Posts Tagged: Syrian civil war
Hezbollah Evacuating Positions Near Golan Heights, Syrian Media Reports
JNS.org - Fighters with the Lebanon-based terror organization Hezbollah have reportedly begun retreating from Lebanon’s southern border with Israel, according to a Syrian news agency. The...
Alan Dershowitz: Democrats’ Overreaction to Spicer’s Holocaust Blunder Dishonors the Six Million
The politicization of the Holocaust dishonors the memory of the six million. Sean Spicer made a serious mistake when he compared Bashar Assad to Hitler, and...
Report: Netanyahu Lobbying for Syrian Buffer Zone as Russia Reinforces Support for Assad
JNS.org - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly lobbying for the creation of a secure buffer zone between Israel, Jordan and Syria as part of...
The Horrors at Hand
"The action of discouraging an action or event through instilling doubt or fear of the consequences." --The Oxford English Dictionary entry on the word "Deterrence." "...the Arab...
Indian Intellectual: Lack of Angry Arab Response to Reported Upcoming PM Modi Visit to Israel Due to Sunni Back Channel Cahoots With Jewish State Against Iran
The editor-in-chief of one of India’s most widely circulated English-language dailies claimed on Sunday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s reported upcoming visit to Israel in the...
Report: Israel Kills Syrian Militia Commander in Drone Strike
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says Sunday that Israeli aircraft struck a vehicle driving near the town of Khan Arnabeh in the Quneitra...
UNICEF: More Syrian Children Killed in 2016 Than Any Other Year of Civil War
Syria's children "hit rock bottom" in 2016, with more killed than in any other year of the civil war, the United Nations children's organisation says. At...
Hezbollah Seeing Continued Battleground Success in Syrian Civil War
As Syrian forces closed in on the last opposition strongholds in Aleppo, a rebel commander braced himself for the worst scenario: fighters from Hezbollah, the...
US Special Forces Host Islamist Who Urged Support for Radical Faction
The US Special Forces Command hosted Mouaz Moustafa -- an American Islamist who urged US policymakers to embrace the Islamic Front in 2013 -- at their Tampa headquarters on Thursday, according to a post on Mustafa's...
New US Envoy to UN: ‘For Those That Don’t Have Our Back, We’re Taking Names’
New U.S. ambassador Nikki Haley in her first visit to the United Nations put U.S. allies on notice: "For those that don’t have our back,...
Israel Slated to Take in 100 Orphaned Syrian Refugee Children
JNS.org - Israel has announced that it will take in 100 orphaned Syrian refugee children, the Jewish state’s first such move since Syria’s civil war began...
Russia-Led Syria Talks End With Ceasefire Agreement Amid Tensions With Iran
Russian-led talks on Syria ended with agreement Tuesday to bolster a cease-fire even as apparent disputes with Iran, a staunch supporter of Syrian President Bashar...
Harsh Exchanges on First Day of Syria Talks in Kazakhstan
Syria's government envoy and a rebel leader traded barbs as talks between the Mideast country's warring sides got underway in Kazakhstan on Monday in the first face-to-face...
Mideast Expert: Israel’s Confidence That Russia Will ‘Represent’ Its Interests at Upcoming Syria Peace Summit in Kazakhstan ‘Warranted but Exaggerated’
The head of a prominent Israeli think tank said on Tuesday that optimism among politicians and IDF brass in relation to next week’s peace negotiations in...
