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News With ISIS Now Controlling 35% Of Syria And Most Of Its Oil Fields, ....
07-22-2014
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zerohedge.com
Remember when the extremist Al Qaeda spinoff ISIS (or, now known as Islamic State following the formation of its own caliphate in the middle of Iraq and Syria) was still a "thing" two weeks ago?
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News Syria Crisis: Isis Marches Further Into Syria Tipping the Balance of Power in the Civil War
07-16-2014
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unz.com
While international attention has been focused on the situation in Gaza, the self-styled caliphate has been spreading deeper into the country armed with tanks and artillery seized in Iraq
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News Jordan reluctant to host U.S.-led Syria rebel training
07-13-2014
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Reuters
Jordan, where the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has been covertly training Syrian rebels for more than a year, is reluctant to host an expanded rebel instruction program, U.S. officials said.
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Feature Article Resolving Conflicts in Artificial States Ivan Eland
Recently, the world has focused on the fighting in Syria, Iraq, and Ukraine, all of which seem to be falling apart. Although the first two countries are in the Middle East and the last one is in the eastern part of Europe, they have the common proble
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News ISIS allegedly issues 'caliphate' passport
07-07-2014
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english.alarabiya.
The "State of the Islamic Caliphate" appears to be inscribed at the top of the purported passport. At the bottom, it says: "The holder of the passport if harmed we will deploy armies for his service."
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News UK military had secret plan — and US support — to train Syrian rebels to topple Bashar
07-06-2014
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The Guardian
Among supporters in the US were secretary of state Hillary Clinton, defense secretary Leon Panetta and David Petraeus, who served as head of the CIA as well as head of US central command and coalition forces in Afghanistan.
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News There Is At Least One Independent-Thinking State Senator
07-01-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
Sen. Black makes a number of notable statements about US support of terrorists in Syria, about their atrocities, about the media acceptance of State Dept reports, about the false statements of Ambassador Ford, and about the ignorance of
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News Records show how Iraqi extremists withstood U.S. anti-terror efforts
06-30-2014
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mcclatchydc.com
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria sprang from a largely self-funded, corporation-style prototype whose resilience to counterterrorism operations was proven by the time Abu Bakr al Baghdadi assumed command in 2010.
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News Russia will not sit idly by as jihadists press Iraq assault
06-28-2014
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AFP
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in Damascus his country "will not remain passive" as jihadists push an offensive in Syria's neighbor Iraq. "Russia will not remain passive to the attempts by some groups to spread
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News Obama seeks $500M to train, equip Syrian rebels
06-26-2014
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AP
President Obama asked Congress for $500 million to train and arm members of the Syrian opposition, as the US struggles for a way to stem a civil war that has also fueled the al-Qaida inspired insurgency in neighboring Iraq.
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News Syrian aircraft bomb Sunni militant targets inside Iraq
06-25-2014
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Washington Post
Syrian government aircraft bombed Sunni militant targets inside Iraq on Tuesday, further broadening the Middle Eastern crisis a day after Israeli warplanes and rockets struck targets inside Syria.
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News Saddam's Red-Haired Iraq Deputy Back In The Fray
06-23-2014
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news.sky.com
Dubbed the King of Clubs in the US Most Wanted deck of cards, Izzat Ibrahim al Douri is behind ISIS' success in northern Iraq.
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News Syria: 4 killed, 9 wounded in Israeli airstrikes
06-23-2014
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Associated Press
The Syrian government said Monday a series of Israeli airstrikes targeting its troops in retaliation for a deadly cross-border attack killed four people and wounded nine others, in its first comment on the overnight incident.
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News Syria jihadists now using Humvees seized in Iraq
06-22-2014
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AFP
ISIL, used the armored vehicles to capture the villages of Eksar and Maalal in Aleppo province, which borders Turkey, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
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News Obama Won't Rule Out Airstrikes in Syria
06-20-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com
An unnamed top administration official says that President Obama, in announcing his planned military intervention in Iraq, was not ruling out airstrikes against targets inside Syria as well.
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News Here's The New Kurdish Country That Could Emerge Out Of The Iraq Crisis
06-19-2014
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Business Insider
Chaos is spreading in Iraq as the militant jihadi group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) and its affiliated members launch operations throughout the country, and Syria's civil is still grinding on
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News Who Are Isis? the Rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant
06-18-2014
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unz.com
The group, led since 2010 by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, now controls vast swathes of land across Iraq and Syria
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News This Map Of Religion In The Middle East Shows Why Iraq Is So Crucial
06-18-2014
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Business Insider
Jihadi extremists and Sunni tribes have commandeered north Iraq and are fighting Iran-backed Shia militiamen and volunteers within 50 miles of Baghdad.
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News The Wars In Iraq And Syria Have Merged Into A Single Conflict
06-12-2014
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businessinsider.com
It no longer makes sense to think of the civil conflicts in Iraq and Syria as separate events:
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News Iraq Would Not Have An Al-Qaeda Problem If the State Allowed Citizens to be Armed
06-12-2014
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Prison Planet
Nuri al-Maliki, the Bush neocon choice to run post-invasion Iraq, is offering citizens weapons to fight al-Qaeda affiliate the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS).
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News Rebel General: US Arms to Syria Creating Warlords
06-10-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, Jason Ditz
Direct Shipments to Fighters Undermining Secular Leaders
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News Washington Caught Again In A Lie
06-09-2014
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Prison Planet
In case you didn't hear from the presstitute media, Syrian president Assad was just re-elected with 88.7% of the vote.
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News US Condemns Syria's Election, Fine With Egypt's
06-04-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Slams Syria Vote as 'Disgrace' Despite Strong Similarities to Other US-Backed Votes
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News Syria: Fighting a Civil War Through the Ballot Box
06-02-2014
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http://www.unz.com, By Patrick Cockburn
Thousands of Syrians, desperate to vote for President Bashar al-Assad, mobbed the Syrian embassy in Beirut on Wednesday, struggling with Lebanese soldiers as they tried to reach four ballot boxes inside the embassy building set high on a hill overloo
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News Obama at West Point: Doubling Down on a Failed Syria Policy
06-02-2014
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http://goingtotehran.com
In the wake of President Obama's West Point commencement address yesterday, The National Interest has published our latest piece, "A Middle East Tragedy: Obama's Syria Policy Disaster," assessing the strategic and moral bankruptcy of what passes for
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News FRONTLINE: Damming new evidence showing how Obama is supplying weapons to terrorist in Middle East
05-31-2014
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dailypaul.com
As we noted yesterday, President Obama is saying he is contemplating arming and training Syrian rebels (just the 'moderates' which will be identified by their smiles).
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