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Rebel Fighters

Intense fighting as Syrian rebels try to break Aleppo siege

Reuters Aug 6, 2016

ALEPPO: Rebel fighters pressed on with an intense offensive against a major military complex in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Saturday, following gains on Friday, to try to end a siege of opposition-held areas in the city's east.

Rebels launch major assault to try to break Aleppo siege

Reuters Aug 1, 2016

BEIRUT: Syrian rebel fighters have launched a major assault on government-held southwestern parts of Aleppo to try to reopen supply lines after the army and its allies tightened their siege of opposition-held parts of the city last week.

Syria fighters hail declaration of Islamic ‘caliphate’

Zohaib Kazmi Jun 30, 2014

BEIRUT: Militant Islamist fighters held a parade in Syria's northern Raqqa province to celebrate their declaration of an Islamic "caliphate" after the group captured territory in neighboring Iraq, a monitoring service said. The Islamic…

Iraq’s top Shi’ite cleric calls for prime minister to be chosen by Tuesday

Raza Haidery Jun 28, 2014

BAGHDAD: The most influential Shi'ite cleric in Iraq called on the country's leaders on Friday to choose a prime minister within the next four days, a dramatic political intervention that could hasten the end of Nuri al-Maliki's eight year…

Syrian government retakes border town in Assad coastal heartland

Raza Haidery Jun 16, 2014

BEIRUTL: Syrian government forces retook Kasab on Sunday, ousting rebels from the village on the Turkish border in the coastal heartland of President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority sect, activists and state media said. The withdrawal of…

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