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Mitt Romney Wants To Arm The Syrian Rebels
Mitt Romney will call for an escalation of the conflict in Syria by arming rebels with the heavy weapons needed to confront president Bashar al-Assad's tanks, helicopters and fighter jets. Romney is...
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These Are The Weapons That Could Set Off War Between Syria And Turkey
Turkey and Syria have now been exchanging mortar fire for six consecutive days as Syria's civil war spills over the 550-mile long border it shares with Turkey. The Turkish military has been preparing...
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FORMER AMBASSADOR: Russia Is Caught On The Losing Side In The Syrian Civil War
Last week we talked to Ross Wilson, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey from 2005 to 2008, who told us that there needs to be a stronger response from NATO as the chaos in Syria increasingly threatens...
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REPORT: It Was A NATO Mortar That Killed 5 Turkish Civilians Last Week
Turkey's Yurt Newspaper is reporting that the mortar used in a deadly bombing of a Turkish border town was specific to NATO and given to Syrian rebels by Turkey, according to RT. Turkish Foreign...
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President Bashar Al-Assad Has Assumed Personal Command Of Syria's Military
Syrian President Assad has assumed personal command of Syrian forces and remains convinced his regime will prevail militarily, Samia Nakhoul of Reuters reports. After waves of defections and a rebel...
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Islamic Jihadists Are Now The Most Organized Force Of The Syrian Opposition
Powerful Syrian Islamist brigades, frustrated by the increasingly fractured Free Syrian Army (FSA), are joining forces in an attempt to topple the regime of Bashar al-Assad, Reuters reports. A...
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Yesterday's Plane Incident Changes Everything Between Turkey And Russia
Russia and Syria have condemned Turkey for forcing a civilian Syrian plane traveling from Moscow to Damascus to land in the Turkish capital last night on suspicions it was carrying military equipment....
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Why You Shouldn't Worry About The 'Threat' Of Russia
On Tuesday, Russia and Iraq agreed on a $4.2 billion arms deal, making Russia the second-largest arms dealer to the Middle Eastern nation behind the United States. Thirty years ago, the decision would...
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Syria Has Shut Down Its Airspace To All Turkish Aircraft
Syria banned Turkish passenger flights from its airspace from Sunday in a retaliatory move after Turkey confiscated a cargo of what Russia said was radar equipment en route from Moscow to Damascus...
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Here's Why Clusterbombs Are A Devastating Weapon For Syria
The Syrian regime stands accused once again of using controversial clusterbombs in its fight against rebel forces. Cluster bombs are not only effective at devastating troops across a patch of...
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The US Is Stuck Arming Hard-Line Jihadists In An Attempt To Topple The Syrian...
Most of the weapons being sent from Saudi Arabia and Qatar to Syrian rebels are going to hard-line Islamic jihadists as opposed to secular opposition groups that the West wants to strengthen, American...
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In Syria, It's Now About Preventing The Worst
Greg Scoblete at RCW takes us to task for advocating arming a faction among the Syrian militia as an advisable course of action. This is a common lament, both among pro-interventionist Western...
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Everything Could Be About To Change In Syria
Syria's rebellion may have just put themselves in the best possible to topple President Bashar al-Assad to date. Reuters reports that the increasingly divided and disparate rebel groups have agreed...
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Bashar Al-Assad's Family Members In Cafe Shootout
Two members of the Assad family exchanged gunfire in a cafe in the mountainous town where Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's father was born and buried, Liz Sly of the Washington Post reports. The...
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How US Ambassador Chris Stevens May Have Been Linked To Jihadist Rebels In Syria
The official position is that the US has refused to allow heavy weapons into Syria. But there's growing evidence that U.S. agents—particularly murdered ambassador Chris Stevens—were at least aware of...
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Slain Lebanese Police Chief Gave A Prophetic Assessment Of The Syrian Civil War
Gen. Wissam al-Hassan, the head of Lebanon’s national police intelligence unit who was killed in a car bombing last week, gave The Washington Post a grim and prophetic assessment of the Syrian civil...
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8 Reasons Why The Syrian Ceasefire Was Doomed
The Syrian ceasefire 'agreement' was reported with optimism—and there was a lull in the fighting as it went into effect today at dawn—but it's fallen apart since then. In the morning there were there...
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The Syrian Battlefield Is Expanding And Neither Side Shows Signs Of Stopping
The war has spread to a fertile region east of Aleppo WOMEN, their faces wrapped in scarves to protect them from the sun, bend over in the fields to pick cotton. Flocks of sheep kick up dust from...
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There's A Reason Why All Of The Reports About Benghazi Are So Confusing
At this point it's clear that the U.S. had something to hide at Benghazi, and that's why reports coming out of the Libyan city have been so confusing.Two key details about the the Sept. 11 attack in...
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Russia's Latest Move Shows Its Support For Assad Is Waning
Today, Russia endorsed an Egyptian-led initiative to establish a peaceful resolution to the civil war in Syria — a sign that the country's support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may start coming...
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