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The “Free Syrian Army” Challenges Assad
The Free Syrian Army (FSA), the rebel force fighting Syria’s President Bashar Assad, has included “Raising the flag on Iwo Jima” – depicting the bravery of U.S. Marines in World War II – on its...
View ArticleIs There an End in Sight to the Syrian Regime?
Events in Syria seem to have reached a stalemate. On the one hand, the regime is failing to quell the civilian rebellion against it, while on the other hand, the opposition to Bashar Assad cannot yet...
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Is the Wind Turning in Favor of Assad?
The Baba Amro district of Homs may now become the turning point in the year-long bloody battle between opposition forces and Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime. The district became the symbol of...
View ArticleMoment of Truth Approaching in Damascus
The Free Syrian Army has shifted to an offensive in Damascus and Aleppo. Over the last three days the Free Syrian Army, the umbrella body of the rebel forces, has changed its approach in...
View ArticleSyria: Has the Assad Regime Reached the Terminal Phase?
Assad Still Controls the Big Cities Based on events on the ground, one can safely state that the Syrian regime is steadily losing ground to rebel forces, since as much as 60 to 70 percent of the...
View ArticleIran’s Arms Supply to Hizbullah: International Dimensions
In an exceptional political signal, a senior Israeli official contacted Mark Landler of the New York Times and explained that the Israeli government was determined to continue to prevent the transfer...
View ArticleIranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)...
View ArticleThe Chemical Attack in Syria: Implications
The regime of Syrian president Bashar Assad has once again made use of chemical weapons in Syria’s bloody civil war, which has cost over 100,000 lives since it began in March 2011. An aerial...
View ArticleFrustration and Disgust: International Inaction over Syria
It is questionable whether or not the U.S. and the international community will ultimately punish Syria for the indiscriminate and criminal use of chemical weapons against its own civilian population....
View ArticleSyria Keeps Moving in the Islamic Direction
The formation of the Army of Islam in Syria on September 29, 2013, signifies the ongoing trend of the Islamization of the struggle against Bashar Assad’s Alawite regime in Syria. Forty-three combat...
View ArticleForeign Jihadists Fighting in Syria: An Overview of the Danger
When the Syrian regime said almost two years ago that foreign combatants were fighting with the rebels against the regime, little attention was paid to the subject. Some even purposely ignored the...
View ArticleIs Hizbullah about to Withdraw from Syria?
Hizbullah’s military involvement in Syria is now a subject of heated domestic debate in Iran. This debate is being waged against the backdrop of the international refusal to let Iran take part in the...
View ArticleThe Ties Between the Nusra Front – the Syrian al Qaeda Affiliate – and Hamas
With the news that the terrorist organization Jabhat al-Nusra (al Nusra Front)1 is one of the organizations that took control of the Kuneitra Crossing on the Golan Heights on August 27, 2014, attention...
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The Structure of the Islamic State (ISIS)
Much has been written and said about the Islamic State in Iraq and Sham (the Levant) — ISIS. Most of the commentators have looked at ISIS as another terrorist organization, an al-Qaeda off-shoot,...
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Heavy Blow Administered to Assad’s Foes
Ahrar al Sham, the “Islamic Movement of the Free Men of the Levant,” is a 10-20,000-strong group of jihadist-Salafi fighters which constitutes the main component of the “Islamic Front” fighting Syrian...
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The Attack in the Golan Exposes Iran’s Growing Presence along Israel’s Borders
Hizbullah confirmed that an attack was just conducted against a joint Iranian\Hizbullah reconnaissance operation in Mazrat al-Amal in the Kuneitra area on the Golan Heights. Following the attack,...
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Syrian Rebel Document Confirms Iranian-Hizbullah Military Presence in Syrian...
The interrogation of an Iranian citizen apprehended by the Free Syrian Army reveals the military and terrorist infrastructure that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hizbullah have built on the...
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Iran Deploys Afghan Shiite Brigade to Spread Its Control in Southern Syria
Afghan Shiite commander Ali Reza Tavassoli (right) with the commander of the Iranian Qods Force Qassem Soleimani (left). Ali Reza Tavassoli, the Afghan Shiite commander of the “Fatimiyoun Brigade” in...
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The Islamic State Has Saved Bashar Assad’s Regime
Syrian President Bashar Assad should thank Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of Islamic State, for the fact that due to his organization’s horrific murders and ongoing expansion in the Middle East, the...
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Syrian Opposition also Opposes Nuclear Iran
Sheikh Moaz al-Khatib, former head of the Turkish-Qatari branch of the Syrian opposition, was in Washington and made a declaration that did not attract enough attention. He strongly opposed a nuclear...
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