Al-Asaad, a former colonel in the Syrian air force who defected and fled to Turkey in 2011, became the head of the Free Syrian Army, a group of army defectors who were among the first to declare armed struggle the only way to topple Assad.

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Plans drawn up by the army's Special Support Group envisage the first batch of displaced people - those living in camps - will return on 13 July.

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He has been tracking the Syrian Electronic Army since May 2011, when it first emerged as an organized group with a Facebook page and then its own website.

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Mr Miller was a master-sergeant in the army and a self-described redneck when he joined his first white racist group in 1974.

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He began agitating for the Kosovo cause while still in his teens, and first came to prominence as the political leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), the guerrilla group that took up arms against Serb forces in the late 1990s.

BBC: Kosovo profile

Charities which have benefited from the grants are the Duke of Edinburgh Award, Caesarea Association, Scott Gibaut Homes Trust, First Tower Community Association, Jersey Heritage Trust, Jersey Army Cadet Force League, Triumph Over Phobia, Eating Disorders Action Group and Les Amis.

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