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Bashar al-Assad

Obama, al-Assad and ISIL update FB Status: It's Complicated

Obama, al-Assad and ISIL update FB Status: It’s Complicated

contributors 08/29/2014

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Will The US Bomb IS Group (AKA ISIS) In Syria?

Filed Under: Bashar al-Assad, Free Syrian Army, Iraq, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, political Islam, Syria

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