Forces loyal to Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime today intensified their bombardment of the mountain town of Qara, a strategically important crossing point between Lebanon and Syria used by opposition forces. The town also sits near the highway that connects Damascus to Syria’s largest city Aleppo, and the Syrian military’s advance on...

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The Syrian Opposition Coalition – the main opposition group backed by the West in the now almost three year old conflict – agreed yesterday to join troubled and oft-delayed peace talks to be held in Geneva. They just have a couple of conditions: Although the Syrian Opposition Coalition’s announcement was...

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Four Hezbollah members were recently killed in Syria “while carrying out their sacred Jihadist duty,” according to claims posted Saturday to a website aligned with the Iran-backed terror group.The declarations come amid reports that Hezbollah is taking the lead in organizing what is expected to be a massive campaign on...

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The BBC yesterday posted quotes from Iranian Foreign Minister Mohamed Javad Zarif describing sectarian strife between Sunnis and Shiites as – per the outlet – “probably the most serious threat to world security.” Zarif’s assessments come a week after the BBC posted footage captured from an Iranian cameraman who had...

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Secretary of State John Kerry sought this weekend and today to downplay spiking tensions between Washington and its traditional Arab allies, traveling to Egypt and Saudi Arabia to address sharp and increasingly public differences with those countries on a range of issues including the political situation in Egypt, the U.S’s...

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Tens of thousands of anti-American Iranian protesters marched today on the former U.S. embassy in Iran, part of what the Associated Press described as “Tehran’s largest anti-U.S. rally in years.” Reports noted pervasive chants of “death to America,” and called attention to a speech by Saeed Jalili, a senior adviser...

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Israeli Air Force (IAF) jets today struck a Syrian military base with advanced missiles that Israel may have thought were intended for Hezbollah, according to an Obama administration official who spoke to CNN. If confirmed the move would be the most recent of several times that the IAF has reportedly...

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Abu Dhabi media yesterday described “regular clandestine flights between Tehran and Damascus” allegedly being conducted by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which transport among other things “fighters to help regime forces battle rebels”: Up to three supply flights occur each week between the two cities, none of them appearing...

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Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida is reporting that the Israeli air force on Tuesday destroyed a shipment of missiles near the Syrian-Lebanese border and bound for the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah. If confirmed, the interception would not be the first time that Jerusalem has reportedly acted to enforce its long-declared red line...

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Syrian National Coalition President Ahmad Jarba is signaling that elements of the Syrian opposition will boycott proposed peace talks unless the negotiations’ goal is to facilitate the removal from power of the Bashar al-Assad regime, after Assad stated that not only is he not considering stepping down, but that he sees no reason why he shouldn’t...

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