Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — Syria’s rebel movement has claimed a dramatiac expansion in forces and weapons over the last two months. The Free Syrian Army said it has nearly doubled its forces in 2012 to 70,000, most of them comprised of deserters from the military of President Bashar Assad. FSA, which reported a membership […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — The regime of President Bashar Assad, despite nearly a year of fighting, has been using only a fraction of its military might against the Sunni rebel movement. Regime sources said Assad, despite the massive assault on Homs, has reserved most of his military assets. They said the president did not […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Excerpted from an article by Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System The intense fighting of late January and early February in Syria, coupled with the vastly improved manipulation of the jihadists there by Iranian intelligence … have already enabled Syria’s Bashar Assad administration to take control over the war in Syria. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — President Bashar Assad has launched what the opposition termed a sustained counter-insurgency campaign to quell the revolt throughout Syria. Meanwhile, defectors reported exhaustion within the Assad regime which, on Feb. 7, was scheduled to conduct high-level consultations with the Kremlin. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he and Foreign Intelligence […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Jordan faces its most difficult challenge in decades amid internal unrest and revolt in neighboring Syria, a report said. The Institute for National Security Studies asserted that King Abdullah has faced his toughest challenge since he ascended to the throne in 1998. INSS said the Hashemite kingdom could be […]