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23 of the best new and upcoming cookbooks/food books for the holidays
A list of the best new and upcoming cookbooks to diversify your own culinary repertoire or offer as holiday gifts.
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Opinion: Balkan conflicts hold clear lessons on intervention in Syria
As policymakers in Europe, the United States, the Gulf states, Turkey, and the Arab League search for ways to resolve the conflict in Syria, they should consider what the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo have to teach about outside intervention. The main lesson? Do it – to stop the killing.
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Terrorism & Security Syria conflict: Here come the weapons?
New arms may be headed to Syria in coming months as Britain reviews legal options for supplying weapons to rebels and Turkey talks to NATO about Patriot interceptors.
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Taxi bomb hits Syrian capital as UN envoy pushes for cease-fire
The bomb killed at least 13 people in Damascus. In another part of the capital, UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi met with President Bashar Assad.
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Anxious Turks suspect US plot is behind Syria's implosion
Locals in eastern Turkey, bearing the brunt of the fallout from Turkey's involvement in Syria, believe Ankara is merely a pawn in US plans to foment conflict in the region.
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In Syria's war, long-repressed minority finds new freedom
Keen to secure loyalty, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has granted Syria's Kurds de facto control over predominantly Kurdish areas of the country. But with the freedom, divisions have emerged.
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A truce in Syria? Peace envoy calls for ceasefire during Eid. (+video)
International peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is asking Syria's closest regional ally, Iran, to help arrange a pause in the fighting in Syria during the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha.
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Opinion: NATO must offer Turkey military support in Syria crisis
Turkey has twice turned to NATO for support in the face of attacks from Syria. But the transatlantic alliance has responded with words rather than deeds. To preserve its credibility in Turkey and the region, NATO should offer radar aircraft and/or rapid reaction forces.
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Report: Syria using widely-banned cluster bombs
A Human Rights Watch report points to new evidence that the Syrian regime is using the widely-banned munitions, which pose a significant risk to civilians long into the future.
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With Turkey-Syria escalation, worries grow about a tip into war
With Turkey and the Syrian regime on opposite sides of the antigovernment uprising in Syria, flare-ups like the Turkish grounding of a Syrian jet this week carry great risk of tipping the two into open conflict.
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Terrorism & Security German foreign minister heads to Ankara to tamp down Turkey-Syria tensions
The details of the Turkish grounding of a Syrian passenger plane earlier this week remain murky, but that hasn't stopped Turkey and Syria from trading accusations.
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Turkey says Syrian plane carried ammunition (+video)
Turkey required a passenger jet on its way to Syria from Russia to land before it reached its destination. This move angered Russia, but was supported by the United States.
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Syrian airliner forced to land in Turkey: Was is carrying missile parts?
Turkey says that the Syrian Air Airbus A320 en route from Moscow to Damascus was carrying military communications gear and missile components, a charge that Syria denies.
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Opinion: Why Syria's regional spillovers could prompt intervention (+video)
Turkey's forced landing of a Syrian passenger jet from Moscow suspected of carrying military cargo is the latest example of regional spillover from the Syria crisis. The risks of these cascading spillovers may ultimately emerge as the leading rationale for international intervention.
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Terrorism & Security Turkey at odds with Moscow after grounding Russia-Syria flight
Turkey, already on the brink of a conflict with Syria, may now be facing tensions with Moscow after grounding a flight from Russia on suspicion that it was carrying weapons for the Syrian regime
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Terrorism & Security Turkey vows tougher response if Syrian shelling continues
Several Syrian mortars landed in Turkey today. The two countries have exchanged fire for the past week, though Syria says it does not want a military confrontation.
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Will NATO attack Syria?
NATO is ready to defend Turkey against Syria, says NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, in a strong warning to the Syrian government, which has been exchanging cross-border fire with Turkey.
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Syria and Turkey edge closer to crisis as shelling continues
Turkey has shelled Syria for the fourth consecutive day, leading to fears that Syria's civil war may become a regional conflict.
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Terrorism & Security Responses to Syrian shelling highlight Turkish-Western divide on conflict (+video)
While the US and other Western nations resist being drawn into the fighting in Syria, Turkey is feeling the direct effects of bloodshed and refugees, putting pressure on Ankara to act.
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UN: Syria has 'grave impact' on regional security (+video)
As Turkey bombarded Syria Thursday, the UN Security Council condemned Syria's initial mortar attack on Turkey. A peaceful anti-war protest took place in Istanbul on Thursday evening.
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Turkish villagers thrust into center of Syria-Turkey tensions (+video)
Residents of the Turkish border town of Akçakale buried their dead and blamed their government in Ankara for not acting sooner to stop Syrian shelling.
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Is Turkey at war with Syria?
After Syrian shells killed five civilians in a Turkish border town, Turkey's parliament authorized military operations against Syria. But Turkey's deputy prime minister says that this is not a declaration of war.
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Violence in Syria: Could it engulf the region?
As the Syrian city of Aleppo reels from a spate of suicide bombings and mortar fire, concerns are rising that the fighting could draw in Sunni and Shiite powers in the region
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Turkey's prime minister trumpets their democratic credentials
Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister, said Sunday that Turkey's successful democracy should serve as an example to all Muslim countries. Critics say Erdogan is too authoritarian and stifles dissent.
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Terrorism & Security Rejecting death sentence, Iraqi VP Hashemi calls for Iraqis to resist (+video)
Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, sentenced to death yesterday by an Iraqi court, told the Monitor last month that despite his years of criticism of the US invasion, Iraq needs US involvement.
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Turkey checks possible Iran link to deadly bombing
In an interview, Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc left open the possibility that Iran might be a culprit in Monday's explosion that killed nine people.
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