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Syrian Opposition Groups Elect Head of New Military Command
2012-12-11 Read More...
Syrian armed opposition groups have chosen Brigadier Selim Idris, a former Officer in President Bashar al-Assad's army, to head their new Islamist-dominated military command, opposition sources said on

Russia May Install Iskander Surface Missiles in Syria
2012-12-07 Read More...
Russia is planning to install Iskander surface missiles in Syria and its Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad, in a response to United States missile interceptors in Poland and U.S.-Israeli military aid to Georgia, an Israeli news agency reported earlier

Al-Assad: “The War in Syria can be Long &Tough”
2012-11-09 Read More...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said his future could only be decided through the ballot box, in an interview with Russian television where he warned the country could face a protracted

Syria Denies Using Cluster Bombs
2012-10-16 Read More...
Syria denied on Monday a Human Rights Watch report that accused Syrian forces of using cluster bombs, which detonate and disperse smaller explosives, according to the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency

Panetta: “Syria Main Chemical Weapons Sites Remain Intact”
2012-10-01 Read More...
Syrians have moved some of their chemical weapons capability to better secure it, but the country’s main chemical weapons sites remain intact and secure under government control, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Friday, citing U.S.

France Won't Send Weapons to Syrian Opposition
2012-09-14 Read More...
Paris will not send weapons to the Syrian opposition, French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Thursday as Turkey took measures to stop Syrian refugees and rebels coming and going freely across the

Russia Denies Plans to Send Assault Ships to Syria
2012-08-06 Read More...
Russia’s Defense Ministry denied on Friday that it plans to send naval vessels to the Syrian port of Tartus, the state-owned RIA news agency said, as Moscow called for Kofi Annan to be urgently replaced as envoy for

Panetta in Jordan for talks on Syria
2012-08-02 Read More...
U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta arrived in Jordan today for talks with King Abdullah II on the conflict in neighboring Syria and the influx of refugees to

Syrian Defense Minister Killed in Suicide Attack
2012-07-18 Read More...
Syria’s Defense Minister, General Daoud Rajha, and Assad’s brother-in-law, Assef Shawkat, who is also the Deputy Minister of Defense, were killed in a Wednesday’s suicide bomb attack on the National Security headquarters in Damascus, state TV

US Worried about Syria’s Chemical Weapons
2012-07-16 Read More...
The US said Friday that Syrian officials would be “held accountable” if they failed to safeguard the country's chemical weapons after a report suggested some were being moved out of

Russia Sends Seven Warships to Syria
2012-07-12 Read More...
Russia has sent a naval flotilla of 7 warships led by an anti-submarine destroyer to its naval base at the Syrian port of Tartus, the Interfax news agency reported

Syrian Army Stages Large-Scale War Games
2012-07-10 Read More...
Syria's Armed Forces have started large-scale war games, its state-run news agency says, simulating defense against outside attacks.

U.N. Report Accuses Iran of Arms Shipments to Syria
2012-07-02 Read More...
A U.N. Security Council committee has published a report on Iranian sanctions violations, including shipments of weapons to Syria in breach of a U.N. ban on weapons exports by the Islamic

Russia Sending 2 Warships to Syria
2012-06-21 Read More...
Russia is preparing to send two amphibious assault ships to the Syrian port of Tartus where Moscow operates a strategic naval base to ensure safety of its nationals, the Interfax news agency reported earlier this

Assad: “We are Facing a Real War Waged from the Outside”
2012-06-04 Read More...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad condemned on Sunday the "abominable" massacre of more than 100 people in Houla, saying even monsters could not carry out such acts, and promised a 15-month-old crisis would end soon if Syrians pulled

Syrian Arms Imports Surge in 2007-2011
2012-03-19 Read More...
A new report on conventional arms transfers shows Syria imported nearly six times more weapons in 2007-2011 than in the previous five-year period, with Russia accounting for 72% of the arms

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