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They say a picture paints a thousand words. The photograph of British Prime Minister David Cameron and Russian President Vladimir Putin in London recently certainly does. When the two leaders gave a press conference at the weekend in Downing Street ahead to the G8 summit, Cameron had the excruciating look of a desperate man. Putin, by contrast, appeared in control. The latter spoke in measured tones and with discernible contempt in his voice. Read More »

According to new reports, Iran has finally decided to deploy about 4,000 troops to the neighboring country Syria in order to support the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in their fight against the foreign-backed terrorists and jihadists. Read More »

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has told the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who wants to boost the support for the armed terrorists within Syria even while he knows that the majority of them are either jihadists or uneducated and dangerous thugs, that an increase of the U.S. military support for the armed “forces”, which are fighting in Syria against the secular nation and government, could stoke the level of violence in the entire Middle East. Read More »

By the end on May Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, a Lebanese Shiite guerilla group, said his fighters would help bring victory to President Bashar Assad in Syria’s civil war. On May 25 he said in a speech marking the 13th anniversary of Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon that Syria and Lebanon faced a threat from radical Sunni Islamists. Hezbollah helped push Israel to withdraw from southern Lebanon in 2000 and confronted the Jewish state in a short war in 2006. There are media reports saying the group amasses thousands of militants around the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. The Washington Post reports in detail about it (1). Hezbollah’s engagement in combat near the Lebanon-Syria border significantly raises the stakes in the war. The newspaper quotes Emile Hokayem, a Middle East-based analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, «A deployment so deep into Syria and in such a crucial place would be a clear indication that Hezbollah’s role in Syria was never limited to defensive aims but is geared toward helping Assad score major victories». Hezbollah formations have spearheaded the offensive against the rebel forces, primarily al-Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra, to restore the control over the town of Qusair near the Syria-Lebanon on border. The increased presence of the militant group has helped to change the balance in favor of Syria’s government and gain victory. The government’s victory at Qusair solidifies its control over the central province of Homs, the linchpin linking Damascus with the pro – Assad strongholds on ... Read More »

“Given the complicated situation that arises since today in the Golan Heights, we could replace the Austrian contingent, which withdraws from this region, at the dividing line between the Israeli forces and the Syrian army,” said Putin at a meeting with senior Russian military in Moscow on Friday. “Of course, only in the case when the states of the region are interested in this and if the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asks for it.” Read More »

The Russian President Vladimir Putin has not only defended the sale of S-300 air defense systems to Syria by Moscow on Tuesday, but he also made it clear in his statements from yesterday that the contracts with the Syrian government in Damascus for the S-300 air defense systems have not yet been fulfilled by Russia. Read More »

According to the latest statements of the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich from Monday, it seems that Moscow is convinced that the British initiative to adopt another hypocritical UNSC (U.N. Security Council) statement / resolution on the current events in and around the Syrian city of Al-Qusayr, which is located near the border to Lebanon, is untimely. Read More »

According to the latest reports from Syria, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has seized two containers with poisonous sarin agent in a typical hideout of the foreign-backed terrorist groups. These statements about the seized sarin agent by an unit of the Syrian army came from sources of the Syrian state news agency SANA. Read More »

The timing of Tel Aviv’s repeated attacks on Syria in May 2013 and the kindling of yet another round of accusations and tensions between the Turkish government and Syria that have resulted from the car bombings in the Turkish town of Reyhanli say a lot. Firstly, Tel Aviv’s aerial strikes, via illegal use of Lebanese airspace, on the Syrian military research facility in the town of Jamraya, which is an urban galaxy of Damascus, clarifies Israel’s role in destabilizing Syria. Israel is essentially acting as the insurgency air force. Secondly, Turkey’s accusations against Syria are part of the Turkish government’s demonization campaign against Damascus that has been used to justify Turkey’s aggressive stance against the Syrians. Read More »

The Syrian government would like to revive a contract to purchase MiG-29M/M2 fighter jets from Moscow in light of the upcoming expiration of the embargo by the European Union (EU) on arms sales to the Syrian authorities in Damascus according to some statements by representatives of the aircraft manufacturer MiG from yesterday. Read More »