(BEIRUT) — Syria will supply “game-changing” weapons to Hezbollah, the chief of the Lebanese militant group said Thursday, less than a week after Israeli airstrikes on Damascus targeted alleged shipments of advanced Iranian missiles bound for Hezbollah.
Israel has signaled it will respond with airstrikes to any future weapons …
(BEIRUT) — Syrian warplanes pounded rebel targets in two northern provinces on Thursday as President Bashar Assad‘s troops pushed on with an offensive to reclaim more territory from the opposition.
The strikes came against the backdrop of a new, joint U.S.-Russia effort to bring the sides in the 26-month-long conflict to the …
(BEIRUT) — The Syrian regime on Tuesday dispatched an obscure proxy, a Damascus-based Palestinian militant group, to threaten retaliation for two Israeli airstrikes over the weekend.
The relatively tepid response to Israel‘s breach of Syrian sovereignty highlighted Syrian President Bashar Assad‘s limited options as he, along with allies
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Reports of chemical-weapons attacks have hovered like a cloud over the bloody conflict in Syria for at least half a year, with both the Syrian opposition and the embattled regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad accusing the …
(BEIRUT) — Syrian rebels shot down a military helicopter in the country’s east, killing eight government troops on board a day after opposition forces entered a sprawling military air base in the north, activists said Monday.
In the past months, rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad have frequently targeted military …
As Syria’s civil war rages on, Israel worries about the consequences of chaos and bets that Bashar Assad’s forces are stretched too thin to retaliate
(SAN JOSE, Costa Rica) — President Barack Obama says he doesn’t foresee sending U.S. ground troops into Syria.
Obama was asked at a news conference in Costa Rica what he might do if more evidence of Syrian use of chemical weapons emerges.
Obama says that as commander in chief he doesn’t like to rule things out, but he doesn’t …
(BEIRUT) — The bodies of the Syrian boys and young men in jeans and casual shirts were strewn along a blood-stained pavement, dying apparently where they fell. Weeping women moved among the dead, and one of them screamed, “Where are you, people of the village?”
In the Syrian civil war’s latest alleged mass killing, activists said …
(BEIRUT) — Syria’s main opposition group on Friday accused President Bashar Assad‘s regime of committing a “large-scale massacre” in a Sunni village near the Mediterranean coast, killing at least 50 people, according to activists.
Syrian troops backed by pro-government gunmen on Thursday swept into Bayda, a village in the mountains …
(BEIRUT) — International military action against Syria’s government over its alleged use of chemical weapons would run up against one of the Middle East’s most formidable air defenses, a system bolstered in recent years by top-of-the-line Russian hardware.
The U.S. said last week that intelligence indicates the Syrian regime has …
(BEIRUT) — Activists say Syrian government troops are advancing in a push to oust rebels from the central city of Homs.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says troops loyal to President Bashar Assad regained control Thursday of the Wadi Sayeh district in the center of Homs.
The neighborhood is strategically
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Given the many resolutions on Syria that have hit a brick wall at the U.N. Security Council, and the endless wrangling among Western leaders over how to end the calamitous two-year war, the April 22 decision by E.U. foreign …
(BEIRUT) — The leader of Lebanon‘s Hezbollah militant group said Tuesday that Syrian rebels will not be able to defeat President Bashar Assad‘s regime militarily, warning that Syria’s “real friends,” including his
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