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Syria has 500 scud missiles aimed at Israel, Israel’s Channel 2 is reporting. According to the report, the IDF is on high alert. The report comes a day after news that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has instructed his top military generals to attack Israel were he to be assassinated. http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/01/15/report-syria-has-500-scud-missiles-aimed-at-israel/ Are Yugoslavian Anti-Tank Weapons Being Smuggled Into Syria? In the past few weeks a number of videos have been appearing from the Horan region of [...] Fears of the worst possible scenario in Syria have been confirmed in a video released by rebels that shows victims of chemical warfare. An almost sure sign that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has unleashed his chemical weapons for use against rebels is his regime’s claim on Saturday that rebels are preparing to use chemicals in their uprising. Assad systematically has accused opposition forces, which he labels as “foreign terrorists,” of carrying [...] by WashingtonsBlog Will Hype and Over-Reaction Lead to War? Anonymous U.S. officials are accusing Syria of building chemical weapons, and DebkaFile is reporting (via RT) that an aircraft carrier, numerous battle ships, amphibious ready group, 10,000 troops and heavy military equipment have already been sent to the Syrian coast: The USS Eisenhower, an American aircraft carrier that holds eight fighter bomber squadrons and 8,000 men, arrived at the Syrian coast yesterday in the midst of a [...] The embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is considering the possibility to claim political asylum for himself, his family and his close circle in Latin America if he has to cede power, a newspaper reported Wednesday. “Syria’s Deputy Foreign Minister held meetings in Cuba, Venezuela and Ecuador over the past week, and brought with him classified personal letters from Assad to local leaders,” the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, reported. Some Western and Arab countries [...] Tony Cartalucci Bloomberg, Guardian, Ynet, and others are all posting in their headlines an identical unconfirmed report that Turkey and Syria have “agreed” to establish a 6 mile wide “buffer zone” running the length of the Turkish-Syrian border. The report states specifically (emphasis added): The Syrian government has told its military to keep aircraft at least six miles (10 kilometers) from Turkey’s borders after a deadly shelling incident left five Turks dead, [...] The regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has begun moving chemical agents in the country’s arsenal to the port city of Tartus. According to diplomatic sources quoted in an interview published in the Kuwaiti Al-Rai newspaper, the regime is attempting to create a “safe zone” for top leaders and their families. It is not clear, however, which chemical agents, or what amount, were moved. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/159776#.UE00C0XyaCN Mass execution by Assad forces of handcuffed men in [...] by GoldCore Syrian Humanitarian Crisis – As Food, Fuel Prices Soar al-Assad Desperately Attempts To Get Gold Gold fell $12.10 or 0.75% in yesterday in New York and closed at $1,608.30/oz. Silver fell to a low of $27.73 and finished with a loss of 1.28%. Gold Prices/Rates/Fixes /Volumes – [...] By Christoph Dreier Behind the scenes, the German government has long been active in the civil war in Syria and in preparations for military intervention. Berlin is an important hub for the Western-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) and the Syrian National Council (SNC), who discreetly work there on plans to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The 70 states comprising the “Friends of the Syrian People” group, who have supported the armed [...] Syrian security forces have cleared the Salahuddin and Hamdaniya neighborhoods in the northwestern city of Aleppo of foreign-sponsored armed gangs. The Syrian army said on Monday that most of the city is now under its control. Meanwhile, fighting continues in the southern district of Sokari and the central neighborhood of Bab al-Hadid. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/253475.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Hezbollah unit 910 moved to Syria, to participate in the suppression of the revolution in Homs Using Google Translate: Qallt newspaper “An Nahar” [...] Al Arabiya English: Turkey’s Erdogan says Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his circle are close to departing from power https://twitter.com/AlArabiya_Eng
Deputy Head BBC Newsroom: “TURKEY’S ERDOGAN SAYS SYRIA’S ASSAD AND HIS CIRCLE ARE ABOUT TO GO, PREPARATIONS UNDERWAY FOR “NEW ERA”
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In Syria massacres, some see signs Assad trying to carve out breakaway Alawite enclave
BEIRUT — In the recent sectarian violence in Syria, some observers see a grim pattern: Alawite fighters from President Bashar Assad’s [...] A top Iranian military official warned on Tuesday that Syria’s allies “will not allow regime change” and would land “decisive blows” on Damascus’s enemies if they entered the growing conflict. “The Syrian people and the friends of Syria will not allow regime change,” Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri, the deputy chief of Iran’s joint armed forces, was quoted as saying on the official website of the Revolutionary Guards, sepahnews.com. “Neither the friends of [...] By David Lesch, Special to CNN Editor’s note: David W. Lesch is professor of Middle East History at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and author or editor of 12 books, including the upcoming “Syria: The Fall of the House of Assad.” The views expressed are solely those of the author. The past couple of weeks haven’t been good to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. First, his long-time friend and presumed regime insider, General Manaf [...] Arab League foreign ministers have called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, as rebels tell the BBC they are encouraged by last week’s assassinations in Damascus. The rebels told the BBC’s Paul Wood, undercover near the Syrian capital, that the deaths of four top officials were a severe blow to the government. Our correspondent says Islamist rebels where he is are receiving weapons and money from outside. Fighting continued overnight. Government [...] Syrian troops clashed with rebels in the city of Aleppo for a second day today, forcing residents to flee to safer areas in some of the fiercest fighting to date. The rebels are trying to seize the momentum after a week of battles in the capital, Damascus, including a bombing that struck at the heart of the regime, killing four high-level officials and hundreds of civilians. Two days of clashes in Aleppo’s [...] British Foreign Secretary William Hague has vowed to step up support for terrorist groups in Syria in a further attempt to cause additional unrest in the country. Frustration has grown in the recent months among British MPs, as attempts to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government have failed. Hague addressed the state-run BBC on Friday 20 July, that British policies will focus more outside the Security Council and intensify its [...] BreakingNews: Russia says Assad ready to step down but ‘in civilized manner’ https://twitter.com/AlArabiya_Eng/status/226236257980796928 Russian Foreign Ministry briefing on rt http://rt.com/on-air/ Syrian President Bashar al Assad is ready to leave power in an “orderly way”, the Russian ambassador to France has said. The leader has accepted that he will have to leave power, Alexandre Orlov said on French radio. Russia and Syria are allies, however the Syrian Information Ministry has dismissed the claims as ‘baseless’. Mr Orlov told the RFI network: [...] The brother-in-law of Syrian president Bashar al Assad and his defence minister are among three killed by a bomb that struck at the heart of the country’s security elite. Assef Shawkat and defence chief Daoud Rajha died in the blast at a meeting of senior security and government figures in Damascus. Syrian general Hassan Turkmani, a former defence minister and senior military official, was also killed, and several others were wounded. The attack, [...] Despite mounting fury from the Syrian rebels, who are seeking assistance for their efforts to overthrow the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, the White House has refused all requests for heavy weapons and intelligence support. Syrian lobby groups in Washington, who only a few weeks ago were expressing hope that the Obama administration might give a green light to the supply of anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles, said they had now been forced [...] Israeli National News Former Mossad chief Danny Yatom said on Thursday that Israel is preparing for the possibility of military action in Syria, in case its chemical weapons were to end up in the hands of Hizbullah or other terrorist organizations in the region. Yatom spoke to the British Sky News, which reported that Israel is deeply concerned that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad may deliberately give Hizbullah chemical weapons or [...] Russ Baker Friday, we read in the New York Times and elsewhere about one of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s most important supporters and allies having defected. The impression one gets is that Assad’s government is in a state of collapse— and this gives credibility to those pushing for Assad to turn over power. But what the media are not mentioning is that Brigadier General Manaf Tlass did not defect directly from the [...] China joined Russia on Thursday in boycotting a meeting aimed at coordinating efforts to stop the bloodshed in Syria, where three senior army officers were among more than 150 people reported killed in 48 hours. Moscow confirmed that some Western countries had asked it to offer Syrian President Bashar al-Assad a haven in exile, saying it had dismissed the idea as a “joke.” In Beijing, foreign ministry spokesman Liu Weimin said China would not attend the so-called “Friends of Syria” [...] Source: Hurriyet A convoy of about 30 military vehicles, including trucks loaded with missile batteries, arrived in Turkey’s coastal town of ?skenderun and deployed near the the Syrian border 50 kilometers away, Turkish agencies said. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdo?an, who has given shelter in the border area to rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, announced after Syrian air defences shot down a Turkish warplane last Friday he would step up security there. Turkish [...] |
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LIVE NOW: Syria President Bashar al-#Assad making rare public statement
LIVE NOW: #Syria President Bashar al-#Assad making rare public statement
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20925294#TWEET503055
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad announced what he described as a peace plan on Sunday, calling for a reconciliation conference with “those who have not betrayed Syria”, to be followed by the formation of a new government and an amnesty.
“The first stage of a political solution would require that regional powers stop funding and arming (the opposition), an end to terrorist operations [...]