.S. President Barack Obama has called for more forceful intervention in the Syrian conflict — but groups on the ground say that America's misguided actions aren't just not helping — they're making things worse.
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The future of the Hamas-backed “Unity Government” established to unite Palestinian Pres. Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah government with the terrorist organization that ousted Fatah from Gaza faces an uncertain future.
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The hacktivist group Anonymous is turning to Twitter and other social media outlets in an attempt to save a hospital just outside the war torn city of Aleppo which is scheduled to close within the next few weeks.
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As Palestinian-Syrian refugees try to escaped their warn torn country, they try to find refuge in a safer land. A new report by Amnesty International shows Lebanon is barring the refugees from entering the country.
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Today, June 20, is "World Refugee Day." It is important we do not forget the suffering of people who have the same hopes and dreams as we do. They are people like us, many are educated but circumstances have forced them to flee their country.
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After a year and a half long Syrian army siege, rebels of the Southern Front break through the blockade of strategically important Nawa to join with rebels trapped inside.
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Leaders of the G7 group of industrialized nations meeting at a summit in Brussels, Belgium, Wednesday, are expected to put further pressure on Russia to act over the Ukrainian crisis.
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U.S. President Barack Obama has met the Syrian oppositions Ahmad Jarba. Both individuals said their meeting was important and productive.
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The Syrian oppositions Ahmad Jarba has said that the United States needs to give Syria's opposition forces weapons they need to fight the Syrian military.
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The Syrian regime is retaking full control over Homs today the once vaunted "capital of the revolution." The city, Syria's third-largest, has been under bombardment for nearly two years now.
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Syrian opposition insurgents have blown up a hotel that is often used by Syrian army units currently fighting against opposition groups in Aleppo.
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Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said that 74 citizens of Turkey have so far been killed in incidents relating to the war raging across neighbouring Syria.
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Syrian opposition forces fighting the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad are set to leave Homs in the next 48 hours according to the governor there. Syria's tourism minister says he sees a "prosperous" tourist season ahead there.
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The Syrian presidential election will proceed as scheduled, at least according to officials. Despite the heavy death toll and destruction in the war-torn country, experts say things are looking up for Bashar al-Assad.
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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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Rome -
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Saturday, sent a message to Pope Francis through a Syrian delegation to the Vatican headed up by Syria’s Minister of State Joseph Sweid.
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Syrian activists have announced that an Islamic alliance that came together last month in Syria has just seized some bases and warehouses used by the Free Syrian Army near the Syria-Turkey border.
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Following the blowing up of an army checkpoint by Syrian rebels in Damascus thirty people following the blast and subsequent clashes.
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The UN chemical disarmament team in Syria, which set out to begin its mission yesterday, is already encountering difficulties as fears abound that their lives may be in danger due to the increasingly more violent situation in Syria.
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Syria's Information Minister Omran Al-Zohbi has said that Syria's President Bashar al-Assad will remain in office and has the right to run for reelection in 2014 if he wishes to.
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New York -
We now begin the week in which we will be dragged into President Obama's, and a compliant media's push for more US military interventionism and adventurism.
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Akrotiri -
An incident last Monday illustrated just how easily UK forces could become involved should President Obama elect to proceed with ‘limited and narrow’ strikes against the regime of Syria’s President Assad.
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Haifa -
With the threat of war looming, how are some Israelis spending their leisure time and what are they thinking? A visit to an event at Tulip winery in Northern Israel shows that life in Israel carries on in the ‘waiting room’ and shadow of war.
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The drumbeat of war is deafening once again. These days, if the US is not fighting simultaneous wars the White House seems to reel from ennui. This time, the target is Syria.
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Samples collected by the United Nations chemical weapons inspectors from the suburbs of Damascus in Syria should be delivered to laboratories for analysis today, said a spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
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In the build-up to what now seems inevitable military action of one kind or another against the regime of President Bashar Assad in Syria, one of the surprising features has been the attitude of France.
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Syria: Smoke from expolosions can be seen rising into the sky. U.S. Department of State
A FSA fighter engaged in a shootout in Aleppo Wikimedia Commons
Russian anti-submarine warship in the Eastern Mediterranean RIA Novosti/Vitaliy Ankov
Doctors and medical staff treating injured rebel fighters and civilians in Aleppo File photo: Scott Bobb
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