Special to WorldTribune.com Russia has opened a fourth base for operations in Syria, a U.S. military official said on Nov. 3. The new base is in Tiyas, near the ancient city of Palmyra. Russia has sent five attack helicopters to the new base. The U.S. official said the new location is significant as it gives […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs [Editor’s note: The following full-length report by Yossef Bodansky details Russia’s unambiguous response to the growing jihadist threat in Syria and the Middle East that has remarkably been aided and abetted at several junctures by Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Russia is flying military assets and personnel into Syria via Iranian and Iraqi air space and ignoring warnings from the United States in the process. Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen as determined to rescue the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad and is openly defying American efforts to block the military […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — The regime of President Bashar Assad has returned to northern Syria near the border with Turkey. Assad regime forces have captured a key town near the Turkish border. Military sources said the Syrian Army as well as the National Defense Forces drove Sunni rebels out of Kassab in the Latakia […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — A leading foreign fighter has been killed in the rebel war in Syria. Rebel sources said Ibrahim Bin Chekroun was killed in the rebel offensive in the coastal Syrian province of Latakia. The sources said Bin Chekroun led hundreds of Moroccan fighters under an organization called Islam Al Sham. “The […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Al Qaida’s Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is fighting to stop a Sunni rebel offensive in Syria. Opposition sources said ISIL has launched a major attack on Islamist militias amid an offensive against the regime of President Bashar Assad in the coastal Syrian province of Latakia. The sources […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — Western nations have concluded that the regime of President Bashar Assad was preventing the transfer of Syria’s weapons of mass destruction. Western diplomats said the Assad regime, despite pledges to the United Nations, has surrendered less than five percent of Syria’s 1,300 ton-chemical weapons stockpile. The diplomats said Damascus was […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel is said to have again attacked Syria’s military. Opposition sources said the Israel Air Force struck a Syrian military facility in the Mediterranean port of Latakia. The sources said the Israeli attack appeared to have targeted a warehouse that contained the Russian-origin S-300PMU2 air defense system. “We heard […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — A Syrian missile base has been bombed in an attack attributed to Israel. The Syrian opposition said a Syrian Air Force base in the coastal province of Latakia was bombed on late Oct. 30. The opposition said the rocket attack appeared to come from the Mediterranean Sea. “Several explosions were […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — The Free Syrian Army has claimed production of heavy weapons, including artillery platforms. FSA production was reported amid concerns that the Western-backed movement would be dominated by Al Qaida-aligned militias. In August 2013, a senior FSA commander provided details of rebel arms production. Gen. Ziad Fahd, supreme military commander for […]