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Is the Syrian Conflict Entering a New Phase?
The White House is holding the line on Syria, despite Israel's military strikes and lingering questions about Syria's use of chemical weapons against citizens.
By Tess Vigeland • • 51m ListenThe White House is holding the line on intervention in Syria's civil war, despite Israel's military strikes against Syrian targets and lingering questions about Syria's use of chemical weapons against its citizens. Guest host Tess Vigeland explores whether the is war entering a new phase. Also, the Pentagon is under fire for a "plague" of sexual assaults in the military, and three women have been rescued from a house in Cleveland where they allegedly spent the last decade in captivity.
Banner image: Free Syrian Army fighters prepare to head out toward the front line in the al-Ziyabiya area, in Damascus May 5, 2013. Photo by Ward Al-Keswani/Reuters
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The ongoing crisis in Syria continues to raise thorny issues about US intervention in the civil war there. That war began as part of the Arab Spring in 2011 but has developed into the most intractable conflict of the revolutionary movement. More than 70 thousand people have been killed.
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