Forces loyal to Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime have regained the momentum in the bloody war. The Washington Post conveys analysis to the effect that “there is little doubt that the pendulum is now swinging in favor of Assad,” providing the regime with a range of potential advantages from a relatively...

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This week’s reactions from Arab and Muslim leaders to airstrikes on Syria, widely attributed by non-Israeli sources to Israel, reached new levels of hypocrisy even by the formidable standards of the Middle East. The Arab League, led by Qatar and Saudi Arabia, condemned the strikes. Both of those nations supply...

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A massive car bomb Saturday killed 46 people in the Turkish town of Reyhanli, near the country’s border with Syria. Turkish officials blamed the Bashar al-Assad regime for the attack: Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Sunday that he believed fighters loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad were behind...

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More than half a million Syrian refugees are crammed into camps in Jordan. The need to house and feed them is just one of the ways in which the Syrian conflict is devestating the Jordanian economy: “Jordan’s economy has been devastated because of the lack of trade toward Syria going...

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Islamists and relative moderates are fighting for control of, and prominence within, the Syrian opposition. The Islamists – led by the Al Qaeda-linked Al Nusra front – have among other things attempted to impose Islamic law on areas they capture. The relative moderates are backed by the West. The momentum...

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Analysis of Friday and Sunday air strikes on Syria, which were widely attributed to Israel, is converging on the signal of “strategic clarity” sent by whoever ordered the strikes. Foundation for Defense of Democracies research fellow Tony Badran notes that there has been “confusion in some of the media commentary” regarding the...

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The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) on Wednesday announced that it will be withdrawing from an observation post in the Golan Heights, where the force is stationed. The announcement comes after the abduction Tuesday of four observers by Syrian rebels. The fear yesterday was that the U.N. would react to...

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U.S. officials have evaluated Hezbollah’s deepening involvement in the Syrian conflict, and find themselves concerned: Hezbollah fighters joined Syrian government forces in the siege of a rebel-held town inside the war-torn country on Monday, local residents said, deepening the Iran-backed group’s involvement in Syria’s civil war and raising alarm among...

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Syrian forces fighting on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad regime wrested a key southern town from rebel control on Wednesday, the latest success for the Syrian army in a counteroffensive which has seen rebels dislodged from several critical towns and cities: Among the areas where this counteroffensive has been most...

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In January – amid rumors of a thaw in relations between Israel and Turkey, which had been frozen by Ankara three years ago – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan bitterly denounced what was widely suspected to be an Israeli air strike on missiles in Syria in transit to Hezbollah....

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