House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) both endorsed military action in Syria yesterday, but it’s unclear whether President Obama has sufficient support in Congress for a resolution authorizing such action. House and Senate hearings this week give Members of Congress an opportunity to question the Obama Administration on Syria and […]
Contrary evidence arises as U.S. considers punishing Assad regime. NEW YORK – As the U.S. considers a response to what it calls a chemical weapon attack by Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime that killed hundreds of civilians, reliable Middle Eastern sources say they have evidence the culprits actually were the rebel forces trying to take over […]
Russia’s and Iran’s leaders agreed on Wednesday that the use of chemical weapons is unacceptable but that military intervention in Syria is also unacceptable. “Both sides consider the use of chemical weapons by anyone intolerable,” the Kremlin said in a statement after Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani spoke by phone, a […]
Reports are rampant that the Obama Administration will call for U.S. missile strikes against the regime in Syria at any time now. That country is embroiled in a civil war, with opposition forces fighting dictator Bashar al-Assad. The U.S. has interests to protect in the region, but becoming directly involved in this civil war isn’t […]
As western military intervention in Syria appears increasingly likely, and following an explicit threat by a Syrian official that his country would respond to western strikes by attacking Israel, many Israelis are scurrying to replace old or missing gas masks, an official said on Tuesday. “Since the beginning of the week there has been a significant […]
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem vowed on Tuesday that his country will defend itself in case of any Western military strikes against it. “We have two options: either to surrender, or to defend ourselves with the means at our disposal. The second choice is the best: we will defend ourselves,” Muallem said in a televised […]
In what might indicate that the British army is preparing for an attack on Syria, the Guardian reported on Monday that warplanes and military transporters have begun arriving at Britain’s Akrotiri airbase on Cyprus, less than 100 miles from the Syrian coast. Two commercial pilots who regularly fly from Larnaca told the Guardian that they […]
Senior terrorist commanders in the rebel forces in Syria published a videotaped announcement Thursday in which they expressed their intent to respond to the chemical gas attack by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces last week, by hitting back with all the means at their disposal and no “red lines.” The rebel terrorist commanders announced that thus far, […]
August 21, 2013 17:39 by Pesach Benson According to press reports, hundreds of Syrians were killed in a chemical attack near Damascus. Jeffrey Goldberg hit the nail on the head: Two questions are raised by reports of this attack. The first, of course, is whether or not it happened the way Syrian rebels said it […]
Europe will “pay the price” if it arms Syrian rebels, President Bashar al-Assad warned on Monday. “If the Europeans deliver weapons (to rebels), Europe’s backyard will become a terrorists’ place and Europe will pay the price for it,” Assad was quoted as having said in an interview with the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, excerpts […]
