Suicide bomber strikes Damascus Christian community
DAMASCUS — A suicide bomber killed at least four people in a Christian area of the Syrian capital on Thursday as aid groups said they cannot keep pace with the […]
Syria’s Forgotten People Seize Opportunity on Assad Decay
By Caroline Alexander Bloomberg June 26, 2013 Syria’s Kurds are carving out a self-governed zone as the decay of President Bashar al-Assad’s government creates an opportunity for a people who […]
Kerry rules out military action in Syria
KUWAIT CITY: ARAB NEWS Thursday 27 June 2013 More than 100,000 people have been killed in Syria’s uprising, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The death toll from the civil war is now 100,191 people, it said. Violence raged as US Secretary of State John Kerry ruled out […]
Syria peace conference may not take place next month, says Brahimi
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE ARABNEWS Wednesday 26 June 2013 GENEVA: A widely anticipated peace conference for Syria will probably not take place next month as hoped, UN peace envoy to Syria […]
‘9,000 Syrian refugees repatriated in June’
by Taylor Luck, Jordan Times AMMAN/MAFRAQ — Nearly 9,000 Syrian refugees left the Kingdom for home this month, bringing the number of returnees to more than 68,000 in the past […]
Syria in-depth analysis: Where the anti-Assad coalition went wrong
We don’t know what will come out of Geneva II, the US and Russian backed conference for a political solution to the Syrian crisis. But it is forcing rhetorical and […]
Syria says rebels would take years to match army’s strength
June 24, 2013 – 13:31 Reuters Swissinfo BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria’s foreign minister said on Monday that a decision by Western and Arab countries to arm the rebels posed a danger to peace talks and would prolong the two-year conflict. Walid al-Moualem told a news conference in Damascus that the […]
Qatari Military Officers Supplied Chemical Weapons to Syria Insurgents. Turkey was Informed.
Christof Lehmann (nsnbc),- Chemicals, which were used in a chemical weapons attack against Syrian civilians in the Khan al-Asal district of Aleppo in March 2013, have been delivered to the insurgents by two Qatari military officers. The Qatari officers transported the chemicals through Turkey. Turkish authorities had foreknowledge and approved […]
Kerry-Lavrov statements called ‘first hopeful news’ on Syria in a while
(CNN) — The U.N. and Arab League point man on Syria praised the top U.S. and Russian diplomats Wednesday for their latest efforts to forge a solution to the Syrian […]
Arab Islamist rebels, Kurds clash in northern Syria
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN | Thu Jun 20, 2013 12:18pm EDT (Reuters) – Islamist rebels have cut access to a Kurdish area in northern Syria and clashed with Kurdish nationalist PKK fighters whom they accuse of backing President Bashar al-Assad, sources on both sides said on Thursday. The confrontation […]
US to keep Patriot missiles and F-16s in Jordan
The US will keep Patriot missiles and F-16 fighter jets in Jordan after a military exercise, angering Russia. Pentagon spokesman George Little said the US enjoyed “a long-standing partnership with […]
The adventures of a Libyan weapons dealer in Syria
REUTERS By Jessica Donati, Ghaith Shennib and Firas Bosalum BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – Abdul Basit Haroun says he is behind some of the biggest shipments of weapons from Libya to Syria, which he delivers on chartered flights to neighboring countries and then smuggles over the border. After fleeing Libya in […]
Noam Chomsky Interview: Sykes-Picot Is Failing
By: Maha Zaraket al akhbar Published Sunday, June 16, 2013 American author and professor Noam Chomsky was in Beirut to give a commencement speech and accept an honorary degree at […]
G8 summit: Europe will ‘pay price’ if it arms Syrian rebels, Assad warns
US set for tense talks with Russia over arming rebels by James Legge, The Independent Europe will “pay the price” if it delivers arms to rebel forces in Syria, President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview with a German newspaper. “If the Europeans deliver weapons, the backyard of Europe will […]
Iran to send 4,000 troops to aid President Assad forces in Syria
by Robert Fisk, The Independent, UK World Exclusive: US urges UK and France to join in supplying arms to Syrian rebels as MPs fear that UK will be drawn into growing conflict Washington’s decision to arm Syria’s Sunni Muslim rebels has plunged America into the great Sunni-Shia conflict of the […]
As the US wants to arm ‘nice Syrian rebels’ we must remind ourselves that weapons are not just guns. They are about money – Hardware will end up in the hands of al-Qa’ida, says Robert Fisk
Tosh! That’s the only sane reaction to the White House’s announcement that America the Brave is to arm the Syrian rebels. The US doesn’t plan to send weapons to the horrid rebels, mark you – not to the al-Qa’ida-inspired al-Nusra Front whose chaps film themselves eating Alawites for YouTube videos, […]
UK planned war on Syria before unrest began: French ex-foreign minister
A former French foreign minister says Britain had been planning a war against Syria some two years before to the unrest broke out in the Arab country. The statement by […]
Private money pours into Syrian conflict as rich donors pick sides
By Joby Warrick, Sunday, June 16, 2013 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Syrian tanks were closing in on the rebel-held town of Qusair last month when a Kuwaiti sheik named […]
Thousands of Egypt Islamists rally for Syria jihad
AFP | Jun 15, 2013 | 23:38 JORDAN TIMES CAIRO — Thousands of Islamists rallied in the Egyptian capital this weekend in support of calls by Sunni Muslim clerics for a holy war against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. The demonstration took place outside a Cairo mosque on […]
Man Behind Syrian ‘Chemical Weapons’ Claim Is Fiction Writer Who Ran Benghazi Cover-Up
White House makes miraculous discovery to distract from domestic scandals Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com June 14, 2013 Ben Rhodes, the White House national security advisor behind the claim that President […]