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Awakening threatens to turn on the Iraqi government
Two senior Awakening leaders in Anbar announced the formation of the “Army of Pride and Dignity,” whose purpose is “to protect our province” from the Iraqi government.
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Kyrgyzstan
Families Fear Kyrgyz Sons Are Making Way To Syrian Battlefield
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Hezbollah
The foreign jihadists fighting in Syria – for Assad’s regime
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Syria
Possible Syria chemical arms ’embarrassing’ for US
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Syria
Revealed: tragic victims of Syria’s nerve gas war
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Syria
US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said that the military has evidence that the Syrian government has used sarin twice “on a small scale.” Young men from Kyrgyzstan are beginning to join rebel groups in Syria.
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Syria
Obama Looking for Reasons to Delay Response to Syria’s Chemical Weapons Use
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Syria
Syria Campaigns to Persuade U.S. to Change Sides
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Syria
U.S. Sees No Conclusive Evidence of Chemical Arms Use by Syria
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Syria
An Electricity Ministry official was killed by an IED attack on his car; several government officials have been assassinated in recent weeks. Two Syrian bishops abducted last week are still missing. Rebels have threatened to take the conflict into Lebanon.
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Israel
Why did the IDF’s top analyst drop his Syria WMD bombshell?
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European Union
Hundreds of Europeans fighting in Syria, says EU expert
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Lebanon
Syrian War Increasingly Drawing in Lebanon
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Syria
Israel alleged that Syrian government forces had used chemical weapons, but US officials remained skeptical. Two Syrian bishops who had been abducted were reportedly freed; they are said to have been kidnapped by non-Syrians who spoke Arabic. The reports of their release have not been confirmed.
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Syria
The EU for the first time relaxed Syrian sanctions, in order to ease shortages and provide economic support in rebel-held areas; the export of crude oil from those areas will be allowed, as will EU investments and the import of gas and oil technology. Gunmen kidnapped a Greek Orthodox bishop and an Assyrian Orthodox bishop as they traveled in a rebel-held area from Turkey to Aleppo; the gunmen killed the bishops’ driver. Government forces are focusing on Damascus and strategic areas connecting the capital with Homs and the coast.
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Qatar
Qatar is focus as US weighs concerns about arming Syrian extremists
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Syria
In Syria, kidnappings on the rise as lawlessness spreads
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Israel
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu casts wary eye over region
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Syria
Syria Opposition Seeks Airstrikes Against Military
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Israel
Uncertainty behind US escalation on Syria
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Syria
Clashes between the Al Nusrah Front and villagers from al Masreb in Deir Ezzour resulted in the deaths of 17 villagers and 20 Nusrah fighters; Al Nusrah also took 13 villagers captive and burned houses in the village. The director of the Aleppo mosque has disappeared since being taken by government forces on April 9. Heavy fighting continued in Homs near the contested town of Qusair, close to the border with Lebanon.
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Iraq
Iraq Failing Security Test Ahead Of Vote
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Syria
US Probes Suspicions Syria Used Chemical Weapons
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Britain
Britain, France claim Syria used chemical weapons
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Syria
President Assad accused the West of supporting al Qaeda fighters in Syria and Libya, and warned that the militants would later strike back at the US and Europe. He also accused Jordan of allowing thousands of anti-regime fighters to enter Syria. US intelligence is reviewing allegations that the Assad regime has used chemical weapons. Rebels captured a military base in Homs.
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Syria
U.S. takes step toward possible military intervention in Syria
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Syria
Top Obama Officials Differ on Syrian Rebels in Testimony to Congress
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Free Syrian Army
The New Mujahideen – Yemeni fighters to support the Free Syrian Army
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Egypt
Egyptian Fighters Join The ‘Lesser Jihad’ in Syria
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Syria
Rebel forces repelled a government attempt in Idlib to capture the main highway into Aleppo; the artery remains contested. Rebels have advanced near the Turkish and Jordanian borders, while government forces have held on to central Damascus and over half of Homs. Tensions between Islamist and more moderate rebel forces are said to have hampered rebel efforts in Idlib. Many of the latter forces have moved on to towns in the northeast recently seized by Islamist brigades, including Raqqa. Four non-Syrian jihadists with the Al Nusrah Front were killed in Aleppo.
