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| April 18, 2013
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Assad: For Supporting Al-Qaeda, the West Will Pay Dearly

Syrian President says his regime’s defeat is not an option and warns the West that supporting Al-Qaeda will cost them heavily down the road.

By Elad Benari

 

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned the West on Wednesday that it will pay a heavy price for its alleged support of Al-Qaeda in Syria. According to AFP, Assad said his regime’s defeat is not an option.

Syrian President Bashar Assad – Photo: AP

He made the comments in an interview with state television Al-Ikhbariya, in which he said the West is playing with fire.

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| April 15, 2013
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Over 1,000 Hizbullah Terrorists Enter Syria to Fight for Assad

More than 1,000 members of Hizbullah have entered Syria in the past few days in order to render support for regime troops.

By Elad Benari

 

 

Hizbullah is continuing to assist Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in his fight against the rebels. Over 1,000 members of the Lebanese Shiite terrorist group entered Syria in the past few days via waterways in the Mediterranean Sea, the Saudi daily Al-Watan reported on Sunday.

Hezbollah terrorists - Photo by EPA

Hezbollah terrorists – Photo by EPA

According to the report, around 1,200 fighters arrived at Syria’s Tartus port in order to fight alongside regime troops.

The armed members who arrived from Lebanon to Syria committed “a hideous crime” in the town of Talkalkh, the daily said, adding that tens of thousands of fighters entered from Iraq to aid the Syrian regime. Continue Reading »

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| April 7, 2013
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Turkey: Assad’s claims of deal with Israel against Syria are ‘groundless’

Foreign Minister Davutoglu responds to Assad’s ridiculous claims that Ankara is working with Israel ‘to destroy’ Syria, saying, ‘This shouldn’t be taken seriously’. 

By AFP

Turkey‘s foreign minister on Saturday hit back at Syrian President Bashar Assad‘s claims in an interview that Ankara made a pact with Israel against Damascus.

FM Ahmet Davutoglu - Photo Reuters

FM Ahmet Davutoglu – Photo: Reuters

“Such arguments like Turkey is in cooperation with Israel against Syria have no grounds,” Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was quoted as saying by the Anatolia news agency.

“Turkey never speaks to Israel or any other third party about its neighbors,” he said. Continue Reading »

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| April 7, 2013
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New Lebanese PM Seeks Neutrality on Syrian Uprising

Lebanon’s new PM Tammam Salam pledged to safeguard the country from the ongoing war in Syria.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Moderate Lebanese MP Tamam Salam was named on Saturday as the country’s new prime minister, pledging in his first address to the nation to safeguard the country from the war raging in neighboring Syria.

Lebanon's newly named PM Tamam Salam - Photo AFP

Lebanon’s newly named PM Tamam Salam – Photo AFP

“There is a need to bring Lebanon out of its state of division and political fragmentation, as reflected on the security situation, and to ward off the risks brought by the tragic situation in the neighboring country and by regional tensions,” he said, according to a report by the AFP news agency. Continue Reading »

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| April 5, 2013
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Syrian rebels trained by Hamas

London ‘Times’ reports the Hamas’ Kassam Brigades began training members of opposition in Damascus after braking ties with former ally Assad.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

 

The military unit of Hamas has broken ties with former ally Syrian President Bashar Assad and began training members of the opposition’s Free Syrian Army in Damascus, the Times of London reported on Friday.

Member of the Free Syrian Army

Member of the Free Syrian Army – Photo: REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

Anonymous diplomatic sources told the Times that members of the Izzadin Kassam Brigades were training FSA units in the rebel-held neighborhoods of Yalda, Jaramana and Babbila in the Syrian capital.

“The Kassam Brigades have been training units very close to Damascus.

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| March 28, 2013
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How the People of Turkey View Israel’s Apology

Turkey & Israel have always been friends. The only thing that has changed is that circumstances have reminded them that this friendship is even more important now.

By Aylin Kocaman

The apology took its time coming, and the peoples of Israel and Turkey heard it unexpectedly. With amazement.

Billboards put up in Ankara to thank Erdogan for getting Israel to apologize for Marmara incident.

Billboards put up in Ankara to thank Erdogan for getting Israel to apologize for Marmara incident. – Photo: REUTERS/Umit Bektas

Immediately in the wake of the communist terror organization, one of Turkey’s greatest problems over the last 30 years, speaking of “wanting peace.” At a time when everyone was constantly making comments regarding Turkish domestic policy. Continue Reading »

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| March 27, 2013
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Assad Appeals to Int’l Economic Forum to Help ‘dry sources of terrorism’ in Syria

Assad’s appeal to non-Islamic countries, India, China, Brazil, Russia, & South Africa comes a day after the Arab League endorsed Syria’s Western-backed opposition coalition, delivering another blow to the regime in Damascus.

 

Syria’s increasingly isolated President Bashar Assad on Wednesday appealed to the leaders of a five-nation economic forum meeting in South Africa to help end his country’s two-year conflict.

Syrian President Bashar Assad - Photo by AP

Syrian President Bashar Assad – Photo: AP

Assad’s appeal came a day after the Arab League endorsed Syria‘s Western-backed opposition coalition, delivering another blow to the regime in Damascus.

Assad sent a letter urging the leaders of the five nation BRICS forum – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – to “work for an immediate cessation of violence that would guarantee the success of the political solution” in Syria. Continue Reading »

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| March 25, 2013
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Fellow Alawites call for rebellion in Syrian army

For the 1st time, fellow Alawites who support the rebellion call for unity among Syrians.

By Reuters

Opposition activists from Syrian’s President Bashar Assad‘s Alawite sect called for his overthrow on Sunday and urged their co-religionists in the army to rebel.

A woman and a child walk by graffiti praising Allah and the Syrian revolution in Aleppo. – Photo by AFP

In the first meeting of its kind by Alawites who support the revolt, delegates distanced themselves from Assad’s crackdown against an uprising in which 70,000 people have been killed.

“We call on our brothers in the Syrian army, specifically members of our sect, not to take up arms against their people and to refuse to join the army,” the delegates said in a statement after two days of meeting in the Egyptian capital. Continue Reading »

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| March 24, 2013
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IDF destroyed Syrian military post that shot at IDF

Tensions continue to escalate in the Golan Heights as IDF fires Tamuz missile at military post after Syrians fire bullets at IDF patrol.

On Saturday the Syrians hit an IDF jeep with rifle fire.

Yoav Zitun

 

The IDF opened fire at a Syrian military post on Sunday after the Syrians opened fire at IDF soldiers. The IDF used a Tamuz anti-tank guided missile at a Syrian post in the Tel Fares area in the southern Golan Heights. There were no casualties on the Israeli side. The Syrian post was destroyed and two armed Syrians were wounded.

IDF artillery – Photo Courtesy: IDF Spokesperson Unit

Following the incident, construction of the northern border fence was halted. Continue Reading »

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| March 23, 2013
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Third day of deadly clashes in Lebanon after PM resigns

After Lebanese PM Makati resigns, deadly violence escalates  for third day in Tripoli.
UN’s chief, Ban Ki-moon impotently calls for calm & unity.

By REUTERS

 

Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli was the scene of deadly clashes on Saturday, leaving one man dead and two others wounded, according to local residents.

Arrests during deadly clashes in Tripoli - Photo Reuters-Omar Ibrahim

Arrests during deadly clashes in Tripoli – Photo: Reuters/Omar Ibrahim

The violence, which has lasted for three days, has escalated in the wake of the resignation of former prime minister Najib Mikati which has been brought about as a direct result of failed talks with terrorist faction Hezbollah who have over shadowed the Lebanese political landscape in recent years. Continue Reading »

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| March 20, 2013
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IDF admits 2 more wounded Syrians into Israeli hospital

IDF treats 4 Syrians wounded in their civil war strife at the border.

Syria fires 5 shells into Lebanon.

By JPOST.COM STAFF, REUTERS

 

The IDF provided medical care to four wounded Syrians who approached the border fence with Israel on Wednesday, evacuating two of them to Israeli hospitals for further treatment, the IDF Spokesman’s Office stated.

Netanyahu looks at Syrian patient IDF field hospital. – Photo: KOBI GIDEON/GPO

The treatment was provided for humanitarian reasons and was approved by IDf Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz.

The IDF emphasized that the incident did not constitute a change in Israel’s policy regarding the acceptance of refugees from Syria.

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| March 17, 2013
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Report: Jerusalem to ask Obama to stop Syrian arms transfers to Hezbollah

A ‘Guardian’ report suggests that Israel will ask the US president during his visit to use airstrikes to prevent weapons transfers to terrorist organizations.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

 

Israel will request from US President Barack Obama during his upcoming visit that the US carry out airstrikes on Syria in the event that Syrian missiles are being transferred to Hezbollah, the Guardian reported on Sunday.

Syrian site reportedly bombed by IAF.

Syrian site reportedly bombed by IAF. – Photo: YouTube Screenshot

The report added that Israel would ask for US support for Israeli strikes on Syria to prevent such weapons transfer if the US was not willing to do so itself.

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| March 15, 2013
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Syrian Regime Threatens to Strike at Rebels Inside Lebanon

Syria’s FM tells Lebanon’s FM that a ‘large number’ of rebels have left Lebanon & entered the Syrian town of Tel Kalakh over the past 2 days.
Friday is the 2nd anniversary of uprising against Bashar Assad.

By Reuters and DPA

 

Syria has warned it may strike at rebels hiding in neighboring Lebanon if the Lebanese army does not act, as its patience “is not unlimited,” the state news agency SANA said on Friday, as the country marked two years since the start of the uprising against Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Syrian rebels make victory signs near the border with Turkey last year.

Syrian rebels make victory signs as they patrol a street in the town of Tal Abyad near the border with Turkey, last year.

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| March 9, 2013
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21 UN peacekeepers, kidnapped by Syrian rebels, were release to Jordan

21 Filipino UN workers safely crossed on Saturday from southern Syria, where they were held since Wednesday after being captured by rebels, into neighboring Jordan.

By Reuters

 

Twenty-one United Nations peacekeepers captured by Syrian rebels and held for three days in a southern Syrian village crossed safely into neighboring Jordan on Saturday, rebels and a UN official in Damascus said.

A UN peacekeepers vehicle in Syria, March 9, 2013

A UN peacekeepers vehicle in Syria, March 9, 2013 – Photo: AFP

The Filipino peacekeepers were taken by the Martyrs of Yarmouk rebel brigade to the border, about 10 km (6 miles) south of the village of Jamla where they had been held since being captured on Wednesday.

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| March 8, 2013
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Report: IDF ready for possible conflict with Hezbollah

IDF drills reservists amid worries of possible spillover from Syrian conflict as well as the threats of retaliation from Hezbollah should Israel strikes Iran.

By REUTERS

 

REVIVIM – Wary of a spillover from the conflict in Syria, Israel is preparing to take on the Hezbollah militia that it suspects is getting advanced weapons from a distracted Damascus.

IDF reserve soldiers drill, March 7, 2013.

IDF reserve soldiers drill, March 7, 2013. – Photo: REUTERS/Amir Cohen

Israel believes the Lebanese Shi’ite guerrillas also stand ready to retaliate if it carries out long-threatened strikes on the nuclear sites of Iran, another Hezbollah patron.

Hezbollah fought Israel’s far more advanced forces to a standstill when they last came to blows, in 2006, and rained more than 4,000 rockets on northern Israel.

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