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Flash Villas, Cars And Drugs: Assad's Legacy In Latakia
The drive winds between manicured lavender-lined lawns to a crescent-shaped home with a gleaming swimming pool on the Syrian coast: Bashar al-Assad's holiday hideaway disgusts those who now come here.
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Russia Pulling Back But Not Out Of Syria After Assad's Fall: Report
The ousting of Assad has thrown the future of Russia's bases - the Hmeimim airbase in Latakia and the Tartous naval facility - into question.
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"Damascus Awaits": Syrian Rebels Have Begun Encircling Capital, Says Report
In another setback to President Bashar al-Assad's hold on power, the Syrian government forces have lost control of Daraa city, widely regarded as the birthplace of Syria's 2011 civil uprising.
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Syria Rebels Say Battle To Break Aleppo Siege Has Begun
Syrian opposition fighters on Friday launched an assault on government forces to break a months-long siege of the rebel-held neighbourhoods of east Aleppo, a rebel spokesman told AFP.
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More Than 3,500 Syrians Flee To Turkey In 4 Days As Pro-Assad Forces Advance
More than 3,600 Turkmens and Arabs fleeing advancing pro-government Syrian forces in the north of Latakia province have crossed into Turkey over the past four days, Turkish disaster agency AFAD said on Monday.
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More Than 3,000 Syrians Flee To Turkey In 3 Days As Pro-Assad Forces Advance
More than 3,000 Turkmens and Arabs fleeing advancing pro-government Syrian forces in the north of Latakia province have crossed into Turkey over the past three days, Turkish disaster agency AFAD said on Monday.
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Syria Army Seizes Key Rebel-Held Town In Latakia: Reports
Syrian regime forces today overran the last major rebel-held town in the coastal Latakia province, a stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad, state television reported.
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Secret Syria Network Saves Lives With Air Raid Warnings
In Syria's coastal Latakia province, Abu Mohammad sends a warning from his phone to a secret network of colleagues: "Caution: A Russian plane just took off in your direction."
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Not All Syrians In Turkey 'Dying To Go To Europe'
Mohammed, 22, has lived in Turkey for four years since fleeing Syria, just months after the civil war erupted that has torn his homeland apart.
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Turkey PM Accuses Russia Of Seeking 'Ethnic Cleansing' In Syria
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu today accused Russia of pursuing a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" in Syria and strengthening ISIS terrorists, in the latest escalation of tensions between Ankara and Moscow.
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Russians Expanding 2nd Air Base in Country: Syrian Activists
Russian troops are expanding a military base in central Syria, adding fortifications and developing its runways in a sign they intend to use it as their second air base in the country, Syrian activists said today.
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Syrian Paper Recounts Rescue of Downed Russian Pilot
Syrian special forces launched an operation "behind enemy lines" to rescue the surviving crew member of a Russian warplane downed by Turkey, Syria's Al-Watan newspaper reported today.
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Death Toll Rises to 22 in Attack on Syria Regime Bastion: Report
The death toll from mortar fire today on Syria's coastal city of Latakia rose to 22, one of the bloodiest shellings there since the country's war began, state media reported.
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Cut Off By Islamic State Advance, Residents Stranded in Syria's Aleppo
Hundreds of thousands of Aleppo residents are stranded and prices for basic goods are soaring after a terrorist advance cut the sole route to regime-held areas of Syria's second city.
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Third Russian Air Strike on Syrian Rebel Group Kills Leader
Russian air strikes in Syria's Latakia province killed a rebel commander and four other fighters from a group armed by President Bashar al-Assad's foreign enemies, a spokesman for the group said on Tuesday.
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Flash Villas, Cars And Drugs: Assad's Legacy In Latakia
The drive winds between manicured lavender-lined lawns to a crescent-shaped home with a gleaming swimming pool on the Syrian coast: Bashar al-Assad's holiday hideaway disgusts those who now come here.
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Russia Pulling Back But Not Out Of Syria After Assad's Fall: Report
The ousting of Assad has thrown the future of Russia's bases - the Hmeimim airbase in Latakia and the Tartous naval facility - into question.
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"Damascus Awaits": Syrian Rebels Have Begun Encircling Capital, Says Report
In another setback to President Bashar al-Assad's hold on power, the Syrian government forces have lost control of Daraa city, widely regarded as the birthplace of Syria's 2011 civil uprising.
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Syria Rebels Say Battle To Break Aleppo Siege Has Begun
Syrian opposition fighters on Friday launched an assault on government forces to break a months-long siege of the rebel-held neighbourhoods of east Aleppo, a rebel spokesman told AFP.
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More Than 3,500 Syrians Flee To Turkey In 4 Days As Pro-Assad Forces Advance
More than 3,600 Turkmens and Arabs fleeing advancing pro-government Syrian forces in the north of Latakia province have crossed into Turkey over the past four days, Turkish disaster agency AFAD said on Monday.
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More Than 3,000 Syrians Flee To Turkey In 3 Days As Pro-Assad Forces Advance
More than 3,000 Turkmens and Arabs fleeing advancing pro-government Syrian forces in the north of Latakia province have crossed into Turkey over the past three days, Turkish disaster agency AFAD said on Monday.
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Syria Army Seizes Key Rebel-Held Town In Latakia: Reports
Syrian regime forces today overran the last major rebel-held town in the coastal Latakia province, a stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad, state television reported.
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Secret Syria Network Saves Lives With Air Raid Warnings
In Syria's coastal Latakia province, Abu Mohammad sends a warning from his phone to a secret network of colleagues: "Caution: A Russian plane just took off in your direction."
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Not All Syrians In Turkey 'Dying To Go To Europe'
Mohammed, 22, has lived in Turkey for four years since fleeing Syria, just months after the civil war erupted that has torn his homeland apart.
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Turkey PM Accuses Russia Of Seeking 'Ethnic Cleansing' In Syria
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu today accused Russia of pursuing a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" in Syria and strengthening ISIS terrorists, in the latest escalation of tensions between Ankara and Moscow.
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Russians Expanding 2nd Air Base in Country: Syrian Activists
Russian troops are expanding a military base in central Syria, adding fortifications and developing its runways in a sign they intend to use it as their second air base in the country, Syrian activists said today.
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Syrian Paper Recounts Rescue of Downed Russian Pilot
Syrian special forces launched an operation "behind enemy lines" to rescue the surviving crew member of a Russian warplane downed by Turkey, Syria's Al-Watan newspaper reported today.
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Death Toll Rises to 22 in Attack on Syria Regime Bastion: Report
The death toll from mortar fire today on Syria's coastal city of Latakia rose to 22, one of the bloodiest shellings there since the country's war began, state media reported.
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Cut Off By Islamic State Advance, Residents Stranded in Syria's Aleppo
Hundreds of thousands of Aleppo residents are stranded and prices for basic goods are soaring after a terrorist advance cut the sole route to regime-held areas of Syria's second city.
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Third Russian Air Strike on Syrian Rebel Group Kills Leader
Russian air strikes in Syria's Latakia province killed a rebel commander and four other fighters from a group armed by President Bashar al-Assad's foreign enemies, a spokesman for the group said on Tuesday.
