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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 Benjamin Netanyahu Vows To Keep High-Tech Arms Away From Hezbollah
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held out the prospect on Sunday of further Israeli strikes inside Syria, pledging to act to prevent advanced weapons from reaching Hezbollah and other militant groups. Although Israel has not publicly taken sides in the civil war between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and rebels trying to topple him, Western and Israeli…
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Fast Forward Russian Arms Shipment to Syria ‘Destabilizes’ Region, Says Livni
Israeli Justice Minister Tzippi Livni warned that “Israel has a right to defend itself” in the wake of reports that Russia provided advanced naval missiles to Syria. “We see that Syria is disintegrating and a weapons shipment is certainly not a positive development, it destabilizes the area,” Army Radio quoted Livni as saying in reaction…
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Fast Forward Syrian Rebel Shown on Video Cutting Heart Out of Slain Assad Soldier
A video of a Syrian rebel commander cutting the heart out of a soldier and biting into it is emblematic of a civil war that has rapidly descended into sectarian hatred and revenge killings, Human Rights Watch said on Monday. The New York-based group said an amateur video posted on the Internet on Sunday shows…
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Fast Forward Militant Palestinian Group Vows To Take Back Golan
A militant Palestinian group in Damascus said it is forming combat units to try to recapture Israeli-occupied territory, in particular the Golan Heights, after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Hezbollah that they would support such operations. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) said it was preparing for new operations after nearly…
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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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Israel News What Israel Air Strikes on Syria Reveal About Blueprint for Iran Attack
Israel’s punishing air strikes against Syria highlight the delicate dance about sharing information with the U.S. — a balance that provides a blueprint for a possible attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Following a pattern set in decades of military cooperation, Israel did not provide the U.S. with advance warning about its intention to launch two…
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