NATO to ‘defend Turkey’ over Syria as border attacks intensify

11-12-2012 • http://english.alarabiya.net, By Al Arabiya with A

NATO will defend alliance member Turkey, which struck back after mortar rounds fired from Syria landed inside its border, the alliance’s Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said at a meeting in Prague on Monday.

UK troops 'may be sent to Syrian borders'

11-12-2012 • http://www.independent, Andy Mcsmith

British troops could be deployed around Syria's borders in the event of a worsening humanitarian crisis, the head of the armed forces warned yesterday.

NATO chief says alliance will defend Turkey over Syria

11-12-2012 • Reuters

NATO will defend alliance member Turkey, which struck back after mortar rounds fired from Syria landed inside its border, the alliance's Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said at a meeting in Prague on Monday.

Syrian opposition group elects new leaders in effort to restructure and maintain U.S. support

11-07-2012 • Washington Post

The Syrian National Council voted for new leaders at a conference here , a last-ditch attempt to restructure the organization into a more inclusive body and maintain U.S. support. The United States has been increasingly frustrated with infighting

Russian FM: Syrian Rebels Have 50 US Stinger Missiles

11-07-2012 • http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz

Urges Talks to End Civil War as Rebels Threaten Planes

US and the Chalabi-ization of Syria

11-04-2012 • Lew Rockwell blog

Concerned that US/Saudi/Israeli/Qatari-supported al-Qaeda rebels in Syria look too much like, well, al-Qaeda members, the US has announced that it prefers to create a whole new opposition in Syria.

In Turkey, Syria poses a new test for Erdogan’s authority

11-04-2012 • Washington Post

Prime Minister Erdogan emerged during the past decade as a transformative leader of Turkey, pledging to make his country a model of Muslim democracy while presiding over an economic miracle of China-like growth and building a new brand of neo-Ottoman

Syria army quits base on strategic Aleppo road

11-02-2012 • Reuters

The Syrian army abandoned its last base near the northern town of Saraqeb after a fierce assault by rebels, further isolating the strategically important second city Aleppo from the capital. But in a political setback to forces battling to topple

Syrian rebels kill 28 soldiers, several executed

11-01-2012 • Reuters

Anti-government rebels killed 28 soldiers in attacks on 3 army checkpoints around Saraqeb, a town on Syria's main north-south highway. Some of the dead were shot after they had surrendered. Rebels berated them, calling them "Assad's Dogs",

Syria conflict live: what next after failed ceasefire?

10-30-2012 • guardian.co.uk

Britain's foreign secretary William Hague has called on the fractured Syrian opposition to do more to unite, but said he hopeful that it can form a transition government.

Russia: Syria rebels have US-made shoulder fired missiles

10-24-2012 • BBC News

A senior Russian general has said Syrian rebels have anti-aircraft weapons, including US-made Stingers. Gen Nikolai Makarov was quoted by the Interfax news service as saying the origin of the surface-to-air missiles should be "cleared up".

US Blasts Syrian Govt. Because Rebels Attacked Jordanian Troops

10-23-2012 • http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz

With sectarian spillover from the Syrian Civil War continuing to boil over in Lebanon over the weekend, Syrian rebel fighters attacked a group of Jordanian troops along the border, killing one and suggesting that yet another nation bordering Syria is

Anxious Turks suspect US plot is behind Syria's implosion

10-22-2012 • http://www.csmonitor.com, By Emiko Jozuka

Locals in eastern Turkey, bearing the brunt of the fallout from Turkey's involvement in Syria, believe Ankara is merely a pawn in US plans to foment conflict in the region.

U.S. steps up support of Turkey amid Syrian conflict

10-19-2012 • Washington Post

The US government is intensifying its intelligence sharing and military consultations with Turkey behind the scenes as both countries confront the Syria’s civil conflict could escalate into a regional war, according to US and NATO officials.

Beirut bomb kills anti-Syrian intelligence official

10-19-2012 • By Oliver Holmes and Mariam Karouny

A prominent Lebanese intelligence official opposed to President Bashar al-Assad was killed in a huge car bomb in Beirut in another sign that Syria's civil war is dragging its volatile neighbor into the conflict.

Rebel Arms Flow Is Said to Benefit Jihadists in Syria

10-17-2012 • New York Times

Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the government of Bashar al-Assad are going to hard-line Islamic jihadists, and not the secular groups the West wants to bolster,

Iraqi Shi'ite militants fight for Syria's Assad

10-17-2012 • Reuters

Scores of Iraqi Shi'ite militants are fighting in Syria, often alongside President Bashar al-Assad's troops, and pledging loyalty to Iran's supreme Shi'ite religious leader, according to militia fighters and politicians in Iraq.

Armenian plane en route to Syria searched in Turkey

10-16-2012 • Reuters

Turkey ordered an Armenian plane flying to the Syrian city of Aleppo to land and searched its cargo on Monday, in the latest move to prevent its airspace being used to supply the Syrian military. The plane was allowed to continue on its way after

Everything Could Be About To Change In Syria

10-16-2012 • Business Insider

Syria's rebellion may have just put themselves in the best possible to topple President Bashar al-Assad to date.

Syrian rivals battle over strategic cities

10-15-2012 • Aljazeera

Rebels push Syrian army out of Maarat Al Numan as fighting over vital northern cities intensifies.

Russia: Syria Jet Carrying Perfectly Legal Radar Parts

10-14-2012 • AntiWar

While the Turkish government has refused to provide any details about the supposedly “objectionable” material they seized from a detained Syrian passenger plane this week, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov has provided some details.

Syria: New Evidence Military Dropped Cluster Bombs

10-14-2012 • Huffington Post.

New evidence has emerged that the Syrian air force has used cluster munitions in recent days, Human Rights Watch said today.

Missing journalist in Syria possibly kidnapped

10-13-2012 • RT.com

A 40-year-old Ukrainian journalist collaborating with several Russian news outlets went missing in Syria. Colleagues and relatives believe she may have been kidnapped.

Turkey condemns U.N. inertia as Syrian conflict deepens

10-13-2012 • Reuters

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan rebuked the U.N. Security Council for inaction over Syria on Saturday as war intensified across the country, saying the world body of superpowers was repeating mistakes that led to massacres in Bosnia in the 1990

Syrian opposition 'captures' soldiers

10-13-2012 • Aljazeera

Syrian opposition fighters release video claiming they have captured more than 200 prisoners in the province of Idlib.

Turkey deploys fighter jets to Syria border after frontier village allegedly bombed – reports

10-12-2012 • rt.com

According to witnesses, Turkey scrambled two fighter jets to the Syrian border in response to an army helicopter bombing the Syrian border town of Azmarin, Reuters reported.