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Negotiations held between SNC and Syrian governmentSyrian officials tour Europe!

Hijab, Nirbeh com-pete to head SNC

Abdel Azim revives travel

ban

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New Battle launched in al-Hasakah

New president to be elected in Al-Jazirah

province

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Negotiations held between SNC and Syrian government

Islamic front warns ISISHijab, Nirbeh compete to head SNC

An informed source in Da-mascus talked about Nego-tiations between the current, former coalition members and Syrian security officials are reportedly being held in order to settle their situation, ahead of organizing govern-

Islamic Front in the Eastern Ghouta warned, in a state-ment, the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) it will pay a heavy price for carrying out assassinations against Muslims.The state-ment came in response to ISIS assassination of the

The democratic bloc has agreed on to nominate Mo-ufaq Nirbeh to run for the presidency of the Syrian Na-tional Coalition as succes-sor to Ahmad Jarba, who no longer has a right to run ac-cording to the SNC rules of procedure.Hadi Bahra, nom-inated by Jarba himself, has failed to get enough votes.In a related context, the ad-visory body held a meeting under the title of “compat-ibility” for nominating the dissident PM, Riad Hijab to be a competitor to Nir-beh According to a media source, Walid al-Omari also

decided to run.

ment-supervised national conference in Damascus soon, an informed source in Damascus revealed.”18 SNC members asked to have their situations settled, some of whom may be turned

down”, the source added.

defected judge Anas Qwy-der, who slammed ISIS for torturing war prisoners and other misconducts. On the other hand, SISI sacked its Jarabuls ruler Abu Baker al-Masri, after a videotape showing him abusing a dis-abled elder went viral.

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New president to be elected in Al-Jazirah

province

The Legislative Council of the democratic self-ruled administration in Kurdish-majority areas in Al-Jazirah province said it started to receive bids for electing a new governor.The bids are must be submitted to the Province`s Supreme Consti-tutional Court located in Qa-mishli city”, according to the Council spokesman, “candi-date must be at least 35 years old, a Syrian national from the Province, enjoy civil and political rights and not con-victed of a dishonorable fel-ony, even if he was reinstat-ed”, the spokesman added.

SRF denies attack on Aleppo warehouses

New Battle launched in al-Hasakah

40 Syrian soldiers killed in Qalamoun

Hama blast kills scores

Syrian Revolutionaries Front refuted the accusa-tions circulated by (Zaman Al-Wasel) webpage about seizing weapons depots in Ameriyah and Al-Bouidah areas in Aleppo. According to the same source, a con-voy of 20 military vehicles raided Ameriyah town, de-taining a rival battalion`s

media spokesman, and forc-ing him to reveal the place of reserve depot.

Pro-Kurdish websites pub-lished a statement attributed

Rebel fighting battalions in al-Qalamoun said they have killed 40 army sol-diers while infiltrating

The Islamic Front said it has detonated a truck load-ed with more than 10 tons of highly explosive materi-als in al-Harrah village, al-Ghab Plain, Hama country-side.More than 35 civilians killed, scores injured in the ear-deafening blast.

to ISIS-linked Fatiheen Bri-gade declaring the From-Scratch Battle aimed to take over al-Hasakah province, particularly Qamilshli city.According to the statement, the hardline Brigade is seek-ing vengeance from Kurds, Christians, NDF and SAA.

Jarrod Qalamoun. Bloody battles continue to take lives there, according to sources.

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Syrian officials tour Europe!

Abdel Azim revives travel ban

Syria political and media adviser Bouthaina Shaaban is in Oslo now in her first visit to a European country since the two-years Euro-pean-American sanctions imposed against her, Diplo-matic officials told al-Hay-at newspaper.In parallel, a Syrian senior Security of-ficial is reportedly touring Europe to discuss ways of joint cooperation to fight terrorism. Norwegian gov-ernment granted Shaaban access to hold closed-door discussions with Arab, for-eign officials; as well as Syrian anti-government fig-ures. The event is sponsored by Oslo forum.Recently-held Syrian-Russian talks underlined carrying out the reconciliations in replace of Geneva course which calls for forming a transitional governing body, shipping out Syria`s chemical arse-nal and drafting internation-

ally agreed-on resolution to facilitate humanitarian aids access to Syria. There are divisions inside the Eu-ropean Union about how to handle the Syrian file; coun-tries like Czech Republic, Austria and Poland voiced will for direct involvement, while Britain and France

Hassan Abdel Azim, general coordinator of National Co-ordinating Body, said that the government has issued a decree banning him from leaving Syrian territory.Abdel Azim was unable to leave Damascus because of a travel ban issued by secu-rity authorities, based on the declaration of emergency state which was lifted in a presidential decree in 2011.

disapproved altogether. In the same context, some countries censured the se-cret visits paid by some EU officials to Damascus, con-ferring with assistant FM Hussam al-Deen Ilah, in-stead of keeping on formal contact with protocol chief in Syria’s Foreign Ministry.