United Nations peacekeeping forces on the Israel-Syria border are at risk of collapsing, the French ambassador to the UN warned earlier this week. The spiraling anarchy in western Syria is punctuated by routine clashes between forces loyal to the regime of Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad and rebels seeking its overthrow....

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Gesturing toward the spiraling anarchy in Syria, Russia has reportedly dispatched a new flotilla of warships into the Mediterranean. Five vessels, including a frigate and two landing ships, set sail from Baltiysk. Officially, the ships are in the theater to carry out maneuvers and replace an existing flotilla. Moscow sources,...

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Europe may change its policy and soon start supplying arms to rebel forces fighting to overthrow the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad, according to British Prime Minister David Cameron. European foreign ministers are reviewing the current arms embargo on Syria, and cited a strategic imperative to bolster moderate opposition forces...

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Sunni-backed opposition forces battling to overthrow the regime of Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad will soon try to eradicate Israel, according to statements made by Abed Shihadeh, a top Jordanian Salafist figure. Shihadeh, who was speaking at the funeral of a suicide bomber, went on to label the United States “the...

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Iranian Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Hassan Firouzabadi declared on Saturday that the presence of NATO anti-missile assets in Turkey was “very dangerous for the future of mankind,” particularly singling out Europe as threatened. A planned visit to Turkey by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was subsequently canceled, and increasingly pitched...

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The New York Times conveys broad and increasing concerns over the infiltration of Syrian rebel forces by Al Qaeda-linked elements, as the U.S. State Department prepares on Tuesday to issue a statement declaring that the Jabhat al-Nusra front which recently seized a military base in northern Syria is a front...

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Israel will be forced to take military action if the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad attempts to transfer portions of its non-conventional arsenal to Hezbollah on Israel’s northern border, according to warnings issued on Sunday by Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren. Using language that echoed Israeli...

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The Sunni-backed Syrian opposition is increasingly controlled by al-Qaeda-linked forces who have crossed into Syria from Iraq, according to statements made yesterday by U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford. The concerns highlight the complexity of Syria’s three-way proxy war between Sunni-backed opposition forces, the Iran-backed regime, and regional Kurdish groups....

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Syrian armed forces have dispatched fixed-wing aircrafts and troops into two Damascus suburbs to dislodge Sunni-backed rebel forces that have taken control of the neighborhoods. The campaign comes as the Assad regime finds itself increasingly beseiged, with opposition forces also in range of Damascus’s airport, which they have declared a...

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Global concern is spiking as evidence emerges that Syria has loaded sarin gas materials into chemical warheads. Once prepared and loaded the weapons have 60 days before they expire, raising fears that the Bashar al-Assad regime intends to use them imminently against rebel forces seeking its overthrow. The Syrian war,...

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