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Four more candidates to run in Syria's presidential election
2014-04-29 15:28:49| IT Services - Topix.net
At least four more candidates have registered their bids for the Syrian presidency Tuesday ahead of the June 3 polls, according to Agence France Presse.
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At least 21 killed near Syria's Aleppo in latest round of regime airstrikes
2014-04-24 16:15:29| IT Services - Topix.net
At least 21 people were killed in an air strike near the Syrian city of Aleppo Thursday, according to Agence France Presse.
Climate linked drought adding to Syrias misery
2014-04-22 05:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: The conflict in Syria has devastated much of the countrys agricultural sector. But while the fighting has left large tracts of farmland abandoned, irrigation systems smashed and livestock neglected, other forces have also been at work. Syria and much of the Eastern Mediterranean region is in the grip of one of the longest periods of drought on record. The World Food Programme (WFP) says the recent rainfall season in Syria, which usually lasts from October to April, produced less than half...
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Al-Qaeda loses ground to rivals on Syria's Iraq border
2014-04-10 16:12:50| IT Services - Topix.net
Syria's al-Qaeda affiliate lost ground to its jihadist rivals around a town on the Iraqi border on Thursday in heavy fighting that left 24 people dead, Agence France-Presse reported a monitoring group as saying.
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Syria's Maaloula nuns released Sunday after December kidnapping
2014-03-09 20:47:19| IT Services - Topix.net
A source involved in the negotiations to free them told Agence France-Presse last week that the kidnappers were from a group belonging to the Al Qaeda affiliate Al Nusra Front led by a man called Abu Malek Al Kuwaiti.
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