Special to WorldTribune.com By Norman Bailey Recently much has been made of the so-called “Arc of Shi’ism”, from Lebanon to Iran, through Syria and Iraq. I submit that what is more significant is the much broader and longer “Arc of Chaos”, from Tunisia to Pakistan. Of this huge chunk of the world, and in the [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Hizbullah led a special forces operation that captured a Sunni rebel hub after 17 days of heavy fighting. Hizbullah sources said about 1,200 special forces troops led the attack on the rebel-held town of Qusair in May and early June of 2013. They said the battle marked the most intense [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel’s leadership is concerned about what the defeat of Sunni rebels by Syrian President Bashar Assad would mean. Officials said Israel’s intelligence community was closely following the Assad offensive against Sunni rebels in the spring of 2013. They said the community envisioned that a victorious Assad could be emboldened [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Syrian rebels have begun attacking Hizbullah bases in Lebanon. Sunni rebels, including those aligned with Al Qaida, have crossed the border from Syria to attack Hizbullah bases in Lebanon. On June 2, hundreds of Syrian rebels, supported by rocket attacks, clashed with Hizbullah troops in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. The fighting [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Norman Bailey The Iran of the Shah was friendly to Israel, but the theocracy that overthrew it is not. The Turkey of the Ataturk secularists was friendly to Israel, but the Turkey of the Islamists is not. The Egypt of Mubarak was friendly to Israel, but the government of the Muslim [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Syrian rebels have threatened a war against the Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah. Sunni rebel commander Brig. Gen. Salim Idris said his troops were preparing to attack Hizbullah installations throughout the region. Idris said the attacks would begin unless the Iranian proxy withdraws from Syria, racked by a revolt against President Bashar Assad [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Hizbullah was said to have sustained heavy losses in fighting Sunni rebels along the Syrian border with Lebanon. The Syrian opposition asserted that nearly 100 Hizbullah troops were killed in the Syrian Army offensive to capture the rebel-held town of Qusair. The opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com Geostrategy-Direct.com TEL AVIV — Israel has sought to maneuver between two schools on how to deter Iran, a report said. The Institute for National Security Studies asserted that strategists in Israel were considering two doctrines to deter a nuclear Iran. In a report, the institute pitted the doctrine that stipulated a priority [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — For the first time in years, Hizbullah strongholds have been attacked in Lebanon. Sunni gunners fired two BM-21 Grad rockets toward Hizbullah strongholds in Beirut on May 26. Officials said the rockets fell near a church in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital. “This is an act of sabotage,” [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — The new paramilitary force of President Bashar Assad has been rapidly expanding amid Iranian funding and victories over Sunni rebels. Opposition sources said the new National Defense Force, organized in late 2012, has been adding thousands of new fighters over the last month. The sources said the force, trained by [...]
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