Iran’s recent establishment of a United Shi’a Liberation Army is raising concerns that Tehran will further stoke sectarian violence across the Middle East in its pursuit of regional dominance, Radio Free Europe reported on Tuesday. Iran’s August 25 announcement of the formation of a new fighting force with a Shi’ite identifier in its name “will inflame sectarian tensions...

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The White House’s failure to stop the ongoing slaughter perpetrated by the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad stems from President Barack Obama’s “desire to accommodate Iran” so that last year’s nuclear deal will extend past his administration, the president’s former top Syria adviser charged in an analysis on Monday. Frederic Hof, formerly Obama’s special...

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U.S. and European officials have expressed concerns about Syria’s chemical weapons program after a watchdog revealed that it found traces of deadly nerve agents at sites that were not previously declared by the Damascus regime. The director-general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Ahmet Uzumcu, wrote in a summary...

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President Barack Obama changed his mind about launching a retaliatory strike against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whose forces carried out a sarin gas attack that killed more than 1,400 people in August 2013, after Iran threatened to pull out of then-secret nuclear talks, the chief foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal said on Monday....

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Russia’s recent use of an Iranian air base to launch airstrikes in Syria “could very well be a violation of” the United Nations Security Council resolution that endorsed last year’s nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said at a press briefing on Tuesday. When asked about a...

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The international community must intervene in Syria and prevent the regime of Bashar al-Assad from committing more war crimes, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum said in a statement Thursday. Unless the international community intervenes to “protect civilians from mass atrocities and ensures their access to outside humanitarian assistance,” the residents of eastern Aleppo “could face annihilation”...

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A video reportedly showing a drone operated by Hezbollah attacking a number of targets near Aleppo was released by a media source close to the terrorist group on Tuesday. Three separate attacks are seen in the video: the first is described as targeting “a [rebel] leader’s base,” the second is against a...

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Eight seriously injured Syrians, including children aged seven and 11, were treated by IDF medical teams at the Israeli-Syrian border last week before being evacuated to hospitals for further treatment, Ynet reported Sunday. The wounded were brought to the border fence following an artillery attack on the hospital in Quneitra,...

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The mayor of the largest Druze village located on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights dismissed a recent United Nations report criticizing Israel’s control over the territory as “a total joke,” the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported on Friday. Dulan abu-Saleh, the mayor of Majdal Shams, objected to a report issued by the UN Economic and...

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The bombing of four hospitals by the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad “could amount to war crimes,” UNICEF said in a statement on Tuesday. Four hospitals and a blood bank in the rebel-held eastern part of Aleppo were hit by airstrikes on Sunday and Monday, disrupting facilities that provide “key life-saving health services for...

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