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At least 500 Iraqi police have been moved near the Syrian border. The recent raid inside Syrian borders by U.S. drones has caused a huge backlash within Syria, including a reduction of Syrian troops along the border to stop smuggling and other cross-border activities. Iraq now seems to be bearing much of the material costs [...]
Witnesses in Lebanon are already confirming a troop build-up on the border with Syria, in a move that the two countries say they hope will reduce illegal border-crossing. At the same time, initial reports seem to confirm that Syria is removing some of the additional troops it had put on the border with Iraq towards [...]
The political situation in Syria has intensified as the Syrian government has apparently staged a protest a few blocks away from the U.S. Embassy in Damascus. It was carried on the state-sponsored news agency in Syria (SANA), and ended peacefully. Whether or not the protest was staged, pressure appears to be ratcheting up on the [...]
Syria’s Foreign Minister, Walid al-Moualem, has called on Lebanon to cooperate in securing their nations’ border. Moualem declared that “The question of the border between Syria and Lebanon needs two actions: delineation (of the frontier) and Syrian-Lebanese security cooperation,” adding that at present “Nobody can control the border with Lebanon.” Border security has long been [...]
