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  • U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel (right) and Israeli Minister of Defense Moshe Yaalon speak during a helicopter tour of the Golan Heights on April 22, 2013. (Jim Watson/Getty Images)
    U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel (right) and Israeli Minister of Defense Moshe Yaalon speak during a helicopter tour of the Golan Heights on April 22, 2013. (Jim Watson/Getty Images)
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    Israel Fights America’s Battles

    Why the U.S.-Israel alliance may be returning to its Cold War roots

    byJordan Chandler Hirsch and Sam Kleiner
  • An unmanned UN watchtower stands May 7, 2013, on the Israeli side of the border between the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights and Syria.(Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
    An unmanned UN watchtower stands May 7, 2013, on the Israeli side of the border between the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights and Syria.(Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
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    The Golan Heights Chimera

    How Israel’s annexation* of the contested border region continues to keep the peace

    byLee Smith
  • Israeli soldiers in an abandoned military outpost overlooking the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria on Tal Hazika near Alonei Habshan in the Golan Heights on November 15, 2012. (AFP/Getty Images)
    Israeli soldiers in an abandoned military outpost overlooking the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria on Tal Hazika near Alonei Habshan in the Golan Heights on November 15, 2012. (AFP/Getty Images)
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    Israel’s Next Front: Syria

    The Israeli-Syrian border is quiet no more, as armed Islamist rebels pledge to take back the Golan Heights

    byDavid Schenker
  • A member of Liwa Salahadin, a Kurdish military unit fighting along side rebel fighters, aims at a regime fighter in Aleppo on December 6, 2012.(Javier Manzano/AFP/Getty Images)
    A member of Liwa Salahadin, a Kurdish military unit fighting along side rebel fighters, aims at a regime fighter in Aleppo on December 6, 2012.(Javier Manzano/AFP/Getty Images)
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    No U.S. Strategy in Syria

    The U.S. refuses to arm rebel groups. Now, an al-Qaida affiliate has emerged as one of the strongest factions.

    byLee Smith
  • Ari Hoenig in 2011(NYT)
    Ari Hoenig in 2011(NYT)
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    Sundown: Syrian Rebels Link Assad to Israel

    Plus Yasser Arafat to be exhumed

    byAdam Chandler
  • (Reuters)
    (Reuters)
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    Daybreak: Morsi Supports Syrian Rebels

    Plus a top Iranian scientist may be resuming nuclear weapons research

    byJacob Silverman
  • Jewish family in Aleppo (left) and the Aleppo Citadel seen from the southwest, c. 1910. The original stereographic images have been altered into an anaglyph. When viewed through red-cyan glasses, the above image will produce a stereoscopic 3D effect.(Anaglyphs Tablet Magazine; original photos Library of Congress)
    Jewish family in Aleppo (left) and the Aleppo Citadel seen from the southwest, c. 1910. The original stereographic images have been altered into an anaglyph. When viewed through red-cyan glasses, the above image will produce a stereoscopic 3D effect.(Anaglyphs Tablet Magazine; original photos Library of Congress)
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    Jewish Aleppo, Lost Forever

    The Syrian diaspora in Israel watches its once-vibrant ancestral home fall to ruin in the country’s civil war

    byJoseph Dana
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    Fleeing Assad’s Troops

    I went to Syria to photograph the rebellion. But when the army took aim at the village where I was staying, I escaped to Turkey with 100 refugees.

    byJonathan Alpeyrie
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    Among the Insurgents

    Smuggled into Syria, a reporter finds that the Free Syrian Army lacks leadership but is fiercely united against Bashar al-Assad and Iran

    byJonathan Spyer
  • Members of the Free Syrian Army near the village of Ain al-Baida, not far from the Turkish border, on Dec. 15, 2011. (Sezayi Erken/AFP/Getty Images)
    Members of the Free Syrian Army near the village of Ain al-Baida, not far from the Turkish border, on Dec. 15, 2011. (Sezayi Erken/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Interference

    Washington should back the Free Syrian Army in its insurgency against Bashar al-Assad, since toppling his regime would strike a blow against Iran

    byLee Smith
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