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Still time for diplomacy on Iran weapons: US
Diplomacy can still solve the crisis over Iran’s suspect nuclear program, the United States said Wednesday, adding that it had relayed the message to close ally Israel. Tensions are taut between Israel and Iran amid threats by the Jewish state to attack nuclear facilities in the Islamic republic to prevent it from reaching nuclear weapons [...]
Syria rebels ‘aided by British intelligence’
British intelligence on Syrian troop movements is helping rebels launch successful attacks on regime forces, a Sunday newspaper reported, quoting an opposition official. The Sunday Times weekly said the disclosure by the official was the first indication that British intelligence was playing a covert role in the anti-regime revolt which first erupted in March 2011. [...]
Israel has not decided on Iran strike: US defense chief
Israel has not yet decided whether to strike Iran over its suspect nuclear program, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said, as Tehran dismissed the threat of an imminent attack. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak in recent days had stiffened their rhetoric on Iran, suggesting they were thinking more seriously of [...]
Syria rebels claim jet downing as army advances
Syrian rebels claimed they downed a fighter jet Monday in what would be a major coup for the opposition, but the regime seized the upper hand in Aleppo as it advanced into a new rebel-held district. President Bashar al-Assad’s regime meanwhile faced mounting pressure as foreign ministers called for Syria to be suspended from the [...]
Syria army claims control of Aleppo rebel redoubt
Syria said its troops seized a rebel-held Aleppo district on Wednesday after storming it and “annihilating” most of the insurgents, as a long-threatened ground assault on the key city was launched. The rebels promptly denied the claim, acknowledging that a “barbaric and savage attack” on the neighbourhood of Salaheddin was under way but later saying [...]
Syrian helicopter gunships strafe Aleppo rebels
Syrian government forces used helicopter gunships to strafe rebel-held districts in Aleppo and shelled the area on the third day of a pitched battle for the commercial capital. The fighting has sent some 200,000 civilians fleeing the northern city, according to the United Nations, which warned of a looming humanitarian catastrophe, while France said it [...]
Russia vows to keep supplying arms to Syria
Russia vowed on Wednesday not to follow a Western arms embargo on Syria and promised new air defence systems and other military components to President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. The announcement came just a day after Russia dispatched a large naval flotilla to the region and appeared aimed at dispelling any suggestion of Moscow dropping its [...]
West trying to ‘distort’ Syria deal says Russia
Russia accused the West of seeking to distort an agreement for a political transition in Syria, after international peace envoy Kofi Annan said a ceasefire was imperative. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov hailed the Geneva accord based on proposals by Annan as an “important step” but said that Western capitals had read more into the [...]
Syria fighter pilot defects in new blow to Assad
A Syrian air force colonel won political asylum after landing his MiG fighter in Jordan, as a watchdog reported the deadliest day of fighting in Syria since the battered April ceasefire. The pilot, who reportedly flew his jet under the radar to safely cross the border, was the first to defect from one of the [...]
