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                   US Halts Non-Lethal Aid to Northern Syria

   The United States has suspended non-lethal aid to northern Syria after
   Islamist fighters seized warehouses belonging to the Western-backed
   Free Syrian Army rebel group.
   A U.S. Embassy official in Turkey would not give details Wednesday
   about what supplies the U.S. was halting. Reuters quotes an FSA
   spokesman saying the rebel group hopes the U.S. will "rethink" its
   decision and wait until the situation is clearer.
   Days earlier, fighters from the Islamic Front, an umbrella group of six
   major rebel brigades, seized FSA bases and weapons warehouses at the
   Bab al-Hawa crossing between Syria and Turkey.
   The Islamic Front is independent from the FSA and wants Syria to be an
   Islamic state.
   U.S. officials told several American media outlets that the Obama
   administration remains committed to providing Syrians with humanitarian
   aid which is distributed mainly through aid groups and the United
   Nations.
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