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  • A Syrian refugee chants anti-Bashar Assad slogans during a strike at Zaatari refugee camp, in Mafraq, Jordan
  • U.S. intelligence has concluded "with some degree of varying confidence," that the Syrian government has used sarin gas as a weapon in its 2-year-old civil war, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday.
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  • Syrian citizens carry an injured man from a damaged building
  • The top U.S. military commander in Europe said Tuesday that NATO is conducting contingency planning for possible military involvement in Syria and American forces would be prepared if called upon by the United Nations and member countries.
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  • Syrian refugees
  • The number of Syrians who have fled their war-ravaged country and are seeking assistance has now topped the 1 million mark, the U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday, warning that Syria is heading toward a "full-scale disaster."
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  • people gather around destroyed buildings after airstrikes hit areas in Aleppo, Syria.
  • A large explosion struck the main university in the northern city of Aleppo on Tuesday, causing an unknown number of casualties, activists and Syrian state TV said.
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  • Israeli soldier on top a tank in position overlooking the Syrian village of Bariqa
  • Syrian rebels control almost all the villages near the frontier with the Israel-held Golan Heights, the Israeli defense minister said Wednesday, bringing the conflict dangerously close to the Jewish state and raising the possibility of an armed clash with the region's strongest power.
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  • Mourners carry the coffin of a Lebanese Ali Shaaban television cameraman working for Al-Jadeed TV who was shot dead on the Lebanon-Syria border
  • Syrian troops shelled and raided opposition strongholds across Syria on Tuesday, activists said, denying claims by the foreign minister that regime forces have begun pulling out of some areas in compliance with a U.N.-brokered truce.
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  • Anti-Assad demonstrators, some of them holding placards in Arabic reading
  • Syrian security forces opened fire at protesters in several parts of the country on Friday, killing at least eight people and wounding scores, while a leading opposition figure was beaten up by pro-government gunmen and rushed to a hospital in Damascus, activist said.
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  • Sen. John McCain on Monday became the first senator to call for airstrikes against Syria, saying President Barack Obama has taken too soft a stand against President Bashar Assad and his brutal crackdown on his own people.
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  • Syria's Cabinet resigned Tuesday to help quell a wave of popular fury that erupted more than a week ago, threatening President Bashar Assad's 11-year rule in one of the most authoritarian nations in the Middle East.
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  • Gangs of young men, some armed with swords and hunting rifles, roamed Sunday through the streets of a Syrian seaside city, closing alleys with barricades and roughly questioning passersby in streets scarred by days of anti-government unrest.
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