From Reuters, so for what it is worth. I wonder why Assad troops would use chemical weapons on a rebel faction right next to their positions?
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Robert Fisk is one of the very few western MSM journalists who at least tries to tell the story of the war in Syria. This article is about his time with a unit of the Syrian national army, and how the men are fighting for Syria, not Assad.
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Now that the Syrian Sunni rebels are threatening the Shiite hlu shrines more and more jihadists have decided to wage their holy war on the regimeâs side.
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Moscow knows these will be used against the southern Russian Republics sooner or later. So they might as well blow the whistle now on this CIA operation.
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Heavy fighting has broken out between two tribes over a gold mine in Sudan’s Darfur region, killing several people and forcing authorities to close the mine, tribal leaders and state media said on Wednesday.
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More than 100 people including rebels and government soldiers were killed in Mali during French air strikes and fighting over the strategic town of Konna, Malian military sources and witnesses said on Saturday.
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Kachin is on the Chinese Burmese border. The history of the Kachin people and the US intelligence services go way back to the second world war, so this conflict has destabilization written all over it.
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Look at the thing, it looks like it came out of a Mad Max movie! No wonder the “rebels” need massive outside assistance.
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“…The deal, signed in March, gave the US six months to transfer the captured Afghans — an agreement the US has not upheld. Karzai released a statement Monday calling the failure to hand over detainees “a serious breach of the Memorandum of Understanding.”
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Malian Tuareg MNLA separatists on Friday failed in an attempt to retake the key north-central region of Gao from Islamist MUJAO fighters, suffering heavy losses, security forces said.
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