Syria Assassination

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  European Leaders Vow Tougher Action On Chemical Weapons, Spying

  EU leaders on Friday pledged to crack down harder on chemical weapons and step up efforts to combat spying, as Europe frets about threats from Russia.

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  Witness To An Assassination: Associated Press Photographer Captures Turkey Attack

  The event seemed routine, the opening of an exhibit of photographs of Russia. So when a man in a dark suit and tie pulled out a gun, I was stunned and thought it was a theatrical flourish.

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  Syria Anti-ISIS Documentary Maker 'Assassinated' In Turkey

  A Syrian activist who produced documentaries hostile to the Islamic State group was assassinated in Turkey on Sunday, according to the group with which he worked, "Raqa is Being Slaughtered Silently".

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  Syrian Rebel Group Appoints Successor To Slain Commander Zahran Allouch

  Militant groups in Syria on Saturday mourned the death of a powerful rebel commander killed the previous day in an airstrike near Damascus - a high-profile assassination that may shift the balance of power in rebel-held suburbs of the country's capital.

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  Syria Car Bombs Kill 26, Including Anti-Regime Druze Cleric: Monitor

  A prominent Druze cleric known for criticising Syria's regime and Islamists was assassinated in a car bomb attack that killed 25 others and sparked riots outside the city of Sweida on Friday, a monitor said.

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  Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's Relative Assassinated in Syria: Human Rights Monitor

  An influential relative of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, once infamous for smuggling, has been assassinated in a dispute over control of a key government stronghold, a monitor said on Saturday.

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  Syria Jihadists Kill 17 to Avenge Assassinations: Monitor

  Jihadists have executed 17 men in recent days in areas they control in eastern and northern Syria to avenge a string of assassinations targeting their fighters, a monitor said today.

• Kurds Hold Off Islamic State in Kobane; Fighters Strike in Iraq

  Kurdish defenders held off Islamic State militants in Syria's border town of Kobane on Sunday, but the fighters struck with deadly bombings in Iraq, killing dozens of Kurds in the north and assassinating a provincial police commander in the west.

• Syrian prime minister Wael al-Halqi escapes bombing in Damascus

  Syria's prime minister narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in the heart of the heavily defended capital Monday, state media said, laying bare the vulnerability of President Bashar Assad's regime.

• Syrian premier escapes bomb attack: State TV

  Syria's prime minister escaped an assassination attempt on Monday when a bomb went off near his convoy in the capital, Damascus, state media reported.

• Gunmen kill brother of Syrian Parliament speaker

  Syria's state-run TV reports that gunmen have assassinated the brother of the Parliament speaker.

• Lebanon launches major security operation

  Lebanese troops launched a major security operation on Monday to open all roads and force gunmen off the streets, trying to contain an outburst of violence set off by the assassination of a top intelligence official who was a powerful opponent of Syria. Sectarian clashes killed at least five people.

• Gunmen assassinate army general in Damascus

  Syria's state-run news agency says gunmen have assassinated an army general in the capital Damascus.