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A suicide truck bombing by the Al Nusrah Front killed 43 people in Hama and wounded dozens more; although an army checkpoint was targeted, 32 of the dead were civilians. The head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights accused the international community of hypocrisy for focusing on chemical weapons while thousands of Syrians are […]
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Syria’s civil war plays out on social media
Israeli Arab reported killed fighting in Syria may be alive
An Israeli Arab said to have been killed in September while fighting alongside the Al Nusrah Front in Syria allegedly called his family today. The person purporting to be Mueid Juma’a did not disclose his current location.
Hamas
Syria: Tensions escalate between Islamist rebels and Hamas
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Battling on two fronts, moderate Syrian rebels struggle for funding, lose fighters
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The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, assisted by the Al Nusrah Front and rebel battalions, clashed with Kurdish YPG forces, and bombarded the towns of Kendar and Ando Kawi in Raqqah. Rebels and Islamist forces clashed in Reef Dimashq after an Al Nusrah truck bomb detonated by the Tamiko factory checkpoint, killing at […]
Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Family vacation? No, ‘family jihad’ in Syria
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia turns down UN Security Council membership
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Regime bombardments killed 12 civilians in the Aleppo town of Tel’eren, which was wrested from the control of Liwa’ Jabhat al-Akrad rebels by the Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham in July. Al Nusrah and Ahrar al-Sham clashed with regime forces near Aleppo Central Prison. Al Nusrah executed 10 […]
Ahrar al Sham
Weapons, fighters flow to Syria’s next battlefront as offensive looms
ISIS photos show children training at ‘al Zarqawi Cubs Camp’
The ISIS images are similar to videos and photographs of child training camps in Pakistan’s tribal areas that are run by the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, the Turkistan Islamic Party, and the Islamic Jihad Union.
Saudi Arabia
Training of Syrian insurgents steps up in Saudi Arabia
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Erdogan, Syria Rebels’ Leading Ally, Hesitates, 31 Months In
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A rebel sniper killed senior Syrian general Jama’a Jama’a in a battle in Deir Azzour with fighters that included al Qaeda forces. He was head of military intelligence in Deir Azzour, and had been blacklisted by the US in 2006. A Canadian lawyer who worked for the UN observer force along Syria’s Golan Heights border […]
Free Syrian Army continues to fracture as more units defect
Sixty-six units in the south split from the FSA and the Syrian National Coalition. One of the brigades has fought with the Al Nusrah Front in the past.
France
France agrees to shelter 500 Syrian refugees, UN says
Syria
A rebel claiming to speak for some 65 Free Syrian Army units said they were withdrawing from the Syrian National Coalition. Regime gunners attacked rebel and Al Nusrah Front forces clashing with regime troops outside Aleppo Central Prison. Two Al Nusrah suicide bombers detonated inside the gates of the prison, killing at least seven guards […]
Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Jihadists flooding into northern Syria put Turkey on edge
Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Syria – Rebels and activists fight sectarian strife in south
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Fighting continued throughout Syria despite the Eid al-Adha holiday. Rebel bombs targeted churches in Damascus suburbs, as well as areas of central Damascus. Regime aircraft bombed rebel-held areas south and east of Damascus. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham clashed with the rebel Northern Storm brigade at the Bab Salam post at the […]
Denmark
Syrian refugees smuggled into Denmark
Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Jihadists see Syria insurgency as just the beginning of a Middle East revolution
Japanese reporter joins al Qaeda in Syria, jihadist claims
A Japanese man, who is now known as Abu Saskuki al Yabani, is pictured in front of an al Qaeda flag and shown firing a weapon. But the reporter denied he joined the ISIS.
Syria
Syrian Rebels Urged to Let Inspectors See Arms Sites .
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UN frets over Syria deadlines as treaty takes effect
Syria
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham released four of the seven Red Cross aid workers recently kidnapped in Idlib; the group still holds three of them. A car bombing in Idlib killed at least 27 people and wounded dozens more. The Al Nusrah Front clashed with regime forces in Deir Azzour; rebels have […]
Al Qaeda
US allies let funds flow to al Qaeda in Syria
Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Al-Qaida Surges Back in Iraq, Reviving Old Fears
Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Iraqi Kurdistan’s chief ready to strike militants in Syria, Iraq