Posts Tagged: Syria Rebels
Syrian Army Steps Up Offensive on Rebel Redoubt in Southwest City
Syrian elite forces aided by pro-Iranian militias stepped up an offensive on Tuesday against a rebel enclave in a southwestern pocket bordering Jordan and Israel,...
Syrian Army Takes Strategic Town From Rebels in New Advance
Syria's army has captured a strategically important town in Idlib in the rebels' last major enclave, a war monitor and a military media unit run...
Syrian Rebel Group: U.S. Weapons Great, Airstrikes Bad
A group that reportedly has been supplied with American anti-tank guided TOW missiles has issued a statement condemning the U.S.-led airstrikes against ISIS terrorists in Syria. In...
The Free Syrian Army Can’t Shake Al Qaeda Ties
Cooperation between the Western-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) and al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra, continues even as the FSA tries to obtain more American arms. The...
Report: Assad’s Forces Kill at Least 25 in ‘Barrel Bomb’ Raid Over Aleppo
Forces loyal to Syrian President Basher al-Assad bombed a crowded vegetable market in the city of Aleppo on Saturday, Israeli daily Ma'ariv reported. The air...
Why We Should Support the Syrian Rebels
In April 2013, I published an article with the slightly inaccurate title, "Support Assad." Better would have been "Support Whichever Side Is Losing in the...
U.S. Freezes Aid to Syrian Rebels
New York Times - The United States has suspended the delivery of nonlethal aid to the Syrian opposition in northern Syria after concluding that some...
The Syrian War is Not What Romantics Want it to Be
Not saying that it will happen -- not even that it might. But if you don't watch the confluence of events in Syria, you'll miss the...
How Foreign Policy Magazine Covered Up Syrian Sex Jihad
Foreign Policy magazine recently demonstrated why U.S. foreign policy, especially in the Middle East, is a disaster: because the establishment has a hard time...
Obama Calls Denial of Syrian Regime’s Chemical Weapon Use an ‘Insult to Human Reason’
U.S. President Barack Obama criticized members of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday for not taking a greater role in stopping the bloodshed in Syria,...
Israeli PM’s Office Denies Claims Made by U.S. Ambassador Oren; Israel to Remain Neutral in Syria
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied claims made by the country's ambassador to the U.S. Tuesday that Israel is backing rebels battling...
Report: “‹Syrian Civil War Rebels Are Nearly Half Jihadist or Islamist
JNS.org - Nearly half of the Syrian civil war's rebel fighters are aligned with jihadist or hardline Islamist groups, a new report says. According to...
Syrian Rebels Claim Assad Forces Committed New Chemical Weapons Atrocity
Times of Israel - Syrian rebels claim that the army of President Bashar Assad again used poison gas in an attack on rebel forces...
Iran is Using Syria as a Testing Ground
A vital debate is raging in the United States over a key question: Does the Assad regime pose a greater threat to international security than...
