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More Than 100 Syrians Struggle To Breathe After Aleppo 'Toxic Gas' Attack
Around 100 Syrians have been hospitalised with breathing difficulties in Aleppo, state media and a monitor said Sunday, after allegations rebels fired "toxic gas" on the regime-held city the previous day. A rebel alliance in nearby Idlib denied any involvement in the alleged attack. State news agency SANA reported "107 cases of breathing difficulti...
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Syrian Rebels Down Russian Warplane, Kill Pilot After He Ejects
A Russian pilot was killed Saturday in fighting with Islamists after his warplane was downed over northwest Syria, Russia's defence ministry and a monitor said.
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Syria Army Urges Rebels to Quit Aleppo, Let Civilians Out
The Syrian military on Tuesday urged rebels to pull out of east Aleppo and allow civilians to also leave, as it pressed an offensive to recapture the city's opposition-held sector.
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Fears Grow For Aleppo Civilians As Syria Regime Advances
Syrian government forces and allied fighters advanced quickly inside rebel-held Aleppo today, pressing an offensive in defiance of international concern for the fate of the city and its civilians.
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Syrian Army Recovers Positions Southwest Of Aleppo City
Syrian opposition activists and militant websites say a push by an alliance of rebel groups and Al-Qaida-linked terrorists to open a new front with government forces in Aleppo has failed.
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Dozens Dead As Warplanes Pound Rebel-Held North Syria
Syrian and Russian warplanes have launched a wave of air strikes in northern Syria, killing dozens in areas held by a rebel alliance battling to take control of second city Aleppo.
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Rebel Alliance Launches Battle To Retake All Of Aleppo
A Syrian rebel alliance on Sunday announced the start of a battle to recapture the whole of Aleppo, the day after they broke a government siege on rebel-held areas in the country's second city.
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US-Backed Alliance Captures Key Dam From ISIS: Alliance Spokesman
A US-backed alliance of Syrian Kurds and Arab rebel groups, backed by US coalition planes, captured a dam on Saturday from Islamic State, cutting a main supply route of the militants across the Euphrates, an alliance spokesman said.
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Syrian Rebels Retake Two Villages in Aleppo From Islamic State
A Western-backed alliance of Syrian rebels said on Saturday they had recaptured two villages from Islamic State fighters in northern Aleppo province near the border with Turkey.
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Syria Kurdish-Arab Alliance Launches First Anti-Islamic State Attack: Source
A coalition of US-backed Kurdish militia and rebel groups has launched its first operation against territory controlled by the Islamic State jihadist group in northeast Syria, a spokesman said today.
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US-Backed Syrian Rebel Group Says Assault on Islamic State Imminent
A Syrian rebel group which is part of a new US-backed alliance that also includes the Kurdish YPG militia announced on Thursday plans for an imminent offensive against Islamic State militants in Raqqa province, the jihadists' stronghold in Syria.
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Syrian Rebel Alliance Tells Russia to Stop Bombing It
An alliance of Free Syrian Army-related insurgent groups said on Monday it was sceptical about a Russian proposal to help rebels, and that Moscow must stop bombing rebels and civilians and withdraw its support for President Bashar al-Assad.
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France Counters Russian President Putin's Remark on Syria Alliance
France dismissed Russian suggestions today that Syrian government forces and moderate rebels could immediately join in fighting Islamic State militants, saying it would be impossible while President Bashar al-Assad was in power.
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Syria Rebels Battle Regime in Aleppo's Fiercest Fighting
Two alliances of Syrian rebels battled to advance in government-held western Aleppo on Saturday, seizing an army barracks in one district but losing ground in others, in some of the fiercest fighting in the city since the conflict began.
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Western-Backed Rebels Join Aleppo Alliance: Syria Monitor
A Western-backed rebel group in northern Syria that is under pressure from Al Qaeda's hardline Nusra Front has joined an alliance of mainly Islamist insurgent factions in Aleppo, a group monitoring the conflict said today.
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More Than 100 Syrians Struggle To Breathe After Aleppo 'Toxic Gas' Attack
Around 100 Syrians have been hospitalised with breathing difficulties in Aleppo, state media and a monitor said Sunday, after allegations rebels fired "toxic gas" on the regime-held city the previous day. A rebel alliance in nearby Idlib denied any involvement in the alleged attack. State news agency SANA reported "107 cases of breathing difficulti...
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Syrian Rebels Down Russian Warplane, Kill Pilot After He Ejects
A Russian pilot was killed Saturday in fighting with Islamists after his warplane was downed over northwest Syria, Russia's defence ministry and a monitor said.
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Syria Army Urges Rebels to Quit Aleppo, Let Civilians Out
The Syrian military on Tuesday urged rebels to pull out of east Aleppo and allow civilians to also leave, as it pressed an offensive to recapture the city's opposition-held sector.
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Fears Grow For Aleppo Civilians As Syria Regime Advances
Syrian government forces and allied fighters advanced quickly inside rebel-held Aleppo today, pressing an offensive in defiance of international concern for the fate of the city and its civilians.
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Syrian Army Recovers Positions Southwest Of Aleppo City
Syrian opposition activists and militant websites say a push by an alliance of rebel groups and Al-Qaida-linked terrorists to open a new front with government forces in Aleppo has failed.
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Dozens Dead As Warplanes Pound Rebel-Held North Syria
Syrian and Russian warplanes have launched a wave of air strikes in northern Syria, killing dozens in areas held by a rebel alliance battling to take control of second city Aleppo.
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Rebel Alliance Launches Battle To Retake All Of Aleppo
A Syrian rebel alliance on Sunday announced the start of a battle to recapture the whole of Aleppo, the day after they broke a government siege on rebel-held areas in the country's second city.
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US-Backed Alliance Captures Key Dam From ISIS: Alliance Spokesman
A US-backed alliance of Syrian Kurds and Arab rebel groups, backed by US coalition planes, captured a dam on Saturday from Islamic State, cutting a main supply route of the militants across the Euphrates, an alliance spokesman said.
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Syrian Rebels Retake Two Villages in Aleppo From Islamic State
A Western-backed alliance of Syrian rebels said on Saturday they had recaptured two villages from Islamic State fighters in northern Aleppo province near the border with Turkey.
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Syria Kurdish-Arab Alliance Launches First Anti-Islamic State Attack: Source
A coalition of US-backed Kurdish militia and rebel groups has launched its first operation against territory controlled by the Islamic State jihadist group in northeast Syria, a spokesman said today.
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US-Backed Syrian Rebel Group Says Assault on Islamic State Imminent
A Syrian rebel group which is part of a new US-backed alliance that also includes the Kurdish YPG militia announced on Thursday plans for an imminent offensive against Islamic State militants in Raqqa province, the jihadists' stronghold in Syria.
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Syrian Rebel Alliance Tells Russia to Stop Bombing It
An alliance of Free Syrian Army-related insurgent groups said on Monday it was sceptical about a Russian proposal to help rebels, and that Moscow must stop bombing rebels and civilians and withdraw its support for President Bashar al-Assad.
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France Counters Russian President Putin's Remark on Syria Alliance
France dismissed Russian suggestions today that Syrian government forces and moderate rebels could immediately join in fighting Islamic State militants, saying it would be impossible while President Bashar al-Assad was in power.
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Syria Rebels Battle Regime in Aleppo's Fiercest Fighting
Two alliances of Syrian rebels battled to advance in government-held western Aleppo on Saturday, seizing an army barracks in one district but losing ground in others, in some of the fiercest fighting in the city since the conflict began.
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Western-Backed Rebels Join Aleppo Alliance: Syria Monitor
A Western-backed rebel group in northern Syria that is under pressure from Al Qaeda's hardline Nusra Front has joined an alliance of mainly Islamist insurgent factions in Aleppo, a group monitoring the conflict said today.
