Jan 16, 2015, New Eastern Outlook Reported along the peripheries of the Western media, it was reported recently that some 3,000 so-called “moderate rebels” of the “Free Syrian Army” had defected to the “Islamic State” (ISIS). While not the first time so-called “moderates” have crossed over openly to Al Qaeda or …
Read More »Turkish military says MIT shipped weapons to al-Qaeda
Jan 15, 2015, al Monitor Secret official documents about the searching of three trucks belonging to Turkey’s national intelligence service (MIT) have been leaked online, once again corroborating suspicions that Ankara has not been playing a clean game in Syria. According to the authenticated documents, the trucks were found to …
Read More »US to Deploy 400 Troops to Train Syria Militants
Jan 16, 2015, Al Akhbar Defense officials of the United States said on Thursday the US will deploy about 400 troops in countries neighboring Syria to train “moderate” opposition fighters. The US military has not yet identified where it will draw its forces from for the training mission, expected to …
Read More »Charlie Hebdo, the free press and racism
Jan 13, 2015, Workers World -By Sara Flounders The banner of ‘Youth against racism’ in a protest in Paris, November 2013. How do we put in perspective the international media focus on the massacre of 12 journalists in Paris on Jan. 7 at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, notorious for …
Read More »Jaafari Exposes Israeli Alliances in the Golan [VIDEO]
Jan 15, 2015, Nizar Abboud Syrian representative to the UN Bashar Jaafari lambasts Isreali unholy alliances in the Syrian Golan.
Read More »The “Why”: The Spectacular Media Failure on Charlie Hebdo
Jan 14, 2015, Counter Punch A core tenet of journalism is answering the question “why.” It’s the media’s duty to explain “why” an event happened so that readers will actually understand what they’re reading. Leave out the “why” and then assumptions and stereotypes fill in the blank, always readily supplied by …
Read More »Al Qaeda in Syria kills woman accused of adultery
Jan 14, 2015, Reuters Al Qaeda’s Syria wing, Nusra Front, shot dead a woman in the northwest of the country after accusing her of adultery, a monitoring group said on Wednesday, saying it showed such execution-style killings were not confined to the militant Islamic State group. Islamic State, which split …
Read More »The Incredible US “Peace Plan” For Syria
Dec 29, 2014, Voltaire Network -Thierry Meyssan When, in 2001, President George W. Bush decided to place Syria on his list of targets to destroy, he had three objectives: – Breaking the “Axis of Resistance” and encouraging Israeli expansion; – Laying hands on the huge gas reserves; – Reshaping the …
Read More »Nusra militants blow up 13th century Muslim tomb in Syria
Jan 8, 2015, al-Akhbar Al-Qaeda branch in Syria, al-Nusra Front, have blown up the 13th century tomb of a revered Islamic scholar in southern Syria, Syrian state news agency SANA and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group, reported on Wednesday. The mausoleum of Imam Nawawi is in …
Read More »UN: ISIS depriving 670,000 Syrian children of education
Jan 7, 2015, al-Akhbar An estimated 670,000 children in Syria are being deprived of education after the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) extremist group ordered the closure of schools until the curriculum is made to conform with its medieval reading of the Islamic Sharia, the United Nations Children’s …
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