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Syria Terrorists on the run
Field reports from the ground inside Syria point towards a difficult and complex situation, with the country teeming with foreign mercenaries, including westerners, with outside forces using Saudi, Turkey and Qatar as proxies to support minority groups and destabilize the status quo. However, all is not well for the western terrorist ...
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Syria War Fierce Battle for Key Town
Fierce fighting has been reported in the strategic Syrian town of Qusair, as rebels and government forces backed by Hezbollah militants fight for control. The state news agency reported that the army had taken control of most of the town on Monday, and killed more than 100 of what it called ';terrorists.'; Activists denied that Qusair had been captured, but said some 50 people had ...
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Former U.S. Ambassador Dont Go Into Blind To Syria
Robert Siegel talks with Ryan Crocker, former U.S. ambassador to both Iraq and Afghanistan, about how lessons learned in those conflicts could inform how the U.S. deals with Syria today. Crocker is now a fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale ...
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Volunteer Group Hopes To Save Syrias Lost Generation
In the narrow streets of the Sabra refugee camp in Beirut, there is an apartment without windows. It's a rather gloomy place for a kindergarten, but the only place available for 70 Syrian refugee children from cities like Aleppo, Homs and Deraa. A group of volunteers come to help the children overcome their traumas through music, drawing and theater classes once a week. Some kids don't ...
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Attacks kill 95 in Iraq hint of Syrian spillover
Tomas Young, the paralyzed Iraq war vet who announced earlier this spring that he was ready to die, said Monday that he has decided to live for ...
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When It Comes to Syria Israel Frequently Redrawing Red Lines
- Israel is being drawn into Syria’s quagmire as it threatens to act further on transfers of ';game-changing'; weapons to hostile protagonists involved in Syria’s civil war, be they Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah, Jihadist Sunni rebels, or loyalist forces of President Bashar al ...
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Syria Breaking Up Under War Pressure
The black flag of jihad flies over much of northern Syria. In the center of the country, pro-government militias and Hezbollah fighters battle those who threaten their communities. In the northeast, the Kurds have effectively carved out an autonomous zone. After more than two years of conflict, Syria is breaking up. A constellation of armed groups battling to advance their own agendas are ...
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Ford Trucks See Boost as Roadshow Reaches Saudi Arabia
Ford Middle East and Al Jazirah Vehicles Agencies Co. (AJVA), the Ford and Lincoln importer-dealer in Saudi Arabia, brought the legendary F-150 and Ranger Built Ford Tough pickup trucks closer to Saudi customers through a unique roadshow across 10 major Saudi cities, dubbed the largest of its kind. Ford's history in the Middle East goes back more than 60 years. The company's ...
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U.S. mess in Iraq
Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki listens to a question during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/ Khalid ...
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Hezbollah in big Syria battle Obama concerned
AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas have fought their biggest battle yet for Syria's beleaguered president, prompting international alarm that the civil war may spread and an urgent call for restraint from the United ...
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Kerry pushes dual peace bids on Middle East return
Tech Mahindra to deliver Aspect's IP solutions Tech Mahindra will be channel partner in Asia Pacific and Europe, Middle East and Africa ...
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William Hague seeks to change arms embargo on Syria
Syria to press Bashar al-Assad into holding peace talks with the rebels because the escalating conflict is threatening a regional "catastrophe", William Hague warned on Monday.Speaking as combat raged around the strategic town of Qusair, where ...
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Syria no place for back-seat drivers | Editorial
Iran and Hezbollah to relinquish their support for Bashar Assad, in favour of a transitional regime that would offer guarantees to the minority Alawite community, that has now been answered.Whatever happens in the town of Qusair, both Hezbollah and Iran are now signalling that Assad's fate has become a matter of existential survival for them, too. The regime's victory, or defeat, will ...
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Reasons to Be Hopeful a Decade After We Went Into Iraq
website. Ten years ago, my part of the world was full of valiant opposition to the new wars being launched far away and at home-and of despair. And like despairing people everywhere, whether in a personal depression or a political tailspin, these activists believed the future would look more or less like the present. If there was nothing else they were confident about, at least they were ...
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Battle for Qusair inflicts heavy losses in Syria
Fierce fighting for the Syrian rebel stronghold of Qusair has inflicted heavy losses on all parties including Lebanese militants Hezbollah. The battle for strategically important Qusair is a possible turning point in the war – a win for the regime would restore links between Damascus and the Mediterranean coast. While the latest amateur video is said to show rebels fighting street by ...
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Official Palestinians holding off on UN agency membership mainly to give US effort a chance
A top official says Palestinians have done all the legal work necessary to join 63 U.N. agencies, conventions and treaties, but haven't applied yet mainly to give the U.S. peace effort a chance to succeed. Chief Palestinian peace negotiator Saeb Erekat said Monday that Palestinians have done "everything" to enable President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry to ...
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Israel and Palestinians still battling over how boy who became symbol was killed in 2000
Baraa al-Dura, sister of Mohammed al-Dura poses with a picture of Mohammed at her home in Bureij Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip, Monday, May 20, 2013. Mohammed al-Dura was killed during an exchange of gunfire between Israeli troops and Palestinian police on Gaza Strip on Sept. 30, 2000. More than a dozen years later, the death of a Palestinian boy allegedly shot by Israeli troops in Gaza ...
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Head of chemical weapons watchdog said Syria`s chemical weapons stockpile is est…
Head of chemical weapons watchdog said Syria`s chemical weapons stockpile is estimated around 1,000 tons ANKARA - Assertions of chemical weapons use in Syria attracts the international public opinion`s attention.Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Director General Ahmet Uzumcu said Syria was said to have a stock of 100 tons of chemical weapons according to findings released by open ...
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Palestinian Presidency Spokesman Rudeyne Israels decision is to sabotage the …
Palestinian Presidency Spokesman Rudeyne: "Israel's decision is to sabotage the peace efforts which Obama and Kerry are trying to start in the region" JERUSALEM/CAIRO - Palestinian Presidency Spoekesman Nabil Abu Rudeyne said Israeli settlements which would be built in West Bank would sabotage the peace efforts in the region."Israel's decision is to sabotage the peace ...
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Leader of Lebanons Progressive Socialist Party evaluated current developments i…
Leader of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party evaluated current developments in Syria Anadolu Agency BEIRUT - Walid Jumblatt, the current leader of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) and the most prominent leader of Lebanon's Druze community, said, "the clash of US, looking out for the interests of none except for Russia, Iran and Israel, will lead the Syria crisis to drag ...
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Scuffles erupt as Palestinians mark anniversary
Clashes broke out between Palestinians and Israeli forces on Nakba Day, a day when Palestinians commemorate the loss of their homes in the 1948 war that resulted in the creation of Israel. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown ...
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Report Egypt militants planned US Embassy attack
By Becky Bratu, Staff Writer, NBC News An al Qaeda-linked cell disrupted in Egypt was planning suicide attacks on the French and U.S. embassies, the state news agency MENA reported, according to Reuters.In light of this news and last week’s stabbing of a U.S. citizen on the embassy’s perimeter, the U.S. Embassy in Cairo alerted U.S. citizens to exercise "elevated ...
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Syria’s River of Death
clashing along the frontline. Mohammed’s problem was that the frontline ran between the two places where he was buying and selling the clothes for his shop. So one morning in early March, Mohammed set out toward government-controlled territory, through checkpoints and the no-man’s land separating the two fighting forces, to buy merchandise. Many people cross the frontlines this way ...
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Are tit-for-tat sectarian killings enough to tilt Iraq back to war
Iraqi security force members inspect the site of a car bomb attack in Basra, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday. Two car bombings in the southern city of Basra, killing and wounding dozens of people, police said. Iraq has seen a spike of attacks, including bombings hitting both Sunni and Shiite civilian targets over the last ...
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Syrian Rebels Suffer Setbacks From Fighting in Town Near Lebanon Border
TRIPOLI, LEBANON -- Syrian government troops backed by fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah movement have been in fierce battles in the rebel-held town of Qusair after weeks of fighting. Many wounded rebels are being treated across the nearby border in northern Lebanon. Eighteen year-old Obeida Abdel Nabi is recovering from a shrapnel wound to his lower abdomen. He was hurt several days ago ...
Israel Focus
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Biggest construction project in Israeli history
The Port of Ashdod is the gateway to the economy of Israel, it has played a central role in the development of the state and will play a central role in future development, hence the reason for an ambitious $500 million expansion project currently underway in two stages (in the picture, green represents stage 1 and brown stage 2).
The Port of Ashdod is currently undergoing the largest construction project ever undertaken in the history of Israel. In 1999, Israel news media reported that the government wanted to double the cargo capacity of Ashdod, an ambitious construction project was therefore envisioned, involving the building of new piers, new docks, warehouses and cargo handling equipment. It was to take place in two stages, with the total project costing around $500 million. Read more
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