Tag: Civil War

The Muslim Brotherhood is willing to keep chaos and misery going for as long as necessary to topple the military’s interim government.

Israel’s neighbors love civil war. Lebanon, Syria. Jordan could be next. The Egyptian army learns from Assad’s mistake and tries to win it one day. Morsi supporters’ biggest weapon is the will to die.

Turkey has warned Lebanon, that if the two Turkish pilots kidnapped last week aren't released, it will damage the ties between the two countries.

When he was pressed on his presidential ambitions, he responded that he is not the type who "aspire for authority."

Syrian rebels and Assad’s forces are fighting it out to see which side is more brutal and inhuman. An explosion at a rebel-bombed Syrian army depot looks like an Atomic bomb blast.

"Syria is already in the grips of the civil war ... and Egypt is moving in the same direction," Russian President Vladimir Putin told...

An IDF medical team sent a 13 year old Syrian girl to the Western Galilee Hospital in Nahariya (northern Israel) for treatment. She suffered...

The Russian Yakhont missiles already delivered to Syria threaten Israel Navy ships carrying out vital missions in the Mediterranean.

If Assad is winning, Western governments should respond by helping the rebels to prevent Assad from crushing them.

When the borders of a state are breached, its existence as a state is undermined.

This is the second time reports have surfaced that Israel hit Syria's Scientific Studies and Research Center.

Deterrence requires a credible threat. It isn’t enough to issue ominous-sounding ultimata unless they are believed.

Ordinary Syrians are paying with their lives for the double-talk about the 'refugees.'

6.8 million needy, 4.25 million internally displaced, 1.3 million refugees—out of a rapidly shrinking population of 20.8 million.

Though my suggestion to now back Assad to prevent Jihadi takeover and allow both sides to fight themselves to exhaustion was rejected, it seems now the administration is taking note of my counsel.

The conflict between the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood and its allies and the self-described Alawites is the rupture in "broken" Syria – and it is not new.

All the wars involving Israel, throughout its history, have caused at least 30,000 fewer deaths than have been caused in Syria in the last couple of years alone.

Honest Abe used exactly the same blockade tactic against the Confederacy over which the Israeli Left is now sobbing its eyes out.

The UN peacekeeping force on the Syrian side of the Syria-Israel border, UNDOF, has been scaling down activities in fear of attacks.

Understanding that Iran has interests around the world which go beyond preserving his autocratic regime should be a hard reckoning for Bashar Assad, who has been loyal to the Mullahs and their agenda.

The Gaza Strip is swarming with radical Islamist groups whose goal is to destroy Israel and the U.S. Most emerged after the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005.

The real villain is the Iranian regime, which has colonized Syria and is colonizing Lebanon in its attempt to squeeze out U.S. influence in the Middle East.

To advance our objectives in the War on Terror there was and will be nothing to justify the extra-judicial, standoff-distance execution of a US citizen.

Once the rebels start consolidating rule, as happened in Egypt, there will be increasing examples radical Islamist control which the West will ignore.

The Syrian civil war is drawing in the world's most dangerous elements to a land that hosts the world's largest stockpile of VX nerve agents, Sarin and mustard gas.

Prohibition is long gone but the consequences of it are still with us today.

Outside Israel, Palestinian groups meddle in the affairs of other Arab states and are punished in the extreme.

The idea that Obama is now backing Israel is what American Jewish voters who supported him desperately need to believe.

As one veteran Fatah member said at a rally last week, "In our hearts we are all Hamas."

France says that the UN Disengagement Observer Force may removed due to the fear of Syrian chemical weapons.