Congress secretly approves U.S. weapons flow to ‘moderate’ Syrian rebels
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-syria-rebels-20140127,0,3701116.story
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Light arms supplied by the United States are flowing to "moderate" Syrian rebel factions in the south of the country and U.S. funding for months of further deliveries has been approved...
Iran Increases Aid to PFLP
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/09/iran-pflp-gaza-palestine-syria.html
GAZA CITY, Gaza - The relationship between the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Islamic Republic of Iran has gone from an impasse - when Iran was supporting Islamist movements...
Egyptian government seizes Brotherhood assets
http://www.aawsat.net/2014/01/article55326297
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat-Government sources told Asharq Al-Awsat on Tuesday that Egyptian authorities had ordered the seizure of the assets of hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood members because it suspected them of “funding terrorism.”
Dr Hisham Kamal,...
ICSR Insight: Up to 11,000 foreign fighters in Syria; steep rise among Western Europeans
http://icsr.info/2013/12/icsr-insight-11000-foreign-fighters-syria-steep-rise-among-western-europeans/
Since ICSR published its first estimate in April, the issue of foreign fighters in Syria has become a major concern for Western governments. More reports have emerged since, though few have accurately gauged the...
The Changing of the Tide in the Syrian Civil War
http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=6213
The tide is changing in the Syrian civil war. Bashar al-Assad and his regime are gaining momentum, the opposition is weakening, and some of its major traditional supporters seem to be reconsidering their position....
A LOOK AT INTERNATIONAL SURVEY DATA ABOUT ARAB OPINION
http://www.gloria-center.org/2013/12/a-look-at-international-survey-data-about-arab-opinion/
This article evaluates Arab public opinion with the “Arab Opinion Index” by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS) in Doha, Qatar. The Index covers 12 Arab countries with 85 percent...
Aid for Palestinians: Breaking Down Walls or Building Them Higher?
http://www.brownpoliticalreview.org/2013/10/aid-for-palestinians-breaking-down-walls-or-building-them-higher/
A photo of a UNRWA school in Gaza after it was shelled by Israeli forces. Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons.
The UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international...
The Al-Nusra Front (Jabhat al-Nusra) is an Al-Qaeda Salafist-jihadi network, prominent in the rebel...
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/article/20573
Al-Qaeda Entrenchment in Syria
1. During the Syrian civil war two branches of Al-Qaeda established themselves among the rebel organizations fighting to overthrow the regime of Bashar Assad. The most prominent is the Al-Nusra...
The UNRWA Dilemma
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3979/unrwa-dilemma
The Palestinian people, according to a recent study by the Jerusalem Institute of Justice, have received per capita, adjusted for inflation, 25 times more aid than did Europeans to rebuild war-torn Western Europe under...
A United States Attack on Syria: Implications for Israel INSS
http://www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=11991
On Wednesday, August 28, 2013, President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron affirmed that a chemical weapons attack had taken place in Syria the previous week and "there was no doubt that...