Kidnapped journalist Austin Tice, missing for 12 years, once said going to Syria was ‘the greatest thing I&ve done&

In late May 2012, Austin Tice, a former Marine Corps captain and Georgetown law student, ducked under a fence on the Turkish-Syrian border.

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Seven Palestinians killed in Israeli strike on Gaza school, civil emergency says

At least seven Palestinians were killed and 12 wounded after an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza, the civil emergency service in Gaza City said on Saturday.

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Israeli airstrike kills at least 33 people sheltering in Gaza post office

Dozens of relatives wept and recited verses from the Koran, Islam&s holy book, at a Gaza Strip hospital yesterday before burying some of the 33 Palestinians killed in an Israeli airstrike on a post office where they had been sheltering.

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Rebels find laboratories full of illegal ?drug captagon that?was Syria&s main export

As the dust settles on the fragments of Bashar al-Assad&s collapsed Syrian dictatorship, the truth about a mass drug empire believed to have brought huge profits to the former regime is being uncovered.

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Deception, despair and flight & final hours of Bashar-al Assad&s regime

Bashar al-Assad confided in almost no one about his plans to flee Syria as his reign collapsed. Instead, aides, officials and even relatives were deceived or kept in the dark, more than a dozen people with knowledge of the events told Reuters.

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Thousands gather in Damascus to celebrate the toppling of Assad regime

Thousands of Syrians gathered at Umayyad Square in Damascus to celebrate after the first Friday prayers following the downfall of former president Bashar Assad.

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