Islamist rebel forces fighting against the regime of Syria’s Iran-backed dictator Bashar al-Assad achieved an impressive achievement with the takeover (Arabic link) Sunday of the city of Idlib, a regional capital in northwestern Syria. Idlib overlooks the country’s main highways and is close to the Alawite stronghold in the coastal city...

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A range of media outlets blasted the Obama administration on Thursday and Friday over the White House’s Middle East policy in the broadest sense, arguing that the increasingly chaotic region is in a downward spiral due, in part, to missteps by President Barack Obama’s foreign policy team. The various conflicts engulfing...

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Coming on the heels of the Arab Spring, not many believed that the popular protests that erupted in Syria in mid-March 2011 would turn into a prolonged and bloody war that would involve numerous domestic and international players. As the war enters its fifth year with no sign on the horizon for resolution, it...

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A Syrian activist who is visiting Israel said “we saw the Israelis are human beings and not monsters,” Ha’aretz reported yesterday. The activist had been part of a network of health professionals who sought to secretly treat rebels and protect them from the government of President Bashar al-Assad. However, two years...

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America’s strategy in fighting the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS) has become “increasingly dependent on Iranian fighters,” according to an analysis published Friday in The New York Times. In the four days since Iranian troops joined 30,000 Iraqi forces to try to wrest Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit back...

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The regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad launched a new offensive on the city of Aleppo on Tuesday, the same day it reportedly agreed to a United Nations plan to suspend aerial bombing and artillery shelling on the northern city. In the new offensive around Aleppo, the Syrian army is...

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Shortly after the conclusion of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge this past August, the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) met with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in Turkey, Ynet reported today. Khaled Mashal, the head of the Hamas political bureau, met with Iran’s Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani several...

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In an interview published today by the BBC, Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has claimed that the United States-led coalition keeps him informed of air strikes directed against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) that occur in Syrian territory. In response to a question from Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s Middle...

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President Barack Obama’s retreat on insisting that President Bashar al-Assad leave power was endorsed in an editorial in The New York Times yesterday. But the unsettling truth is that the brutal dictator is still clinging to power and the United States and its allies are going to have to live with...

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Hezbollah insists that its ally, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, will remain in power. In a message delivered to Russia, the Shiite terror organization made clear that it does not agree that anyone, even from the Alawite sect, should replace the current President as part of any possible solution to the Syrian conflict....

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