Efforts are being made to bolster the contingent of UN peacekeepers on the Golan Heights,even as it is being scaled down in the shadow of deteriorating stability between on the Israeli-Syrian border. Fiji, a tiny chain of islands in the Pacific Ocean, agreed to send it troops to strengthen the...

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A G8 meeting today between President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding the Syrian conflict ended without apparent progress. Reuters conveys the mood awkward: Both leaders looked tense and uncomfortable as they addressed reporters after about two hours of talks, with Putin staring mostly at the floor as he...

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The six member nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council agreed on earlier this week to take action against Hezbollah loyalists who reside within their borders. The decision was made public in a joint GCC statement: The GCC will take measures against [those] in the GCC countries affiliated with Hezbollah in...

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The United Nations released new figures showing at least 93,000 people have died, but admits that the death toll is most likely much higher. The U.N. report says that 265,000 deaths were reported, but only victims with a name, date and location of death were counted. Analysts had to sort...

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Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah today committed his Lebanon-based Shiite terror group to further fighting in Syria: The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group vowed Friday to keep fighting in Syria “wherever needed” and said his Shiite Muslim group has made a “calculated” decision to defend the Syrian regime no matter what the...

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The Al Quds Brigade of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist organization has posted pictures on its website boasting that it is giving military training in Gaza to children as young as six years old. PIJ’s boasts follow those of Hamas, which likeways runs summer camps training children to become...

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The White House this evening held a conference call at which it announced that the U.S. intelligence community has reassessed whether Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime has used chemical weapons against rebel fighters seeking its overthrow, and had concluded that chemical weapons had been used multiple times and had killed some...

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The Lebanese army is threatening to retaliate against future Syrian attacks on Lebanese territory. The pointedly explicit warning comes after Damascus launched a helicopter gunship attack on the Lebanese border town of Arsal and injured two: The Lebanese army has warned it will immediately respond to any future cross-border attacks...

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The head of Mossad, Tamir Pardo, earlier this week met secretly with his Turkish counterpart, according to a report published in the Turkish daily Hurriyet. The meeting between Pardo and Hakan Fidan, the head of MIT, the Turkish intelligence agency, took place Monday in Ankara according to the report. The...

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Analysts are warning that Hezbollah’s sustained involvement in Syria on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad regime risks pulling Lebanon into a sectarian civil war similar to the country’s devastating 15-year conflict. It is sectarianism, Shi’ism, but not Lebanonism. In the moment of truth the Hezbollah chose sect and religion over state,...

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