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A spokesman for the Free Syrian Army said the rebels have recently received new weapons from Arab countries and other friendly nations, but not yet from the United States. Some opposition groups in Aleppo are reportedly using Russian-made Grad rockets to attack Syrian army bases.

The European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid, and Crisis Response warned that Syria’s refugee crisis will become the world’s worst in decades if a peace plan is not speedily adopted. She criticized further efforts to arm the rebels, and said half of the 1.7 million Syrian refugees are children, who after years of no […]

A car bombing yesterday by an al Qaeda-linked group killed at least 60 Syrian soldiers near a military base by Aleppo’s airport, activists claimed. Some 700,000 civilians in Aleppo’s Afrin district have been besieged by rebels since May 25. Rebels assassinated a college dean in al Hasaka city; the car of a female university lecturer […]