Syria Support Movement solidarity with the Syrian people
Aug, 2014, London Review of Books As the attention of the world focused on Ukraine and Gaza, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis) captured a third of Syria in addition to the quarter of Iraq it had seized in June. The frontiers of the new Caliphate declared by …
Read More »Iraqi Army Seizes Israeli-Made Weapons from ISIS Terrorist
Aug 5, 2014, Whatsupic According to reports, the army seized a cache of weapons, including Israeli-made LAV missiles, during an operation near Tikrit. Reports say that the army found the hideout with the help of people and their reports and seized large quantities of homemade bombs, RPG rockets, mortars, roadside …
Read More »Wiping Out the Christians of Syria and Iraq to Remap the Mid-East: Prerequisite to a Clash of Civilizations? (part II)
Aug 1, 2014, Strategic Culture Foundation The first part of this article discussed the targeting of Christian Syrians and Iraqis. It detailed how their ancient communities, churches, and clerics have all come under fire and persecution by the US-supported insurgents that are ravaging both Syria and Iraq. The second part …
Read More »Wiping Out the Christians of Syria and Iraq to Remap the Middle East: Prerequisite to a Clash of Civilizations? (part 1)
Jul 30, 2014, Strategic Culture Foundation Historically, the Levant is the birthplace of Christianity and the oldest Christian communities have lived in it and the entire Fertile Crescent since the start of Christian history. Early Christians called themselves followers or people of «the Way» before they adopted the term Christian; …
Read More »ISIL beheads 50 Syrian soldiers, puts heads on poles
Jul 27, 2014, Press TV Newly-released video footage shows the ISIL Takfiri terrorists summarily executing at least 50 Syrian government soldiers in the troubled northern Syria. The decapitated heads of several soldiers are shown mounted on poles on top of a fence at an army base in the northern province of …
Read More »Video: ISIL shoot teens in heads, dump bodies
Jul 29, 2014, Press TV [VIDEO AT ORIGINAL PRESS TV LINK] The ISIL Takfiri militants has released a video showing the terrorist forces shooting a number of Iraqi teenagers in the head and dumping their bodies in the river. The ISIL released the 30-minute footage on its website on the occasion of the Eid …
Read More »Syria Just Had Its Bloodiest Two Days Yet
23 July 14, Reader Supported News Human rights activists are calling it the bloodiest 48 hours of the Syrian conflict to date. Over the course of Thursday and Friday, they say, more than 700 people were killed in clashes between the militant group known as the Islamic State of …
Read More »The Muslim who gave up his life for Mosul’s Christians
Jul 21, 2014, Orontes Chaldean website ankawa.com says a university professor was killed after speaking out against anti-Christian persecution. Meanwhile, the Islamic State has set the jizyah [tax on religious minorities] at 450 dollars. He refused to keep silent about the violence agaist Mosul’s Christians who are forced to choose …
Read More »ISIS SEIZES GAS FIELDS, STRENGTHENS ITS PRESENCE IN SYRIA
Jul 18, 2014, Daily Sabah The Islamic state of Iraq and al-Sham has seized a natural gas field in eastern Syria from forces loyal to President Assad and killed at least 23 people as part of efforts to strengthen its presence in the country. Militant group the Islamic state of …
Read More »Two Women Stoned to Death for ‘Adultery’ by ISIS in Syria
Jul 20, 2014, International Business Times In separate incidents in a span of 24 hours, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) carried out executions against two woman in Syria, sentencing them to death by stoning over allegations of “adultery”. Unconfirmed reports claim that in at least one case, the …
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