How Syria's Assad allegedly used the horror of gas attacks to win on the...
After Syrian forces bombed the town of Douma earlier this month in an attack the United States says involved chlorine gas, Washington and its allies launched missile strikes as punishment.But Syrian...
View ArticleTrump's Syria strikes might have been illegal — and it shows Congress has...
President Donald Trump's administration over the weekend carried out its second military strike on the Syrian government without even asking for permission from Congress.Congress has the sole...
View ArticleSyria claims to thwart missile attack, later says it fired off defenses in a...
A false alarm led to Syrian air defense missiles being fired overnight and no new attack on Syria took place, Syrian state media and a military commander said on Tuesday.Syrian and Hezbollah media had...
View ArticleTrump reportedly wants to build an Arab army so he can pull US troops out of...
The Trump administration is reportedly lobbying for an Arab army to replace US troops in Syria.Officials are said to have spoken to Egypt, Qatar, the UAE and Saudi Arabia about it.President Trump has...
View ArticleIsraeli intelligence reportedly says Trump's Syria strike failed, didn't take...
Israeli officials cited in a Ynetnews report characterized the missile strike on Friday by the US, the UK, and France on suspected chemical weapons facilities in Syria as a failure.Multiple Israeli...
View ArticleRussia is using private armed forces more and more — and it could bring major...
An incident in a military base in Syria earlier this year resulted in the death of an estimated 100 Russian private armed forces. Russia denied involvement in the deployment of these private combat...
View ArticleMattis reportedly wanted Congress' support before striking Syria — but Trump...
US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis reportedly pushed President Donald Trump to get congressional approval before launching new military strikes on Syria.Mattis feared an escalated conflict with Russia,...
View ArticleIsrael sees an Iranian 'air force' assembling in Syria — and looks ready to...
Israel is letting on that it sees an Iranian air force forming in Syria, and that it may destroy the force if it seeks to harm Israel.Israel stands accused of killing Iranian soldiers in Syria, which...
View ArticleSyria reportedly only fired 2 air defense missiles during the US strike, and...
Syrian air defenses activated and fired interceptor missiles during the US, UK, France's strike, but reportedly only a couple had a chance of hitting their targets.Syria fired only two missiles during...
View ArticleThe Senate is about to hand Trump's secretary of state pick an unprecedented...
CIA Director Mike Pompeo, President Donald Trump's nominee to be his next secretary of state, might not receive a positive recommendation from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Monday.Pompeo...
View ArticleA new terrorist group is popping up in Syria and capitalizing on ISIS' defeat
Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham is a union of five Islamist organizations based primarily in the northwestern region of Syria that wants to overthrow Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and replace him with Sharia...
View ArticleTrump needs a strategy for the looming clash between Israel and Iran
There's an urgent need for a coherent approach to the relationship between Israel and Iran.Israel's downing of an armed drone, its loss of an F-16 fighter jet, and its strike on Iranian targets in...
View ArticleRussia is reportedly close to giving Syria a new missile defense system — and...
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said that if Russia planned to give the Syrian military S-300 air defense systems, then Israel "will destroy them"The response comes after a news report in the...
View ArticleRussian military contractors appear to be secretly training the Syrian military
Russian civilian military contractors appear to be helping train the Syrian military, an investigation finds. More than 2,000 Russian contractors are fighting to help Syrian forces recapture land from...
View ArticleRussia says Syria 'captured' a US missile from the strike — and it could be...
Russia claimed Syria captured a US Tomahawk cruise missile from the strike that took place on April 14, but it's unclear how they would have or why it's mentioning it now.Russia says it will study the...
View ArticleRussia now claims the US missile strike on Syria largely failed — and that...
A Russian general said the US only successfully hit targets with 22 of the 105 missiles it fired, and that Syria shot down the rest with old air defenses.He also claimed that US missiles were captured...
View ArticleThe US military had a savage response to Russia sending Syria defenses it...
Russia has ratcheted up military tensions in Syria by announcing it would send the advanced S-300 missile defense system to Syria, and the US military had a savage response. A spokesman for the...
View ArticleRussia says missile defenses it's sending to Syria can stop the US — here's...
Russia said Wednesday it would send the S-300 advanced missile defense systems to Syria in an effort to bolster defenses after repeated US missile strikes.Russia says the S-300 can stop US missile...
View ArticleGeneral reveals that US aircraft are being 'disabled' in Syria — the 'most...
The commander of US Special Operations Command said that Syria has become "the most aggressive electronic warfare environment on the planet from our adversaries."General Raymond Thomas stated that US...
View ArticleMattis warns that direct conflict between Israel and Iran is 'very likely'
Direct conflict between Israeli and Iranian forces is increasingly likely in Syria, according to Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis.Mattis met with his Israeli counterpart, Avigdor Liberman, at the...
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