Last week’s round of balloting in Syria – in which Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad reportedly won 88.7% of the vote in the war-torn country – marked a defeat for the West and for Western conspiracies, per Friday remarks issued by Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah: Assad won a new seven-year term in...

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Former Lebanese Prime Minister Sa’ad Hariri declared yesterday that Tuesday’s re-election of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad was a “farce.” The Daily Star reported on the politician’s remarks: “This election was a farce. It was dark, fabricated, bloody, abhorrent and all of the things that senior officials have described it as,”...

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The Washington Post on Tuesday conveyed boasts from top Iranian officials who were – per the outlet – “trumpeting [Bashar al-Assad’s] anticipated reelection as a defeat for the United States” and “celebrating not only the affirmation of Assad’s continued hold on power that the election represents but also Iran’s role...

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Yesterday the Palestinian Authority announced the formation of a unity government together with the terrorist organization Hamas. Though State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki announced that the U.S. would “work with” the new regime, Israeli officials as well as an array of U.S. lawmakers are deeply skeptical that doing so would be...

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A “top-ranking overseas operative of Hamas” was arrested last week, according to a report Friday in the Times of Israel. The operative gave Israel’s internal security agency, the Shin Bet, details about how Hamas operates inside of Israel. According the report, Mahmoud Toameh “gave the security agency a wealth of details” on...

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Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Thursday conveyed reports that forces loyal to Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime had “rained barrels bombs on Aleppo” over the course of the day, part of what the wire described as “a campaign against rebels in the northern city where dozens have been killed this week”: The use of...

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Lebanon’s Daily Star on Wednesday conveyed a statement from the anti-Hezbollah March 14th coalition blasting the organization’s chief Hassan Nasrallah over a recent speech in which he had among other things doubled down on Hezbollah’s involvement in the Syrian conflict: The March 14 coalition Wednesday slammed Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan...

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TIME Magazine’s chief foreign affairs correspondent Michael Crowley on Friday assessed that the policy debate in Washington over how to approach the Syrian war may soon shift back to “talk of military action,” as Obama administration officials “brac[ed] for confirmation – in weeks or even days – that chemical warfare...

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Reuters on Thursday flatly assessed that “Syria has made no progress in relinquishing a last batch of chemical weapons [CWs],” noting that the Bashar al-Assad regime is using claims of nearby fighting to excuse the “increasingly likely” scenario under which it would fail to meet a final deadline set for it to dismantle...

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Al Arabiya late Tuesday conveyed reports from Syrian opposition groups accusing the Bashar al-Assad regime of having launched a chemical weapons (CW) attack against rebel-heavy areas the day before, which the groups indicated had left more than 130 people in need of medical attention: The Hama Media Center said the...

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