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Photos Show 'Unprecedented' Shift of Refugees Into Turkey - 0 views

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  • Briana S on 24 Sep 14
     
    Over 100,000 refugees of Kurdish background have fled war torn areas from Syria into Turkey. Criticisms of how Turkey is handling this new flow of foreigners.
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The Syrian Constitution: Assad's Magic Wand - Syria in Crisis - Carnegie Endowment for ... - 0 views

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  • alarsso on 21 Apr 15
     
    This article explores the idea that the Constitution with Ba'ath Party intentions and ideology, intertwined in every word, allows for unlimited actions that Assad could take. It is at the point where the president could constitutionally change the Constitution simply if all of his demands are not met.
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Syria's beleaguered Christians - BBC News - 0 views

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  • Christian men have been fighting in the multi-layered conflict - either alongside Kurdish militias or alongside relatively secular rebel factions, or government forces.
  • 10% of Syria's 22 million people.
  • Greek Orthodox Church,
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  • Christians have long been among Syria's elite
  • The founder of the Baath Party
  • was a Christian, and Christians rose to senior positions in the party, government and security forces
  • not seen to have any real power compared with their Alawite and Sunni colleagues.
  • large proportion
  • Sunnis also tolerated or supported the Assads,
  • guarantors of stability
  • When pro-democracy protests erupted
  • many Christians were cautious and tried to avoid taking sides.
  • Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Gregorios III Laham said last year that more than 1,000 Christians had been killed, entire villages cleared, and dozens of churches and Christian centres damaged or destroyed.
  • This has led some Christians to express support for President Assad,
  • if President Assad is overthrown, Christians will be targeted and communities destroyed as many were in Iraq after the US-led invasion in 2003.
  • concerned by the coming to power of Islamist parties in post-revolutionary Egypt and Tunisia.
  • Other Christians are believed to be assisting the opposition.
  • Syrian National Council, whose leader
  • is from a Christian family.
  • alarsso on 15 Apr 15
     
    Thsi article explores the state of Christians in Syria. Patriarch Gregorios and Bishop Ibrahim add to this discussion.
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Homemade killing machines built from junk - 0 views

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  • petergrossmanseu on 10 Feb 16
     
    An Australian news article about the FSA fighters and the homemade mortar which they refer to as the Hell Cannon. I bookmarked of this because it's a more in-depth look at the cannon, which was shown although briefly in some of my earlier bookmarks.
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