Forces loyal to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah have laid siege to roughly 40,000 people near Madaya, a predominantly Sunni town near Syria’s border with Lebanon, leading to widespread starvation and a severe deterioration in living conditions, the Associated Press (AP) reported Tuesday. Residents of Madaya,...

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Over 650 of the nearly 700 medical personnel who have died in Syria since the start of the uprising against dictator Bashar al-Assad have been killed by the regime and its allies, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) charged in a report last week. According to PHR, there have been 336...

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As much as one third of Hezbollah’s fighting force has been killed or injured fighting in defense of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, Avi Issacharoff reported Tuesday in The Times of Israel. According to Issacharoff, Israeli sources estimate that between 1,300 to 1,500 members of the Iran-backed terrorist group have been...

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A senior U.S. treasury official revealed that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has been the biggest buyer of oil from ISIS, with the terror group making over $500 million from oil sales to his regime and others, Reuters reported on Thursday. “[ISIS] is selling a great deal of oil to the Assad regime,” Adam Szubin, the acting...

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President Barack Obama appears to be leaning towards allowing Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad to stay in power as part of a political transition, Josh Rogin of Bloomberg View reported on Monday. Despite statements by Secretary of State John Kerry that Assad supports ISIS and that his relationship with the terror...

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Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was instrumental in engineering the rise of ISIS, and his continued support of the terror group makes him a poor ally in the fight against it, David Blair, the chief foreign correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, argued in an analysis published Monday. Blair noted that in...

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An advisor to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that the removal of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was a “red line” that Iran would not cross, Reuters reported on Sunday. “Bashar al-Assad is the Islamic Republic of Iran’s red line because he was elected president by the Syrian people,”...

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American and European representatives to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague accused the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad of continuing to use chemical weapons against the Syrian people, Foreign Policy reported on Monday. “Chemical weapons use is becoming routine in the Syrian civil...

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In addition to ensuring that Tehran will be able to develop a nuclear weapon within 15 years, the nuclear deal with Iran has “worsened the sectarian conflicts of the Middle East and exported them to Europe,” Lee Smith, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, argued in an article published Monday...

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The Israeli intelligence community estimates that over 55 Iranians have died fighting for the regime of dictator Syrian Bashar al-Assad, a toll that has undermined domestic Iranian support for continued intervention in Syria, Reuters reported Friday. Speaking to Reuters, a senior Israeli military officer cited Israeli intelligence findings that “55-plus”...

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