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                    [Title] => Little progress in key plank of Obama anti-IS strategy
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U.S. military and intelligence officials are voicing increasing pessimism about a key tenet of the Obama administration's strategy to dislodge the Islamic State group and stabilize Iraq.

[DatePublished] => 2015-03-12 13:48:21 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1440298 [AuthorName] => Ken Dilanian and Robert Burns [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/world/20150312/us-iraq.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1341190 [Title] => Alarm, ridicule for declaration of Islamic state [Summary] =>

A militant group's declaration of an Islamic state in territory it controls in Syria and Iraq touched off celebrations among its followers but drew condemnation and even ridicule from rivals and officials in Baghdad and Damascus.

[DatePublished] => 2014-07-01 04:19:21 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1729370 [AuthorName] => Ryan Lucas [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1324219 [Title] => Syrian official welcomes UN mediator's resignation [Summary] =>

A Syrian official on Wednesday welcomed the resignation of Lakhdar Brahimi as the joint United Nations-Arab League envoy for Syria, calling for the appointment of a "more objective" mediator.

[DatePublished] => 2014-05-17 07:20:31 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1112583 [AuthorName] => Albert Aji [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 912631 [Title] => Battle for Syria's Aleppo airport intensifies [Summary] =>

The battle for Syria's second-largest airport intensified on yesterday as government troops tried to reverse recent strategic gains the rebels have made in the northeast in their quest to topple President Bashar Assad.

[DatePublished] => 2013-02-24 04:19:53 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 894236 [Title] => Defiant Assad pledges to continue fighting [Summary] =>

A defiant Syrian President Bashar Assad rallied a chanting and cheering crowd yesterday to fight the uprising against his authoritarian rule, dismissing any chance of dialogue with "murderous criminals" that he blames for nearly two years of violence that has left 60,000 dead.

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UN observers have discovered 13 bound corpses in eastern Syria, many of them apparently shot execution-style, the monitoring mission said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2012-05-31 02:21:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 781055 [Title] => Syria attacks Saudi over arming opposition calls [Summary] =>

Syria lashed out at Saudi Arabia on yesterday, a day after the kingdom's foreign minister backed the idea of arming the rebels fighting President Bashar Assad's regime, accusing Riyadh of becoming "a partner" in the bloodshed in Syria.

[DatePublished] => 2012-02-26 07:29:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 779768 [Title] => Commentary: It is dangerous to stoke civil war in Syria [Summary] =>

Some in the West are suggesting arming the Syrian opposition after the United Nations Security Council failed to approve a lopsided resolution aimed at toppling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad earlier this month.

[DatePublished] => 2012-02-22 14:26:59 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 779104 [Title] => 2 judicial officials slain in Syria [Summary] =>

Gunmen in Syria staged a guerrilla-style ambush that killed a senior state prosecutor and a judge yesterday in an attack that suggested armed factions are growing bolder and more coordinated in their uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime.

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The question was disturbing: Why do you live here?

[DatePublished] => 2012-01-02 05:23:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) ) )
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