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Syrian Kurdish Peshmerga fighters will return to Syria after receiving training in northern Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region, a Kurdish politician said on Jan. 24.

(continued from Divided, Depleted and Dispirited - The Syrians of Bulgaria)

The Syrian opposition in Bulgaria argues it successfully pushed Sofia to take its side as the crisis deepened back home.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)  has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks across Syria that left dead dozens of people, in an announcement on its radio station.
      

The only solution to the ongoing bloodshed is to create a ?democratic Syria,? Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has said, vowing that Ankara will continue to stand with the Syrian National Council (SNC) as the most legitimate body representing the people of Syria.

Turkey did not contact the armed wing of the Syrian Kurds' Democratic Union Party (PYD) or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) prior to the evacuation operation of its troops from an historic Ottoman tomb inside Syria, a spokesperson for the presidency has said, reiterating the country still regards the PYD as a terrorist organization.

U.S. Senator John McCain met with members of the Syrian opposition in Gaziantep on July 1 amid a warning from fragmented rebels that they will lay down their arms in a week if they do not receive aid in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).