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473 articles tagged "Syria"
DEBKAfile
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January 21, 2007, 8:20 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Lebanon war and a fistful of Iranian petrodollars impel Syrian president Bashar Asad to haul his armed forces into the present. DEBKA-Net-Weekly 284 of Jan. 5, 207, revealed his latest acquisition: the sophisticated Russian S-300PMU2 FAVORIT air defense system. Two new mechanized divisions are under construction raising the ...
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January 15, 2007, 4:40 PM (GMT+02:00)
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The Lebanon war and a fistful of Iranian petrodollars have impelled Syrian president Bashar Asad to haul his armed forces into the present. DEBKA-Net-Weekly 284 of Jan. 5, 207, revealed his latest acquisition: the sophisticated Russian S-300PMU2 FAVORIT air defense system, ... 
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December 19, 2006, 7:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
He has equipped Syrian divisions on the Golan front with Israel with anti-tank and anti-air rockets, has been promised sophisticated Russian Tor-M1 anti-air anti-missile missile systems and will ask Russia to upgrade his 4,500 Soviet-made tanks.
debkafile has the details in its Exclusive Military Report below. 
DEBKAfile
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December 19, 2006, 1:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
Syrian president Bashar Asad arrived in Moscow Monday night, Dec. 18, with two items for his host, President Vladimir Putin: A shopping list for weapons and half a billion dollars put up by Iran - in cash if needed - to purchase Russian arms.
In recent months, Tehran has been ... 
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October 16, 2006, 9:29 PM (GMT+02:00)
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Expectations of an impending full-scale Israeli ground operation in the Gaza Strip were sent up a notch this week by the worrying news military intelligence AMAN chiefs put before the cabinet on Oct. 15. Maj.-Gen Amos Yadlin and head of AMAN's ... 
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July 29, 2006, 2:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Lebanon war raging between Israel and HIzballah took an alarming detour Friday, July 28, when, according to debkafile's military sources, Syrian air defense batteries ambushed and shot down an Israeli spy drone flying on the Lebanese side of the border with Syria.
These drones have been used ...
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January 9, 2006, 11:52 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's intelligence and counter-terror sources report that Saudi foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal arrived in Damascus first thing Sunday morning Jan 8 with an royal order for President Bashar Assad to present himself without delay to King Abdullah in Jeddah. The Saudis were racing against time to put ...
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November 26, 2005, 1:29 PM (GMT+02:00)
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debkafile's sources close to the investigation report that Syrian president Bashar Assad has managed to hold back his strongman brother-in-law Gen. Assef Shawqat from interrogation at UN headquarters in Vienna as a suspect in the Hariri assassination. By Friday night, ... 
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November 18, 2005, 2:11 PM (GMT+02:00)
The threat of military action was embedded in the UN Security Council resolution. It was reinforced by US Secretary of state Condoleezza Rice when she spoke of "serious' consequences" - diplomatic parlance for military action - should Syria fail to cooperate with the final and conclusive part of UN investigator ...
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October 23, 2005, 11:10 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Syrian leadership has gathered itself in for the next shock after the UN Hariri investigation's findings drawn up by Detlev Mehlis implicated President Bashar Assad's close family circle in the assassination of Lebanese leader Rafiq Hariri last February. This Assad foursome is now locked in together in stifling proximity. ...
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October 21, 2005, 10:41 AM (GMT+02:00)
Converging evidence points at both Lebanese and Syrian involvement in the assassination plot against former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri on February 14, 2005. This was the primary conclusion of UN investigator Detlev Mehlis whose interim report is to be submitted Friday to the UN Security Council and the Lebanese ...
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October 10, 2005, 12:29 PM (GMT+02:00)
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October 4, 2005, 10:20 AM (GMT+02:00)
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How to save Syrian president Bashar Assad and his regime from toppling - or rather how to save him from himself? This was the main topic exercising Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and Saudi King Abdullah when they put their heads together in ...
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June 4, 2005, 11:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
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To subscribe to DEBKA-Net-Weekly click HERE. Last week, Syrian test-fired one elderly Scud B (200km range) and two Scud D (700km range) missiles, capable of delivering air-burst chemical weapons. Syria's missiles are routinely tested every summer. This time, Damascus took particular care to ... 
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April 11, 2005, 2:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
Syrian president Bashar Assad is trying to turn his back on the fiasco of his exit from Lebanon and shore up his regime by a secret crash reform program - although one that is careful not to put the presidency on the block. Stage one took place in total hush ...
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March 5, 2005, 11:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
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To subscribe to DEBKA-Net-Weekly click HERE. Syrian ruler Bashar Assad gave nothing away on Lebanon in his unscheduled address to parliament in Damascus Saturday, March 5. Repeatedly contradicting himself, he said: "We will not stay one day if Lebanese consensus asks us ... 
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February 19, 2005, 11:24 PM (GMT+02:00)
Monday, February 21, presidents George W. Bush and Jacques Chirac meet in Paris. With Lebanon at the forefront of their agenda, they will have to look hard at some tough questions. How to handle the situation if Assad orders his Syrian troops in Lebanon to march on Beirut in defense ...
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February 15, 2005, 12:09 AM (GMT+02:00)
(See earlier Exclusive Analysis:Syrian Military Intelligence Eliminates Hariri and Reform Hopes for Lebanon)
Just hours after former prime minister Rafiq Hariri was murdered in a massive car bomb explosion outside the five-star Saint Georges Hotel on Beirut's seafront Monday, February 14, enraged Lebanese Muslim, Christian, Druse opposition leaders declared the pro-Syrian ... 
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February 14, 2005, 4:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
Monday, February 14, Rafiq Hariri, five times Lebanese prime minister, multibillionaire, builder of a country devastated by 15 years of civil war, was assassinated by a huge car bomb that ravaged the Lebanese capital's seafront. Two ministers in his party and 6 of his bodyguards, including its chief Yahya Al ...
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January 12, 2005, 7:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
Disturbing reports were coming out of the Russian capital Wednesday, January 12, about Russian president Vladimir Putin's plan to accede to Syria's request for advanced weaponry during president Bashar Assad's visit to Moscow on January 24. debkafile's US and Israeli security sources quickly contradicted reports that 18 Iskander-M ...
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