3:36 PM, Apr 11, 2013 • By LEE SMITHToday NOW Lebanon publishes an article, with charts and graphics, explaining how the war in Syria pitting Sunni-majority rebels against Bashar al-Assad’s minority Alawite regime has spread to Lebanon, affecting the delicate sectarian balance there. The fighting in Lebanon so far has been contained mostly to Tripoli, a city in the northern part of the country that has long reflected Lebanon’s own internal divides as well as those of neighboring Syria.
Read more... 5:45 PM, Apr 9, 2013 • By THOMAS JOSCELYNAl Qaeda’s presence inside Syria is now so significant that the terrorist organization has decided it is no longer worthwhile to pretend otherwise. Previously, al Qaeda operated under a thinly veiled alternative identity – the Al Nusrah Front.
Read more... 2:02 PM, Mar 24, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPEROn Friday, President Barack Obama left Israel, after spending a couple days with the leaders of America's closest ally in the region.
Read more... 1:00 PM, Mar 24, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPERHouse Intelligence Committee chair Mike Rogers said this morning on CBS that "it is abundantly clear that that red line has been crossed." Watch here.
"I think that it is abundantly clear that that red line has been crossed," said the House Intel chair, about chemical weapons being used in Syria. "There is mounting evidence that it is probable that the Assad regime has used at least a small quantity of chemical weapons during the course of this conflict."
Read more... He fears angering Iran.3:05 PM, Mar 22, 2013 • By LEE SMITHIt’s still unclear whether chemical weapons were used earlier this week in attacks in Syria's Aleppo province, and if so who’s responsible—Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s troops or rebel forces. The U.N.
Read more... American assistance will no longer be pocketed by the Assad regime.5:31 PM, Feb 28, 2013 • By LEE SMITHAfter meeting with Syrian opposition figures in Rome today, Secretary of State John Kerry announced that the United States was sending $60 million in non-lethal aid to the opposition. That assistance, according to Kerry, “will strengthen the organizational capacity of the Syrian Opposition Coalition.
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