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nd air, and as an American tank was parked close by him, when he told reporters: "Look, we have surrounded the infidels". We could even mention the Bashar al-Assad regime, which has never tired of repeating the mantra of resistance and opposition, even though its forces have ended up fighting the Syrian people
a greater willingness to consider arming the rebels — together with the fact that some of his advisers have expressed more hawkish policies toward Assad and his regime's key backers, Iran and Russia — may give many in the rebel camp reason to hope the Republican candidate prevails on Tuesday. 2. Isr
pport. The Obama administration has even actively discouraged its allies from giving rebels the very weapons they say they need to defeat President Bashar al-Assad's regime. As a member of one town's revolutionary council said: "We read in the media that we are receiving things. But we haven't seen it. We only
clip of a television interview with the Sudanese Defense Minister is currently being circulated, in which he comments on the Israeli bombing of the Yarmouk weapons factory. During the interview, when asked why his radar systems did not deal with the Israeli assault, Major General Abdel Rahim Mohammed H
people have died from starvation since last July; the inevitable outcome of a military blockade imposed on the camp by Syria's embattled President Bashar al-Assad. The purpose of the siege is to root out foreign Sunni jihadist militias, e.g. Jabhat al-Nusra, who now occupy the camp. These militants have set u
e camp, and have been able to recruit new fighters from within the vulnerable Palestinian population in order to further their goal of toppling the Assad regime. Rumors of people resorting to eating grass and stray cats and dogs while trying to avoid being killed by sniper fire or Assad's crude yet l
s using starvation as a weapon of war, a distinctly savage strategy in a war where barbarism and brutality have become the norm. One could dismiss Yarmouk as a war crime committed by a uniquely cruel and cornered dictator, a crisis that could not be repeated elsewhere. This would be a EFTA00662923 m
onal Interest Lebanon's Next Flashpoint Nicholas Saidel March 25, 2014 -- For the approximately 18,000 Palestinians remaining in Syria's besieged Yarmouk refugee camp, life is a horrifying daily struggle, a veritable hell on earth. Earlier this month, Amnesty International released a report confirmin
development reinforces the view that the Syrian government is aiming to regionalize the conflict, to divert attention from itself and from calls for Bashar al-Assad to step down. Fragmentation is increasing in Syria. Kurdish areas in the northeast are beyond the control of the government and the opposition. Dar
ttention from itself and from calls for Bashar al-Assad to step down. Fragmentation is increasing in Syr
air raid on a weapons factory in Khartoum. On October 23rd, Sudan accused Israel of sending four warplanes that jammed Sudanese radars and hit the Yarmouk arms factory in Khartoum. Israel refused to confirm or deny any role in the attack. Sudanese promises of retaliation are probably relatively empty,
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Barack Obama
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United States
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Lebanon
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Bill Clinton
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Middle East
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Cairo
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Jerusalem
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Bahrain
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John F. Kennedy
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Morocco
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Kuwait
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Tel Aviv
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Sudan
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Abraham Lincoln
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Nasrallah
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Martin Luther
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