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Sunni insurgents close in on Iraq’s biggest oil refinery
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Sunni insurgents close in on Iraq’s biggest oil refinery

Sunni insurgents from an al Qaeda splinter group closed in on Iraq's biggest oil refinery on Wednesday after seizing the…
Assad declared landslide victor in wartime Syrian election
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Assad declared landslide victor in wartime Syrian election

President Bashar al-Assad has secured a landslide victory in a wartime election that was condemned as a sham by his…
Syrian rebel rocket fire kills 50 in Aleppo: monitoring group
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Syrian rebel rocket fire kills 50 in Aleppo: monitoring group

Syrian rebel rocket fire on government-controlled areas of Aleppo killed 50 people over the weekend, a monitoring group said on…
Syrians stream to embassies to vote in controversial poll
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Syrians stream to embassies to vote in controversial poll

Thousands of Syrians, filling the streets around their embassy in Beirut, turned out to vote Wednesday in Syria's controversial presidential…
Chemical weapons team in Syria attacked but safe: OPCW
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Chemical weapons team in Syria attacked but safe: OPCW

A team of international experts investigating the alleged use of chlorine bombs in Syria came under attack on Tuesday but…
Jordan expels Syrian ambassador over critical comments
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Jordan expels Syrian ambassador over critical comments

US ally Jordan said on Monday it was expelling the Syrian ambassador and giving him 24 hours to leave after…
NGO: Syria war toll over 162,000
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NGO: Syria war toll over 162,000

More than 162,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict broke out in March 2011, the Syrian Observatory…
Video: Massive tunnel bomb hits Syrian army base
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Video: Massive tunnel bomb hits Syrian army base

Rebels detonated 60 tonnes of explosives packed underneath a large Syrian army base, blowing a hillside hundreds of meters (yards)…
Kerry heads for Syria talks just as UN envoy quits
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Kerry heads for Syria talks just as UN envoy quits

US Secretary of State John Kerry left Wednesday for a whirlwind day of diplomacy focused on the conflict in Syria…
U.S. Ambassador to Ankara: We stand against terrorist violence in Egypt
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U.S. Ambassador to Ankara: We stand against terrorist violence in Egypt

US Ambassador to Ankara Francis Ricciardone said his country is against violence by terrorists in Egypt.
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