The Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah showed off its “massive” arsenal of armored vehicles during a “military parade” near the northern Syrian city of al-Qusayr on Sunday, the website al-Masdar News, which is associated with the terror group, reported. Columns of armored vehicles were visible in photos uploaded to Hezbollah-affiliated social media accounts....

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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon expressed his concerned Monday about “the weakening taboo” against chemical weapons attacks, after numerous reports that more such attacks have taken place in Syria in recent weeks. In a letter to the UN Security Council, Ban expressed fears that the use of chemical weapons could become “normalized in this...

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Hezbollah has been influenced by Russian forces fighting alongside them in Syria, raising concerns that the Iran-backed terror group will adapt those tactics for use against Israel, Defense News reported Sunday, citing a forthcoming report from the Israeli National Security Council. The NSC report asserts that Russian influence may help Hezbollah evolve from a well-armed...

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Iran is commanding a “foreign legion” of about 25,000 Shiite militiamen in Syria, the former head of the Shin Bet said on Wednesday. The Shiite fighters, mostly from Afghanistan and Pakistan, “are fighting in Syria only against the rebels and not against ISIS,” Avi Dichter, now the chairman of the...

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Private documents released by WikiLeaks show that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton held significantly different private views on Middle East policy than President Barack Obama, Eli Lake of Bloomberg View reported Monday. In the transcript of a speech given to the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago in 2013, Clinton rejected the idea that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was...

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Iran’s assistance in helping the Syrian government capture the rebel-held city of Aleppo, which has been subjected to air strikes that French President Francois Hollande has characterized as war crimes, is part of the Islamic Republic’s long-held strategy to build and control a land route to the Mediterranean Sea, The Guardian reported on Sunday. Iranian proxy...

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The recent influx of Iran-backed Iraqi Shiite militias into Syria has helped tilt the fight for Aleppo in favor of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, and possibly portends the emergence of the militias as “a larger, externally focused force” throughout the Middle East, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The Iraqi Shiite militia al-Nujaba,...

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The leader of a coalition of Sunni rebels fighting against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad expressed that his group, which includes Islamists, has no desire to go to war with Israel, Eli Lake of Bloomberg View reported Thursday. Mohammed Alloush, the political leader of Jaish al-Islam, which translates to “Army of Islam,” which...

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Thousands of Iran-backed Shiite troops are massing in northern Syria for a battle to take the rebel-held eastern part of Aleppo, The Guardian reported Thursday. Around 5,000 of the estimated 6,000 fighters come from countries outside Syria, such as Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Most of the troops’ commanders are Shiites devoted to...

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A top Iranian general said that Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) troops are feeding intelligence to Russia in order to guide its airstrikes on the Syrian city of Aleppo, Amir Toumaj, a research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, reported in the Long War Journal on Tuesday. Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi,...

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