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Large US Marine force lands in Aqaba for Syrian border

Russia evacuates Tartus, also military, diplomatic personnel from Syria. High war alert in Israel

DEBKAfile Video Jun 26, 2013, 5:11 PM (IDT)

Shortly after DEBKA aired a special video on the Syrian war’s widening circle, Moscow announced Wednesday June 26, the evacuation beginning Friday of all Russian military and diplomatic personnel from Syria was complete, including its naval base at Tartus. “Russia decided to withdraw its personnel because of the fear of an incident involving the Russian military that could have larger consequences,” said a defense ministry official in Moscow. A 16-ship naval task force remains in the eastern Mediterranean. An unannounced Israeli war maneuver was conducted on the Golan.

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Iran secretly building in Port Sudan military supply base for Syria, Hizballah

Iranian submarine at Port Sudan

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
Jun 25, 2013, 10:24 AM (IDT)

A logistics base for handling tanks, missile systems, self-propelled artillery bound for Syria and Hizballah is secretly under construction at Port Sudan, DEBKAfile reports exclusively. Iranian Revolutionary Guards engineers in civilian dress are overseeing the hundreds of Sudanese workmen laboring flat out to build Iran’s second Red Sea base after Assab in South Eritrea. It is designed to handle Iran’s largest warships and submarines with a large arms depot that will cut in half the sea route for Iranian heavy arms to reach Iran’s Syrian and Hizballah allies.

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As Egypt lurches into civil strife, local militias raise their heads. Obama keeps faith with Brotherhood

DEBKAfile Special Report Jun 24, 2013, 1:03 PM (IDT)

Egypt is lurching toward a “low intensity civil war.” Law and order is breaking down as armed gangs attack governors and burn emblems of government, and the ruling Muslim Brotherhood uses armed men to strike back. Neither the police nor the army has interfered to date.