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Plea for Syria

May 02,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL Following his Friday briefing to the UN Security Council, UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura called on the US and Russian leaders to help salvage the “barely alive” ceasefire in Syria “from a total collapse”. Since the cessation of hostilities is “hanging […]

Syria civil war: The untold story of the siege of two small Shia villages – and how the world turned a blind eye

Villages that remained loyal to the Syrian regime have paid a steep price Robert Fisk Nubl, Northern Syria @indyvoices 55 comments This is the untold story of the three-and-a-half-year siege of two small Shia Muslim villages in northern Syria. Although their recapture by the Syrian army – and by Iranian Revolutionary Guards […]

Difficult to be optimistic

Feb 15,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL It is too early to rejoice over the “breakthrough” represented by the “cessation of hostilities” in Syria, agreed upon at the end of the meeting of the 17-member International Syria Support Group in Munich, which both US Secretary of State John Kerry and his […]

Rebels may use chemical weapons: Syria (Video of the ‘Free Syrian Army’ threatening the use of chemical weapons on the Alawite community)

THE Syrian government has warned that rebels could use chemical weapons in their fight against President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, and insists that the regime would never unleash such arms on its own people. British Foreign Secretary William Hague, however, said there was evidence the Damascus government could actually employ chemical […]