Syria Support Movement solidarity with the Syrian people
May 8, 2014, Press TV Al-Qaeda-linked militants in Syria have blocked a relief aid convoy from reaching two war-ravaged towns in the outskirts of the northern city of Aleppo. The militants from the notorious al-Nusra Front prevented the vehicles carrying humanitarian aid for the towns of Nubbul and al-Zahraa in …
Read More »U.N. Probe Chief Doubtful on Syria Sarin Exposure Claims
May 6, 2014, Inter Press Services The head of the U.N. team that investigated the Aug. 21, 2013 Sarin attack in the Damascus suburbs, Ake Sellstrom, is doubtful about the number of victims of the attack reported immediately after the event. Sellstrom has suggested that many people who claimed to …
Read More »Syria: The hidden massacre
May 7, 2014, Sharmine Narwani, RT.com OpEdge The attack took place shortly after the first stirrings of trouble in the southern Syrian city of Daraa in March 2011. Several old Russian-made military trucks packed with Syrian security forces rolled onto a hard slope on a valley road between Daraa al-Mahata …
Read More »Elections in a time of civil war: America 150 years ago, and Syria today
Apr 25, 2014, RT.com Syria is scheduled to hold its presidential elections on June 3. The American media is mocking the idea of an election being held during a civil war that has left over 100,000 died and (sic)have become refugees. The media is prepared to discount the overwhelmingly expected …
Read More »Hacked E-mail Reveals Qatar’s Devious Plans to Smuggle Chemical Weapons to Syria Terrorists
May 6, 2014, al Ahed News Earlier this year, a news report revealed an email in which Qatar asked Britain’s arms contractor, BRITAM to transport chemical weapons to the Syrian town of Homs. The email was revealed after BRITAM servers were hacked and megabyted of classified internal files were released …
Read More »No Red Line Requiem for Dead Syrian Soldiers
May 4, 2014, Jeremy Salt, Palestine Chronicle The latest evidence of a chemical weapons attack in Syria has emerged in the form of a video proudly filmed by the perpetrators themselves, the so-called ‘lions’ of Jabhat al Nusra, Al Qaida’s Syrian franchise, listed by the US as a terrorist organization …
Read More »More Syrian Rebel Factions Showing Off US-Made Missiles Recipients Openly Coordinating, Sharing With al-Qaeda
May 6, 2014, Antiwar.com You can’t really send weapons to one rebel faction in Syria without them being spread amongst many groups. This reality has been a constant in the nation, where entering any faction’s territory or using any faction’s border crossing usually requires “tribute” in the form of some …
Read More »Al-Qaeda Infighting in East Syria Kills 62
60,000 Civilians Flee as ‘War Within a War’ Comes to Town May 4, 2014, antiwar.com The ongoing “war within a war” between different Syrian rebel factions has picked up steam this weekend in Deir Ezzor Province, along Syria’s eastern border with Iraq. The fighting is between al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) …
Read More »Foreign jihadis in Syria pledge their own 9/11
Burn notice: Jihadis destroy their passports in a video made by Isis, formerly al-Qa’ida in Iraq May 4, 2014, the Independent It is only a matter of time before jihadis in al-Qa’ida-type groups that have taken over much of eastern Syria and western Iraq have a violent impact on …
Read More »The Evolution of the War in Syria
May 4, 2014, Stop Imperialism.org Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.org provides his analysis of the latest developments in Syria. Specifically, Draitser examines the recent statements by FBI Director Comey regarding jihadists from the US and other Western countries going to fight in Syria. Draitser explains that the changing nature of the …
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