Syrian war threatening region
ARAB NEWS Tuesday 25 September 2012 NEW YORK: International envoy Lakhdar Brahimi says the civil war in Syria threatens to spill across the Middle East and is “extremely bad and […]
New threat coming from Syria
(MENAFN – Jordan Times) The new UN and Arab League envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, was reluctant from the outset to accept the mission of a peace mediator in this country. The mission seems impossible after one-year-and-a-half of heavy fighting that destroyed a large part of Syria, killed more than […]
Chaos turns Syria into paradise for kidnappers
AFP | Sep 20, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES BEIRUT — Every time violence intensifies in Syria, so do abductions of civilians, for political reasons and more often for financial gain, activists and families of hostages say. The plight of hundreds of people abducted over the past 18 months of conflict […]
Swift Haj visas for Syrians
EDDAH: ARAB NEWS Thursday 20 September 2012 The Haj Ministry announced yesterday that the Haj visas of Syrian pilgrims would be processed without delay. A Haj Ministry official said: “We are treating the arrival of Syrian pilgrims with the utmost care and importance, considering the difficult situation many face at […]
Assad’s Grandfather’s 1936 Letter Predicts Muslim Slaughter of Minorities, Praises Zionists
Suleiman Assad, the grandfather of Syria’s embattled dictator Bashir al Assad warned France of the dangers of a Sunni Islam takeover in 1936. By: Dr. Mordechai Kedar The JewishPress.com I will begin on a personal note. Since the start of the pogroms in Syria a year and a half ago, […]
A Beautiful Jewish-Arab Peace Song
In Hebrew and Arabic with English titles: Ma Ana Ajmal min Salaam We have nothing more beautiful than peace Hevenu Shalom Alinu (We brought peace upon us) We have connections […]
Letter to Editor – San Francisco Chronicle
NOTE: When Jay Jason from San Francisco editorial team called me yesterday for verification before printing this, we had a little chit chat about my Muslim News. Then it occurred to me that I had left out our famous slogan “Love for All and Hatred for None.” I requested Jason to […]
Turkish Airline flying Takfiri militants of Al-Qaeda from Pakistan to Syrian borders
Source: Let us Build Pakistan By acting as a willing accomplice in global Saudi Salafi Jihadist project, Turkey is digging its own grave. Turkey in 2012 is playing the same role against Assad regime in Syria as Pakistan played in 1980s against Communist regime in Afghanistan. Not unlike the so […]
UN draws up 2nd list of Syrian war crimes suspects
Source: reuters // Reuters AlertNet GENEVA, Sept 17 (Reuters) – United Nations human rights investigators said on Monday that they had drawn up a new secret list of Syrians and […]
Iran admits having elite forces in Syria, Lebanon (as ‘advisors’, just like NATO…)
DAMASCUS — Iran on Sunday admitted for the first time it has elite forces present in Syria and neighbouring Lebanon. Meanwhile, fighting raged in Syria’s two biggest cities on Sunday as UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi ended his first visit to the country on a peace mission a rebel commander […]
UAE to open Syrian refugee camp in Jordan
Rabaeh Al Sarhan camp will be a modern facility catering to displaced Syrian families By Rania Moussly, Staff Reporter GULF NEWS Amman: The UAE government is set to open a […]
For Zaatari camp’s first groom, displacement means an untraditional wedding (in a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan)
by Muath Freij JORDAN TIMES MAFRAQ — When Syrian newlywed Huthaifa Hariri got engaged nine months ago in Daraa, he did not imagine that his wedding would be held in […]
Pope arrives in Lebanon amid Mideast turmoil
By Dana Khraiche, Rima S. Aboulmona The Daily Star BEIRUT: Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Lebanon’s capital Beirut Friday, in the third-ever visit by a Roman Catholic prelate to this […]
Saudi Arabia steers citizens away from Syrian ‘jihad’
Reuters | Sep 13, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES JEDDAH/DUBAI — Loath to foster a new generation of militant Islamists, Saudi Arabia is trying to stop its citizens from joining what some of them see as a holy war against the Syrian government. The Saudi public has grown incensed at the […]
Filipinos flee Syria among civil strife …
MANILA — Filipino Ruth Pana remembered the windows of her employer’s house in Damascus riddled with bullets. The maid, who escaped first to the Philippine embassy in the Syrian capital and then to Manila aboard an evacuation flight, also remembered one of the sons of her Syrian employer being killed […]
Defected Syria general Tlass says French agents got him out AFP
PARIS: Defected Syrian general Manaf Tlass said Monday that French secret agents helped him escape from Syria, where he had long been a member of President Bashar al-Assad’s inner circle. “The French (intelligence) services helped me get out of Syria and I thank them for that,” Tlass, whose July 6 […]
Jihadists join Aleppo fight, eye Islamic state, surgeon says
PARIS — Foreign Islamists intent on turning Syria into an autocratic theocracy have swollen the ranks of rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Al Assad and think they are waging a “holy war”, a French surgeon who treated fighters in Aleppo has said. Jacques Beres, co-founder of medical charity Medecins […]
US senators push for arming of Syria rebels
Arab News Saturday 8 September 2012 UNITED NATIONS: As the United Nations on Friday nearly doubled its humanitarian appeal for Syria, United States senators urged Washington to provide weapons to Syria’s rebel forces to put an end to the Assad regime’s genocidal attacks. “There is a slaughter going on. Everything […]
US sends more spies, diplomats to help organize, train and study Syria’s rebel ranks
By Associated Press, Published: September 6 WASHINGTON — The U.S. is ramping up its presence at Syria’s Turkish border, sending more spies and diplomats to help advise the rebel forces in their mismatched fight against the better armed Syrian regime, and to watch for possible al-Qaida infiltration of rebel ranks. […]
Evacuations and Contingency Planning
Source: Stratfor: When the London 2012 Paralympic Games conclude the week of Sept. 9, the British navy reportedly will send a task force to the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, where it will participate in amphibious exercises off the coasts of Albania, Sardinia and Turkey before lingering off the coast of Cyprus. […]