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Syria: Rebels drive ISIS out of Aleppo
Free Syrian Army fighters erect the Syrian opposition flag atop a base formerly used by fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria after it was captured by rival rebel forces in Manbij, Aleppo...
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FSA chief: Free National Army is a pipe dream
General Salim Idris at his office in Istanbul, Turkey. (Asharq Al-Awsat) Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—In exclusive comments to Asharq Al-Awsat, Free Syrian Army (FSA) chief Gen. Salim Idris played down...
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FSA commander rejects dismissal as UN Security Council considers Syria...
File photo of Salim Idris taken on March 6, 2013. (EPA/JULIEN WARNAND) Beirut, New York and London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Commander of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), Maj. Gen. Salim Idris, announced on...
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Syria: Kidnapped nuns released
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a group of nuns who were freed after being held by rebels greet church officials at the Syrian border town of Judaydat Yabus on March 10,...
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Syria: Confusion remains over Maaloula nuns deal
Nuns who were among a group freed after being held hostage by Islamist rebels in Syria pray during a mass to celebrate their release at the Church of the Holy Cross in Damascus on March 10, 2014. (AFP...
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Syria’s Lebanese Ghost Prisoners
A Syrian detainee who was arrested over participation in the protests against Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime is seen in a prison vehicle at the Damascus police leadership building to sign...
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Lebanese presidential deadlock continues
Lebanese Member of Parliament Michel Aoun, right, seals the envelope in which he wrote his vote to elect a new Lebanese president at the parliament building in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, on April 23,...
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Soueid: Hezbollah wants a political vacuum in Lebanon
March 14 official Fares Soueid (Asharq Al-Awsat) Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Although the end of Lebanese President Michel Suleiman’s term on May 25 is looming ever nearer, the country’s fractious...
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Aoun’s call for direct presidential election’s creates controversy
Lebanese Member of Parliament Michel Aoun, right, seals the envelope in which he wrote his vote to elect new Lebanese president at the parliament building in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, on April 23,...
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Christians in Lebanon fearful of attacks on churches
Members of the Lebanese Christian Maronite community carry a statue and a sample of the blood of Saint John Paul II to Saint George Cathedral in downtown Beirut on May 16, 2014. (Reuters)Beirut, Asharq...
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