Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – Qods Force commander, General Qassem Suleimani, traveled to Russia last month following the agreement on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as the nuclear deal with Iran is known, in violation of sanctions imposed the United Nations (UN), European Union (EU) and United...

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President Barack Obama’s plan to bring about a peaceful solution to the Syrian Civil War essentially hinders his ability to protect Israel from Iran and its terrorist proxies, Jackson Diehl, the deputy editorial page editor of The Washington Post, argued in an op-ed Monday. Both of his goals are valid,...

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The recent revelation that international inspectors failed to rid Syria of its chemical weapons arsenal, due to interference from the regime and incomplete knowledge of the full extent of the country’s stockpiles, has raised concerns about how effective the recently concluded nuclear deal with Iran can be. Ely Karmon, a senior research scholar...

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United States intelligence agencies have confirmed that Syria’s President, Bashad al-Assad, remains in possession of chemical weapons, The Times of Israel reported today. In 2013, Assad capitulated to international demands that he relinquish Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal after his regime used sarin gas against civilians in Damascus. According to the...

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Iran-backed militias are successfully recruiting Syrians to fight on behalf of beleaguered President  Bashar al-Assad by doubling their pay, the Financial Times reported today. The report described a scene where a recruiter informed potential soldiers that although half of them would die, the survivors could earn $200 a month. “It sounded like a...

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Calling the Syrian civil war, which has claimed over 300,000 lives, the “worst humanitarian crisis of the 21st century,” Michael Weiss and Nancy Youssef wrote today in The Daily Beast that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad stands to achieve significant gains due to the nuclear agreement reached between the P5+1 powers and Iran....

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hailed the nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 nations, which will provide Iran with billions of dollars of sanctions relief, as a “great victory,” Agence France-Presse reported today. Iran extended the beleaguered Syrian president a $1 billion line of credit last week. Assad said the...

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As world powers spent the past few days finalizing an agreement to lift a UN arms embargo on Iran as part of a nuclear deal, Iranian proxies sparked violent confrontations throughout the Middle East. Forces loyal to Iran-backed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad killed 13, including seven women and a child, in bombing raids on a...

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After Turkey received a massive influx of refugees last month fleeing Syria’s civil war, the United Nations has now put the total number of refugees from that conflict at more than four million, The New York Times reported Thursday. More than 24,000 people crossed into Turkey to escape fighting in northern Syria...

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The Obama administration’s decision to target the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) but not the regime of Syrian President Bashar al Assad was a “half-measure” that has led to the “latest U.S. failure in Syria,” a staff editorial appearing Wednesday in The Washington Post argued. The latest U.S. failure in Syria is particularly...

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