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• Red Line Crossed: WH Confirms Syrian Regime Has Used Chemical Weapons Thu Jun 13
  Leah Barkoukis
• Hizballah Forces Help Turn Tide for Syrian Government Wed Jun 5
  Night Watch
  The numbers of Hizballah fighters in Syria are significant for a non-state militia force. However, the numbers are not large relative to the impact Hizballah fighters have had in changing the momentum of the fight in the government's favor. ... more
• Asad Confirms Receipt of Russian Weaponry Sat Jun 1
  Night Watch
  Israeli analysts accused Asad of lying about the delivery of S-300 missiles. Unnamed US officials said there was no evidence of a recent missile delivery. If they show up, some intelligence services are going to be embarrassed. ... more
• Russia's Big Test Tue May 28
  Rachel Marsden
• Libya Deja Vu: Arming Syrian Rebels Likely to Usher in al Qaeda Mon May 27
  Rachel Alexander
• Support Assad Fri Apr 12
  Daniel Pipes
  Analysts agree that "the erosion of the Syrian regime's capabilities is accelerating," that it step-by-step continues to retreat, making a rebel breakthrough and an Islamist victory increasingly likely. In response, I am changing my policy recommendation from neutrality to something that causes me, as a humanitarian and decades-long foe of the Assad dynasty, to pause before writing: Western governments should support the malign dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad. ... more
• Goading Gullible America Into War Fri Mar 22
  Pat Buchanan
  As President Obama departed for Israel, there came a startling report. Bashar Assad's regime had used poison gas on Syrian rebels. ... more
• Surrounded by Enemies Fri Feb 1
  Oliver North
  Until Jan. 30, I was working on a story about reaction here in Israel to the Obama administration's decision to provide advanced F-16 aircraft to Egypt. ... more
• Assad Is So Out of Vogue Thu Dec 27
  Cliff May
  It seems like only yesterday that Bashar al-Assad was being courted by progressive Western politicians even as he conspired with Iranian jihadists and Kremlin strongmen. And it was less than two years ago that Anna Wintour, editor of Vogue and Comandante of the Fashionistas, was celebrating First Lady Asma al-Assad as “a rose in the desert,” whose “style is not the couture-and-bling dazzle of Middle Eastern power but a deliberate lack of adornment … a thin, long-limbed beauty with a trained analytic mind who dresses with cunning understatement." ... more
• The Ways of Tyrants Tue Nov 20
  Paul Greenberg
  There are various responses dictators are sure to make as their subjects grow restive and their rule is challenged. ... more
• The Crown of Aleppo Wed Oct 17
  Paul Greenberg
  Aleppo is burning. You can read about it day after day on the front pages, or on the websites of Syrians trying to organize support for their fight against the latest Assad. Caught between regulars and irregulars, thugs in uniform and out, Aleppo's inhabitants run for cover, or hunker down where they are and wait for the next air raid, the next suicide bombing, the next massacre. Or just the next bus out. Which could be blown to smithereens. By either side. ... more
• The Bad/Good Idea of Removing Assad Thu May 24
  Victor Davis Hanson
  Who could not despise the tottering Bashar al-Assad dictatorship in Syria? The Syrian strongman has killed some 10,000 protestors over the last year; thousands of Syrians are now refugees. ... more
• Liberate ‘Zones of Electronic Repression’! Thu Apr 19
  Cliff May
  "The fax shall make you free." Albert Wohlstetter, the great Cold War strategist, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, said that back in 1990. He was right: The advent of fax machines, Xerox copiers and other then-cutting-edge communications technologies was an enormous boon to the free flow of information. ... more
• Inching Toward War in Syria Sun Apr 15
  Steve Chapman
  Last year, as violent strife engulfed Libya and a dictator made war on his opponents, the Obama administration balked at military intervention to topple the regime. This year, as similar events occur in Syria, it is balking again. But as we learned from Libya, that's no reason we won't eventually wade right in. ... more
• EXCLUSIVE: Syrian opposition groups says Annan plan 'doomed,' offers alternative Thu Apr 12
  Townhall.com Staff
• Syria's Civil War: React, He Said Wed Apr 11
  Austin Bay
  This past Tuesday, April 10, as the ceasefire arranged by former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan supposedly commenced, Syrian rebels posted a short video on the Internet that they claimed showed mortar shells fired by forces loyal to dictator Bashir Assad striking the city of Homs. I watched part of the herky-jerky clip. Near the end, I heard someone, likely the cameraman, appealing to God. ... more
• McCain, Lieberman visit Syrian refugee camp, urge US to arm anti-Assad forces Tue Apr 10
  Townhall.com Staff
• U.N.'s Ban urges Syria to implement peace plan Thu Mar 29
  Townhall.com Staff
• Al-Assad accepts peace plan, but reports of more violence emerge Wed Mar 28
  Townhall.com Staff
• Shopping amid a massacre: Leaked e-mails from Syria's regime Fri Mar 16
  Townhall.com Staff
• Syria responds to Annan's proposal; rebel stronghold of Idlib seized Wed Mar 14
  Townhall.com Staff
• Syria's Counter-Information War Wed Feb 29
  Austin Bay
  Syria's Assad regime is conducting a deadly and very personal counterattack on its most dangerous enemy: information. ... more
• Assad's Useful Idiots Tue Feb 28
  Mona Charen
  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued a firm statement to the Syrian elite this week, urging them to overthrow the regime of Bashar al-Assad. "The longer you support the regime's campaign of violence against your brothers and sisters, the more it will stain your honor," she advised. ... more
• Listening to the Syrian Resistance Thu Feb 16
  Cliff May
  Thanks to the marvels of modern technology, members of the resistance movement inside Syria last week were able to have a secure conversation with a small group of foreign policy mavens in Washington. What they told us boils down to this: A revolution is underway. ... more
• Assad replaces governors in two Syrian provinces Sun Oct 23
  Reuters News

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