Apr 7, 2014, the Guardian A masked gunman shot dead a Dutch priest in the garden of a monastery in the Syrian city of Homs on Monday. Father Francis van der Lugt, 75, a Jesuit – the same order as Pope Francis – had lived in Syria for decades and …

Apr 9, 2014, CounterPunch How the US Campaign for “Regime Change” in Syria Became a Magnet for International Terrorism Long gone the days when the U.S.-led so-called “Friends of Syria” could plausibly claim that two thirds of Syria was controlled by rebel forces, that Syrian capital Damascus was under siege …

Apr 6, 2014, Global Research On April 6, The London Review of Books published in its online journal Seymour Hersh’s “The Red Line and the Rat Line.” Hersh continues to expose details surrounding the staged August 21 chemical attack incident in Syria, which apparently pretty much everyone in Washington’s intelligence bureaucracy suspected …

Apr 6, 2014, LRB In 2011 Barack Obama led an allied military intervention in Libya without consulting the US Congress. Last August, after the sarin attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, he was ready to launch an allied air strike, this time to punish the Syrian government for allegedly …

Zafar Bangash, Apr 2014 Calling for reforms is “terrorism,” withdrawing your allegiance to the monarchy is “treason” and contacting international news organizations about human rights violations in the kingdom will land you in prison. Welcome to the Saudi kingdom! Has the Saudi regime shot itself in the foot over its …

Press release: 5 April, 2014 Peace Pilgrimage to Syria, is a civil movement of peace activists for providing humanitarian aid to Syria and strive to bring peace in the country as soon as possible. This movement has eminent personalities and peace activists from all over the world. This caravan after …

Mar 27, 2014, OpEd News Lilly Martin, an American who is married to a Syrian and has lived in the Alawite border region with Turkey for twenty-one years, sent me this email today, after I enquired about the taking of a village by Islamists: “My only home for 21 years …

Mar 29, 2014, Tony Cartalucci The small northwestern Syrian town of Kassab, located directly on the Syrian-Turkish border, has turned into a pivotal battleground between Syrian security forces and armed militants backed by the Turkish military. The clashes grabbed headlines last Sunday when Turkey shot down a Syrian warplane conducting …

Apr 5, 2014, Press TV CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO A group of prominent international figures has arrived in Tehran to start a movement for peace in Syria titled “Pilgrims of Peace”. The “Pilgrims of Peace” international initiative for Syria is being supported by various human rights and anti-war organizations. The …

Mar 31, 2014, NSNBC The Syrian government stressed that Turkey has regularly facilitated the entry of armed terrorist groups into the Kessab area in Syria’s Lattakia province. An Armenian M.P. who visited Syria is calling on the world to wake up to the fact that thousands of extremists have crossed the …