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World Destruction in Bab Amr, Homs, Syria.
Syria: Has al-Qaeda taken over the revolution?

Al-Qaeda-linked groups including the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and Jabhat al-Nusra have consolidated their power in Syria in recent weeks, particularly in the country’s north, but have they overshadowed moderate elements of the opposition?

World Palestinian demonstrations in the Yarmouk Camp in Damascus
Syria: Palestinians and the Syrian Revolution

On 13-14 July, 2012 mass demonstrations erupted in the Palestinian Refugee Camp Yarmouk and Tadamon in Damascus. The Syrian regime’s brutal response led to seven deaths on July 13. The next day their funeral processions brought an even larger protest out, where four more people were killed.