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Death and desecration in Syria: Jihadist group ‘crucifies’ bodies to send message

  May 2, 2014, CNN   It is a scene seared forever into the memory of an eyewitness: Masked men drag the bloodied body of a man across a public square, and tie it to a make-shift cross on a metal pole. Green string holds the body’s arms outstretched across …

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British Fighters Filmed In Syria ‘War Crime’

May 2, 2014, Sky News Footage uncovered by researchers at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) shows jihadist rebels killing a prisoner, said to be a loyalist of President Bashar al Assad. The incident is thought to have happened in the last two weeks near Raqqa in northern Syria. …

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Color Revolutions. Getting Our Facts Straight on the “Arab Spring”

Apr 28, 2014, Global Research The so-called Arab Spring is one of the most pivotal geopolitical happenings of the current century and one which will no doubt reverberate and define the academic discourse on the subject in later generations. That being said, it becomes disheartening to find out that the …

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FBI: Foreign Fighters Head to Syria in Increasing Numbers

May 2, 2014, Antiwar.com FBI Director James Coney today warned that the long-standing problem of foreign fighters flocking to Syria to join al-Qaeda-linked rebels is actually getting worse, with fighters going in increased numbers from Western nations in recent months. Though Comey declined to offer specific numbers, he said the …

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Syria: 24 registered candidacy for presidential elections as deadline expired

The total number of presidential hopefuls who registered their candidacy in the upcoming presidential elections increased to 24 as the deadline for registration expired May 1. Presidential elections have been scheduled for June 3. Syrians living abroad can vote at the Syrian Embassies on May 28. May 1, 2014, NSNBC The …

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Eleven children among 18 killed in Syria suicide attacks: state TV

May 2, 2014, al Akhbar Eleven children were among 18 people killed in two bombings in central Syria Friday, state media reported. The deadly attacks, in which suicide bombers blew themselves up in vehicles, targeted two towns in Hama province. The first bombing, in the town of Jibrin, in the …

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Syria’s Raqqa silently slaughtered under ISIL radical rule

Apr 27, 2014, al Alam Residents of Syria’s Raqqa, suffering from a harsh rule imposed by the foreign-backed extremist group of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant, use every opportunity to run away from their hometown. The Western-backed Syrian opposition which has been leading the extremist-marked war in the country, …

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Chechen jihadists in Syria: The case of Omar al-Shishani

  May 1, 2014, Al Akhbar Chechen jihadists play a major role in the conflict in Syria. They have been fighting in Syria since 2012 and their role has been carefully planned, with direct clerical guidance from certain countries and indirect involvement by a number of intelligence agencies. The Chechen …

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NATO and Turkey’s Genocidal War on Syria

Apr 08, 2014, Global Research On March 16, the third anniversary of the NATO-led covert war on Syria, the Syrian army won a landmark victory by taking back the Yabroud town on the Lebanese border.3 Hours later, NATO-backed ‘Al-Nusra Front in Lebanon’ retaliated by launching a false-flag bombing attack in …

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