The United States accused the Iran-backed regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of assisting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) by conducting air strikes against anti-Assad rebels battling ISIS, Reuters reported today. Islamic State fighters pushed back rival insurgents north of Aleppo on Sunday near the Turkish border, threatening...

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An anti-Assad rebel group in Syria may quit the American-led coalition fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) over American demands that it not target the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Michael Weiss reported Sunday for The Daily Beast. A centerpiece of the U.S. war plan against ISIS...

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The government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, despite a series of setbacks and defeats on the battlefield, has “moved aggressively to prevent regime collapse” with backing from foreign troops and Iranian financial support, according to an analysis written by Phillip Smyth yesterday in Foreign Policy. Smyth noted that many Iraqi Shiite fighters...

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A top security official of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been placed under house arrest on suspicion of plotting a coup, The Telegraph reported today. Ali Mamlouk, the head of the country’s National Security Bureau, and one of the few officials still to have access to President...

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A decisive battle is underway in the area of Syria’s northwestern bornder with Lebanon between Syrian rebels and the Lebanese terror organization Hezbollah. Launched a few days ago, this battle is taking place in parallel with other battles by Syrian rebel groups in southern Syria who are trying to topple...

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Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary General of the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah, reaffirmed his commitment to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday, saying that if Assad falls, so too does Hezbollah. Last Thursday, Fahad Jassim al-Freij, the Syrian Defense Minister, visited Tehran to discuss military coordination and cooperation between the two countries. Meanwhile,...

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Despite recent reports of battlefield reversals suffered by the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, the embattled dictator is still relatively secure, Jonathan Spyer, director of the Rubin Center, wrote in an analysis published Friday in The Jerusalem Post. Spyer argued that two factors—Assad’s ability to consolidate his rule over critical...

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Citing the current “fecklessness” of American policy towards Syria, which has led to the defection of moderate rebels to extremist factions and the growing military assertiveness of Saudi Arabia and Turkey, a staff editorial in The Washington Post called for an American-protected safe zone to allow moderate opposition leaders and...

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A growing number of commentators in the Arab world and the West believe that there are increasing signs of the collapse of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in light of key military losses in Hama and the province of Idlib, where Jisr al-Shughur, the last town in that area under...

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s continued use of chemical weapons against his own people, despite an accord signed two years ago to rid Syria of these weapons, raises questions about how effective the emerging deal with Iran would be in preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, an unsigned staff editorial (Google...

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