The Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad has once again missed a deadline in the process of ridding itself of chemical weapons. As of April 27, Syria was still in possession of roughly 7.5 percent of its chemical weapons stockpile. April 27 was the date Syria had agreed to have removed all...

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The Lebanese government on Tuesday reported progress in providing relief to residents of the besieged border town of Tfail, a remote Lebanese outpost functionally accessible only via Syrian roads, has been subject to isolation and bombardment by Hezbollah-backed forces fighting on behalf of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime. The Iran-directed terror...

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Late last month, Syrian rebels reported another chemical attack perpetrated by the government of Bashar al-Assad. Subsequently, a senior Israeli defense official told Israel Radio that Assad had again used chemical weapons, though this time they were “nonlethal agents were used to incapacitate opposition fighters.” This would be the first...

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Syria now has only 17 days left to hand over the remainder of its chemical weapons stockpile or it will be in violation of a United Nations deadline that had originally been set as an alternative to a U.S.-led attack on Syrian military infrastructure, per comments made today by the...

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Speaking Tuesday, the United Nation’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, flatly declared that war crimes and atrocities committed by the regime of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad far outweigh” what have been sometimes been treated as parallel actions by opposition elements: High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said both sides’...

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Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah boasted in an interview published Monday that Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime was no longer in danger of being overthrown by opposition elements, as U.S. lawmakers moved to target the Iran-backed terror group over its critical support for Damascus: Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, whose fighters have been supporting Assad...

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Al-Monitor on Thursday reported that top House lawmakers are in the early stages of drafting terror-related sanctions – the outlet described any legislation as “a work in progress” – that would target Hezbollah and its Iranian sponsors due to the group’s global terror activities and its fighting on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad...

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The United Nations has issued a report placing most of the blame for the humanitarian catastrophe in Syria on the government of President Bashar al-Assad. An anonymous American official told Reuters: What the report shows is that the magnitude and frequency of violence committed by the Assad regime far outstrips that...

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Violence generated by the Syrian conflict spilled across both the Turkish and Lebanese borders on Monday and into Tuesday, deepening worries not just that chaos will splash beyond Syria but also that other actors may be drawn into the fighting. A series of incidents erupted between Turkey and Syria, including one that saw Syrian...

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The Israeli army moved overnight Tuesday to restore deterrence along the country’s border with Syria, launching air strikes against multiple Syrian army installations after a steady stream of attacks against Israeli military personnel in March culminated on Tuesday in a roadside bombing that injured four soldiers. This month had already seen three...

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