Jan 30, 2015, Al-Akhbar “Don’t try us,” Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah told Israel in a televised speech Friday broadcast during a memorial ceremony to honor the six Hezbollah fighters and the Iranian general killed in an Israeli airstrike in Syria earlier this month. On January 18, an Israeli helicopter airstrike …
Read More »Saudi oil and U.S. hypocrisy
Jan 27, 2015, International Action Center -By Sara Flounders Few events expose the utter hypocrisy of U.S. politicians’ grand words about democracy so starkly as their praise for the recently deceased King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. For decades U.S. imperialism and all the imperialist powers have given political, military and …
Read More »Syrian Gov’t, Opposition Agree on Four Key Points in Moscow Talks
Jan 29, 2015, Sputnik News Delegates from Syria’s government and opposition managed to reach consensus on four key points during talks in Moscow, the Deputy Secretary General of the Syrian National Youth Party told Sputnik Thursday. The main points include the “activation and acceleration of delivery of humanitarian aid to all regions of Syria, without exception on the basis of a relevant UN …
Read More »Truth Revealed: McCain’s ‘Moderate Rebels’ in Syria ARE ISIS
Jan 22, 2015, 21st Century Wire Poor John McCain and Lindsey Graham, Washington’s original first couple. They only wanted to arm the ‘moderate opposition’ in Syria. Three years on, how come their master plan isn’t working, while ISIS has grown so strong? Despite what media lauded as, “the largest demonstration …
Read More »ISIS War Authorization Bill Would Limit Conflict
Jan 28, 2015, Antiwar.com Several months into the ISIS war, the 90-day limit for President Obama to seek Congressional authorization has passed. He’s given some lip-service to wanting Congressional support, but only on his terms. Rep. Adam Schiff’s (D – CA) bill probably isn’t what he had in mind. Offering …
Read More »Both Sides in Moscow-Hosted Syria Talks Agree To Meet Again
Jan 29, 2015, Al-Akhbar Representatives of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and opposition figures have agreed to hold another round of talks in Moscow, moderator Vitaly Naumkin said on Thursday, but the date had not yet been set. “It would have been naive to expect that the sides would solve all …
Read More »Israel Strikes Syrian Territory
An Israeli army 155mm mobile artillery battery is stationed near the border with Syria in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on January 28, 2015 . AFP/Menahem Kahana Jan 28, 2015, Al-Akhbar Israeli aircraft struck alleged Syrian army artillery positions early on Wednesday, the Israeli military said, the latest in a series …
Read More »Syria’s President Speaks: A Conversation With Bashar al-Assad
Jan 26, 2015, Foreign Affairs I would like to start by asking you about the war. It has now been going on for almost four years, and you know the statistics: more than 200,000 people have been killed, a million wounded, and more than three million Syrians have fled the …
Read More »Terror attacks on Damascus, Latakia
Latakia resident Lilly Martin Sahiounie reported: “Latakia Update: Jan 25, 2015: 5:00 pm. 3 missiles struck Latakia, Syria. 2 of them hit the city center of Latakia, the traffic round-a-bout called Hotel Harroun. 2 persons dead , and 9 injured, some are children. 2 taxis were burnt up, and 14 …
Read More »Syrian priest raps Western silence after car-bomb kills 15 in Homs
Jan 23, 2015, Catholic Culture A Syrian Catholic priest has blasted the silence of the Western media after 15 people were killed, and 50 others wounded, by a car-bomb explosion in the center of the city of Homs. Father Hilal Ziad said that the January 21 explosion appeared to be …
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