CBS Reporter Palmer Describes Life In Damascus During Syrian Civil War

From CBS: CBS News Correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reflects on her experience as the only American television reporter in Damascus, Syria.

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CIA Steps Up Training For Moderate Syrian Rebels

Syrian rebel fighters pose for a picture in Hama July 20, 2012. REUTERS/Shaam News Network/Handout

CIA Ramping Up Covert Training Program For Moderate Syrian Rebels -- Washington Post

The CIA is expanding a clandestine effort to train opposition fighters in Syria amid concern that moderate, U.S.-backed militias are rapidly losing ground in the country’s civil war, U.S. officials said.

But the CIA program is so minuscule that it is expected to produce only a few hundred trained fighters each month even after it is enlarged, a level that officials said will do little to bolster rebel forces that are being eclipsed by radical Islamists in the fight against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

The CIA’s mission, officials said, has been defined by the White House’s desire to seek a political settlement, a scenario that relies on an eventual stalemate among the warring factions rather than a clear victor. As a result, officials said, limits on the agency’s authorities enable it to provide enough support to help ensure that politically moderate, U.S.-supported militias don’t lose but not enough for them to win.

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My Comment: The CIA better hurry up .... because Al Qaeda is winning their war over these "moderate" rebel groups.

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Is The Story Of Waging 'Sex Jihad' In Syria False?

Muzaffar Salman / Reuters

The Sex Jihad That Never Happened -- Sheera Frenkel, BuzzFeed Staff

Stories of women entering Syria on a “Sex Jihad” have taken the media by storm.

But are any of them actually true?

RAMTHE, Jordan — Leila, 23, still blushes when she talks about her first kiss. Now heavily pregnant with her first child, she says she didn’t even hold hands with a boy until she met her husband.

“I come from a rural area, I am a modest woman, a believer,” she says. “You understand that my husband and I were both very innocent when we were married. That is why this whole story, this crazy sex jihad thing is so so shocking.”

Leila is one of hundreds of women who have been accused of going on a “Sex Jihad” in Syria. Last month, her parents appeared on a local Tunisian television network to speak about their “lost daughter.” Her mother stands silently as her father tearfully recounts how his daughter was led astray to “prostitute herself to Syrian dogs.”

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My Comment: This story did catch the world's attention .... but it is all false. Another example of disinformation and propaganda in a war-zone.

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UN Disarmament Team Launches Mission In Syria

UN Inspectors Begin Syria Disarmament -- Voice of America

International inspectors have arrived in Syria to begin the task of verifying and destroying President Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons arsenal.

A convoy of about 20 vehicles crossed the border from neighboring Lebanon Tuesday en route to Damascus where the team will begin its complex mission of finding, dismantling and destroying an estimated 1,000-ton chemical arsenal.

The operation to rid Syria of chemical weapons by a target date of mid-2014 will be one of the largest and most dangerous of its kind. It is the shortest deadline that experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons have ever faced in any nation, and their first mission in a country at war.

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Syria conflict: Chemical arms experts cross border -- BBC
UN experts enter Syria to dismantle chemical weapons programme -- Reuters
Inspectors to head to Syria to begin disabling poison gas equipment -- L.A. Times
Chemical weapons disarmament team arrives in Syria -- UPI
Weapons inspectors begin Syria mission -- Al Jazeera
Chemical arms inspectors gird for risky, dirty job -- USA Today/AP

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Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: 115,000 killed in Syrian conflict

More Than 115,000 Killed In Syrian Conflict - Monitoring Group -- Reuters

(Reuters) - More than 115,000 people have been killed in Syria's two-and-a-half-year-old civil war, including tens of thousands of soldiers, rebels and civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday.

The figure suggested that around 5,000 people had died in September alone and that the bloodshed has not been slowed by an international deal for the elimination of Syria's chemical weapons after an August 21 sarin gas attack in the Damascus area.

The British-based Observatory, which monitors violence through a network of activists, medical and military sources around Syria, said about 47,000 soldiers and militia fighters loyal to President Bashar al-Assad had been killed.

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Update #1: More than 115,000 killed in Syria's war: monitor -- France 24/AFP
Update #2: Activists: More than 115,000 dead in Syria conflict -- Al Bawaba
Update #3: Over 115,000 Syrians reported killed in conflict -- Times of Israel/AP

My Comment: 5,000 killed in September alone .... and winter has not even started yet. The only number that I am skeptical about is the report that 47,000 soldiers and militia fighters loyal to President Bashar al-Assad that have been killed. Syrian President Assad stated a lower number .... 15,000 .... when he was interviewed by Charlie Rose last month. As for the rest .... I suspect that the civilian toll is probably the bulk of this 115,000 number.

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Teaching Syrian Rebels To Shoot Down Assad’s Air Force

Defector Pilot Teaching Syrian Rebels To Shoot Down Assad’s Air Force -- David Axe, War Is Boring

But missile shortage makes his job nearly impossible.

They appear suddenly in clear blue skies, preceded only briefly by the roar of a jet engine or the chop of a rotor blade. Bombs, rockets and cannon fire shatter the earth, rebel installations and human flesh.

The warplanes and helicopters of Syrian Pres. Bashar Al Assad’s air force are the regime’s biggest advantage over the rebel Free Syrian Army. It’s the job of regime defector Col. Zeyad Haaj Abayed to erase that advantage—by training the 200,000-strong FSA to shoot down the aerial marauders.

But Abayed has very little to work with. No warplanes of his own. No radars. No large Surface-to-Air Missiles and only a handful of small, shoulder-fired SAMs. And unlike in many previous wars, it seems unlikely that the outside world is going to do anything to help the colonel in his difficult task.

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My Comment: I call this a hopeless cause. The only way to defeat Assad's air force is to strike and shut down his air fields.

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According To Syria's Foreign Minister There Is No Civil War

Syrian Foreign Minister Al-Muallem (RIA Novosti / Mikhail Voskresenskiy)

Syrian Foreign Minister: 'There Is No Civil War' -- Christian Science Monitor

His comments come as UN inspectors wrap up a visit laying the groundwork for destroying Syria's chemical weapons.

International inspectors have wrapped up their second visit to Syria to investigate more reported instances of chemical weapons use following a rare show of international consensus at the United Nations Security Council to require Syria to give up its chemical arsenal.

Meanwhile, Syria’s foreign minister took the stage at the United Nations, reiterating the government's argument that the violence in Syria is actually part of a larger war against terrorism, not a civil war.

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My Comment: If he believes this, he is completely delusional.

Update: Syria at U.N. compares militant onslaught to 9/11 attacks -- Reuters

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Syria's Refugee Crisis Is Stretching The Limit For Countries Providing Asylum

Thousands of people flowed from Syria across the Peshkhabour border crossing into Iraq's Dohuk Governorate. Photo: UNHCR/G. Gubaeva

Countries Hosting Syrian Refugees Stretched to Limit -- Voice of America

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND — Participants at a U.N. refugee conference in Geneva are appealing for stronger international support for countries hosting large Syrian refugee populations. They say four neighboring countries of asylum are stretched to the limit.

A U.N. video graphically shows the anguished evolution of Syria’s humanitarian crisis during the past two and one-half years. What began as a series of peaceful protests in March 2011 has developed into a catastrophic situation in which more than 100,000 people have been killed and more than two million Syrians have fled the country.

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Syria conflict: Neighbours plead for international help -- BBC
UN: Syria refugee crisis hurting region's economy -- Boston.com/AP

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Did Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Successfully Fool The U.S.?

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Says He Has Fooled U.S., President Obama -- Washington Free Beacon

Says chemical weapons unnecessary to challenge Israel

Embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says that he does not need chemical weapons to “challenge Israel” and “blind [it] in an instant,” according to recent remarks reported in the Arab media.

As Western inspectors prepare to enter Syria next week, Assad renewed his threats on Israel and boasted of weapons that are “more sophisticated than chemical weapons,” according to remarks published by Lebanon’s Al-Akhbar news site and carried throughout the Arab media.

“We now possess deterrent weapons that are more important and more sophisticated than chemical weapons,” Assad was quoted as telling visitors to his presidential palace late Thursday, according to Iran’s state-run Mehr News Agency.

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My Comment: No one has yet explained publicly what Assad meant when he said that he could "blind" Israel in a minute .... but what is even more worrisome is that Syria's declaration of chemical sites falls short of what the U.S. and Israel believe is the true number.

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The UN Security Council Has Voted Unanimously To Secure And Destroy Syria's Chemical Weapons Stockpile

Members of the United Nations Security Council raise their hands as they vote unanimously to approve a resolution eradicating Syria's chemical arsenal during a Security Council meeting during the 68th United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 27, 2013. REUTERS/Keith Bedford (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)

UN Unanimously Adopts Syria Arms Resolution -- Al Jazeera

World's chemical weapons watchdog OPCW approves disarmament plan, paving the way for Security Council ballot.

The UN Security Council has voted unanimously to secure and destroy Syria's chemical weapons stockpile.

The vote late on Friday was the first resolution passed on the Syrian conflict since it began in March 2011, after Russia and China had previously vetoed three Western-backed resolutions pressuring President Bashar Assad's regime to end the violence.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the council immediately after the vote he aimed for a Syria peace conference in November.

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More News On The UN Security Council Has Voting Unanimously To Secure And Destroy Syria's Chemical Weapons Stockpile

U.N. Security Council demands elimination of Syria chemical arms -- Reuters
Syria chemical weapons: UN adopts binding resolution -- BBC
U.N. council votes to require Syria to destroy chemical weapons -- USA Today/AP
UN Security Council votes to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons -- FOX News/AP
UN Adopts Syrian Chemical Weapons Resolution -- Radio Free Europe
Syria Chemical-Weapons Resolution Passed by UN Security Council -- Bloomberg Businessweek
U.N. Security Council unanimously passes Syria chemical weapons resolution -- Washington Post
United Nations Security Council votes 15-0 to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons -- Jerusalem Post
UN-Backed Effort to Rid Syria of Chemical Weapons Faces Hurdles -- Bloomberg Businessweek

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How Dangerous Are Syria's Foreign Fighters?

Members of the Free Syrian Army perform prayers in Damascus in this handout photo provided by the Shaam News Network. (Reuters)

Jihad Tourists: How Dangerous Are Syria's Foreign Fighters? -- Christoph Reuter, Spiegel Online

Once just a small group, now there are several thousand foreign jihadist fighters present in Syria today. Though some rebel leaders say their presence does pose a danger, the impact of these groups is often exaggerated by the Western media.

The role of foreign jihadists linked to al-Qaida in Syria has been the subject of intense discussion in the Western media, among think tanks and inside governments. Yet despite the attention paid to the issue, the research behind the reports published is often thin.

There's a good reason for this, too: Very few foreign journalists are still traveling within the areas of Syria that are no longer controlled by the regime of dictator Bashar Assad. Of course, other factors also influence the reporting. Right from the start, the regime described the insurgency in its propaganda as the action of "foreign terrorists," and it has often used the Russian media in particular as a platform for spreading false accounts of events.

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My Comment: A few thousand heavily armed and fanatical foreign jihadists is a very dangerous situation .... especially since they are now carving safe havens in Syria.

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Syria's Rebels Launch An Improvised Rocket Made Using A Scaffolding Pole And A Battered Gas Canister

Free Syrian Army fighters prepare to fire a home-made rocket in Ashrafieh, Aleppo

Pictured: Free Syrian Army Fighters Launching Improvised Rocket Made Using A Scaffolding Pole And A Battered Gas Canister -- Daily Mail

* Makeshift rocket fired in Aleppo by rebels who oppose Bashar al-Assad
* Desperate measure taken by Army to fight government forces in civil war
* British government donates £100milion in aid to Syrian citizens

As the bitter civil war in Syria rages, these photos show just how desperate the rebels are to fight back against the government.

A makeshift rocket - compiled of debris scavenged from the rubble-strewn streets - shows a crowd of Free Syrian Army fighters frantically trying to construct weapons in their fight against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

A gas canister and a scaffold pole have been hastily assembled and carted along in the back of a tractor, before the battered container is launched into the air.

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My Comment: You go to war with what you have.

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U.N. Security Council Agrees On Syria Chemical Arms Measure

If UN inspection teams can remove even one of the sarin precursors they can all but eliminate Syria’s ability to launch a chemical attack even before the stockpile is completely destroyed, said Daryl Kimball. Photo: Reuters

U.N.’s Five Big Powers Agree On Syrian Resolution Wording -- Washington Post

NEW YORK — The United Nations’ five big powers reached agreement Thursday on a legally binding U.N. Security Council resolution that would require Syria to dismantle its once-secret chemical weapons program or face the threat of unspecified measures, according to senior U.S. and Russian officials.

The deal reached by Britain, France, the United States, Russia and China followed several days of high-level talks in New York. Those talks culminated Thursday afternoon with a face-to-face meeting between Secretary of State John F. Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

“We did reach agreement with respect to the resolution; we’re now doing final work putting that language together,” Kerry said after the meeting. “It’s our hope now that . . . this resolution can now give life hopefully to the removal and destruction of chemical weapons in Syria.”

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Key Nations at UN Reach Agreement on Syria Weapons -- New York Times
Deal reached on Syria UN resolution -- Al Jazeera
Syria chemical weapons: UN discusses Syria draft text -- BBC
UN security council agrees wording of resolution on Syria chemical weapons -- The Guardian
Russia agrees to back U.N. Security Council resolution on Syria -- L.A. Times
US, Russia agree landmark UN resolution on Syria -- AFP
Global powers agree to compel Syria to hand over chemical weapons -- MSNBC
Syrian chemical munitions can be destroyed in nine months, say officials -- Sydney Morning Herald

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Syrian President Assad Still Believes That The U.S. May Still Attack His Government And Military

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad speaks during an interview in Damascus, Sept. 19, 2013.

Assad Thinks US Strikes Still Possible -- Voice of America

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is not ruling out the possibility of a United States military strike on his country despite agreeing to a deal requiring him to give up his chemical weapons.

Speaking to Venezuela's Telesur television, President Assad said his government remains committed to the deal negotiated by the U.S. and Russia, which is in the final stages of being formalized by the United Nations Security Council.

Assad said he sees "no serious obstacles" to the plan, but warned that terrorists, a phrase he uses to describe rebels, could try to prevent U.N. experts tasked with securing the government's chemical weapons stockpile from doing their job.

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Bashar al-Assad: US may attack Syria despite weapons offer -- The Guardian
Assad doesn't rule out US attack, says he has given Russia evidence of rebel chemical weapons -- FOX News/AP
Assad does not rule out US attack on Syria, despite chemical weapons deal -- Jerusalem Post/Reuters
Assad says U.S. aggression against Syria still possible -- Al Arabiya

My Comment: I doubt that such an attack will happen .... especially now. There is no political will in the US to launch such a strike .... and more to the point .... US military forces and assets will need to be "ramped-up" and positioned again to launch such a strike .... and that is something that is not happening right now.

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Key Syrian Rebel Groups Break Away From The Western And U.S. Backed Rebel Coalition

Syrian Rebel Groups Form Islamic Alliance -- L.A. Times

Nearly a dozen of the largest Syrian rebel groups decry the U.S.-backed Syrian National Coalition, which they say is out of touch.

Nearly a dozen of the largest Syrian rebel groups, including one linked to Al Qaeda, have formed an Islamic alliance that could serve as the basis for a future political bloc and have denounced the Western-backed Syrian National Coalition.

The bloc explicitly called for sharia, or Islamic law, to be the sole source of legislation in Syria, which for decades has been governed under iron-fisted secularism by President Bashar Assad and his late father, Hafez Assad.

Members of the alliance said Wednesday that an Islamic state represented the true wishes of the majority of Syrians, but added that it would not be forced upon people.

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Largest Syrian rebel groups form Islamic alliance, in possible blow to U.S. influence -- Washington Post
Syrian rebel groups defect from Western-backed opposition -- Al Jazeera
Syrian rebels reject interim government, embrace Sharia -- CNN
Alliance of rebel groups calls for an Islamist Syria, not a U.S.-backed democracy -- Washington Times
Islamist Bloc in Syria Rejects National Coalition -- Voice of America
Syrian opposition splits after Islamists push for sharia state -- The Telegraph
Islamist Syrian Rebels Reject Opposition Backed by West -- RIA Novosti
Syria schism: West-backed rebels shun West-backed opposition coalition -- RT
US Syria plans face setback as key rebels break from coalition -- Miami Herald/McClatchy News
Syrian Rebel Groups Slam Western-Backed Opposition -- Time/AP
Split Weakens U.S.-Backed Syrian Rebels as Islamists Strengthen -- Bloomberg Businessweek

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Some Gun Sellers Are Making A 'Killing' In Aleppo, Syria

Abu Mohammad, 39, poses inside his gun shop in the Fardos district of Syria's northern city of Aleppo on September 21, 2013. (AFP Photo/JM Lopez)

War Means Profit For Gun Seller In Syria's Aleppo -- AFP

Aleppo (Syria) (AFP) - While most Syrians get poorer with every day of war, Aleppo's main gun seller Abu Mohammad is doing just fine by selling firearms, including rocket-propelled grenades, ammunition and even swords.

"War is great business," said the northern city's only gunshop owner, as he laid several hand grenades out on a counter.

"I wanted to help the rebels because they had no arms or ammunition," the 39-year-old told AFP, adding that he makes an astonishing 50,000 Syrian pounds ($370) a day.

Abu Mohammad opened his gun store in the rebel-held neighbourhood of Fardos earlier this year after a leg injury cut short a nine-month stint battling alongside the Free Syrian Army.

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My Comment:  He is the perfect place to ply his trade.

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Running A Civil War By Cell Phone

Free Syrian Army fighters. Courtesy photo

Syrian Rebel Commands Tank Battalion From Hospital Bed -- David Axe, War Is Boring

Running a civil war by cell phone

Yahya Mhebeldin was a tailor in Al Qusayr, a city in western Syria near Homs. Then in the spring of 2011, mass demonstrations demanding the end of Pres. Bashar Al Assad’s dictatorial rule sparked a civil war. Mhebeldin, 29, became an opposition fighter, commanding a growing force of local men fighting to defend their neighborhood from government troops and their allies.

Badly wounded at the height of the fighting five months ago, today Mhebeldin is in a hospital in northern Lebanon, where he continues to lead his men—and an arsenal of captured tanks—relaying commands via a battery of cell phones resting on his pillow.

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My Comment: An excellent on the ground report in Syria. Read it all.

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Syria's Rebel Islamist Factions Reject Western Backed Leaders And Groups

Syrian Rebel Alliance Rejects Western-Backed Leaders -- Wall Street Journal

Move by Islamist Groups Undercuts Efforts to Organize Opposition

GAZIANTEP, Turkey—An alliance of Syrian rebels, including a U.S.-designated terrorist group and several Western-backed factions, rejected the leadership of a main Syrian political opposition body and called for a unified Islamic rebel structure.

The statement, signed late Tuesday by some of the most powerful Islamist factions in the Syrian rebel insurgency, threatens to undercut international attempts to organize the political opposition, to isolate extremists from rebels that receive Western funding, training and arms and to move both toward peace talks with the regime.

It comes as leaders of the Syrian Opposition Coalition—the Western-backed political opposition body made largely of exiled dissidents—are in New York lobbying international governments for more support and action against President Bashar al-Assad's regime. The statement on Tuesday rejected what it called "groups abroad" and their attempts to represent rebels, namely the coalition's so-called interim prime minister, Ahmed Tohme.

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Syria rebels reject opposition coalition, call for Islamic leadership -- Reuters
Syria rebel factions, including al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, reject authority of U.S.-backed opposition SNC -- CBS/AP
Islamist rebels in Syria reject National Coalition -- BBC
Syrian rebels reject interim government, embrace Sharia -- CNN
Islamist rebel groups break from moderate Syrian opposition coalition -- UPI
Key Syrian rebels reject National Coalition -- Al Jazeera
Syria schism: West-backed rebels shun West-backed opposition coalition -- RT
13 Islamist factions reject leadership of exiled Syrian opposition coalition -- Xinhuanet
Syria crisis: Coalition of powerful rebel groups rejects Western-backed opposition -- The Independent
New Islamist Bloc Declares Opposition To National Coalition And US Strategy – Analysis -- Aron Lund for Syria Comment/Eurasia Review
Factbox: Syrian rebels against opposition coalition -- Reuters

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The 12 Weapons That Are Causing The Most Destruction In Syria

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The 12 Weapons Causing Most Of The Destruction In Syria -- Business Insider

The British charity Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) has published an investigation detailing 12 of the deadliest conventional weapons being used in the Syrian war.

In July AOAV researcher Robert Perkins found that 40% of all deaths recorded in Syria were caused by explosive weapons and that 93% of fatalities due to explosive weapons were civilians.

"There's been a lot of press on chemical weapons and unconventional warfare, but the vast majority of the deaths in Syria have been from relatively conventional weapons," Jacob Parakilas, a senior weapons researcher at AOAV who work on the project, told Business Insider. "We really wanted to highlight the harms that those [weapons] do, especially the indiscriminate harm to civilians and noncombatants."

Parakilas noted that air-dropped munitions (e.g. S-25 OFM, OFAB 100-120, ODAB 500) as well as the larger launcher systems (e.g. larger Grads, SAKR, LUNA-M/FROG 7) are exclusive to troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The regime's air war on rebel-held territories began in July 2012.

Furthermore, Parakilas said that weapons used by both sides have been used more by the government because it has had superior quantities throughout the war.

Here's each of the weapons, along with a video (linked) and an infographic:

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My Comment: An excellent info-graphic .... check it out. And yes .... I know .... the AK-47 is probably the number one killing tool in Syria.

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Mass Starvation Fears Are Now Growing In Syria

CREDIT: UK Department for International Development

Syria Crisis: Starving Children Forced To Survive On Fruit, Leaves And Nuts -- The Guardian

Save the Children says conflict's restriction on movement and huge inflation is causing severe food shortages

Children in Syria are eating fruit, nuts and leaves and drinking dirty water to survive as families find it increasingly hard to feed themselves in a civil war that has left 100,000 people dead.

A report from Save the Children says restrictions on movement and massive inflation are severely limiting the ability of many Syrian families to put enough food on the table. Fighting has hindered access to humanitarian relief across many regions of the country.

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Syrian crisis leaves children at risk of starvation -- Sydney Morning Herald
With world’s attention focused on chemical weapons, mass starvation feared in Syria -- Washington Post/AP
Syria: Charity Warns Of Child Malnutrition -- SKY News
Hunger is killing Syria's children -- Examiner
Report: Millions Of Syrians Are Starving -- Think Progress

My Comment: Winter is just around the corner .... and here is an easy prediction .... more people are going to die this winter in Syria from disease and a devastated health system than from bullets and bombs.

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