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• Syrian army bombing 'kills scores in Aleppo'

  16 Dec 2013:

  Human rights group says rebels have warned civilians to stay away from government buildings as they plan retaliation

• Saudi Arabia and Iran must end their proxy war in Syria

  15 Dec 2013: Fawaz Gerges: Peace talks on Syria can't work without a compromise between the two Gulf powers driving the conflict

• Gaza in chaos as rising flood waters add to misery caused by storm

  14 Dec 2013:

  Aid agencies warn of crisis for refugees living in tents and makeshift shelters as flood waters rise

• Growing strength of Syria's Islamist groups undermines hopes of ousting Assad

  14 Dec 2013:

  The west is being forced to rethink its support for rebel alliance in civil war as forces linked to al-Qaida gain ground

• The Observer's 20 photographs of the week

  Gallery (20 pictures), 14 Dec 2013:

  The best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week

• Syria: al-Qaida-linked rebels kidnap 120 Kurds, monitoring group says

  13 Dec 2013: Civilians were taken from, Ihras, close to the Turkish border, according to Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

• Middle East under snow – in pictures

  Gallery (10 pictures), 13 Dec 2013:

  A powerful winter storm sweeping the eastern Mediterranean this week is causing mayhem across the region and inflicting extra misery on Syrians convulsed in civil war and refugees who have fled the fighting. The storm, named Alexa, is expected to last until Saturday, bringing more snow, rain and freezing temperatures to large swaths of Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories

• Snowstorm brings havoc and hardship across Middle East

  13 Dec 2013:

  Storm Alexa shuts airports and schools in Holy Land and brings misery to Syrian refugees

• Syrian refugees: UK pilloried for keeping its borders closed

  13 Dec 2013: EU countries should 'hang their heads in shame' for resettling so few trying to flee conflict, Amnesty International says

• Syria: chemical weapons probably used in four more places, UN inspectors find

  13 Dec 2013: Final report concludes credible information is consistent with more attacks, though evidence is incomplete

• Syrian refugees facing extreme hardship as blizzards hit region

  12 Dec 2013: Aid agencies warn of threat to families living in flimsy tents as worst winter storm for decades batters Middle East
  

• Winter storm hits Syria and Lebanon - in pictures

  Gallery (14 pictures), 12 Dec 2013:

  Storm Alexa sweeps across Syria and Lebanon, bringing high winds and freezing temperatures, and fears for hundreds and thousands of Syrian refugees in the region

• Four human rights activists abducted in Syria

  12 Dec 2013:

  Press freedom groups call for their release

• Syria: US and UK suspend aid after Islamist fighters seize weapons stores

  11 Dec 2013: 'Non-lethal' aid suspended after newly formed Islamic Front seizes warehouses in north-west Syria

• News organisations plead with Syrian rebels to stop abducting journalists

  11 Dec 2013:

  Open letter sent to Free Syrian Army and other armed groups

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