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The footage below, uploaded to YouTube by the U.K.'s Channel 4, gives a startling glimpse into the Syrian war from an unusual perspective — the turret of a Syrian government tank.
The rebel war against the Syrian government has become Balkanized. Literally. The UK Telegraph is reporting the United States has facilitated the shipment of some 3,000 tons of weapons left over from the Balkan wars of the 1990s to Syria via Croatia.
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Just look at how much the reality has been warped since then! As everybody can tell, the portrayal of the countries in the Western media change along with the US' foreign policy... Depending on the latest policy or the stages of that policy,......
Though President Obama last year rejected a proposal from the State Department, Pentagon, and CIA to directly arm Syrian rebel fighters, his administration is once again edging closer to directly intervening in the Syrian war.
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In a news conference today in London, Secretary of State John Kerry slammed the Syrian government for offering peace talks to the rebels, insisting that he didn’t believe they should be taken seriously and promising to step up US involvement.
The UN expressed renewed concern that Lebanon could be drawn into Syria's worsening 2-year-old civil war, which the world body said developed sectarian overtones and been aggravated by foreign fighters and extremist groups.
What is a Member of the US House who strongly and passionately supports the State of Israel doing introducing legislation that would result in a gusher of arms flowing to "the fastest-growing al Qaeda front in the world, attracting fighters from
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While the US and its Western partners pretend to be engaged in a global war against terrorism, their terrorist allies in Syria have set off another car bomb, tellingly very close to the ruling Baath party offices and the Russian embassy.
Rocket Destroyed 'Entire Neighborhood' in Poor District
When President Obama rebuffed national security officials who wanted to arm the rebels in Syria, he put an end to a months of debate over how aggressively Washington should respond to the strife there that has now left nearly 70,000 dead.
Rejecting a push by Britain, European governments decided against providing weapons to Syrian rebel forces, expressing fears that more arms would lead only to more bloodshed in a conflict that has already taken nearly 70,000 lives.
Syrian rebels struggling to finance their effort, have joined an emerging trade in illicitly acquired Syrian artifacts and antiquities, selling off the country’s past as the war for its future intensifies.
General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he thought arming the rebels might help end the crisis more quickly and avert the collapse of government institutions, which could lead Syria to become a failed state.
Unkempt government soldiers, some appearing drunk, have been deployed near a rebel-held railway station in the southern reaches of this tense capital. Office workers on 29th of May Street, in the heart of the city, tell of huddling at their desks, tr
Washington has a lot of influence on countries like Qatar, which is reportedly the main source of weapons and support for the Syrian rebels, so they are not absolved from responsibility, Russia’s ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin told RT.
At least 12 Syrian forces killed in two bombings targeting military compound in city of Palmyra, activists say.
The Israeli attack last week on a Syrian convoy of antiaircraft weapons appears to have damaged the country’s main research center for work on biological and chemical weapons, according to American officials who are sorting through intelligence repor
New Plan Calls for Ground Invasion, Occupation of 'Buffer Zone'
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Peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi urges UN Security Council to set the agenda for a peaceful solution to the Syria conflict.
The Syrian announcement of an Israeli air strike on a military site near Damascus Wednesday, Jan. 30, drew strong condemnation from Moscow the next day: “Such action if confirmed would amount to unacceptable military interference ....
The Russian Foreign Ministry has issued a statement expressing deep concern over Israel's airstrike on Syria saying that it violates the UN Charter
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Al-Jazeera has gained exclusive access to a make-shift morgue in the Syrian city of Aleppo, where the bodies of dozens of young men are being held.
During President Obama’s first term, I represented members of Congress in challenging Obama’s unilateral intervention into the Libyan civil war without authorization of Congress. Our case was dismissed on standing grounds
In an interview with the New Republic, President Barack Obama explained that military "limitations" are a reason America can't intervene in Syria.
Amid growing fears that Syria's stockpile of unconventional weapons may fall into terrorists' hands, Hezbollah set up bases in Syria, an Israeli news site said.
