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Kerry Insisted on Attacking Syria….But

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Twenty years ago, in a debate over the war in Bosnia, Madeleine Albright, then the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, issued a challenge to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Colin Powell.

John Kerry

Albright wanted the U.S. to confront an aggressive Serbia; Powell and the Pentagon were hesitant. Albright

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Another Nazi Collared in Hungary

Alleged Former Nazi

Alleged Former Nazi

BUDAPEST, Hungary – Prosecutors on Tuesday charged a 98-year-old who features on Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center’s wanted list with war crimes, saying he had helped to deport Jews to Auschwitz in World War II.

Laszlo Csatary was found guilty in absentia in 1948 of whipping or torturing Jews and

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Putin: Syrian Rebels who Eat Human Flesh Should not be Armed

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, arriving in Britain ahead of an international summit set to be dominated by disagreement over the U.S. decision to send weapons to Syria’s rebels, said the West must not arm fighters who eat human flesh.

In Syria, rebels fought back on Sunday against forces of President Bashar al-Assad and his

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Syrians Training in Iran to Storm Israel

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Thousands of Syrians are currently training in Iran to serve as a force ready to storm Israel’s northern Golan Heights, according to informed Middle Eastern security officials.

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The officials said between 3,000 and 5,000 Syrian men were being trained in the event Syrian President Bashar al-Assad decides to open a front against

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Here we go: Iran Sending 4000 Troops to Syria

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Washington’s decision to arm Syria’s Sunni Muslim rebels has plunged America into the great Sunni-Shia conflict of the Islamic Middle East, entering a struggle that now dwarfs the Arab revolutions which overthrew dictatorships across the region.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard

For the first time, all of America’s ‘friends’ in the region are Sunni Muslims and

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U.S. and Israel Plan How to Target Syria’s Arsenal

A Free Syrian Army fighter wearing a gas mask, carries his weapons as he walks past a damaged tank, after seizing a government military camp used by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, near Idlib, June 13, 2013.

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52 days after an Israeli general publicly declared that Syria has used chemical weapons against rebels, the Obama administration reached the same conclusion, and used the finding to justify announcing it would send small arms to the side of the victims.

A Free Syrian Army fighter wearing a gas mask, carries his weapons as

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Nazi SS Commander Discovered in U.S.

In this May 22, 1990 photo, Michael Karkoc, photographed in Lauderdale, Minn. prior to a visit to Minnesota from Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in early June of 1990. Karkoc a top commander whose Nazi SS-led unit is blamed for burning villages filled with women and children lied to American immigration officials to get into the United States and has been living in Minnesota since shortly after World War II, according to evidence uncovered by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/The St. Paul Pioneer Press, Chris Polydoroff)

A top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit accused of burning villages filled with women and children lied to American immigration officials to get into the United States and has been living in Minnesota since shortly after World War II, according to evidence uncovered by The Associated Press.

In this May 22, 1990 photo,

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U.S. Proposes to Enact No Fly Zone Over Syria

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The United States has conclusive evidence that Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime has used chemical weapons against rebel forces and is now proposing a no-fly zone in the country.

The use of weapons such as the nerve agent sarin crosses what President Barack Obama has called a ‘red line’ that would trigger greater American

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Whitehouse: Red Line Crossed in Syria, Chemical Weapons Used

Rebel fighters fire at government forces in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Sunday, May 12.

Syria has crossed a “red line” with its use of chemical weapons, including the nerve agent sarin gas, against rebels, a move that is prompting the United States to increase the “scale and scope” of its support for the opposition, the White House said Thursday.

Rebel fighters fire at government forces in the northern

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Alleged Ethnic Cleansing by Syrian Rebel Group

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A rebel armed group calling itself “As-Sadiq Al Ameen” has committed what appears to be a massacre against Shia civilians in Deir Ezzor. According to a video that emerged on Tuesday, the group targetted the civilians because they are Shia. Residents say the group is still chasing other “Shia” who had escaped the

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Syrian Rebels Begging for Military Help

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Syria’s opposition leader has said he will not attend planned US and Russian-backed peace talks in Geneva as he urged the world to act over the conflict.

George Sabra, the acting president of the Syrian National Coalition (SNC), said on Saturday that the opposition needed military assistance, not talks.

“Now isn’t the time to

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Putin Offers Peacekeeping Force for Israeli – Syrian Border

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Russia may replace Austrian UN peacekeepers who withdrew from the Golan Heights on the Israel-Syria border. A UN representative has welcomed the proposal, first announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“In view of the complicated situation which is currently unfolding on the Golan Heights, we could replace the Austrian peacekeeping contingent, which is withdrawing from

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Classified documents show CIA didn’t always know who it was killing in drone strikes

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An NBC News review of classified CIA documents for a 14 month period beginning in September 2010 lists 114 drone strikes that killed as many as 613 people. However, in some of those strikes, the CIA did not know the identity of the victims. NBC’s Richard Engel reports.

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UN: Chemical Weapons Used by Both Sides in Syria

Troops Loyal to Assad Patrol area littered with free Syrian Army Dead

There is evidence that chemical weapons may have been used by both sides in the Syrian civil war, says a new UN report.

Troops Loyal to Assad Patrol area littered with free Syrian Army Dead

The report found “reasonable grounds” to believe that chemical weapons had been used on four occasions in March and

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Assad Confirms: Syria has Received Advanced Anti-Aircraft Missiles from Russia

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BEIRUT, Lebanon — President Bashar al-Assad of Syria said in a television interview to be broadcast on Thursday that Russia has delivered S-300 air defense missiles to his country, weapons that Israel has said present a threat to its security and against which it is willing to use force.

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Russia has now Delivered s-300 Anti-Aircraft System to Syria

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The failure of the European Union to agree on a new arms embargo for Syria is undermining the peace process, Moscow says. But the delivery of S-300 surface-to-air missiles may help restrain warmongers.

The comments come from Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov, referring to the results of Monday’s meeting in Brussels. After a

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Israel Alludes to Consequences if Russia Delivers Anti-Aircraft Weapons to Syria

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Israel “will know what to do” if Russia delivers anti-aircraft missiles to Syria, its defence minister said Tuesday, in an apparent allusion to another air strike on the war-torn neighbouring country.

Assad and Putin

“The deliveries have not taken place, and I hope they do not. But if, by misfortune, they arrive in Syria,

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Senator McCain Meets with Syrian Rebel Commanders

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Sen. John McCain visited rebels in Syria on Monday, his communications director confirmed to CNN, making the Arizona Republican the highest ranking elected official from the United States to visit the war-torn country.

Brian Rogers confirmed a report that originally appeared on The Daily Beast, which indicated McCain entered Syria through Turkey, and remained

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French Newspaper Insist Chemical Weapons Being Used in Syria

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PARIS (Reuters) – Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have repeatedly used chemical weapons against rebel fighters in Damascus, according to first-hand accounts in France’s Le Monde newspaper.

The newspaper, in a report issued

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U.S. Senate Declares Support for Israeli Attack on Iran

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Vote urging support should Israel be forced to act passes Senate unanimously; ‘resolution makes clear nuclear Iran not an option’ co-sponsor says.

In a show of force, the United States Senate on Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution urging an uncompromising US stance against Iranian efforts to acquire nuclear weapons,

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