French terror cell allegedly planned trip to Syria
PARIS - A network of French Islamists behind a grenade attack on a kosher market also planned to join jihadists fighting in Syria, a state prosecutor said Thursday, calling the suspected terrorist group potentially the most dangerous established in ...www.foxnews.com
Turkey Syria Attack: More Force Vowed Against Syrian Shelling By Turkey
ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey's military chief vowed Wednesday to respond with more force to any further shelling from Syria, keeping up the pressure on its southern neighbor a day after NATO said it stood ready to defend Turkey. Gen. Necdet Ozel was ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Rebels attack Syrian army base near strategic town
AMMAN (Reuters) - Rebels attacked a Syrian army base near the main northern highway on Thursday to try to consolidate their control over the supply line to Aleppo, days after capturing a strategic town in the area, opposition activists said.www.reuters.com
Syrian Cartoonist Ali Ferzat Collects His 2011 Sakharov Award
In August 2011, Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat was pulled from his car by a group of masked gunmen and brutally assaulted, the attack largely focused on his hands. The beating was prolonged, and ended with Ferzat being dumped in the street by his ...comicsbeat.com
AL-QAEDA AFFILIATE CLAIMS SYRIA ATTACK
A jihadist insurgent group that Western intelligence officials have linked to al-Qaeda said Tuesday that its suicide bombers struck an intelligence compound on the outskirts of Damascus overnight.www.utsandiego.com
Prosecutor: French Islamist terror cell planned to fight in Syria
PARIS - A network of French Islamists who carried out a grenade attack on a kosher market also planned to join jihadists fighting in Syria, a French prosecutor said Thursday, calling the group potentially the most dangerous established in France in ...www.foxnews.com
No attack on Syria, says Turkish official – Hurmuzlu highlights Turkey's ...
KUWAIT: A visiting Turkish official claimed that statements about military intervention in Syria were misunderstood and reiterated that Turkey had made defensive plans in case of an attack. "No Turkish attack or military intervention is planned against ...news.kuwaittimes.net
8 Syrians die in attack on bus at Lebanon border: Syrian state TV
Gunmen attacked a bus transporting Syrian workers at the Lebanon border on Thursday, killing eight passengers and wounding another eight, Syrian state television said. "An armed terrorist group attacked at dawn a bus carrying Syrian workers from ...www.theglobeandmail.com
NATO says plans in place to defend Turkey from Syrian attacks
NATO member Turkey has sought backing in case it is attacked, but despite publicly supporting Syria's rebels Ankara isn't seeking direct intervention.www.foxnews.com
Eight Syrians die in attack on bus at Lebanon border
Gunmen attacked a bus transporting Syrian workers at the Lebanon border on Thursday, killing eight passengers and wounding another eight, Syrian state television said. "An armed terrorist group attacked at dawn a bus carrying Syrian workers from ...www.nowlebanon.com
British police arrest 2 accused of plotting terrorist attacks in Syria
LONDON - British police said Wednesday that they had arrested two people at London's Heathrow Airport as part of an investigation into travel to Syria in support of alleged terrorist activity. Scotland Yard said in a statement released early Wednesday ...www.foxnews.com
Syrian Army Thwarts Attack on Damascus
It is for the second time over past two days that the Syrian army and security forces have thwarted an attack on the capital, the Syrian al-Watan newspaper wrote. A majority of the terrorists were killed, injured or arrested by the Syrian army and ...english.farsnews.com
Qaeda-Linked Group Claims Responsibility for Syrian Blasts
The number of casualties from the attack was not known, and the Syrian state news media did not immediately report on it.www.nytimes.com
Suicide bomber attacks Syrian security compound
A Syrian boy, who fled his home with his family due to fighting between government forces and rebels, plays near his tent at a refugee camp near the Turkish border, Azaz, Syria on Sunday. (Photo: Manu Brabo, AP) ...www.usatoday.com
Mitt Romney wants to arm Syrian rebels: What are the risks?
The group, the Nusra Front for the People of the Levant, gave enough details about the blasts to suggest it had indeed carried out the attacks and was not just claiming them. No one considers the issue of arming Syria's rebels a simple one. President ...www.csmonitor.com
Syria pounds rebels trying to seize strategic city
In Maarat Numan, Free Syrian Army rebels launched an offensive Monday to seize the city from government control and attacked numerous military checkpoints. "The fighting won't end until all the checkpoints are gone," said Ahmad Halabi, an activist in ...www.latimes.com
Fighting in Syria Continues, More Destruction and Civilian Deaths, Tensions ...
Syria's cross-border attacks on Turkey in the past week look increasingly like they could be an intentional escalation meant to send a clear message to Ankara and beyond, that the crisis is simply too explosive to risk foreign military intervention ...www.aljazeerah.info
US bolsters forces in Jordan as Syria war rages
... prepare for a possible military spillover from the war in neighbouring Syria, Defence Secretary Leon Panetta told defence allies on Wednesday, as Ankara's military chief of staff said the country would tolerate no further missile attacks by the ...www.bdlive.co.za
Police: Syria-related terror arrests at Heathrow
Concerns are particularly acute in Britain, which is home to a large Muslim population and suffered a devastating 2005 terrorist attack perpetrated by British-born Islamists. Fears that British Muslims might be slipping into Syria to join al-Qaida ...www.newswest9.com
UN Security Council condemns Syrian attack on Turkey
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council on Thursday condemned a Syrian mortar attack on a Turkish border town that killed five people and demanded that "such violations of international law stop immediately and are not repeated.www.reuters.com
Thursday, October 11, 2012
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