Special to WorldTribune.com By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Recent findings point increasingly toward the conclusion that the chemical weapons attack in Syria was indeed a self-inflicted attack by the Syrian opposition in order to provoke a U.S. and Western military intervention against the Ba’athist government of President Bashar Assad. Ultimately, it […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — President Bashar Assad could order weapons of mass destruction attacks to save his regime, a report said. The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies asserted that Assad could employ Syria’s massive WMD arsenal against any rising Sunni revolt. In a report, the center warned that the Damascus regime could also […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Iran, concerned over abductions, has banned land travel in Syria. The Teheran regime has stopped Iranians from traveling to Syria amid a rash of abductions by Sunni rebels. The regime said Iranians could only reach Syrian cities by aircraft. “Due to the terrorist acts against Iranian pilgrims who are taking […]
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 NICOSIA — Casualties among Syrian security forces have been mounting amid the offensive to quell the revolt against President Bashar Assad. The Assad regime has acknowledged the death of at least 16 Syrian Army soldiers during heavy fighting with rebels on Jan. 29. Ten of the soldiers were killed in a rebel […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The regime of President Bashar Assad has ordered the military to escalate attacks on protesters and provided troops with guidelines on how many dissidents to kill, a human rights group said. Human Rights Watch asserted that the Assad regime has ordered the military to kill civilians during every protest. The […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — Syria’s powerful military intelligence chief is said to have been killed in a feud within the regime. Opposition sources said Gen. Assaf Chawkat, Assad’s brother-in-law, was killed during a violent argument with Syrian General Intelligence Service commander Gen. Ali Mamlouk, Middle East Newsline reported. They said Mamlouk pulled out a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — For the first time, rebels have struck the heart of the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Opposition sources said rebel fighters launched a rocket attack on the ruling Baath Party in Damascus. They said the pre-dawn attack on Nov. 20 consisted of the firing of rocket-propelled grenades toward the […]