Attributing new revelations about the “the depths to which the Syrian regime has gone with the continuing support of its allies, Russia and Iran,” to newly declassified reporting, Acting Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs Stuart Jones said that the regime had installed a crematorium at a...

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Iran will continue sending “military advisers” to Syria in order to boost the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, a top Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander told Iran’s Fars news agency on Tuesday. Though Iran has been sending military support to Assad since at least 2012, it didn’t publicly acknowledge doing so until...

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should have “no role” in the future of the country after launching a poison gas attack earlier this week in Idlib province, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in remarks on Thursday. “Assad’s role in the future is uncertain, clearly, and with the acts that he...

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A human rights group has determined that the Syrian government deliberately diverted international aid in order to starve besieged populations, ABC News reported Tuesday. In its new report Access Denied, Physicians for Human Rights accused the Iran-backed regime of President Bashar al-Assad from blocking United Nations access to needy Syrian civilians and...

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Up to 13,000 people were secretly killed over five years in a notorious Syrian prison run by the Iran-backed regime of Bashar al-Assad, Amnesty International revealed in a report on Tuesday. Saydnaya Prison, located some 30 miles north of Damascus, is the site of a “campaign of mass hangings and extermination,” complete with...

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The “worst part” of President Barack Obama’s legacy in the Middle East will be the hundreds of thousands who have died in Syria’s civil war as a result of his disengagement from the region, former Israeli defense and foreign minister Moshe Arens wrote in Haaretz on Tuesday. Obama’s failure to back up...

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Photographs emerged on Friday of Qassem Soleimani, a top Iranian commander who is under a United Nations travel ban, touring conquered eastern Aleppo, Amir Toumaj reported in the Long War Journal. It is unclear when the photographs, which were posted on social media, were originally taken. A research analyst at the Foundation...

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The Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah and Shiite militias fighting on behalf of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have been accused of committing massacres as civilians and rebel fighters were being evacuated from eastern Aleppo, Voice of American reported Friday. According to leaders of the Syrian opposition, Shiite militiamen commanded by Iran stopped a convoy carrying some 800...

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The nearly-complete capture of Aleppo by Syrian forces shows that Iran, a key sponsor and military supporter of the Syrian regime, is the “top player” in the Middle East, an Iranian general boasted Wednesday. The army of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, backed by Russian airstrikes and aided by Shiite militias...

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Syrian opposition groups reached a deal with representatives of Russia and Turkey on Tuesday to evacuate the last pockets of eastern Aleppo that they control, The New York Times reported. The agreement came as the Syrian army and allied forces seemed poised to capture nearly all of Aleppo after completing...

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