Israel successfully shot down a Syrian jet fighter after it flew into Israeli territory early on September 23. Israel has repeatedly made clear it will only intervene in the Syrian civil war if Israeli sovereignty is challenged. The Israel Defense Forces initial report of the incident was posted to its...

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The head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) reaffirmed the Iranian regime’s support of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad yesterday. Bloomberg News reports: Iran’s “support of the Syrian regime will continue” and “we strongly condemn this move by the U.S. which we see as an aggressive and bullying posture,” Major General Mohammad...

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Reuters reported today that the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has revealed the existence of previously undisclosed chemical weapons facilities including “a laboratory to produce the poison ricin.” According to the news agency: Syria has detailed three new facilities to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)...

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Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar Jaafari said Tuesday that jihadists from the al-Nusra Front have taken possession of the vehicles, arms, and uniforms of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF). Ynet reports: “The terrorists are now using United Nations cars, which hold the emblem of the United...

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Although the atrocities committed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have gotten much of the attention in recent weeks, investigators from the United Nations today presented their report documenting that most of the violence against non-combatants in Syria has been perpetrated by the government of Syrian President...

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The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), which was established in 1974 to “[m]aintain the ceasefire between Israel and Syria” and … “[s]upervise the areas of separation and limitation, as provided in the May 1974 Agreement on Disengagement,” withdrew its peacekeepers from Syrian territory today because “the situation has deteriorated...

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Forty five Fijian peacekeepers from the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) in Syria were released today by al-Nusra Front, a terrorist group affiliated with al-Qaeda. The IDF has confirmed that the peacekeepers are now in Israel. YNet reports: The IDF spokesperson confirmed Thursday afternoon that the 45 Fijian peacekeepers that had been...

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Doctors at Israel’s northern hospitals are used to middle-of-the-night calls to come and treat wounded Syrians brought across the border for Israeli medical aid. However, the 12-year-old Syrian boy who arrived in serious condition over the weekend to the IDF border post was the first to make the trek by donkey from...

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According to a report Sunday, the IDF saved Irish United Nations troops who had come under fire from militants in Syria near the border with the Golan Heights. The Times of Israel reports: Senior military sources said that Irish soldiers would have been killed or taken captive if it weren’t...

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The New York Times reported yesterday that the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, “expressed concern on Thursday that Syria’s government might be harboring undeclared chemical weapons.” Syria agreed to get rid of all of its chemical weapons last year after it was implicated in carrying out...

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