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Ahrar al-Sham
Harakat Ahrar al-Sham al-Islamiyya (lit), commonly referred to as Ahrar al-Sham, is a coalition of multiple Islamist and Salafist units that coalesced into a single brigade and later a division in order to fight against the Syrian Government led by Bashar al-Assad during the Syrian Civil War.
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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera (translit,, literally "The Island", though referring to the Arabian Peninsula in context), also known as JSC (Jazeera Satellite Channel), is a state-funded broadcaster in Doha, Qatar, owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network.
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Al-Hajar al-Aswad
Al-Hajar al-Aswad (الحجر الأسود, meaning Black Stone) is a Syrian city just south of the centre of Damascus in the Darayya District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate.
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Al-Midan
Al-Midan (حي الميدان) is a neighbourhood and municipality in Damascus, Syria, just south of the old walled city and very near the modern city centre.
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Al-Nusra Front
Al-Nusra Front or Jabhat al-Nusra (جبهة النصرة.), known as Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (جبهة فتح الشام, transliteration: Jabhat Fataḥ al-Šām) after July 2016, and also described as al-Qaeda in Syria or al-Qaeda in the Levant, was a Salafist jihadist organization fighting against Syrian government forces in the Syrian Civil War.
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Al-Sabinah
Al-Sabinah (السبينة) is a town in southern Syria, administratively part of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, located southwest of Damascus in the western Ghouta.
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Al-Tall, Syria
Al-Tall (التل, also spelled al-Tell) is a city in southern Syria, administratively part of the Rif Dimashq Governorate and capital of the al-Tall District.
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Avaaz
Avaaz is a U.S.-based online site launched in January 2007 that promotes global activism on issues such as climate change, human rights, animal rights, corruption, poverty, and conflict.
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Ban Ki-moon
Ban Ki-moon (born 13 June 1944) is a South Korean politician and diplomat who was the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 2007 to December 2016.
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Battle of Aleppo (2012–2016)
The Battle of Aleppo (معركة حلب) was a major military confrontation in Aleppo, the largest city in Syria, between the Syrian opposition (including the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and other largely-Sunni groups, such as the Levant Front and the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front) against the government of Bashar al-Assad, supported by Hezbollah, Shia militias and Russia, and against the Kurdish People's Protection Units. The battle began on 19 July 2012 and was part of the ongoing Syrian Civil War. A stalemate that had been in place for four years finally ended in July 2016, when Syrian government troops closed the rebels' last supply line into Aleppo with the support of Russian airstrikes. In response, rebel forces launched unsuccessful counteroffensives in September and October that failed to break the siege; in November, government forces embarked on a decisive campaign that resulted in the recapture of all of Aleppo by December 2016. The Syrian government victory was widely seen as a potential turning point in Syria's civil war. The large scale devastation of the battle and its importance led combatants to name it the "mother of battles" or "Syria's Stalingrad". The battle was marked by widespread violence against civilians, alleged repeated targeting of hospitals and schools (mostly by pro-government Air Forces and to a lesser extent by the rebels), and indiscriminate aerial strikes and shelling against civilian areas. It was also marked by the inability of the international community to resolve the conflict peacefully. The UN special envoy to Syria proposed to end the battle by giving East Aleppo autonomy, but the idea was rejected by the Syrian government. Hundreds of thousands of residents were displaced by the fighting and efforts to provide aid to civilians or facilitate evacuation were routinely disrupted by continued combat and mistrust between the opposing sides. Various claims of war crimes emerged during the battle, including the use of chemical weapons by both Syrian government forces and rebel forces, the use barrel bombs by the Syrian Air Force, the dropping of cluster munitions on populated areas by Russian and Syrian forces, the carrying out of "double tap" airstrikes to target rescue workers responding to previous strikes, summary executions of civilians and captured soldiers by both sides, indiscriminate shelling and use of highly inaccurate improvised artillery by rebel forces. During the 2016 Syrian government offensive, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights warned that "crimes of historic proportions" were being committed in Aleppo. Fighting also caused severe destruction to the Old City of Aleppo, a UNESCO World Heritage site. An estimated 33,500 buildings have been either damaged or destroyed. After four years of fighting, the battle represents one of the longest sieges in modern warfare and one of the bloodiest battles of the Syrian Civil War, leaving an estimated 31,000 people dead, almost a tenth of the estimated overall war casualties at that time.
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Battle of Damascus (2012)
The Battle of Damascus (معركة دمشق), also known as Operation Damascus Volcano (عملية بركان دمشق), started on 15 July 2012 during the Syrian Civil War.
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Black Stone
The Black Stone (ٱلْحَجَرُ ٱلْأَسْوَد,, "Black Stone") is a rock set into the eastern corner of the Kaaba, the ancient building located in the center of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
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CBS News
CBS News is the news division of American television and radio service CBS.
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Damascus International Airport
Damascus International Airport (مطار دمشق الدولي) is the international airport of Damascus, the capital of Syria.
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Damascus Military Council
The Damascus Revolutionary Military Council (المجلس العسكري الثوري بدمشق), also called the Military Council of Damascus and its Suburbs (المجلس العسكري في دمشق وريفها.), was a Syrian rebel coalition affiliated with the Free Syrian Army created by Colonel Khaled Mohammed al-Hammud on 22 March 2012.
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Darayya
Darayya (داريا) is a suburb of Damascus in Syria, the centre of Darayya lying south-west of the centre of Damascus.
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Douma, Syria
Douma (Dūmā) is a city in Syria.
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Free Syrian Army
The Free Syrian Army (al-Jaysh as-Sūrī al-Ḥurr; abbreviated FSA) is a loose faction in the Syrian Civil War founded on 29 July 2011 by officers of the Syrian Armed Forces who said their goal was to bring down the government of Bashar al-Assad.
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Ghouta
Ghouta (غوطة دمشق / ALA-LC: Ghūṭat Dimashq) is a countryside and suburban area in southwestern Syria that surrounds the city of Damascus along its eastern and southern rim.
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Harasta
Harasta (حرستا), also known as Harasta al-Basal or Hirista, is a city and northeastern suburb of Damascus, Rif Dimashq, Syria.
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Hürriyet Daily News
The Hürriyet Daily News, formerly Hürriyet Daily News and Economic Review and Turkish Daily News, is the oldest current English-language daily in Turkey, founded in 1961.
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Jdeidat Artouz
Jdeidat Artouz (جديدة عرطوز, also spelled Jdeidet Artouz) is a town in southern Syria, administratively part of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, located southwest of Damascus.
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Kafr Sousa
Kafar Souseh (Arabic: كفر سوسة) is a municipality and neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, located in the southwestern part of the capital.
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Kanaker, Syria
Kanaker (كناكر) is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, located southwest of Damascus.
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Local Coordination Committees of Syria
The Local Coordination Committees of Syria (لجان التنسيق المحلية في سوريا: LCCSyria or LCCs) are a network of local groups that organise and report on protests as part of the Syrian uprising.
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Maher al-Assad
Maher al-Assad (ماهر الأسد, born 8 December 1967) is a Syrian general and commander of the Republican Guard and the army's elite Fourth Armored Division, which together with Syria's secret police form the core of the country's security forces.
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Marj al-Sultan
Marj al-Sultan (مرج السلطان, also spelled Marj Sultan) is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, located 15 kilometers east of Damascus city.
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Mezzeh
Mezzeh (المزة, also transcribed as al-Mazzah, el-Mezze, etc.) is a municipality in Damascus, Syria, due west of Kafr Sousa.
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Mohamed Morsi
Mohamed MorsiThe spellings of his first and last names vary.
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Mortar (weapon)
A mortar is usually a simple, lightweight, man portable, muzzle-loaded weapon, consisting of a smooth-bore metal tube fixed to a base plate (to absorb recoil) with a lightweight bipod mount.
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Naher Aisha
Naher Aisha is a location in Damascus, Syria.
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NOW News
NOW News (sometimes abbreviated NOW) is a Beirut-based Lebanese news website focused on the Middle East founded in late 2012 and published in both English and Arabic by M Publishing SAL.
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Popular Committees (Syria)
The Popular Committees (also called Lijan militias; اللجان الشعبية al-Lijan al-Sha'biyah, meaning "people's committees") were militias that emerged in Syria during the Syrian Civil War.
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Qadam
Qadam is a municipality and a neighborhood in the southern part of Damascus, Syria, due west of Yarmouk Camp.
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Qatana
Qatana (قطنا) is a city in southern Syria, administratively part of the Qatana District of Rif Dimashq Governorate.
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Qudsaya
Qudsaya (قدسيا) is a Syrian city in Rif Dimashq Governorate and the administrative centre of Qudsaya District.
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Republican Guard (Syria)
The Syrian Republican Guard (الحرس الجمهوري al-Ḥaras al-Jamhūriyy), also known as the Presidential Guard, is an elite 25,000 man mechanized division.
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Reuters
Reuters is an international news agency headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
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Rif Dimashq Governorate
Rif Dimashq Governorate (محافظة ريف دمشق, literally, the "Governorate of the Countryside of Damascus") is one of the fourteen governorates (provinces) of Syria.
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Rif Dimashq Governorate campaign
Part of the Syrian Civil War, the Rif Dimashq Governorate campaign consisted of several battles and offensives across the governorate including the Syrian capital of Damascus.
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Rif Dimashq offensive (November 2012–February 2013)
The Rif Dimashq offensive (November 2012–February 2013) refers to a rebel offensive during the Syrian Civil War in the Rif Dimashq Governorate (which surrounds Damascus) which started in November 2012, and a subsequent attempted Syrian Army counterattack in January 2013.
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Robert Fisk
Robert Fisk (born 12 July 1946) is an English writer and journalist.
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Salafi jihadism
Salafi jihadism or jihadist-Salafism is a transnational religious-political ideology based on a belief in "physical" jihadism and the Salafi movement of returning to what adherents believe to be true Sunni Islam.
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Saqba
Saqba (سقبا; also spelled Sakba or Siqba) is a town in southern Syria, administratively part of the Markaz Rif Dimashq District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, 7 km east of central Damascus.
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Status quo ante bellum
The term status quo ante bellum (often shortened to status quo ante) is a Latin phrase meaning "the state existing before the war".
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Syria
Syria (سوريا), officially known as the Syrian Arab Republic (الجمهورية العربية السورية), is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest.
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Syrian Arab News Agency
The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) (الوكالة العربية السورية للأنباء) is a news agency in Syria.
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Syrian Armed Forces
The Syrian Arab Armed Forces (القوات المسلحة العربية السورية, Forces armées syriennes) are the military forces of the Syrian Arab Republic.
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Syrian Civil War
The Syrian Civil War (الحرب الأهلية السورية, Al-ḥarb al-ʼahliyyah as-sūriyyah) is an ongoing multi-sided armed conflict in Syria fought primarily between the Ba'athist Syrian Arab Republic led by President Bashar al-Assad, along with its allies, and various forces opposing both the government and each other in varying combinations.
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Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (also known as SOHR; المرصد السوري لحقوق الإنسان), founded in May 2006, is a UK-based information office whose stated aim is to document human rights abuses in Syria; it has focused since 2011 on the Syrian Civil War.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Star (Malaysia)
The Star is an English-language, tabloid-format newspaper in Malaysia.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.
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Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters Corporation is a Canadian multinational mass media and information firm.
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Wissam Tarif
Wissam Kassem Tarif (born 10 April 1975) has played a key role in the field of pro-Democracy and Human Rights work in Syria and Lebanon, as both an intellectual and activist.
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Yarmouk Camp
Yarmouk Camp (مخيم اليرموك) is a district of the city of Damascus, populated by Palestinians, with hospitals and schools.
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Zamalka
Zamalka (زملكا) is a suburb of Damascus in Syria, located east-northeast of Old Damascus.
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3rd Armoured Division (Syria)
The 3rd Armoured Division is a formation of the Syrian Army responsible for securing the northern approach to Damascus.
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4th Armoured Division (Syria)
The 4th Armoured Division (الفرقة الرابعة Al-Firqa ar-Rābiʿah) is an elite formation of the Syrian Army whose primary purpose is to defend the Syrian government from internal and external threats.
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Battle of Rif Damashq (August 2012 - Present), Counter Insurgency in Rif Damashq, Counter-Insurgency operations Rif Damashq (August 2012 - Present), Rif Damashq counter-insurgency operation (August 2012 - Present), Rif Dimashq campaign, Rif Dimashq offensive (August-October 2012).
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rif_Dimashq_offensive_(August–October_2012)
