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Officials: Obama moving toward sending arms to Syrian rebels

Posted on May 1, 2013 | No Comments
by Karen DeYoung The Washington Post President Obama is preparing to send lethal weaponry to the Syrian opposition and has taken steps to assert more aggressive U.S. leadership among allies and...
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Hezbollah warns it may intervene to bolster Assad

Posted on May 1, 2013 | No Comments
by Zeina Karam The Associated Press The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group said Tuesday that Syrian rebels will not be able to defeat President Bashar Assad’s regime militarily, warning that Syria’s “real friends,”...
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Two ‘missiles fired at’ Russian passenger plane flying over Syria

Posted on April 30, 2013 | No Comments
Russia Today News Two missiles were reportedly fired at a Russian plane with at least 159 passengers on board flying over Syrian territory. Russian officials admit the jet faced danger,...
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Iran: Israel to be ‘wiped out’ if it attacks Hezbollah

Posted on April 30, 2013 | No Comments
by Aaron Kalman The Times of Israel A top general in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps on Sunday warned Israel that any military action against Lebanon and the Hezbollah terror...
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Syria’s neighbors worried over possible U.S.-led intervention

Posted on April 29, 2013 | No Comments
by Nick Tattersall Reuters Syria’s neighbors, wary of stirring a conflict that could spill back over their borders, would be reluctant partners in a U.S.-led intervention but are ultimately likely to...
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U.S. military grooms new soldiers for war in cyberspace

Posted on April 28, 2013 | No Comments
The U.S. service academies are ramping up efforts to groom a new breed of cyberspace warriors to confront increasing threats to the nation’s military and civilian computer networks that control...
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Could Iraq’s ‘Arab spring’ lead it back to civil war?

Posted on April 27, 2013 | No Comments
by Colin Freeman The Telegraph With civil war now raging in Syria, and post-Arab Spring governments taking their first unsteady steps in Egypt and Libya, it’s all too easy to forget...
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Hagel says U.S. intelligence points to small-scale use of sarin in Syria

Posted on April 26, 2013 | No Comments
by Michael Pearson CNN The United States has evidence that the chemical weapon sarin has been used in Syria on a small scale, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday.
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Chinese and Japanese ships cluster around disputed islands

Posted on April 24, 2013 | No Comments
CNN The fragile relationship between China and Japan came under fresh strain Tuesday as ships from both sides crowded into the waters around a disputed group of islands and nearly...
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China deploys anti-ship missile off Taiwan, stifling possible U.S. efforts to support island

Posted on April 21, 2013 | No Comments
by Sarah Mishkin and Kathrin Hill Financial Times China has deployed near Taiwan a powerful missile designed to take out US aircraft carriers as Beijing strengthens its ability to prevent US forces from aiding...
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Syrian rebels intensify rocket attacks into Lebanon

Posted on April 21, 2013 | No Comments
by Nicholas Blanford Christian Science Monitor Residents of of Hermel girded for revenge Sunday after a surge of rocket attacks by Syrian opposition rebels against this Shiite-populated town and adjacent areas in Lebanon‘s northern Bekaa...
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Syrian troops clash with rebels near Lebanese border

Posted on April 20, 2013 | No Comments
by Bassem Mroue The Associated Press Syrian troops backed by pro-government gunmen captured at least one village in heavy fighting Sunday in a strategic area near the Lebanese border, activists...
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U.S. preparing ‘nonlethal’ aid package for Syrian rebels

Posted on April 20, 2013 | No Comments
by Matthew Lee The Associated Press The U.S. readied a package Saturday of up to $130 million in nonlethal military aid to Syrian opposition forces while European countries consider easing...
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China boasts about its military strength: report reveals 1.4 million in military

Posted on April 19, 2013 | No Comments
by Tom Phillips The Telegraph China has laid bare the scale of its rapidly expanding military might for the first time in a paper that argued that the American “pivot to...
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U.S. troops sent to Jordan

Posted on April 19, 2013 | No Comments
DEBKAfile US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced Wednesday, April 17, that 200 troops of the US 1st Armored Division had been ordered to deploy in Jordan. DEBKAfile’s military sources report that...
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China calls on Japan to stop scrambling jets against its planes

Posted on April 18, 2013 | No Comments
Reuters China called on Japan on Thursday to stop sending jets up against Chinese aircraft after Japan said it had scrambled its fighters twice as often in the past year amid a territorial...
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5 UN agencies appeal for end to Syrian carnage

Posted on April 17, 2013 | No Comments
ABC News The heads of five major UN agencies have issued a rare joint appeal to the international community to do more to end the “cruelty and carnage” in Syria.
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China blames U.S. for tensions in Asia-Pacific region

Posted on April 16, 2013 | No Comments
by Ben Blanchard Reuters China’s defense ministry made a thinly veiled attack on the United States on Tuesday for increasing tensions in the Asia-Pacific by ramping up its military presence and...
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Former CIA director says Iranian, Syrian, North Korean axis must be broken

Posted on April 15, 2013 | No Comments
by Mariam Khan Medill News Service Former CIA Director R. James Woolsey said Thursday the United States needs to pressure Russia and China to cooperate in breaking the alliance between...
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Bombs and gun battles kill at least 19 in Somali capital

Posted on April 14, 2013 | No Comments
by Abdi Sheikh and Feisal Omar Reuters At least 19 people were killed in the Somali capital on Sunday in suicide bombings and assaults by al Shabaab militants linked to al...
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