Syria Support Movement solidarity with the Syrian people

Jun 9, 2014, the Independent Islamic fundamentalists have opened new fronts in their battle to establish an Islamic state across Iraq and Syria as they launch attacks in cities which were previously under the control of the Baghdad government. A multi-pronged assault across central and northern Iraq in the past …

Jun 10, 2014, Reuters A six-week offensive by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) against rival Islamists in eastern Syria has killed 600 fighters and driven 130,000 people from their homes, a monitoring group said on Tuesday. ISIL, which is battling to control a huge area of …

  Jun 9, 2014, Press TV Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has issued a decree granting a ‘general amnesty’ for crimes committed during the Syria crisis which erupted in 2011. Syrian TV said on Monday that al-Assad’s decree covers all crimes committed to date. Syria’s justice minister has said that the …

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 …