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Russia Sends Another Ship to Syria’s Tartus Port
2012-12-31 Read More...
Russian news agencies say the Navy is sending another ship to the Syrian port of Tartus, where Russia has a naval

5 Russian Warships Heading to the Mediterranean
2012-12-19 Read More...
The Russian Defense Ministry said that 5 ships of the Russian Baltic Fleet are headed to the Mediterranean to replace the Black Sea Ships stationing

Chemical Arms Protection for U.N. Forces in Golan Height
2012-12-19 Read More...
The United Nations is providing its peace-keepers in the Syrian Golan Height with kits to protect them from chemical weapons that could be used in the Syrian conflict, a U.N. official told

Sillu: “Syria’s Chemical Arms Match Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal”
2012-12-18 Read More...
The Syrian regime has a large arsenal of chemical weapons, which matches up to Israel’s nuclear arsenal, the defected former Head of Syria's Chemical Warfare Program

Unification of the Free Syrian Army
2012-12-13 Read More...
More than 500 leading figures in the groups and fighting brigades in Syria declared the unification of the free army and the constitution of a staff board and a higher revolutionary military council, whose mission is to monitor the work of the staff

U.S. to Declare Al-Nusra Front of Syria a Terrorist Group
2012-12-13 Read More...
The United States will declare the Al-Nusra Front, a jihadist group battling to overthrow Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, a “foreign terrorist organization,” documents showed

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

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