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Fast Forward Bulgaria Backs Away From Blaming Hezbollah in Terror Aimed at Israelis
Bulgaria said on Wednesday it only had an “indication” that Lebanon’s Hezbollah might have been behind a deadly bus bombing in July and that this alone did not justify any European Union move to list it as a terrorist group. The new Socialist-led government backed away from charges by its centre-right predecessor that the Shi’ite…
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Fast Forward For Israel, Syria Strikes Hone Strategy for Iran
When Israeli jets bomb Syria to deny it or its allies “game-changer” weapons, they play according to one core rule: ensuring the Jewish state maintains the military superiority to swiftly prevail in any war. On Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s target list are four types of advanced arms, Russian- or Iranian-supplied, whose transfer from Syria to…
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Fast Forward Hezbollah Hammered in Fierce Syria Fighting
About 30 Lebanese Hezbollah fighters and 20 Syrian soldiers and militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have been killed in the fiercest fighting this year in the rebel stronghold of Qusair, Syrian activists said on Monday. If confirmed, the Hezbollah toll from Sunday’s battles in Qusair near the Lebanese border would highlight a deepening intervention…
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Fast Forward Syria and Hezbollah Threaten To Turn Golan Heights Into ‘Resistance Front’
Threats from Damascus and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah to turn the Golan Heights into a “resistance front” against Israel could end nearly four decades of calm across the increasingly tense ceasefire line separating Israeli and Syrian forces. President Bashar al-Assad, and his father before him, kept the front line between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan…
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Fast Forward Hezbollah Vows To Get New Weapons From Syria
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said Syria would respond to Israeli raids around Damascus by giving his group sophisticated new weapons, the outcome Israel said its attack was launched to avert. “If the aim of your attack was to prevent the strengthening of the resistance’s capabilities, then Syria will give the resistance sophisticated weapons the like…
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Fast Forward Syria’s Failure To Respond Signals Israel Can Strike Without Worries
Twice in three days, Israeli warplanes entered Syrian airspace and fired on suspected weapons caches bound for Hezbollah – and nothing has happened in response. Some experts are predicting that will continue to be the case following airstrikes near Damascus on Friday and Sunday that are widely believed to be the work of the Israel…
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Fast Forward Israel Tells Syria’s Assad It’s Not Taking Sides in Civil War
Israel sought to persuade Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday that its recent air strikes around Damascus did not aim to weaken him in the face of a more than two-year-old rebellion. Officials say Israel is reluctant to take sides in Syria’s civil war for fear its actions would boost Islamists who are even more…
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Fast Forward Israel Hits Syria With Powerful Airstrike Near Damascus
Israeli jets bombed Syria on Sunday, rocking Damascus for hours and sending pillars of flame into the night sky in what a Western source called a new strike on Iranian missiles bound for Lebanon’s Hezbollah. Local people reported massive explosions and internet video showed the capital’s skyline lit by flashes; Syrian opponents of President Bashar…
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