May 10, 2014, Washington’s Blog Why Did America Switch Sides? America fought the Nazis in World War II and Al Qaeda since 2001. But – as hard as it is to believe – our government has now switched sides. William Blum writes: In Libya, in Syria, and elsewhere the United …

May 10, 2014, al Akhbar The Syrian government was Saturday enjoying a symbolic victory as civilians began trickling back into the rubble of Homs’ Old City after the last rebels left under an evacuation deal. The pullout, completed Friday, leaves the rebels confined to a single district on the outskirts …

May 9, 2014, WSWS The Obama administration has entered into direct talks with the leader of the political front for Syria’s Western-backed “rebels” on arming them with US surface-to-air missiles, amid fresh confirmation that these forces are dominated by Al Qaeda-linked militias. Ahmad al-Jarba, the chief of the Syrian Opposition …

  May 8, 2014, al Akhbar “That’s my daughter. She looks like a boy with her strange haircut. They punished her by cutting her hair, even though she is not even four yet. I don’t know what sin she committed,” one father said after seeing his freed daughter. She was …

May 8, 2014, Press TV Al-Qaeda-linked militants in Syria have blocked a relief aid convoy from reaching two war-ravaged towns in the outskirts of the northern city of Aleppo. The militants from the notorious al-Nusra Front prevented the vehicles carrying humanitarian aid for the towns of Nubbul and al-Zahraa in …

May 6, 2014, Inter Press Services The head of the U.N. team that investigated the Aug. 21, 2013 Sarin attack in the Damascus suburbs, Ake Sellstrom, is doubtful about the number of victims of the attack reported immediately after the event. Sellstrom has suggested that many people who claimed to …

May 7, 2014, Sharmine Narwani, RT.com OpEdge The attack took place shortly after the first stirrings of trouble in the southern Syrian city of Daraa in March 2011. Several old Russian-made military trucks packed with Syrian security forces rolled onto a hard slope on a valley road between Daraa al-Mahata …

Apr 25, 2014, RT.com Syria is scheduled to hold its presidential elections on June 3. The American media is mocking the idea of an election being held during a civil war that has left over 100,000 died and (sic)have become refugees. The media is prepared to discount the overwhelmingly expected …

May 6, 2014, al Ahed News Earlier this year, a news report revealed an email in which Qatar asked Britain’s arms contractor, BRITAM to transport chemical weapons to the Syrian town of Homs. The email was revealed after BRITAM servers were hacked and megabyted of classified internal files were released …

May 4, 2014, Jeremy Salt, Palestine Chronicle The latest evidence of a chemical weapons attack in Syria has emerged in the form of a video proudly filmed by the perpetrators themselves, the so-called ‘lions’ of Jabhat al Nusra, Al Qaida’s Syrian franchise, listed by the US as a terrorist organization …