Foreign Sunni fighters continue to pour into Syria, and are carving out areas that are being used as havens by jihadists: As foreign fighters pour into Syria at an increasing clip, extremist groups are carving out pockets of territory that are becoming havens for Islamist militants, posing what United States and...

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Open and even virulent criticism of Hezbollah for providing critical assistance to Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime has become a mainstay of Arab discourse. Now that sentiment is taking hold in the group’s home country of Lebanon. Former Lebanese president and current Phalangist leader Amin Gemayal called this week for Hezbollah...

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Hezbollah’s intervention into Syria on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad regime has triggered a severe deterioration in the group’s stature in the Middle East, to the point where the anti-Israel rhetoric that has traditionally rallied support to the group is falling flat in the Arab world. Shiite Hezbollah has proven...

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Recently inaugurated Iranian President Hassan Rouhani pledged this week to “stand by [the Bashar al-Assad regime] in facing all challenges,” adding fuel to a fiery debate raging in the foreign policy community over the degree to which the revolutionary cleric is willing or able to alter Iran’s confrontational posture toward the West....

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Recent months have seen a percipitous decline in Hamas’s strategic and diplomatic standing. The Arab Spring and the Islamist governments that it empowered were seen as a boon to the Iran-backed terror group, but various dynamics in the region – including the Syrian conflict and the deterioration of security in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula...

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President Barack Obama on Monday extended a freeze on the assets of individuals who are linked to activities that undermine Lebanese stability. The extension lasts for one more year. The president’s reasoning was candid: In a letter addressed to the speaker of the House of Representatives and the president of the...

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Saudi Arabia is recruiting Yemenite mercenaries and sending them to help opposition forces fighting to overthrow the regime of Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad, according to a report published on the Paris based website, Intelligence Online. Western intelligence sources say the operation is being organized by the Kingdom’s general intelligence service,...

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France is making a major push to highlight for U.S. officials that the Syrian regime has been using Sarin gas as part of its battle against rebels seeking the overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad regime. English-language French news outlets are reporting that Paris has cleaned out the cupboard: France has...

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Al Qaeda affiliated terrorists are taking credit for two spectacular jailbreaks staged on Sunday in Iraq. The Los Angeles Times described the chaos and the sheer scope of the breakouts: Al Qaeda’s Iraqi affiliate, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, issued a statement claiming responsibility for the dual...

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Israeli intelligence fears that the violence in Syria will destabilize the country until it recognizably becomes a failed state, according to statements made Tuesday by Major General Aviv Kochavi, commander of military intelligence (MI). In a rare public appearance, Kochavi told newly graduated intelligence officers of the Israel Defense Forces...

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