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A Kurdish fighter from the Popular Protection Units (YPG) shows his weapon decorated with his party’s flag, as a fellow fighter looks on in Aleppo’s Sheikh Maqsoud neighbourhood, June 7, 2013. (REUTERS/Muzaffar Salman.)

Syria: Kurdish–Islamist violence kills 12 Al-Qaeda-linked fighters

by Nazeer Rida | Aug 3, 2013 | Middle East

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—At least 12 Islamist fighters were killed in clashes with Kurdish militants in the Syrian city of Hasaka early Friday, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said. “Clashes erupted on Friday at midnight between fighters from...

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In this image taken from leaked video obtained by Ugarit News and posted on Monday, July 15, 2013, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, purports to show a fireball from an explosion at a weapons depot set off by rocket attacks that struck government-held districts in the central Syrian city of Homs on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video.)

Ammunition depot blast in Homs kills 40

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 2, 2013 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—At least 40 people were killed and hundreds injured in an ammunition depot blast that shook one of the pro-Assad neighborhoods in the embattled city of Homs on Thursday. According to activists from the city, a series of explosions reverberated...