June 15, 2013
10:09 pm

Damaged buildings during battles between the rebels and the Syrian government forces, in Aleppo, Syria, Thursday, June 13, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

Syrian troops capture Damascus suburb near airport

Regime soldiers and rebels have been fighting sporadically in the area since late Friday

June 15, 2013
4:27 pm

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, at UN Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 30 (photo credit:AP/Martial Trezzini, Keystone)

Russia: US no-fly zone over Syria would be illegal

FM Lavrov says using air defense systems in Jordan to potentially shoot down Syria planes would violate international law

By Times of Israel staff

June 15, 2013
5:50 am

Syrian rebels learn how to use a RPG during a training session in Maaret Ikhwan, near Idlib, Syria. (photo credit: AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Sources: US aid to Syria rebels likely to include mortars, RPGs

From the web Reuters: Weapons to reach opposition forces in 2-3 weeks via Turkey and Jordan; shipment won’t include anti-aircraft missiles

June 15, 2013
2:41 am

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)

US plan to arm Syrian rebels receives cool reactions

Moscow doesn’t believe chemical weapons findings, UN chief says increasing the flow of arms to war-torn country ‘would not be helpful’

By Deb Riechmann and Lolita C. Baldor

June 13, 2013
9:07 pm

Michael Walzer at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, June 12, 2013 (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)

US should stay out of Syria, American expert warns

With no ‘good’ side to support, Michael Walzer says Washington should increase humanitarian aid rather than intervene militarily

By Elhanan Miller

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
2:21 am

Illustrative photo of Iraqis inspecting the scene of a car bomb attack in the Ameen neighborhood of eastern Baghdad, Iraq (photo credit: AP/ Khalid Mohammed)

Iraq increasingly drawn into Syrian battlefield

Spike in sectarian killings in Iraq believed to be fed by civil war raging across porous border

By Adam Schreck

June 11, 2013
11:21 pm

Members of the Lebanese Red Cross help a Syrian man who was wounded in Qusair, Syria, during battles between the rebels and the Syrian government forces, at a hospital in the Bekaa Valley, east of Beirut, Lebanon, on Saturday, June 8, 2013. (photo credit: AP/file photo)

Loss of Qusair leaves rebels’ spirits shattered

Divided opposition calls for changes in tactics, such as attacks on bases to seize weapons, increased suicide bombings in regime areas

By Sarah El Deeb

June 11, 2013
8:37 pm

A French soldier holds the launch tube of an SA-7 surface-to-air missile before its destruction in Timbuktu, northern Mali, on March 29, 2013. (photo credit: AP/ECPAD, Olivier Debes)

Al-Qaeda may possess feared surface-to-air missiles

Training manual on how to use weapon found in Timbuktu; same missile was fired at a plane carrying 271 Israelis from Kenya in 2002

By Rukmini Callimachi

June 11, 2013
6:00 pm

A UN peacekeeper from the UNDOF force stands guard on a watch tower at the Quneitra Crossing between Syria and the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, on Friday, March 8, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit)

Austria begins pullout from Golan peacekeeping force

Some 80 troops to land in Vienna tomorrow; withdrawal of the 380-strong contingent to be completed within four weeks

By Times of Israel staff

June 10, 2013
10:32 pm

Secretary John Kerry with President Shimon Peres and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the World Economic Forum in Jordan in late May 2013 (photo credit: AP)

Kerry postpones Israel visit

US secretary of state currently attending strategy sessions on Syria, puts fifth Middle East visit on back burner

June 10, 2013
8:18 am

Al-Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra fighters bearing arms and the group's flag after an attack on a Syrian army convoy in March. (photo credit: image capture/YouTube)

Islamists said to execute 15-year-old Syrian boy for heresy

From the web Reuters: Aleppo teen shot after he was overheard making comments against the Prophet Muhammad

June 10, 2013
5:30 am

Rebels from the al-Qaeda affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra sit on a truck full of ammunition in northern Syria, January 11, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Edlib News Network ENN)

France studies how to track arms for Syrian rebels

West is considering arming opposition forces, but seeks ways to prevent weapons from falling into the wrong hands

By Jamey Keaten

June 10, 2013
2:34 am

A rocket fired by Syrian rebels in Qusair, Syria, May 28 (photo credit: Ugarit news/AP)

‘US close to OK on arming Syrian rebels’

Opposition leaders’ warning that rebellion could face devastating losses without greater support prompts the Obama administration to consider taking drastic action

By Bradley Klapper

Topic: Syrian rebels

Syrian troops capture Damascus suburb near airport

Regime soldiers and rebels have been fighting sporadically in the area since late Friday

Russia: US no-fly zone over Syria would be illegal

FM Lavrov says using air defense systems in Jordan to potentially shoot down Syria planes would violate international law

Sources: US aid to Syria rebels likely to include mortars, RPGs

From the web Reuters: Weapons to reach opposition forces in 2-3 weeks via Turkey and Jordan; shipment won’t include anti-aircraft missiles

US plan to arm Syrian rebels receives cool reactions

Moscow doesn’t believe chemical weapons findings, UN chief says increasing the flow of arms to war-torn country ‘would not be helpful’

US should stay out of Syria, American expert warns

With no ‘good’ side to support, Michael Walzer says Washington should increase humanitarian aid rather than intervene militarily

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

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

Iraq increasingly drawn into Syrian battlefield

Spike in sectarian killings in Iraq believed to be fed by civil war raging across porous border

Loss of Qusair leaves rebels’ spirits shattered

Divided opposition calls for changes in tactics, such as attacks on bases to seize weapons, increased suicide bombings in regime areas

Al-Qaeda may possess feared surface-to-air missiles

Training manual on how to use weapon found in Timbuktu; same missile was fired at a plane carrying 271 Israelis from Kenya in 2002

Austria begins pullout from Golan peacekeeping force

Some 80 troops to land in Vienna tomorrow; withdrawal of the 380-strong contingent to be completed within four weeks

Kerry postpones Israel visit

US secretary of state currently attending strategy sessions on Syria, puts fifth Middle East visit on back burner

Islamists said to execute 15-year-old Syrian boy for heresy

From the web Reuters: Aleppo teen shot after he was overheard making comments against the Prophet Muhammad

France studies how to track arms for Syrian rebels

West is considering arming opposition forces, but seeks ways to prevent weapons from falling into the wrong hands

‘US close to OK on arming Syrian rebels’

Opposition leaders’ warning that rebellion could face devastating losses without greater support prompts the Obama administration to consider taking drastic action

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