Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has increasingly relied on Iranian volunteers to maintain his rule, which is only exacerbating sectarian strife in the Middle East, a report in Foreign Policy on Thursday documented. The report centered on Asghar and Abbas Abyari, a father and son who were both members of Iran’s Basij militia. Both...
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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif sent a message of condolence on Friday to Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah after the death of the terror group’s commander in Syria. Mustafa Badreddine, an explosives expert who was killed in an explosion near the Damascus airport, was one of the terrorists responsible for the 1983 attack...
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Mustafa Badreddine, a Hezbollah commander who led their operations in Syria and was accused of planning multiple large-scale terror attacks, was killed in a bomb blast, the Iran-backed terror organization confirmed Friday. Badreddine was killed in an explosion near the Damascus airport that also injured several other people, Hezbollah officials...
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IDF jets struck a convoy on the Syria-Lebanon border carrying weapons to the terror group Hezbollah on Tuesday, Israel’s Channel 2 reported. The attack reportedly took place near what Channel 2 described as a “safe haven” for Hezbollah in Syria. In recent years, Israel has targeted a number of Lebanese arms depots believed to be storing...
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The recent New York Times Magazine profile of Ben Rhodes, President Barack Obama’s foreign policy messaging chief, provides proof that the Obama administration’s failure to protect Syrian civilians was because it was so intent on pursuing a nuclear agreement with Iran, Obama’s former top Syria adviser charged Monday in an...
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Israel needs to hold on the Golan Heights “for the foreseeable future” to as a buffer against the instability in Syria, and “the wisdom of that has only increased” since Syria descended into an intractable civil war, former presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said in wide-ranging talk at the Hudson...
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At least 13 military advisers attached to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were killed while fighting in the Syrian village of Khan Touman, Iranian media reported Monday. Former IRGC Maj. Gen. Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council, announced that the soldiers had been killed as ISIS forces launched a surprise attack and...
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The financial ties between the Islamic State, which controls most of Syria’s oil fields, and the regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, which indirectly buys much of its energy resources from ISIS, was highlighted in a Wall Street Journal Sunday profile (Google link) of the Russian-Syrian oil mogul who acts as a middleman. George Haswani has...
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“Today we have diplomatic relations with 161 countries – more than at any time in our history,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the AIPAC policy conference in March. “And by the way, there are not that many countries left. There are only about 200 countries in the world.” Despite the number...
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Security footage recovered from a destroyed pediatric hospital in Aleppo shows the moment the facility was shelled by the forces of Syrian dictator Bashar-al Assad. The video, originally aired by Britain’s Channel 4, shows hospital staff and patients walking in the corridors of al-Quds hospital on Wednesday evening. The city’s last pediatrician, Dr. Mohammed...
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