The Israeli Air Force (IAF) reportedly struck a Hezbollah arms cache along the Syrian-Lebanese border late on Monday, with coverage disagreeing as to which side of the border the Israelis had targeted but converging on suggestions that the IAF was after advanced weapons. A security source told Lebanon’s Daily Star that the raid targeted...

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Reuters last week conveyed reports from what the outlet described as multiple “sources with knowledge of military movements” assessing that Iran has boosted the logistical and material support it provides to Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime, dispatching elite intelligence-gathering teams and training personnel alongside the battlefield support provided by Iran’s Lebanese proxy Hezbollah....

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A Sunday speech by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is fueling concerns that the Iran-backed terror group intends to use Lebanon’s off-shore energy resources to provoke a conflict with Israel, with the terror group chief reportedly insisting at least three times that Israel is engaged in a plot to plunder Lebanese oil. Lebanese media noted that Nasrallah began...

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CNN last week conveyed reports from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons assessing that the Bashar al-Assad regime has shipped out just 11% of its chemical weapons (CW) arsenal. Syria has shipped out 11% of its chemical weapons stockpile — falling far short of the February 5 deadline to have...

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Iranian news is boasting that the Syrian army has regained control of the strategic border town of Jarajir near Lebanon. The reports are contested – the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the town is still contested – but the Syrian army has been pounding the area, including the town...

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The Associated Press reported yesterday that renewed peace talks between Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime and opposition groups stumbled almost as soon as they began on Monday, with each side blaming the other for a spate of violence that has seen hundreds killed in just the last few days. Both Damascus and extremist...

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Secretary of State John Kerry this week condemned the use of so-called barrel bombs by Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime, blasting Damascus for the repeated use of the shrapnel packed IEDs against Syrian civilians. The attacks, in which the bombs are dropped out of helicopters, have in recent days generated a wave...

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By the end of 2013 Israeli hospitals had treated at least 200 Syrians wounded in that country’s war, garnering international attention – including from analysts at U.S. think tanks – highlighting Israel’s nearly singular role in directly alleviating Syrian suffering: Mira Eli, the nurse in charge of the maternity delivery...

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Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday told a group of 15 U.S. congressmen that the Obama administration’s policy toward Syria had failed – and that Washington must rush to arm relatively moderate rebel elements as to offset both Al Qaeda-linked radicals and the Iran-backed Bashar al-Assad regime – according to Sens....

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Internationally sponsored talks between Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime and opposition elements seeking its overthrow ended Friday without any progress and with “the key positions… still very wide apart,” according to statements made by United Nations-Arab League Special Representative Lakhdar Brahimi to a Geneva press conference. The New York Times noted that Secretary...

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