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Fighting between Jihadist groups ISIL and the Al-Nusra killed 63 people in Eastern Syria on Monday despite the al-Qaeda chief’s call for a ceasefire, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The clashes between the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the Al-Nusra Front have prompted over 60,000 people to abandon their homes in the oil-rich region. …

Parliamentary speaker Mohamed al-Lahham on Tuesday said that four new candidates had submitted their applications to run for the Presidency in the upcoming elections next month, which President Bashar Assad is widely expected to win. The speaker announced the names of four new candidates, with a Christian and a woman among them, in a parliamentary session in Damascus. With the …