Jul 6, 2015, Press TV A number of foreign-backed Takfiri terrorists, who have been arrested by the Syrian army, have confessed that they were trained in Turkey by the United States, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The Takfiri militants, who were caught recently in the northwestern Syrian city of Aleppo, confessed in interviews …
Read More »Daraa 2011: Syria’s Islamist Insurrection in Disguise
Jul 5, 2015, Global Research -Professor Tim Anderson “I have seen from the beginning armed protesters in those demonstrations … they were the first to fire on the police. Very often the violence of the security forces comes in response to the brutal violence of the armed insurgents” – Jesuit …
Read More »Italian lawmaker calls on his government to reestablish diplomatic ties with Syria
Jul 5, 2015, SANA Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies Manlio Di Stefano called on his government to re-establish diplomatic ties with Syria and revise its “biased stances and unrealistic choices” against it. In a written enquiry he submitted to the Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni, Di Stefano said …
Read More »Bombing of Yemen impossible without US support: Activist
Jun 28, 2015, Press TV Press TV has conducted an interview with Sara Flounders, co-director of the International Action Center from New York, to ask for her insight on Yemen’s retaliatory attacks in response to the Saudi aggression. The following is a rough transcription of the interview. Press TV: We …
Read More »Israel colludes with al-Nusra to keep Golan Heights peace – Palestine’s Foreign Minister
Jul 2, 2015, RT.com The Israeli-Palestinian peace process has all but collapsed, and coupled with an outgoing US President and growing regional instability, the political and diplomatic climate doesn’t seem conducive to a breakthrough. Is it time to draw a line on decades of failed negotiations, and what framework could …
Read More »Mahdi Nazemroaya on Wikileaks Saudi cables [AUDIO]
Jun 29, 2015, The Taylor Report Petro-dollar bribery, smear campaigns, purchasing journalists and media outlets – it’s all part and parcel of daily Saudi “diplomacy.” Investigative journalist Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya trawls through the Wikileaks cables and the staggering (but entirely unsurprising) revelations within. They confirm what we already know: Saudis …
Read More »Sharmine Narwani & Reme Sakr interviewed by Eric Draitser
Counter Punch CLICK HERE TO LISTEN This week, CounterPunch Radio host Eric Draitser sits down with two important guests to discuss all things Syria. The first part of the show is an in depth discussion with Beirut-based political analyst and commentator Sharmine Narwani. Eric and Sharmine examine the latest developments …
Read More »Sweida and the Druze! [VIDEO]
Jun 28, 2015, Middle East Channel Military or Media War? Four years of war in Syria have passed… and while it has changed many of the country’s features, the unchanged reality is that the Islamist extremist groups leave nobody in peace, enacting a policy similar to that of George W. …
Read More »Damascus is Thirsty! Militants cut water to Damascus again [VIDEO]
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Read More »Australia’s double game on terrorism
Jun 26, 2015, Pravda by Tim Anderson In the name of anti-terrorism Canberra has cancelled dozens of passports and, more recently, passed a law to strip citizenship from dual citizens believed to be involved with some of the armed groups plaguing Syria and Iraq. Since 2012 about 200 Australian citizens …
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