Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — NATO has determined that President Bashar Assad ended any short- or mid-term threat from the Sunni revolt in Syria. Officials said NATO, in consultation with Western intelligence agencies, assessed that the Sunni rebel campaign against Assad failed over the last three months. The officials said Assad’s military, backed by Iran […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Syrian rebels have begun receiving arms supplies to block the offensive of President Bashar Assad in the north. Rebel sources said the United States has sent weapons and other supplies to the Free Syrian Army. They said the supplies have reached FSA units in northern Syria from Turkey in mid-June. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — The Syrian military and its allies have been using unmanned aerial vehicles in the war against Sunni rebels. Rebel sources said Syria as well as Hizbullah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were using UAVs in the latest offensive against Sunni militias. They said the tactical UAVs were produced in […]
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 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 — The Syrian Army has been rolling through Sunni rebel strongholds in the south. On May 8, the Syrian Army advanced deep into the south near the border with Jordan. Army units captured a southern town held by the rebels and located on the main highway to Jordan. “This allows regime […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — The Israel Air Force has conducted another attack on a shipment of advanced missiles to Syria. Western diplomatic sources said Israel sent nearly a dozen F-15 and F-16 fighter-jets to destroy Iranian-origin missiles that arrived in Damascus. The sources said the attack took place on May 3 when warplanes fired […]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Has Syria crossed the “red line” which the Obama administration warned about should there be any use of chemical weapons in the conflict? Yes, No, Maybe so. But even if there was an apparently limited albeit brutal use of the nerve agents, does this automatically justify the “game changer” […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Sunni rebels have been bolstered by the arrival of scores of Chechen fighters in the war against Syrian President Bashar Assad. Islamist sources said Qatar and Saudi Arabia have financed the recruitment of fighters from the autonomous Russian province of Chechnya. The sources said most of the Chechens were veterans […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Sunni rebels have captured a Syrian military intelligence facility near the Golan Heights. The Free Syrian Army said it captured the military intelligence facility in the Hauran Plain in southern Syria. FSA said the compound, located eight kilometers from the Israeli frontier, fell in a five-day siege that ended on […]