Heavy artillery shells, automatic gunfire and the shouts of Syrian combatants were heard on the Israeli Golan Heights yesterday and today as the civil war raged on just yards across the frontier – clearly visible to Israeli onlookers. The Syrian army launched Operation Earthquake of Quneitra aimed at regaining control of two...

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The head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) reaffirmed the Iranian regime’s support of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad yesterday. Bloomberg News reports: Iran’s “support of the Syrian regime will continue” and “we strongly condemn this move by the U.S. which we see as an aggressive and bullying posture,” Major General Mohammad...

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Reuters reported today that the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has revealed the existence of previously undisclosed chemical weapons facilities including “a laboratory to produce the poison ricin.” According to the news agency: Syria has detailed three new facilities to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)...

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Although the atrocities committed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have gotten much of the attention in recent weeks, investigators from the United Nations today presented their report documenting that most of the violence against non-combatants in Syria has been perpetrated by the government of Syrian President...

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In an op-ed published in The New York Daily News on Thursday, Matthew Levitt, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), argued that the United States must step up its military attacks against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) if it hopes to defeat the terrorist...

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The Washington Post reported yesterday that the Obama administration will not ask Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s permission if it deems it necessary for the U.S. to attack the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) inside Syria itself. The Obama administration has ruled out the possibility of coordinating U.S. airstrikes in...

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Hassan Hassan, an Abu Dhabi-based journalist and analyst, wrote yesterday in The New York Times that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is no ally of the West in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). According to Hassan, Assad had been able to combat ISIS earlier, but...

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At a press briefing today alongside Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel called the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) an “imminent threat.” However, when questioned if the United States might be on the “same page” as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in...

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More than 130 civilians were killed over the weekend by Syrian regime forces across the country, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog group: The London-based Syrian Network for Human Rights watchdog said Sunday that 130 people had been killed in Damascus’ suburbs, Aleppo, Hama, Deir ez-Zor,...

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was sworn in for a third seven-year term yesterday, and used his inauguration speech to blast Arab and Western nations for supporting opposition elements in the war-torn country: There was no longer a place in the country, he said, “for those who are awaiting the end...

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