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Iran is starting to lose in Syria
BEIRUT, LEBANON — Iran has proven critical in helping keep President Bashar al-Assad in power after four years of bloody war, dispatching thousands of soldiers and paramilitary fighters to bolster...
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Hezbollah is trying to turn Israel's entire northern border into a single...
Less than 48 hours after the Israeli army reportedly attacked targets in Syria on Friday-Saturday, a Syrian cell on Sunday tried to mount a terror attack against targets inside Israeli territory.Israel...
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Assad's regime is in huge trouble
The Syrian civil war's bloody stalemate is over. For the first time in years, it looks as if the regime of Bashar Assad is facing a crisis that's serious enough to trigger its collapse.The regime has...
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This is the Assad regime's military strategy for winning the Syrian civil war
The following is an excerpt of the upcoming report from the Institute for the Study of War titled “An Army in All Corners — Assad’s Campaign Strategy in Syria.”Written by ISW Syria Analyst Christopher...
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Iraqi soldiers pushing west against ISIS 'are not well-trained enough for...
Iraqi forces are on a westward push to retake Anbar, a sprawling Sunni-dominated desert province captured by the Islamic State group in their offensive last year. But as the battles for Tikrit and...
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All players inside and outside of Syria are recalculating their positions
The ground appears to be shifting in Syria. Opponents of the Bashar al Assad government, including many al Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra fighters, have made significant gains in what they call the...
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Now is a good time to apply maximum pressure on the Syrian regime
On April 22, a coalition of Syrian rebel forces launched a major operation, "The Battle of Victory," to drive Assad regime forces from the northern Idlib province. Conducted with jihadist elements in a...
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Syrian defense minister lands in Iran as Assad regime stumbles
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's defense minister started an official visit to its major ally Iran on Tuesday at the head of a military delegation to discuss cooperation "in the face of terrorism," Syria's...
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The widow of one of the Boston bombers sent a revealing text after the tragedy
The widow of a man who has been accused of bombing the Boston Marathon in 2013 brought up the conflict in Syria in a text she sent to a friend after the attack.Katherine Russell, who converted to Islam...
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The Saudi king named a new heir to the throne after the current one asked to...
Riyadh (AFP) - Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Wednesday named his powerful interior minister as heir in a major shakeup that also saw the world's longest-serving foreign minister replaced. A royal...
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Rebels in southern Syria may be getting some huge help soon
BEIRUT – Free Syrian Army rebels in southern Syria have reportedly been promised “Arab air cover” as they ramp up their military campaign against the regime.“Rebel factions in the area are preparing...
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These are the Assad's regime's 4 biggest military goals in the Syrian Civil War
The following is the second excerpt of the upcoming report from theInstitute for the Study of War titled “An Army in All Corners — Assad’s Campaign Strategy in Syria.” The April 27th excerpt focused on...
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US policymakers are falling for Assad's ruse
This is an excerpt from "An Army in All Corners : Assad's Campaign Strategy in Syria." Read the full report here, and previous excerpts here and here.US policymakers in April 2015 appear to be...
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The Syrian military is on the verge of collapse
The Syrian Army is facing its most serious challenges since the start of the Syrian Civil War. Fatigued, over-stretched, and losing the support of its base constituency, the Syrian Army is conceivably...
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This map proves that Iran doesn't really want to defeat ISIS in Iraq and Syria
Iraq and Syria no longer exist.By now, the world has gotten used to maps showing how ISIS, Al Qaeda, the Free Syrian Army, the Assad regime, the Baghdad government, the Kurdistan Regional Government...
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Syrian government forces and pro-Assad popular militias reportedly got into a...
BEIRUT – Unprecedented fighting erupted between regime troops and National Defense Force members in an Alawite quarter of central Homs, according to press reports and activist statements.Alaraby...
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Meet some of the Kurdish women fighting ISIS every day
Reuters photographer Asmaa Waguih spent time with women fighters at a Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) military base on Mount Sinjar in northwest Iraq.Islamic State militants overpowered Kurdish forces in...
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The town at the center of ISIS's biggest defeat is now an apocalyptic wasteland
SURUC, Turkey (AP) — The battle for the Syrian border town of Kobani was a watershed in the war against the Islamic State group — Syrian Kurdish forces fought the militants in rubble-strewn streets for...
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US airstrike in Syria reportedly caused the most civilian casualties since...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The death toll from an air strike by U.S.-led forces on the northern Syrian province of Aleppo has risen to 52 including seven children, a group monitoring the conflict said on...
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Amnesty International: 'Egyptian authorities are using the courts to stifle...
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian authorities are using the courts to stifle journalism, Amnesty International said on Sunday in a report that listed 18 reporters and media workers jailed and dozens more...
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