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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Last week, the Trump administration replaced Barack Obama’s spineless and counterproductive Syria policy with an even more spineless and counterproductive policy of its own. For five years, the Obama administration impotently called for the removal of Syria’s blood-soaked tyrant Bashar al-Assad, but UN Ambassador Nikki Haley said Washington wouldn’t even...

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President Donald Trump and his ambassador to the United Nations suggested on Wednesday that a reported chemical weapons attack on civilians in Syria’s Idlib Province may prompt a more forceful American approach to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. At a joint press conference with King Abdullah of Jordan, Trump said that Tuesday’s...

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Israeli leaders strongly condemned on Tuesday a suspected chemical weapons attack carried out by the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. “We, as a people who survived the greatest of atrocities and rose from the ashes to be a strong and secure nation, we will do all we can to continue...

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The Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah has emerged as the “one clear winner” from the destruction of the Syrian civil war, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. “Hezbollah,” the Journal observed, “is today stronger, more independent and in command of a new Syrian militia that its officials say is ready to...

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At least 58 people were killed in a suspected chemical attack carried out by the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the country’s rebel-held Idlib province on Tuesday, a watchdog group and aid workers said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that following air strikes believed to have been...

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Iran’s presence in Syria is a greater threat to Israel than that of the Islamic State, an Israeli minister told The Jerusalem Post Thursday, noting recent gains made by the Shiite axis in the Syrian civil war. “It’s very easy and convenient to focus on ISIS,” said Yuval Steinitz, the...

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A judge on Spain’s national court agreed on Monday to hear a complaint that could hold senior members of the Syrian regime accountable for severe human rights abuses. The suit was filed by the sister of a Syrian delivery van driver who was jailed, tortured, and killed in one of...

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Israel’s Prime Minister has denied reports claiming Russia had told Israel to stop airstrikes in Syria, ending Moscow’s policy of coordination with the Israeli air force. A recent increase in tension in the area prompted speculation that Russia had insisted that Israel stop or at least curb its activity in Syria,...

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The Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah is attempting to acquire game-changing weapons in anticipation of launching another war against Israel, a former Israeli security chief told reporters on Monday. Brig. Gen. (res.) Nitzan Nuriel, who served as the director of Israel’s Counter-Terrorism Bureau from 2007 to 2012, referenced three recent Israeli strikes against...

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