Apr 26, 2014, al Akhbar New evidence suggests that the United States may be secretly giving American-made “heavy weapons” to militant groups fighting against the Syrian government, according to a new report. A video clip posted on YouTube early in April showed US-made BGM-71 TOW anti-tank rocket systems in the …

Mar 25, 2014, Asbarez A delegation of priests from the Catholicosate of Cilicia who had visited Latakia to assess the needs of Kessab Armenians and express solidarity returned to Antelias after the Sunday Badarak, the Armenian Weekly reports. According to the delegation, the local Armenian community, the International Red Cross, …

Mar 26, Al Akhbar The Syrian town of Kessab, once a popular holiday destination, has recently come under heavy gunfire from rebel groups linked to al-Qaeda. Armed men entered the town, looted Armenian shops and homes, taking families hostage, and desecrating the town’s three churches. The attack has forced at …

Erdogan’s internal authoritarianism also drives Turkey’s foreign policy that soon could see the country wage open war on Syria, writes Jeremy Salt Turkey is in a turbulent and uncertain state. Street demonstrations are crushed with tear gas and water cannon. Protesters are killed without one policeman being convicted. A 15-year-old …

Apr 3, 2014, New Eastern Outlook While the whole world was busy with the Ukrainian issue, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, instigated by Washington, decided to take advantage of the situation and expand their intervention in Syria, where government forces were successfully winning back positions from the rebels. The greatest wickedness …

Apr 19, 2014, New Eastern Outlook The bombshell report by Pulitzer Prize-winning veteran journalist Seymour Hersh titled, “The Red Line and the Rat Line,” contains many shocking revelations for those following the West’s version of reality regarding the Syrian conflict. It particularly sheds new light on the August 2013 chemical …

Apr 24, 2014, Global Research Anna-Marie Slaughter demonstrates that you need not scratch a “humanitarian interventionist” much to uncover the warmongering neoconservative just below the surface. In an essay today, titled, “Stopping Russia Starts in Syria,” she argues that “the solution to the crisis in Ukraine lies in part in …

Apr 23, 2014, Philip Giraldi If you had been a reader of The American Conservative magazine back in December 2011, you might have learned from an article written by me that “Unmarked NATO warplanes are arriving at Turkish military bases close to Iskenderum on the Syrian border, delivering weapons [to …

Apr 24, 2014, Washington’s Blog The New York Times pushed fabricated evidence in the run up to the Iraq war.   A year later, the newspaper apologized for its inaccurate, one-sided coverage. The U.S. and the New York Times pretended that Syria’s government was responsible for the chemical weapons attack … …

Apr 22, 2014, Global Research During the beginning of his first term in office President Obama promised “to remake the Middle East into a region of prosperity and freedom”. Six years later the reality is totally the contrary: the Middle East is ruled by despotic regimes whose jails are overflowing …