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Focus: Syria News - Feb 11, 2016

By bartolo - Posted on 10 February 2016

Syrian government forces 25 kilometers from Turkey's border - VOA

Damascus aims to secure Syria's border with Turkey and recapture Aleppo with its latest military offensive: Assad adviser - Reuters

Wounded Syrian rebels say Russia crippling their insurgency - Yahoo News

Nusra Front jihadists reinforce other rebels during key battle in Aleppo province - The Long War Journal

Russia, pressed to end Syria bombing, proposes March truce - Reuters

Backed by Russian airstrikes Syrian Kurds seize air base held by insurgents - Telegraph

Kurdish YPG recaptures towns from Islamic group in the northern countryside of Aleppo - Kurdpress News Aganecy

Syrian Kurds to continue working with Russia to halt illegal oil to Turkey - sputniknews.com

Syrian Kurdistan mission opens in Moscow - RT News

PYD chief Salih Muslim meets Russian deputy FM, Moscow stresses on Kurdish participation in peace talks - Kurdpress News Aganecy

Syrian Kurds plan opening missions in US, EU - TASS

Opposition group attacks funeral of Syrian President’s mother - Al Bawaba

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US Won't Intervene in Syrian-Russian Assault on Aleppo: Pentagon - Military.com

Pentagon Spy Chief: Russia’s Airstrikes ‘Change Syria Calculus Completely’ - Antiwar.com

United States has no desire to confront Russian air power in the skies above Syria - Stratfor

Syrian Opposition Groups Sense U.S. Support Fading - The New York Times

French Foreign Minister Quits, Lashes Out at Obama on Syria - VICE News

Turkey's Erdogan chastises U.S. over support for Syrian Kurds, says failure to understand the essence of the PYD and YPG caused a 'sea of blood' - Reuters

Turkey summons US envoy over comments on Kurdish PYD in Syria - todayszaman.com

Turkey's Syria strategy in ruins as Aleppo teeters - CNN.com

Syria invasion plan? Turkey will defend its ‘Aleppo brothers,’ says PM Davutoglu - RT News

Turkey Sees Russia's Syria Tactics as 'Ethnic Cleansing' - VOA

Turkish President Erdoğan hosts urgent security summit with top officials - hurriyetdailynews.com

Turkey, Saudi Arabia to hold joint drills, military sources deny such a planning - hurriyetdailynews.com

Lavrov: US-led coalition will not allow Turkey’s invasion of Syria - todayszaman.com

Lavrov: ISIL, Turkey discussing new smuggling ways across Syrian-Turkish borders - almanar.com

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