May 26, 2014, McClatchy [VISIT ORIGINAL SOURCE TO VIEW 2 BRIEF VIDEO CLIPS FROM THE DOC] With reports indicating that forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad are gaining ground in that country’s brutal civil war, moderate Syrian rebels have told a visiting journalist that the United States is arranging …

May 26, 2014, Global Research Water is to the twenty-first century what oil was to the twentieth century: the commodity that determines the wealth and stability of nations. People who think that the West’s interventions in Iraq, Libya and Syria are only about oil are mistaken. Broadly speaking, Western interest …

Apr 20, 2014, the Independent Saudi Arabia is giving $3bn – yes, £2bn, and now let’s have done with exchange rates – to the Pakistani government of Nawaz Sharif. But what is it for? Pakistani journalists have been told not to ask this question. Then, when they persisted, they were …

May 25, 2014, NSNBC In 2012, when Syrians held a referendum and adopted the by far most democratic constitution among Middle Eastern countries, they slapped a smelly shoe into the face of Zionism and Modo-Colonialism. In May 2014, Syrians unite again and extend their arms to slap an even more …

May 25, 2014, Boston Globe Almost everyone likes the idea of human rights. The phrase itself is freighted with goodness. Supporting human rights is like supporting world peace. The modern human rights movement began as a band of outsiders, fighting governments on behalf of the faceless and voiceless. President Jimmy …

May 26, 2014, Daily Mail Two out three people fighting for an extreme Sunni group are foreign Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) known for beheadings and crucifixions  Group considered so extreme it has even been condemned by Al Qaeda  British jihadists make up the largest foreign contingent of …

May 26, 2014, al Akhbar Al-Qaeda’s Syria branch on Monday claimed responsibility for two car bomb attacks a day earlier in the central city of Homs that according to the governor killed 12 people. “God generously made it possible for the jihadists of al-Nusra Front in Homs… to break through …

Jul 25, 2014, World Tribune The United States has been paying thousands of Syrian police officers who deserted the regime of President Bashar Assad. Officials said the administration of President Barack Obama has approved tens of millions of dollars to pay the salaries of police officers who joined the rebels. …

May 23, 2014, Lilly Martin, Op-Ed News A film about the war in Syria has been shown at the Cannes Film Festival. It was received with a standing ovation for the woman who shot the film in Homs, and the director who developed the film in Paris. Ossama Mohammed and …

May 23, NSNBC Syria is living in a fair and democratic atmosphere ahead of the presidential elections, said presidential candidate Dr. Hassan al-Nouri, adding that the current government succeeded at holding foreign influence at bay. Prominent Syrians denounce the double standards of Germany, France, among other, who prevent Syrian expatriates …