Islamic State releases images said to show destruction of Palmyra temple
• The GuardianSocial media images claim to show militants blowing up 2,000-year-old temple of Baal Shamin in ancient Syrian city
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Syria Shoots Down Israeli Warplane F-16 Bomber, Using Russian S-300 Air Defense System
The Syrian air defense shot down an Israeli warplane violating the Arab country's air space, an Iranian news agency reported.
State Media Reports Slain Were Civilians, Israel Insists Five Were Terrorists
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Earlier this week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with his Saudi counterpart Adel al-Jubeir to discuss options for Syria's future.
Instead, they depend on local Syrian organizations to pick up shipments from the border and deliver them to the hospitals and refugee camps that need them.
On August 2, Britain's Sunday Express newspaper headlined "SAS dress as ISIS fighters in undercover war on jihadis," saying:
Putin issues an ultimatum to Turkey, "End all military support for ISIS"
As Syria's civil war enters its fourth year, it's become something of an open secret that ISIS, for all their bluster and Hollywood-level video editing capabilities, are at best an unhappy side effect of efforts to train and arm the Syrian resist
President Obama announced that the US would use military force to protect rebels it has trained to operate in Syria. This means US airstrikes against both ISIS and the Syrian government. But does anyone know who's fighting who over there?
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The US president has reportedly authorized the Air Force to protect Syrian rebels trained by Washington to fight against Islamic State by bombing any force attacking them, including Syrian regular troops.
Since the accord, the Turks have only waged war on Kurds while no US bomber has used Incirlik airbase
Monitors say it isn't clear how many people were killed when the plane crashed and how many by the bombing run it had just carried out
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The road to war is paved with a thousand lies. A fresh fib was tossed on the lie-cluttered warpath to Syria, when it was announced that the U.S. and Turkey would create a "safe zone" inside of Syria -- supposedly to be aimed against ISIS.
An article in the New York Times was published recently discussing that the US and Turkey had agreed to create a 'safe zone' in Syria.
In a column I wrote in early July, based on research by my colleagues and my own analysis of government documents and eyewitness statements, I argued that in 2011 and 2012 then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton waged a secret war on the governments
According to media reports, the US and Turkey have agreed to set up "safe zones" inside Syrian territory. This will likely entail the US bombs on Syrian government forces that Americans rejected in 2013.
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After saying Russia 'was a help' on the deal despite tensions elsewhere, Obama added that he "was encouraged by the fact that Mr. Putin called me a couple of weeks ago," pointing out that Putin initiated the call to talk about Syria.
"The Turks have passed by here; all is in ruins and mourning. "
"The Turks have passed by here; all is in ruins and mourning.