The Israeli Defense Forces rescued and treated over 2,000 victims of the Syrian civil war since 2013, carrying out secret operations to retrieve wounded civilians and militants who are left by the Jewish state’s border nearly every night, Jake Wallis Simons reported in the Daily Mail on Tuesday. Simons, who...

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President Barack Obama appears to be leaning towards allowing Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad to stay in power as part of a political transition, Josh Rogin of Bloomberg View reported on Monday. Despite statements by Secretary of State John Kerry that Assad supports ISIS and that his relationship with the terror...

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Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was instrumental in engineering the rise of ISIS, and his continued support of the terror group makes him a poor ally in the fight against it, David Blair, the chief foreign correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, argued in an analysis published Monday. Blair noted that in...

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American and European representatives to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague accused the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad of continuing to use chemical weapons against the Syrian people, Foreign Policy reported on Monday. “Chemical weapons use is becoming routine in the Syrian civil...

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The Israeli intelligence community estimates that over 55 Iranians have died fighting for the regime of dictator Syrian Bashar al-Assad, a toll that has undermined domestic Iranian support for continued intervention in Syria, Reuters reported Friday. Speaking to Reuters, a senior Israeli military officer cited Israeli intelligence findings that “55-plus”...

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Despite the demands of the United States and its allies, Iran is insisting that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad remain in power as part of any plan to end the Syrian civil war, “presenting a potentially fatal blow” to diplomatic efforts to end the conflict, Jay Solomon of The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. The...

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The increased attention ISIS is receiving in the wake of Friday’s deadly terror attacks in Paris is “taking the pressure off the Syrian regime right at the moment when pressure might have been effective,” Josh Rogin wrote Sunday on Bloomberg View. ISIS was able to establish itself in Syria due...

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The Obama administration has curtailed its demands for the immediate removal of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and has allowed Iran to join diplomatic talks on Syria’s civil war, signaling that the Islamic Republic may continue “wielding influence over Syria” and arming terrorist groups unabated, the Associated Press reported on Thursday....

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Israeli officials have raised their estimate of Hezbollah’s rocket arsenal to 150,000, an increase of 50% from May of this year, Avi Issacharoff reported for The Times of Israel on Thursday. The revised valuation on rockets suggests Hezbollah is ramping up efforts to acquire weapons whose purpose is to attack...

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In the wake of the nuclear deal with Iran, President Barack Obama can help secure Israel’s borders by recognizing its sovereignty over the Golan Heights, former Israeli ambassador to the United States and Knesset member Michael Oren wrote in an op-ed published at CNN on Sunday. Oren argued that this recognition,...

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