Jun 2, 2014, Global Research With security heightened throughout Syria, the country is preparing for Tuesday’s elections. The country has largely been pacified following the retreat of terrorist opposition forces from Homs in early May. At this juncture, the crucial issue for Syria is whether a covert intelligence operation is …
Read More »Historic Syrian Election Brings Multitudes of Voters
May 30, 2014, Brenda Heard, Dissident Voice On 28 May 2014, expatriated Syrian nationals in numerous countries flocked to Syrian embassies to begin the voting process in a presidential election. With all its potential flaws, perhaps even inherent flaws, this quintessential element of democracy is still the most effective means …
Read More »The Inference from Lebanon About the Syrian Presidential Elections
Jun 3, 2014, Strategic Culture Foundation Lebanon’s Hariri-led March 14 Alliance is supported by all the undemocratic Arab petro-sheikhdoms, including the Saudi regime. In twisted terms, the March 14 Alliance has consistently been promoted by the US and French governments as a beleaguered coalition of democrats struggling to save Lebanon …
Read More »ISIL kills 102-year-old man, family in Syria
Jun 1, 2014, Yahoo News (AFP) – The most radical jihadist group fighting in Syria on Sunday killed a 102-year-old man along with his whole family in the heart of the country, a monitoring group said. The 102-year-old was shot dead in his sleep, with the Islamic State of Iraq …
Read More »27 killed in attacks in Syria’s Aleppo
Jun 2, 2014, Press TV [click HERE if above video does not load] At least 27 people have been killed in a shelling carried out by foreign-backed militants in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. Some 80 more people were also injured on Monday after the militants fired more …
Read More »Militant mortar attacks on Aleppo kill 20
May 31, 2014, Press TV [click HERE if above video does not load] Twenty people have been killed in mortar attacks carried out by foreign-backed militants on Syria’s northwestern city of Aleppo. The militants fired 40 mortar shells on several neighborhoods of the flashpoint city, destroying many buildings. Takfiri …
Read More »Elections in Ukraine and Syria, Let the Mass Murder Continue
May 31, 2014, New Eastern Outlook Early polls began for Syria’s presidential election, as the country begins turning the tide against foreign-backed terrorists and restoring order throughout much of the country. It was impossible for the Western media to cover up tens of thousands of Syrians around the world queuing up in …
Read More »Obama’s Collapsing Syria Policy
May 31, 2014, Consortium News For over three years, the United States has sought to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by supporting an Al Qaeda-infused opposition that Washington either knew or should have known would fail. Yet, in his commencement address at West Point on Wednesday, President Obama promised the American people and …
Read More »Dispatches from the Syria Election Observation Teams: May 31, Gathering in Beirut and Tehran
Over the last three days, around thirty human rights advocates and activists from several countries scrambled to get their tickets and visas to go to Syria. Most of them arrived today in either of the two cities, whichever was logistically easier. The Iranian NGO, International Union of Unified Ummah is …
Read More »“They want to start a religious war; we want to extinguish it” – Mufti of Syria
June 1, 2014, Eva Bartlett, Crescent International Most news accounts of Syria paint a desolate, sectarian country where people in areas secured by the Syrian army are miserable and where people, above all, want to see Bashar al-Assad gone. In all regards I found the opposite. In …
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