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An officer of the Cape Ray, a ship equipped to neutralize Syrian chemicals docked at the naval base of Rota on Spain’s southwestern coast on Thursday, April 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Alfonso Perez)
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A sharp increase in the number of al-Qaida linked fighters joining the fight against President Bashar Assad in Syria is threatening to spill over the borders and prompting the Jewish state to re-evaluate its policy of neutrality in the civil war next door, a senior Israeli intelligence official warned on Friday, Jan. 24, 2014. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because military regulations prevent him from releasing the information, claimed more than 30,000 al-Qaida linked fighters are active in Syria, more than double previous Western estimates. (AP PHOTOS)
Opinion: A Mixed Record
When US investigative journalist and author Seymour Hersh writes an article accusing Turkish intelligence of involvement in the chemical attack in Syria’s suburb of Ghouta last summer, we must pause, and reconsider previous accusations made against the Syrian regime...Caption:
A man, affected by what activists say was a gas attack, breathes through an oxygen mask inside a field hospital in the Kfar Zeita village in the central province of Hama on April 12, 2014. (Reuters/Stringer)
Syrian opposition claims has evidence of chlorine gas attack
Beirut, Reuters—Syrian opposition activists have posted photographs and video footage they say shows an improvised chlorine bomb to back up claims that President Bashar Al-Assad’s forces used chemical weapons in two attacks last week. Rebels and the government...Caption:
Forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad are seen in the Qalamoun mountains north of Damascus. Syria’s army ambushed Islamist fighters in the Qalamoun mountains north of the capital Damascus on Friday, leaving as many as 60 people dead, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said (REUTERS/SANA/Handout via Reuters)
Syrian rebels seek “war of attrition” in Qalamoun
Beirut and London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Syrian opposition battalions said they were seeking to embroil the regime in a “war of attrition” in Rif Dimashq, as reports said that American and British authorities were investigating claims of chemical weapons use by the Assad...Caption:
A crew member of the Norwegian frigate KNM ‘Helge Ingstad’ completing a gas safety practice onboard the vessel at an undisclosed location in the Mediterranean Sea, 30 December 2013. (EPA/LARS MAGNE HOVTUN / NORWEGIAN ARMED FORCES / HANDOUT)