Can Turkey seize the 'Kurdish card' for itself? - Global Public Square - CNN.com Blogs - 0 views
VOICES: Inhumanity and the Moral Limit in Syria - 1 views
Britain vows 'significant' support for Syrian opposition - 0 views
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Britain will make "a significant contribution" to equip and train the moderate Syrian opposition to defeat both Islamic State extremists and the Damascus regime of President Bashar al-Assad, its foreign secretary said on Monday. Secretary of Foreign Affairs made a statement,"The UK is helping the opposition establish security and governance, and to deliver essential services. This includes life-saving search and rescue training, helping Syrians whose homes have been reduced to rubble by the regime's bombs."
Everything you need to know about Syrias chemical weapons - The Washington Post - 0 views
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Super helpful link! This website answers many basic as well more in depth questions regarding the chemical weapons in Syria. The questions include but are not limited to the following: what are chemical weapons? Why are chemical weapons so dangerous? Who possesses/has used chemical weapons? How did Bashar al-Assad get them? And what would happen to the weapons stockpiles if the Syrian government collapsed? What is the Obama Administration Proposing?
Is It Possible The Syrian Rebels (Not Assad) Used Chemical Weapons? : The Two-Way : NPR - 0 views
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The Obama administration says there is little doubt that President Bashar Assad's regime is to blame for last week's reported attack, but there has been research into the possibility of the rebels using chemical weapons. It is possible but not likely. If the rebels were to use chemical weapons they would not use it in an area with such little soldier population. additionally it is the regime that has the controlled stockpiles of chemical weapons, not the rebels.
Syria: Assad regime kills so many detainees it amounts to 'extermination' of civilian p... - 0 views
Nato commander: Isis 'spreading like cancer' among refugees | World news | The Guardian - 0 views
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US general Philip Breedlove is worried that the Syrian Refugees who are being dispersed throughout Europe and to the United States are causing the terror group of ISIS to "spread like cancer". He blames the Russian bombing in the name of Assad for causing this because civilians are forced to leave their land and are further pushed toward no other choice but joining ISIS.
Syria: The story of the conflict - BBC News - 0 views
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It has acquired sectarian overtones, pitching the country's Sunni majority against the president's Shia Alawite sect,
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The rise of the jihadist groups, including Islamic State, has added a further dimension.
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both sides of the conflict have committed war crimes - including murder, torture, rape and enforced disappearances.
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This article delves into the issues of war crimes, chemical weapons, humanitarian issues, and the rise if islamist groups interventions
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This website offers eight steps to understanding the Syrian conflict. The sections include: uprising turns violent, descent into civil war, war crimes, chemical weapons, humanitarian crisis, Syrian refugees in the region, rebels and the rise of the jihadists, peace efforts, & proxy war
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More than 250,000 Syrians have lost their lives in four-and-a-half years of armed conflict, which began with anti-government protests before escalating into a full-scale civil war. More than 11 million others have been forced from their homes as forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and those opposed to his rule battle each other - as well as jihadist militants from so-called Islamic State.
ISIS may be losing, but the big winners are America's enemies - 0 views
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With the retaking of Syria's ancient city of Palmyra, we seem to finally have made tangible, on-the-ground gains against ISIS - that is, if "we" refers to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Russia, Iran and Hezbollah. President Obama and several of his would-be successors are satisfied: The terrorists of ISIS are losing ground.
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