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  Militants abandoning al-Qaida to join ISIS

  World | August 10, 2014 16:42 IST

  Washington: Militants from groups affiliated with once feared al Qaeda network are abandoning their outfits to join the dreaded Islamist State that has seized swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria and been targeted in

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  Centre using NIA to frame Kashmiris in false cases: Geelani

  India | August 09, 2014 18:09 IST

  Srinagar: Hardline Hurriyat Conference leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani today alleged that the Centre was using National Investigating Agency (NIA) to frame Kashmiri people in false cases.“The NIA has become a big problem for people

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  US will intervene when innocents are facing massacre: Obama

  World | August 09, 2014 16:12 IST

  Washington: President Barack Obama today said the US would intervene every time it could to prevent “massacre of innocent people”, justifying his decision to carry out targeted airstrikes in Iraq against Islamist militants.  “The US

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  Israeli military carries out airstrikes in Syria

  World | June 23, 2014 6:45 IST

  Jerusalem: Israeli warplanes bombed a series of targets inside Syria early Monday, the Israeli military said, in response to a cross-border attack that killed an Israeli teenager the previous day.In all, Israel said it struck

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  Military intervention in Syria will exacerbate conflict: PM

  India | October 20, 2013 11:57 IST

  New Delhi: Warning against any external military intervention in Syria, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said it would only exacerbate the conflict and pressed the urgent need for promoting a political settlement to the issue.He

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  Chinese, Russia discuss Syria crisis

  World | September 18, 2013 10:58 IST

  Beijing: China and Russia have held talks over prevailing situation in Syria as the foreign ministers of the countries held discussion over phone.Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov had a

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  Syria crisis: No proven link of Bashar Assad to gas attack, admits US

  World | September 09, 2013 9:53 IST

  Washington: President Barack Obama's top aide on Sunday pressed the case for "targeted, limited consequential action" to degrade the capabilities of Syrian President Bashar Assad to carry out chemical weapons attacks as the White House

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  France not to vote on Syria in parliament

  World | September 03, 2013 7:49 IST

  Paris: French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault Monday rejected opposition's calls for a parliament vote on the Syria crisis."It's up to the President of the republic to decide whether a vote (of parliament), which our constitution

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  NATO not to participate in Syria attack

  World | August 31, 2013 8:17 IST

  Copenhagen: NATO has declined to participate in the possible attack on Syria over allegations of the Bashar-al-Assad regime recently using chemical weapons against civilians."I see no NATO role in an international reaction to the Syrian