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Jun 9, 2014, Antiwar.com For a long time, Free Syrian Army (FSA) complaints about US aid were that they weren’t sending enough weapons. Now that the spigot is loose, the FSA’s leadership is being forced to rethink its old position. FSA Brigadier General Abdelilah al-Bashir, one of the top leaders …

Jun 10, 2014, Paul Larudee, Dissident Voice Ironically, one of the factors that made the Syrian presidential election a success is the six million displaced Syrians that chose to seek refuge within Syria rather than flee to neighboring countries.  These are persons that escaped from “rebel” zones to government areas, …

Jun 11. 2014, al Akhbar The organization known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is no doubt among those who have benefited the most from the Syrian conflict. Contrary to the impression one might have at first glance, ISIS has lost next to nothing in Syria. Although …

Jun 10, 2014, SSM The Syrian election has indirectly exposed and confirmed a surprising statistic that shows how badly the anti-Assad fighters are losing and how hopeless their cause is.   It is of course no surprise that Assad won big in the first open and contested Syrian presidential election in …

Jun 6, 2014, Paul Larudee, Counter Punch The Syrian election has indirectly exposed or confirmed a surprising statistic that shows how badly the anti-Assad fighters are losing and how hopeless their cause is. It is of course no surprise at all that Assad won big in the first open and contested …

May 29, 2014, McClatchy And then there were 23. Just 23 Christians, most of them elderly, left alive in the besieged Old City of Homs when a masked gunman killed the beloved Dutch priest who’d consoled them during nearly two years of government bombardment and rebel-imposed isolation, when food supplies …

Jun 6, 2014, Shamus Cooke, Workers Action “Assad’s days are numbered” – President Obama, February 2012 Living in denial is the easiest way to avoid hard truths, but it’s a horrible way for a government to conduct foreign policy. Obama’s Secretary of State John Kerry recently scoffed at the elections in …

Jun 5, 2014, Land Destroyer It is hard for even the West to deny that the recent election was a huge success for the government in Damascus, stamping out the illusion of a divided Syria. The country is mired in protracted conflict not because of a “popular uprising,” but because …

Jun 6, 2014, RT Op-Edge Since the start of the armed conflict in Syria in 2011, voices from Western and Gulf capitals have maintained a common narrative: that the Assad regime lacks popular legitimacy and stays in power by systematically killing its own people. The sweeping election victory of Bashar …

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