June 21, 2013
3:00 am

Syrian rebels prepare to fire locally made rockets in Idlib province, northern Syria (photo credit: AP/Edlib News Network ENN)

Rivalries complicate arms pipeline to Syrian rebels

Feuding and squabbling among factions illustrate complications US will face when directly arming them

By Sarah El Deeb

June 20, 2013
9:43 pm

Rebel fighters in Daraa, Syria, in May. (photo credit: AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)

Arab Islamist rebels, Kurds clash in northern Syria

From the web Reuters: PKK fighters battle Al-Qaeda-linked group, threatening to open new front in civil war

June 20, 2013
12:27 pm

British Prime Minister David Cameron (photo credit: UK Department for International Development/Flickr)

Cameron’s coup against Assad

British PM offers immunity to regime forces if they help oust their leader; ‘Friends of Syria’ prepare to discuss military action in Doha

By Michael Bassin

June 19, 2013
8:35 pm

Syrian rebel fighters in gas masks against a chemical weapons attack, 2013. (screen capture: Youtube/MrMrAsi)

FSA accuses Syrian army, Hezbollah of chemical weapons use

From the web Al-Arabiya: Opposition activists report casualties following combined attack on a Damascus suburb

June 18, 2013
4:49 pm

G8 leaders from left, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron and US President Barack Obama attend a working session during the G-8 summit in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. (Photo credit: AP/Yves Herman, Pool)

Russia says G-8 declaration won’t mention Assad’s fate

Formal statement on Syrian crisis expected later Tuesday will not call for Syrian president’s resignation

June 17, 2013
9:24 pm

Free Syrian Army fighters hold their weapons during heavy clashes with government forces in Aleppo, Syria, on Sunday, January 20, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Andoni Lubaki)

Saudis supplying missiles to Syrian rebels, Gulf source says

From the web Shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles being sent to Free Syrian Army, Reuters learns

June 17, 2013
10:30 am

Putin, Cameron thrown off by Damascus bombing

British and Russian leaders fail to find common ground on Syria; opposition congratulates Iranian president-elect

By Michael Bassin

June 16, 2013
9:22 am

File. Members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard celebrate after launching a missile, July 2012 (photo credit: AP/IRNA, Mostafa Qotbi)

‘Iran to send 4,000 troops to help Syria’s Assad’

Hezbollah fighters and Iranian Revolutionary Guards said to be training Assad’s forces ahead of key battle for Aleppo

By Times of Israel staff

June 13, 2013
9:49 pm

Former US president Bill Clinton (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

White House says it welcomes Clinton’s Syria critique

Obama respects former president’s view that he should intensify support for rebels, but must be the one to make the decision, press secretary says

By Lazar Berman

June 13, 2013
10:20 am

Bill Clinton slams Obama for dithering on Syria

‘Sometimes it’s just best to get caught trying,’ former president says, decrying US reluctance to arm rebels

By Aaron Kalman

June 13, 2013
6:16 am

In this citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrian girls paint their faces with colors of the Syrian revolutionary flag during a fesitval, in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday March 20, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Aleppo Media Center)

Children recruited by regime and rebels in Syria, says UN study

Boys and girls under 18 used as human shields, suicide bombers by Assad forces and opposition fighters

By Times of Israel staff

June 13, 2013
3:23 am

Syrian rebels preparing to fire locally made rockets, Tuesday, June 4, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Edlib News Network ENN)

US ‘evaluating options’ on helping Syrian rebels

Top national security advisers split over providing weapons or taking more drastic steps like grounding Assad gunships and jets

By Bradley Klapper and Julie Pace

June 12, 2013
11:48 pm

Syrian rebels firing locally made shells made from gas cylinders against the Syrian forces, in Idlib province, northern Syria, Tuesday, May 21, 2013 (photo credit: (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN, File)

Syrian rebels press US and allies to send weapons

Obama administration undecided over arms shipments, fears materiel could end up in terrorists’ hands

By Sarah El Deeb and Zeina Karam

June 12, 2013
6:26 pm

Illustrative photo of Lebanese army soldiers at a checkpoint at the entrance of Arsal, a Sunni Muslim town in eastern Lebanon near the Syrian border, Feb. 2, 2013 (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanon threatens retaliation against future Syrian attacks

Army officials say Beirut will respond with force to additional provocations after Assad’s forces fire missiles at border town

By AP and Times of Israel staff

June 12, 2013
5:03 pm

A view of Arsal, a Sunni Muslim town in eastern Lebanon near the Syrian border that has become a safe haven for war-weary Syrian rebels, a way station for wounded fighters and home to hundreds of frightened Syrian refugee families (photo credit: AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Syrian rebels kill 60 Shiites near Iraqi border

In a first, Assad regime’s helicopter fires at rebels who sought refuge in Lebanese border town

By Bassem Mroue

Topic: Free Syrian Army