Despite the demands of the United States and its allies, Iran is insisting that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad remain in power as part of any plan to end the Syrian civil war, “presenting a potentially fatal blow” to diplomatic efforts to end the conflict, Jay Solomon of The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. The...

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The increased attention ISIS is receiving in the wake of Friday’s deadly terror attacks in Paris is “taking the pressure off the Syrian regime right at the moment when pressure might have been effective,” Josh Rogin wrote Sunday on Bloomberg View. ISIS was able to establish itself in Syria due...

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In response to a report that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad blamed France for the spread of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Secretary of State John Kerry said that “Assad has cut his own deal with Daesh” at a press conference Saturday in Vienna. Daesh is the Arabic...

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The Obama administration has curtailed its demands for the immediate removal of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and has allowed Iran to join diplomatic talks on Syria’s civil war, signaling that the Islamic Republic may continue “wielding influence over Syria” and arming terrorist groups unabated, the Associated Press reported on Thursday....

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The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) confirmed the use of mustard gas, a powerful chemical agent, during a battle in the northern Syrian city of Marea on August 21, the BBC reported Friday. The OPCW report has not yet been published, but journalists who have had access...

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October 19 was “adoption day,” one of the markers of the nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers in July. It is the date by which Iran says it will voluntary adopt measures governing inspections of its nuclear sites, while the United States and Europe will begin the process of removing nuclear...

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Ahead of the first Democratic presidential debate tonight, leading contender and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued a statement demanding that Palestinian terror “must stop,” The Times of Israel reported today. “I am alarmed by the recent wave of attacks against Israelis, including more than a dozen separate attacks since last...

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Russia and Iran decided in July to undertake joint military action to prop up Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, even while they sat on opposite sides of the table in nuclear negotiations, Reuters reported Tuesday. The first step of the joint offensive was planned by the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps—Qods...

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Former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton is further distancing herself from the foreign policy of the administration she served by calling for the removal of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad and imposing a no-fly zone over that country. On the campaign trail yesterday, Clinton said of Syria,...

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It’s been a month since the brutal reality of Syria’s civil war was driven home to the world by a photograph of the lifeless body of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi, washed up on the Mediterranean Sea’s shoreline. That image crystallized a massive, if belated, outpouring of concern for the fate of millions...

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