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Video: Aid groups warn of growing Syrian refugee crisis
They're short of medicine, there's no electricity and the basic latrines are seeping sewage. But the continuing air assaults in Syria are forcing thousands of refugees to flee to makeshift camps on the Turkish border. Aid agencies are warning of a growing humanitarian crisis. Alex Thomson Channel 4 Europe reports. (Nightly News)


Op-Ed Contributor: The World’s Next Genocide
Syria’s Alawites and other minorities who have aligned themselves with Bashar al-Assad could face retaliatory massacres.


Turkish town on Syrian border deals with fighting, ethnic differences
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Pentagon Sees Seizing Syria Chemical Arms as Vast Task
Senior American officials say the estimated need is 75,000 U.S. troops, a number that calls into question whether any efforts to move such weapons could be rapidly thwarted.


Turkey Recognizes New Syrian Rebel Group as Legitimate Leader of Syria
The move gives a powerful boost to the group known as the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces. On Tuesday, France also fully embraced the group.


Obama offers new Syria coalition praise but not weapons
Washington is not yet prepared to recognize the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces as a government in exile, he says.WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday praised a new Syrian opposition coalition as "a legitimate representative of the Syrian people" but pointedly said Washington was not yet prepared to recognize the group as a government in exile or provide arms to antigovernment rebels.


Obama offers new Syria coalition praise but not weapons
Washington is not yet prepared to recognize the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces as a government in exile, he says.WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday praised a new Syrian opposition coalition as "a legitimate representative of the Syrian people" but pointedly said Washington was not yet prepared to recognize the group as a government in exile or provide arms to antigovernment rebels.


Kilis Journal: Along Syrian Border, Lives Defined by War
Everyone along the Turkish-Syrian border, it seems, either wants in on the action or just wants it all to go away.


Jordanians call for overthrow after gas price hike
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Syrian warplanes pound targets near Turkey
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