Free Syrian Army Threatens Blood Feud After Senior Officer Killed By Jihadists -- The Guardian
Death of Kamal Hamami likely to inflame rising tensions between mainstream Syrian opposition and foreign anti-Assad fighters
Commanders of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) have reacted with fury to the assassination of a senior FSA officer by a jihadist group, warning that the killing would lead to further violence between the disparate factions battling to oust the president, Bashar al-Assad.
Kamal Hamami, a member of the opposition's supreme military command, was killed and his body mutilated after he was lured to a planning meeting on Thursday with fighters believed to be foreign jihadists in the Jebel al-Krud region, north of Latakia.
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ASIA
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AFRICA
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Egypt braces for more protests, prays for calm.
US calls for halt to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood arrests.
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US begins flying deportees to Mexico City.
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