Syrians Protest Rebels
According to local reports a Syrian mob of numbering in the hundreds have descended upon the streets of Syria’s second city Aleppo, in protest against the blockade on the City, imposed by Western-backed rebel fighters.
Written by Chris White
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Bomb Rips Through Beirut
A huge car bomb has torn through the Shia held Beir el-Abed district of Beirut, wounding scores of people, with Lebanon’s Health Minister Ali Hassan Khalil citing 53 separate persons hospitalised so far.
Written by Chris White
No group has...
Traitor Snowden Still in Moscow
Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, leaker of some of the NSA’s most sensitive classified information, has successfully fled Hong Kong by plane yesterday and is now in transit in Moscow allegedly waiting to fly to Latin America.
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The G8 Focus on Syria
The two-day annual G8 summit which began today at Northern Ireland’s luxury Lough Erne golfing resort in County Fermanagh, near the town of Enniskillen, is expected to be dominated by discussions on the continuing crisis in Syria, as G8 factions...
US Syria Intervention Begins
The United States has announced for the first time that it will supply the anti-Assad factions in Syria directly with “incredible support”, including “heavy weapons” to counteract the Syrian Government’s tanks, military aviation, advanced...
Assad Defiant
In an interview with Lebanese Television the Syrian President Bashar Al Assad announced that the Syrian Government had made a contract with a Russian company to supply the Syrian armed forces with a Russian S-300 air defence missile system.
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EU Abandons Syria’s Rebels
In response to the total military defeat of Western backed rebel forces in Syria last week, EU foreign ministers have announced their decision not to renew the EU arms embargo against the Syrian Government, which is due to expire this coming...
Assad Come Back?
As the civil war in Syria continues Syrian government forces yesterday recaptured and secured the entire city centre of Qusair, Syria’s border town with northeast Lebanon, with reports of the fighting spilling over into Lebanon itself.
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‘Obama Must Stand Up To Erdogan’ ?
WASHINGTON—For a man who has spent the past 14 years as the only inmate of a Turkish island prison on the Sea of Marmara, AbdullahÖcalan knows how to make his voice heard. Last month, the longtime leader of Turkey’s outlawed Kurdistan...
Five Strategies for The U.S. in Syria
WASHINGTON In the western media’s telling, the civil war in Syria began and continues as a morality play, good versus evil, and for good reason. The regime headed for nearly a decade and a half by Bashar al-Assad has pursued policies of...
