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Syria: Ceasefire sparks infighting between anti-Assad militants (w/ VIDEO)

A suburb of Damascus turned into a  no-man’s land Fresh clashes have erupted in Syria between secular rebels and...

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Please Don’t Attack Al-Qaeda

by Steven Chovanec, Undergroundreports In the weeks leading up to the agreed upon cessation-of-hostilities (CoH) agreement between the US...

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Russian analyst: Why the Syrian ceasefire makes sense

Syrian children are seen in a destroyed car in center of Aleppo, Feb. 18, 2015. Photo: Halil Fidan/Anadolu Agency/Getty...

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Reuters: How the West misread Putin over Syria

Reuters reports: Last July, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad seemed to be losing his battle against rebel forces. Speaking to...

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Saudi Arabia’s Dictator Demands Regime-Change in Syria — Otherwise WW III

by Eric Zuesse As has been recently reported, many experts on international relations are saying that the danger of a nuclear...

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Letter to Doctors Without Borders

by Ron West I had supported Doctors Without Borders because they had been apolitical, and largely neutral in conflicts....

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Ukrainian radicals trash Russian banks on anniversay of Maidan (w/ VIDEO)

 RT reports Ukrainian radicals wrecked the offices of Russian companies Sberbank and Alfa-Bank in Kiev as they marked the...

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BuzzFeed: U.S. in proxy war with itself in Syria

BuzzFeed News reports: ISTANBUL — American proxies are now at war with each other in Syria. Officials with Syrian...

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Syrian army captures Aleppo Thermal Plant, encircles ISIS (w/ VIDEO)

Screen grab from the video below Al Masdar News reports: The Syrian Arab Army’s elite ‘Tiger Forces’ – backed...

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Aleppo: The Corporate Media Credibility Gap

by Bryan Hemming Less than four years ago, Aleppo was a prosperous and beautiful city. Christians and Muslims lived...

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Boston Globe columnist: Syrian war coverage one of most shameful episodes in US press history

Children line a street of Kessab, in the Syrian province of Lattakia, following the expulsion of militants from the...

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Syria’s President Assad Amnesties Syria’s Draft-Evaders

by Eric Zuesse Syria’s President, Bashar al-Assad, issued on February 17th, a decree: …granting a general amnesty for military...

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Analysis: Hillary Clinton and the Syrian bloodbath

Hillary Clinton speaks to the press following the Friends of Syria conference in Tunis, February 2012. Photograph: Jason Reed/AFP/Getty...

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Video: Life inside Aleppo

Inside Aleppo. Photo Don McCullin. Russia Insider reports: […] Haytham, 9 and sister Lena, 6  climb the high embankment...

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Saudi, Turkey backpedaling on Syria invasion?

A Turkish army tank at the border with Syria. Press TV reports: Saudi Arabia and Turkey appear to be...

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Observer wants us all to forget 9/11 and embrace al Qaida as the friendly face of mass murder

The Graun’s recent (anonymously authored) “Observer view on…” reads like sullen teenage grafitti. Rddled with ignorance and misinformation, it...

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Syria: The race for Raqqa

In Raqqa, people watch ISIS militants cut off the hand of a man accused of stealing, February 11. Sputnik...

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Video: Press TV report, analysis on Syria

Syrian militants in Aleppo show freshly-received GRAD missiles on this February 7 photo. Syrian militants say they have received...

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UK columnist: In Aleppo, the besiegers are now the besieged

Syrian Army soldiers loyal to President Bashar al-Assad take aim at rebels during a battle in Aleppo’s al-Liramun neighbourhood....

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Angry Erdogan to US: “You are either beside us, or all of these terrorist organizations”

  RT reports: In an angry tirade starting with “Ey America!” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Washington of...

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