Investigators working for the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM), an organization established by the United Nations to probe charges of war crimes committed in Syria since 2011 over the course of its bloody civil war, say that they are getting closer to bringing members of the regime of Bashar...

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani rejected the resignation of Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who is now back on the job, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. According to reports, Zarif, who is often described as a moderate, submitted his resignation after a series of perceived slights, including his exclusion from a meeting...

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Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, under whose rule an estimated 500,000 were killed during a seven-year civil war, was welcomed to Iran by top government officials, Reuters reported Monday. It was Assad’s first visit to Iran since 2010. The Syria ruler was embraced by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. According to Syrian...

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Israel has played a central role in alleviating the suffering of Syria’s civilian population, often at great risk to their own, Joshua S. Block., CEO & President of The Israel Project, wrote in an op-ed published in the Washington Examiner on Wednesday. His comments come at a time when the...

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What’s happening in Ghouta is a war crime. A blood orgy orchestrated by Bashar al-Assad, a modern-day Caligula figure, and his criminal patrons in Iran and Russia. More than 500 men, women and children have been killed since last week in the eastern enclave, where activists over the weekend reported...

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Recently, we saw the inherent danger of a permanent Iranian presence in Syria. Iran launched its first direct military operation against Israel, dispatching a drone from the Tiyas Airbase in Syria’s central Homs region. The Israelis used an Apache helicopter to intercept and destroy the drone, then sent eight fighter...

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A pro-Hezbollah website boasted that in a year, the Iran-backed terror group could have 500,000 rockets, which, according to an expert, would give Hezbollah the ability to “saturate Israel with rockets,”making the next war “nasty,” Adam Kredo reported Wednesday for the Washington Free Beacon. An article at the Dahiya website,...

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The Al-Akbar news agency has reported that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said that the Syrian government has won the war in Syria. Speaking at a religious event, Nasrallah said that opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had failed and that now “the path of the other project has failed and...

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The last United States ambassador to Syria said that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has won, that Iran is likely to stay in Syria, and that “this is the new reality that we have to accept, and there isn’t much we can do about it,” in an interview Monday. In the...

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A Syrian opposition website claimed on Wednesday that President Bashar al-Assad recently visited an Iranian-run chemical weapons and missile production facility, The Times of Israel reported. The website, Zaman al-Wasl, cited a source reportedly with close ties to the White House who said that the U.S. administration is aware of plans...

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