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Jabhat al-Nusra was also a massive terrorist organization within Syria, vying with ISIS for power along with aiming to oust the Assad government. In and of itself that would probably be cause for concern in Iraq too, which is dominated by Shi'i groups. MP Falih al-Khazali warned, \"We will not accept Baghdad becoming a safe heaven for the terrorist al-Jolani.

Weeks after the February 18 deadline for Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon has come and gone, IDF troops remain at the five hilltop surveillance posts they hastily constructed in southern Lebanon ahead of that deadline, and there are increasing signs that this is an indefinite occupation. The ceasefire ending the Israeli invasion of Lebanon was reached in late November, and initially the deadline for withdrawal was Jan. 26, though the U.S. and Israel ultimately stretched that out to Feb. 18. The U.S. and France were meant to be the guarantors of the ceasefire and the Israeli pullout.

THE JUNE MEMORANDUM by 51 State Department officials calling for US military intervention in Syria has been treated in news media coverage as a case of dissent from existing Syria policy by individual officials involved in Syria policy. But the memo has all the earmarks of an initiative that had the blessing of the most senior officials in the department -- including Secretary of State John Kerry himself -- rather than having been put together by individual officials entirely on their own. And it may mark the beginning of an effort to take advantage of the presidential candidacy of Hillary Clinton. The memo called for a \"more militarily assertive US role\" in the Syrian conflict in the form of \"a judicious use of stand-off and air weapons, which would undergird and drive a more focused and hard-nosed US-led diplomatic process.\"