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European Union backs U.N. plan for Syrian truce

  (Reuters) - European Union foreign ministers threw their weight behind a U.N. plan for a truce in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Monday, saying it offered a glimmer of hope for a political solution to the three-and-a-half year old civil war. The EU also said it...

Syrian regime 'loses two key bases to rebels'

Beirut (AFP) - The Syrian army on Monday lost control of two strategic bases in the northwestern province of Idlib to coordinated assaults by Al-Qaeda and other Islamist groups, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Al-Nusra Front, an Al-Qaeda...