Tag: Syria
Posted on Sat May 04, 2013 at 07:28:00 AM EST
Tags: Syria, Israel (all tags)
Israel has not yet officially confirmed the news, but everyone else, from the BBC to Al Jazeera to the New York Times, is reporting that Israel launched an airstrike in Syria. An Israeli spokesman says:
“Israel is determined to prevent the transfer of chemical weapons or other game-changing weaponry by the Syrian regime to terrorists, specially to Hezbollah in Lebanon.”
U.S. officials on the other hand say:
US officials say the Israeli air strike happened overnight Thursday into Friday, but the aircraft did not enter Syrian airspace. [More...]
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Posted on Mon Feb 06, 2012 at 12:39:59 PM EST
Tags: Syria (all tags)
The State Department issued a notice today that the U.S. Embassy in Syria has closed and all employees have left the country.
The recent surge in violence, including bombings in Damascus on December 23 and January 6, has raised serious concerns that our Embassy is not sufficiently protected from armed attack. We, along with several other diplomatic missions, conveyed our security concerns to the Syrian Government but the regime failed to respond adequately.
The violence in Syria continues to escalate.
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