Meeting an organ trafficker who preys on Syrian refugees
Source: BBC By Alex Forsyth BBC News, Beirut There’s a glint of pride in Abu Jaafar’s eyes as he explains what he does for a living. He used to work […]
Trump gives Pentagon power to reset Iraq, Syria troop limits
Reuters International APR 27, 2017 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a joint news conference at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 20, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo (reuters_tickers) By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump has given the military the authority to reset a confusing […]
Ex-defense minister says IS ‘apologized’ to Israel for November clash
Moshe Ya’alon’s office refuses to elaborate after alluding to contact with terror group BY JUDAH ARI GROSS April 24, 2017, Former Israeli defense minister Moshe ‘Bogie’ Ya’alon speaks at the Hebrew University, on January 18, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90) WRITERS Judah Ari GrossJudah Ari Gross is The Times of Israel’s military […]
‘WITH SYRIA IN PIECES, IT’S TIME TO RECOGNIZE ISRAEL’S ANNEXATION OF THE GOLAN’
Source: Jerusalem Post BY SETH J. FRANTZMAN APRIL 20, 2017 Deputy minister for diplomacy Michael Oren stresses that Israel sought peace before the 1967 Six Day War. IDF tanks are seen […]
From aspiring stylist to extremist widow: one woman’s Syria story
By AFP – Apr 24,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Twenty-three-year old Islam Maytat from Morocco poses for a photo with her children Maria (left) and Abdullah in the Kurdish-majority city […]
Were Trump’s Syrian missile strikes morally justified? 5 religious experts respond
Source: CNN By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor (CNN)It’s rare for President Donald Trump to mention God, and rarer still for him to name-drop the Almighty three times in a […]
If Trump cares so much about Syrian babies, why is he not condemning the rebels who slaughtered children?
Dozens of children were killed in Syria this weekend but where is the US president’s lament on how ‘beautiful’ they are, let alone action? Where are the denunciations by the EU and the UK? The West must react with equal outrage when it is Shias that are the victims of terrorism. Or […]
Syria war: Huge bomb kills dozens of evacuees in Syria
Source: BBC A huge car bomb has blasted a convoy of coaches carrying evacuees from besieged government-held towns in Syria, killing at least 39 people. It shattered coaches and set […]
Were Trump’s Syrian missile strikes morally justified? 5 religious experts respond
Source: CNN By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor (CNN)It’s rare for President Donald Trump to mention God, and rarer still for him to name-drop the Almighty three times in a […]
Donald Trump’s air attack on Syria may have been unlawful – but nobody seems to have noticed
International law is degraded when a breach of the UN charter is declared ‘illegal but legitimate’. The rule of law requires a straightforward answer Geoffrey Robertson 22 hours ago Vladimir Putin and Jeremy Corbyn are among the few to show concern that the US’s Tomahawk missile attack on a Syrian air base was […]
Syria war: Trump and Putin trade barbs as ministers meet
Source: BBC The US and Russian presidents have revealed the wide gulf between them over Syria, even as their foreign ministers were meeting in Moscow. Donald Trump said Russia was […]
Tillerson brings tough line to Moscow over Russia’s backing for Syrian regime
Source: The Washington Post By Carol Morello and David Filipov April 11 at 11:17 AM MOSCOW — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Russia on Tuesday to urge Moscow […]
Trump’s pride has been hurt at home, so he’s looking to bolster it with a win in Syria
There’s nothing like a nice little war to rally a country around you. Just ask George W Bush, who romped to a second term after a couple of big ones James Moore @JimMooreJourno 67 comments Is it just me or is there something faintly ridiculous about Donald Trump taking to […]
Syria regime change is ‘inevitable’
Source: CNN The US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, has told CNN that removing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power is a priority, cementing an extraordinary U-turn in the Trump administration’s stance on the embattled leader. Two days after the US launched military strikes on a Syrian airbase […]
Sen. John McCain on Syrian Airstrikes: ‘We Should Have Cratered the Runways’
Source: Time BY Jennifer Calfas Sen. John McCain said Sunday that the United States should have done more during its missile strike on a Syrian airbase — criticizing the Trump administration […]
Could Britain have sold sarin chemicals to Assad’s regime?
Source: The Guardian Campaigners point out that substances used to manufacture the nerve agent were exported to Damascus in the 80s Syrian chemical weapons being removed from the country on a Danish cargo ship in 2014. Photograph: Petros Karadjias/AP By Jamie Doward Evidence that the sarin nerve agent was used in […]
Ron Paul: Syrian Gas Attack Was False Flag
April 5, 2017 Ron Paul has accused the British and US governments of staging a false flag chemical attack in Syria in an attempt to topple President Bashar al-Assad. In an interview with defense policy advisor Daniel McAdams, the former Congressman says the alleged chemical attack that killed dozens of […]
MISSILE STRIKE: Swiss warn against military escalation in Syria
APR 7, 2017 – US President Donald Trump announcing the missile strike on Thursday (Keystone) Switzerland has urged the international community to tackle the escalating Syrian crisis through diplomatic means rather than military confrontation. The statement follows United States missile strikes on a Syrian airfield suspected of launching an earlier […]
Donald Trump feels he had no choice but to launch air strikes on Syria – but the balance of power on the ground has not changed
Source: Independent President Donald Trump had little option but to order a missile strike against a Syrian airbase after holding Syria responsible for that poison gas attack on Khan Sheikhoun that killed 80 civilians. He had criticised President Obama for being weak, slow and indecisive when facing similar challenges, so he […]
The US air strikes say more about the Vladimir Putin-Donald Trump relationship than the Middle East
The pictures out of the town of Khan Sheikhun are terrifying, but Trump and his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson have the thorny problem of working out how to deal with Russia […]