The United States has taken notice of a regular flight between Tehran, Damascus, and Caracas. The “commercial flight” run by Venezuelan Canviasa Airlines is closed to the public, and no public records are available for who or what is on the flight. It seems that no one goes through customs or immigration when they travel on [...]
Categories: Iran, South/Central America, Syria, Terrorism
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The Israeli government began distributing gas masks to its 7 million citizens on Sunday. This is a return to a precaution that has not been seen since the Gulf War of 1991.
The recent escalation in rhetoric on both sides of the Israeli-Syrian border has, once again, raised the profile of the relationship between the two countries. Defence Minister Ehud Barak told a gathering of senior IDF officers last week that, in the absence of a peace deal, Israel could find itself at war with Syria. Syrian [...]
Categories: Arab World, Golan Heights, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Peace Process, Syria, Turkey
The past week has contained a number of announcements which are significant to politics in the Middle East. While these events were all reported in the international press, they seem to have been downplayed for reasons that are not easy to explain. Perhaps the Copenhagen summit was stealing all the main headlines, or maybe the [...]
Categories: Hamas, Hezbollah, Peace Process, Syria
The Israeli Navy boarded a German ship based in Cyprus headed to Syria from Iran that contained 500 tons of weapons. The weapons, likely destined to Hezbollah officials, filled 40 of the 300 shipping containers on the Francop, flying the Antigua flag.
Syrian leaders are trying to warm up to the US as their main ally, Iran, is falling apart. Syria’s loyalty is as strong as the grass is green. It is currently greener on the other side of the hill. In trying to mend sour Syrian-US relations, Damascus leaders sent Barack Obama an invitation to take [...]
Categories: Syria, United States of America
It is reported today that Syria has asked the US to inform Israel that it is ready to renew the channel of indirect peace negotiations via Turkey. The Turkish Foreign Minister told US officials that Damascus wishes to pick up from where the sides left off. Talks were suspended in December 2008 when both Syria [...]
Categories: Peace Process, Syria, Turkey
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Syrian President Bashar Assad met in Demascus to discuss an array of issues. The meeting is proof that the Syria-Iran friendship is still holding strong. In other words, Syria will still do whatever Iran wants. The two came out strong in support of “Palestinian Resistance.” This means that the two [...]
Israeli forces captured a Syrian man who had illegally entered Israel. It appeared that he had entered Israel on foot from the Syrian border. The man was unarmed and was just walking through the Golan when the IDF took him into custody. He apparently did not have hostile intentions and will be sent back to [...]
Categories: Golan Heights, Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Syria
A Druze member of the Likud party, Ayoub Kara, said that he met with several Syrian official in January in Washington, DC. The private, secret meeting was announced today by the MK. He said that a pleasant surprise in peace negotiations with Syria is on the horizon. I find this hard to believe as Syria [...]
Categories: Syria
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