The Free Syrian Army (FSA) and Syrian revolution coordination committees rejected on Sunday last week’s reports that Syrian security forces captured an “armed gang” whose members possessed weapons manufactured in Israel and in the United States, the Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported. The newspaper quoted the Syrian Al-Baath newspaper, the ruling party’s mouthpiece in Syria, which […]
Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks in Ummayed Square, Damascus, Syria, in January 2012. The embattled Assad regime escalated its horrific attempts to crush Syria’s opposition movement this week after Russia, one of its few allies, blocked action by the U.N. Security Council. On Friday, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned against any foreign intervention, saying […]
According to reports from the Free Syria Army, the Syrian military has moved forces stationed in the southern part of the Syrian Golan Heights closer to Israel. The Syrian military did not come close to the border with Israel. However, armored forces that were stationed along the Syria-Jordan border, which were recently reinforced, were moved […]
The following by HR Managing Editor Simon Plosker is republished courtesy of The Commentator. Israelis are often, and sometimes with justification, criticized for their inability to get their message across in the media and to the world at large. But what about Israel’s neighbours in the Middle East? The leaking of hundreds of emails from Syrian President Bashar Assad’s office by the ”Anonymous” hacking group […]
Abu Musab al-Suri had been held in Syria for six years after being captured by the CIA in 2005 and transported to the country of his birth under its controversial extraordinary rendition programme. But he is now said to have been released as a warning to the US and Britain about the consequences of turning […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu delieverd a terse retort Sunday to the threats issued Friday by Iran’s “supreme leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and tied it to events in Syria. “We have received a reminder about what kind of a neighborhood we live in,” Netanyahu said at the start of the Cabinet session. “We heard the Iranian […]
NBC News reports: The images grow no less shocking with time — a gaping wound on a tiny skull, the hair matted with blood; a gunshot that pierced the skin of a small torso and went straight toward the kidney; and finally, the broken neck and severed penis of a 13-year-old boy, his mangled body […]
After 10 months of anti-government protests in Syria and some 5,000 dead amid a violent government crackdown, the United States is preparing to close the U.S. embassy in the capital city of Damascus and evacuate all American personnel by the end of January, The Washington Post reports. The embassy will remain open only if President […]
Lebanese Forces party leader Samir GeaGea on Friday said Hizbullah must understand “the game is over.” “In my opinion, events in the region, starting with Syria and ending in Iran, are capable of creating an appropriate atmosphere for the brothers in Hezbollah to be convinced that the game is over and they have to surrender […]
Police in Gaza, ruled by Hamas’ Sunni Muslims, broke the bones of several Shi’ite Muslims last week, a further sign of a break between Iran and Hamas. Iran drastically reduced funding to Hamas this past summer after the Gaza regime did not back Iran’s support for beleaguered Syrian President Bashar Assad, a key ally of […]
