Syria Support Movement solidarity with the Syrian people

Loretto Community at the UN invites you to hear  Mother Agnes-Mariam of the Cross sponsored by the Syria Solidarity Movement    What is Really Happening in Syria  Today? Mother Agnes-Mariam of the Cross is Mother Superior at the Monastery and Convent of St. James the Mutilated in Qara, Syria.  Gunmen attacked …

Feb 9, 2014, New Eastern Outlook In an attempt to “settle” the Syrian crisis Washington and Riyadh has put forward a negotiator – the President of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces Ahmad Jarba. But it seems that today there’s a few people who do remember the story of Ahmad’s rise …

May 11, 2014, Press TV Syrian teenagers living in refugee camps in Jordan are sexually abused by Saudi men who first propose marriage but disappear before the end of the honeymoon period, a Saudi paper reports.   The Saudi Gazette said the Syrian families are duped into marrying their daughters …

May 10, RT.com The US is sending missiles to Syrian rebels as part of a “pilot program” to strengthen the opposition, American media reveals. Addressing criticism the US is arming extremist militants, Washington claims its weapons will not “fall into the wrong hands.” Washington’s new initiative aims to find out …

May 11, 2014, The National Residents of Syria’s second city Aleppo have been without water for a week because Islamist fighters have cut supplies into rebel and regime-held areas, a monitoring group said on Saturday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Al Qaeda affiliate Al Nusra Front had …

May 10, 2014, Press TV Foreign-backed militants in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo have cut water supplies into the city, leaving residents without water for a week. The al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front has reportedly cut water supplies into eastern part of the city, which is under the control of militants, and …

May 10, 2014, Washington’s Blog Why Did America Switch Sides? America fought the Nazis in World War II and Al Qaeda since 2001. But – as hard as it is to believe – our government has now switched sides. William Blum writes: In Libya, in Syria, and elsewhere the United …

May 10, 2014, al Akhbar The Syrian government was Saturday enjoying a symbolic victory as civilians began trickling back into the rubble of Homs’ Old City after the last rebels left under an evacuation deal. The pullout, completed Friday, leaves the rebels confined to a single district on the outskirts …

May 9, 2014, WSWS The Obama administration has entered into direct talks with the leader of the political front for Syria’s Western-backed “rebels” on arming them with US surface-to-air missiles, amid fresh confirmation that these forces are dominated by Al Qaeda-linked militias. Ahmad al-Jarba, the chief of the Syrian Opposition …

  May 8, 2014, al Akhbar “That’s my daughter. She looks like a boy with her strange haircut. They punished her by cutting her hair, even though she is not even four yet. I don’t know what sin she committed,” one father said after seeing his freed daughter. She was …