Sunni Arab powers in the Middle East fear that Iran is establishing a “Shiite Crescent” in order to advance its regional ambitions, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. As the Islamic State continues losing territory to Iran-backed militias, Sunni countries are concerned that they may “face a potentially more dangerous challenge: a land corridor from Tehran to...

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A Palestinian militia has been fighting alongside forces loyal to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the ongoing battle for the city of Aleppo, the Long War Journal reported on Wednesday. The Quds Brigade, also called the Liwa al-Quds, is predominately made up of Palestinian fighters drawn from...

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The United States believes that Russian warplanes were responsible for the bombing of an aid convoy in Syria shortly after a ceasefire came to an end, government sources told CNN Wednesday. “All the evidence we have points to that conclusion,” one of the officials said. “All of our information indicates...

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A bipartisan bill to impose sanctions on Syria was derailed by the White House, which pressured Democratic leadership to delay introducing the bill to the full House of Representatives, Josh Rogin of The Washington Post reported Tuesday. Members of Congress and their aides had been preparing to introduce the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act...

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Iran is determined to open up a terrorist front against Israel by strengthening Hezbollah’s fortifications on the Golan Heights, former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon warned on Thursday. “The dozens or so attacks perpetrated from the Syrian side of the Golan Heights against us, it was Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps forces...

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The Israeli Air Force struck Syrian army positions near the border overnight Monday after a mortar shell hit the Israeli side of the Golan Heights hours earlier, Haaretz reported. Israel denied a claim by the Syrian army that it shot down two Israeli aircraft with surface-to-air missiles during the retaliatory raid. Monday’s mortar attack from Syria...

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A rocket launched from Syria struck the Israeli Golan Heights on Monday night, the Israeli military said. No injuries were reported. Earlier today a projectile launched from Syria, hit the northern #Israeli Golan Heights. No injuries have been reported. #Syriaceasefire — Peter Lerner (@LTCPeterLerner) September 12, 2016 On Saturday, the...

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Residents in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo said that they had been attacked by barrel bombs dropped by a government helicopter less than hour after a ceasefire went into effect, The New York Times reported Monday. A rebel group in the southern province of Dara’a also claimed to have killed...

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The regime of Iran-backed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has engaged in a systematic campaign of ethnically cleansing Sunnis from the capital of Damascus, in order to strengthen Assad’s hold on his strife-torn country and realize Iran’s ambition of creating a Shiite crescent in the Middle East, an analysis published Thursday by...

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Seventy-three Syrian aid groups have suspended their cooperation with the United Nations because of what they characterized as the world body’s “complacency” to the Syrian government’s “deliberate manipulation” of aid, The New York Times reported Thursday. The organizations announced their decision in a letter to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the...

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