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Exclusive: Santa Monica gunman's family had alleged history of violence
The mother of the gunman who killed five people in a Santa Monica rampage Friday said several years ago that she was the victim of domestic abuse, according to his former teacher. Several law enforcement sources, who spoke on the condition of...
Tags: Abusive Behavior
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U.S. considers taking in Syrian refugees
WASHINGTON — Two years into a civil war that shows no signs of ending, the Obama administration is considering resettling refugees who have fled Syria, part of an international effort that could bring thousands of Syrians to American cities and...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Bashar Assad, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics
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Survivors of Syrian fighting describe harrowing flight from Qusair
BEKAA VALLEY, Lebanon -- He fled and buried the injured along the way, crossing the border and arriving at a hospital here after weeks of fierce fighting in his Syrian town of Qusair. Ibrahim, a dark-haired man with bandages across his abdomen, said he...
Tags: Nelson Mandela, Bashar Assad, Government, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Israel
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Santa Monica shooting: FBI probes how gunman got weapons
Investigators are trying to determine how the gunman who killed five people in Santa Monica got his weapons. A federal law enforcement source said Monday that authorities are in the process of tracing two firearms used by John Zawahri in the Santa...
Tags: Firearms, Abusive Behavior, FBI
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Syrian rebels reportedly raid Shiite village
BEIRUT -- Syrian rebels burned homes and killed civilians in a sectarian rampage targeting Shiite Muslims in a village in eastern Syria, activists and officials said Wednesday. The rebel attack on Hatla, in eastern Deir Elzur province, resulted in...Tags: Human Rights, Science and Technology, Bashar Assad, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Rebellions
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Syrian government holds victory celebration in battered Qusair
QUSAIR, Syria — Ecstatic Syrian authorities staged a victory rally Sunday in the center of this battered but strategic town, where rebels were routed last week after having held control for more than a year, using it as a major logistics hub....
Tags: Christianity, Nelson Mandela, Bashar Assad, Roman Catholicism, Government
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In Syria, residents return to battered town retaken by government
QUSAIR, Syria — A line of unmarked cars and pickup trucks ferried weary Hezbollah fighters back to Lebanon on Sunday as stunned residents began returning to this war-ravaged town, in Syrian government control again after a fierce three-week battle...
Tags: Bashar Assad, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Government, Politics, Rebellions
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Santa Monica gunman's mother: Shooting a 'horrific tragedy'
The mother of the gunman who killed five people in Santa Monica on Friday released a statement Monday expressing "great sadness" for the rampage. Randa Abdou released the statement through her neighbor. "As may be assumed, I am in mourning for my...Tags: Abusive Behavior
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Hezbollah fighter tells of Syria battle
BEIRUT — He sits on a couch in an inconspicuous building in a southern suburb of Beirut. A baseball cap pulled down low, his eyes twitching, Hassan, a Hezbollah squad leader, describes killing more than 20 men in three weeks in the Syrian town of...
Tags: Entertainment, Bashar Assad, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Israel, Rebellions
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Suicide bombers target central Damascus, killing at least 14
BEIRUT -- A twin suicide bombing targeted a square in central Damascus on Tuesday morning, killing at least 14 people and injuring more than 30 others, Syrian state media reported. The official Syrian news agency said "two terrorist suicidal bombings"...
Tags: Human Rights, Bashar Assad, Government, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics
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A Hezbollah fighter recounts battles in Syria
BEIRUT -- He sits on a couch in an inconspicuous building in a southern suburb of Beirut. A baseball cap pulled down low, his eyes twitching, Hassan, a Hezbollah squad leader, describes killing more than 20 men in three weeks in the Syrian town of Qusair....
Tags: Entertainment, Wars and Interventions, Bashar Assad, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Israel
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Syria's Bashar Assad says a peace pact would face a referendum
BEIRUT — Any agreement reached at prospective peace talks on Syria would have to be approved by the Syrian people in a nationwide referendum, President Bashar Assad said in a television interview aired Thursday. A confident Assad said his...
Tags: Political Dissent, Bashar Assad, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Government, Israel
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