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Activist group: Jihadists besiege Syrian city

BEIRUT (AP) — The al-Qaida-breakaway Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has prevented food and medical supplies from reaching some neighborhoods in an eastern Syrian city and has ceased some of its operations in Syria while waiting for weapons to arrive from neighboring Iraq,...

Syrian-born artist now helps child war refugees

TAMPA, Florida (AP) — When Lina Safar moved from her native Syria to Florida with her U.S.-born husband in 2010, she assumed she would return occasionally, see her family, walk in her neighborhood and shop at her favorite markets. A year later, her country was engulfed by civil...

ISIS to overrun Deir Al Zour after Mosul: activists

 Translation by Dani Murad Deep concerns and fear arise among activists as Deir al-Zour, Syria’s second major city after Raqqa, might also fall as a prey in the hands of The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) ‘Dubbed: Daesh’ In a surprising move, ISIS has...