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473 articles tagged "Syria"
DEBKAfile
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June 2, 2008, 11:29 AM (GMT+02:00)
DEBKA-Net-Weekly 350 has revealed that Damascus, in the process of peace talks with Israel, sent a large military delegation to Moscow, headed by air force-air defenses commander Gen. Akhmad Ratyb with an Iranian $5 billion check, to buy the latest Russian missiles, warplanes and other military hardware for the ...
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May 26, 2008, 12:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
The onset of indirect Israel-Syrian peace talks in Istanbul with Turkish mediation was announced simultaneously Wednesday, May 21, in Jerusalem, Damascus and Ankara.
debkafile's Middle East and Washington sources report fury in Washington with Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, who is accused of keeping President George W. Bush ... 
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May 17, 2008, 11:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Middle East sources report that in the last 48 hours, Damascus has broadcast new, intransigent policy positions through diverse channels under the influence of Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert's legal plight and the swift victories its ally, Hizballah, has achieved in Lebanon.
1. Leaders in Olmert's position ... 
DEBKAfile
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May 3, 2008, 10:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Middle East sources report a new bump on the road to a truce in Gaza: The various Palestinian radical factions, led by Hamas, which are negotiating terms in Cairo, want to bring Syria into any ceasefire deal as co-sponsor with Egypt.
Damascus however has laid down its ... 
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May 3, 2008, 10:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
In an interview Sunday, April 27 with the Qatari daily al Watan, Syrian president Bashar Assad said: "We don't want a nuclear bomb, even if Iran acquires one." debkafile's military sources say that was only half true.
What he omitted to mention was the division of labor agreed between ... 
DEBKAfile
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April 30, 2008, 3:29 PM (GMT+02:00)
US and Israel intelligence experts upgrade the chances of president Bashar Assad retaliating for the Israeli attack, which irreparably damaged the secret nuclear North Korea built for him in eastern Syria - now that the episode is out in the open. debkafile quotes those experts as recalling Saddam ...
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April 30, 2008, 10:57 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's counter-terror sources report that Hisham Faiz Abu Libda, Khaled Meshaal's chef de bureau, was killed in Damascus by a hit-and-run car. Syrian authorities have ordered a blackout on the incident. His was the second mysterious death of a high-profile terrorist in the Syrian capital in recent weeks ...
DEBKAfile
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April 23, 2008, 9:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Syrian ruler Bashar Assad made this statement in a speech in Damascus reported Thursday, April 17.
Earlier this week, debkafile's military sources reported that Damascus has deployed the 10th armored corps at the Massaneh crossing of Mount Hermon. It links up with the northwestern positions the 14th division ... 
DEBKAfile
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April 11, 2008, 8:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Middle East and intelligence sources report that President Bashar Assad has fallen out with his brother-in-law Gen. Asif Shawqat, sacked him as military intelligence chief and appointed Gen. Aly Younes in his place.
Our Washington sources report that Assad decided at the last minute to hold back ...
DEBKAfile
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April 8, 2008, 11:04 AM (GMT+02:00)
How real are they and how far are Iran and Hizballah involved?
The latest DEBKA-Net-Weekly's exclusive offers forward insights to judge whether these sparks are a flash in the pan or the portents of a real conflagration. It also reveals how Iran exploited the Basra crisis for major inroads on southern ... 
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April 7, 2008, 9:13 AM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's security cabinet convened Wednesday, April 2, to examine the homeland's preparedness for war. It decided to redistribute the bio/chemical warfare masks a few months after they were called in. debkafile's military sources disclose intelligence data indicating the possibility that Syria may transfer to Hizballah chemical or biological ...
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March 31, 2008, 8:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile: The Lebanon crisis and its divisive effect on the Arab world loomed large over the annual conference which opened in the Syrian capital March 29. The Syrian hosts were anxious to divert attention from Lebanon by focusing on the Palestinian-Israeli issue and the violence in Gaza. Any ...
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March 27, 2008, 1:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report that the Syrian deployment is backed by the concentration of pro-Syrian Palestinian factions in the Beqaa valley of Lebanon, amid rising war tensions between Hizballah and Israel.
Hassan Nasrallah declared Hizballah would wage "open war" with Israel at the end of the 40-day mourning ... 
DEBKAfile
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March 18, 2008, 9:40 PM (GMT+02:00)
Bashar Assad's strategists are not losing a moment to cash in on the abundant conspiracy theories surrounding the death, to plant one of its own: Mughniyeh, they say, was killed in their capital by their Lebanese enemies.
Therefore, it is feared in Washington and Jerusalem that, while plotting revenge on ... 
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March 16, 2008, 6:12 PM (GMT+02:00)
Syrian militlary intelligence, the main subversive arm of the Bashar regime in Lebanon, has launched a campaign in minor Syrian, Lebanese and Persian Gulf media to blacken the pro-Western prime minister Fouad Siniora as an agent of the Israeli Mossad.
In a tale planted in various websites, blogs and small ... 
DEBKAfile
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February 23, 2008, 12:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military and intelligence sources report fears in Washington and Jerusalem that while plotting revenge on Israel for Iman Mughniyeh's death, Syria may well launch a series of military incursions, spearheaded by Hizballah, to unseat the pro-Western Fouad Siniora government.
Is this typical Syrian opportunism or something more sinister? ... 
DEBKAfile
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February 14, 2008, 4:44 PM (GMT+02:00)
Its agents are planting tales that an Israeli Mossad officer, abetted by the pro-Western Lebanese prime minister, Fouad Siniora, colluded in orchestrating the assassination of former prime minister Rafiq Hariri three years ago. This tale seeks to turn suspicions away from President Bashar Assad's closest aides in Damascus. Another tale ...
DEBKAfile
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December 27, 2007, 1:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
Gen. Assaf Shawqat, head of Syrian military intelligence and president Assad's brother-in-law wrote to his opposite number in Spain: "If you think we are going to ignore the affront inflicted by north-American henchmen on our brother, you don't really know us and you are no friends of the Syrian people."
DEBKAfile
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December 23, 2007, 8:47 AM (GMT+02:00)
In an interview with the Austrian daily Die Presseon Dec. 19, the Syrian ruler claimed he turned down a sales pitch from A.Q. Khan, the Pakistani nuclear black marketeer. debkafile's military and intelligence sources assess this claim as a transparent attempt by Assad to jump aboard the US ...
DEBKAfile
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November 20, 2007, 8:47 AM (GMT+02:00)
Tehran is providing the Syrian capital with an air defense shield at a time when Washington is avidly bidding to win president Bashar Assad away from his alliance with Tehran. In return for sending a delegation to the international conference at Annapolis on Nov. 26, he is being offered an ...
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