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Abandoned Tanks, Russian Request: Bashar Al-Assad's Final Hours In Syria
Former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on Monday issued his first statement since his regime fell over a week ago and denied a "planned" departure from the country that his family ruled for nearly five decades.
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Turkey's Erdogan Vows To "Root Out" Kurdish Militants With "Tanks, Soldiers"
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Turkey would attack militants with tanks and soldiers as soon as possible after retaliatory strikes escalated along the Syrian border.
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Turkish Aid Agency Says To Deliver Aid To Syria's Jarablus
Turkey's disaster management agency AFAD today said it had started work on delivering aid to the Syrian border town of Jarablus, where Syrian rebels backed by Turkish tanks and special forces pushed out ISIS terrorists last week.
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Russia Appears to Continue Support for Bashar al-Assad, US Says
Russia appears to be continuing its support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with additional resources, the State Department said on Monday after two US officials said Russia has positioned about a half dozen tanks at an airfield in Syria.
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Russia Positioning Tanks at Syria Airfield, Say US Officials
Russia has positioned about a half dozen tanks at a Syrian airfield at the center of a military buildup, two US officials said today, adding the intentions of Moscow's latest deployment of heavy military equipment to Syria was unclear.
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US-Led Forces Drop Nearly 5,000 Bombs on Islamic State
US-led aircraft have dropped nearly 5,000 bombs in the air war against Islamic State jihadists in Iraq and Syria, damaging or destroying more than 3,000 targets including tanks, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
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Turkey Deploys Heavy Weapons on Border With Syria
Turkey has deployed additional heavy weapons, including tanks, along the border with neighbouring Syria, a media report said.
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Thousands 'Will Most Likely be Massacred', UN Warns, as Fighters Push into Kobane
Thousands of people "will most likely be massacred" if Kobane falls to Islamic State fighters, a UN envoy said on Friday, as militants fought deeper into the besieged Syrian Kurdish town in full view of Turkish tanks that have done nothing to intervene.
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Kurds Warn of Massacre by Islamic State, Turkey Stops Short of Action
Kurdish fighters defending a Syrian border town warned on Friday of a likely massacre by Islamic State insurgents as the Islamists encircled the town with tanks and bombarded its outskirts with artillery fire.
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Syrian Tanks Roll Into Aleppo Prison Grounds
Syrian tanks backed by massive air power rolled into the grounds of a sprawling prison in Aleppo on Thursday, breaking a yearlong rebel siege and allowing President Bashar Assad's forces to close in on a nearby rebel command center.
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Syrian army retakes Golan Heights crossing from rebels
Syrian rebels on Thursday briefly seized the only crossing along the Israel-Syria ceasefire line on the Golan, before regime forces recaptured it using tanks, an AFP correspondent and Israeli sources said.
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Fighting erupts near Damascus ahead of truce deadline
President Bashar al-Assad's forces fired heavy tank and rocket barrages at a Damascus suburb on Thursday, killing five people, opposition activists said, a day before a UN-brokered ceasefire is due to come into force.
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Outgunned Syria rebels turn to making own arms
Lightly-armed Syrian rebels who face the warplanes, artillery and tanks of loyalists have turned to making their own weapons, even rigging a video game controller to fire mortar rounds.
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Syrian rebels survive regime onslaught in Aleppo
The Syrian government launched an offensive Saturday to retake rebel-held neighbourhoods in the nation's commercial hub of Aleppo, unleashing artillery, tanks and helicopter gunships against poorly armed opposition fighters.
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Over 200 massacred in Syrian govt forces attack: Activists
More than 200 Syrians, mostly civilians, were massacred in a village in the rebellious Hama region when it was bombarded by helicopter gunships and tanks and then stormed by militiamen, opposition activists said.
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Abandoned Tanks, Russian Request: Bashar Al-Assad's Final Hours In Syria
Former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on Monday issued his first statement since his regime fell over a week ago and denied a "planned" departure from the country that his family ruled for nearly five decades.
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Turkey's Erdogan Vows To "Root Out" Kurdish Militants With "Tanks, Soldiers"
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Turkey would attack militants with tanks and soldiers as soon as possible after retaliatory strikes escalated along the Syrian border.
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Turkish Aid Agency Says To Deliver Aid To Syria's Jarablus
Turkey's disaster management agency AFAD today said it had started work on delivering aid to the Syrian border town of Jarablus, where Syrian rebels backed by Turkish tanks and special forces pushed out ISIS terrorists last week.
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Russia Appears to Continue Support for Bashar al-Assad, US Says
Russia appears to be continuing its support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with additional resources, the State Department said on Monday after two US officials said Russia has positioned about a half dozen tanks at an airfield in Syria.
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Russia Positioning Tanks at Syria Airfield, Say US Officials
Russia has positioned about a half dozen tanks at a Syrian airfield at the center of a military buildup, two US officials said today, adding the intentions of Moscow's latest deployment of heavy military equipment to Syria was unclear.
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US-Led Forces Drop Nearly 5,000 Bombs on Islamic State
US-led aircraft have dropped nearly 5,000 bombs in the air war against Islamic State jihadists in Iraq and Syria, damaging or destroying more than 3,000 targets including tanks, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
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Turkey Deploys Heavy Weapons on Border With Syria
Turkey has deployed additional heavy weapons, including tanks, along the border with neighbouring Syria, a media report said.
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Thousands 'Will Most Likely be Massacred', UN Warns, as Fighters Push into Kobane
Thousands of people "will most likely be massacred" if Kobane falls to Islamic State fighters, a UN envoy said on Friday, as militants fought deeper into the besieged Syrian Kurdish town in full view of Turkish tanks that have done nothing to intervene.
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Kurds Warn of Massacre by Islamic State, Turkey Stops Short of Action
Kurdish fighters defending a Syrian border town warned on Friday of a likely massacre by Islamic State insurgents as the Islamists encircled the town with tanks and bombarded its outskirts with artillery fire.
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Syrian Tanks Roll Into Aleppo Prison Grounds
Syrian tanks backed by massive air power rolled into the grounds of a sprawling prison in Aleppo on Thursday, breaking a yearlong rebel siege and allowing President Bashar Assad's forces to close in on a nearby rebel command center.
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Syrian army retakes Golan Heights crossing from rebels
Syrian rebels on Thursday briefly seized the only crossing along the Israel-Syria ceasefire line on the Golan, before regime forces recaptured it using tanks, an AFP correspondent and Israeli sources said.
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Fighting erupts near Damascus ahead of truce deadline
President Bashar al-Assad's forces fired heavy tank and rocket barrages at a Damascus suburb on Thursday, killing five people, opposition activists said, a day before a UN-brokered ceasefire is due to come into force.
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Outgunned Syria rebels turn to making own arms
Lightly-armed Syrian rebels who face the warplanes, artillery and tanks of loyalists have turned to making their own weapons, even rigging a video game controller to fire mortar rounds.
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Syrian rebels survive regime onslaught in Aleppo
The Syrian government launched an offensive Saturday to retake rebel-held neighbourhoods in the nation's commercial hub of Aleppo, unleashing artillery, tanks and helicopter gunships against poorly armed opposition fighters.
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Over 200 massacred in Syrian govt forces attack: Activists
More than 200 Syrians, mostly civilians, were massacred in a village in the rebellious Hama region when it was bombarded by helicopter gunships and tanks and then stormed by militiamen, opposition activists said.
