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Islamist rebels fight army for Sadad, Christian town in Syria

Islamist rebels battled Syrian government forces on Tuesday to retain control of Sadad, the historic Christian town which the insurgents has stormed a day earlier, residents said, according to Reuters. "There is a huge on-off battle here now, the army even used fighter jets," said one female...

Without chemical arms, Syrian weaponry still fearsome

On Sunday, September 29, President Bashar al-Assad declared to the world, via an interview on Italian television, his resolve to clear Syria  of chemical weapons - accepting a Russian-brokered deal to avert punitive U.S. action. That same morning his forces appear to have dropped...

Suicide bomber kills 31 in Syria's Hama – state media

  A suicide bomber driving a truck packed with 1.5 tons of explosives killed at least 31 people and wounded dozens in the Syrian city of Hama on Sunday, state media and a monitoring group reported. The man blew himself up inside the vehicle on a busy road on the...