Syria Support Movement solidarity with the Syrian people
May 3, 2014, Lilly Martin, OpEd News Syria began a spiral of violence in March 2011. The leaders of the uprising in Deraa have long gone; some are found now living in Benghazi, Libya. The followers of the Syrian revolution have long since realized the freedom and democracy they thought …
Read More »Engineering Chaos: Mother Agnes-Miriam lectures neo-cons on their bad behavior
By Jane Stillwater [The Syria Solidarity Movement offers this excellent report by one of our favorite bloggers on a recent talk by Mother Agnes-Mariam under the sponsorship of St. Mary’s College in Moraga, California. Mother Agnes is also available to speak at your community in North America during May 9-13. …
Read More »550 food baskets distributed in Yarmouk Camp, aid delivery continues
May 2, 2014, Sana News Social Affairs Ministry, Higher Commission for Relief, UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in cooperation with General Commission of the Arab Palestinian Refugees continue to deliver food aid to Yarmouk Camp in Damascus. In a statement, Director of the Commission Ali …
Read More »Death and desecration in Syria: Jihadist group ‘crucifies’ bodies to send message
May 2, 2014, CNN It is a scene seared forever into the memory of an eyewitness: Masked men drag the bloodied body of a man across a public square, and tie it to a make-shift cross on a metal pole. Green string holds the body’s arms outstretched across …
Read More »British Fighters Filmed In Syria ‘War Crime’
May 2, 2014, Sky News Footage uncovered by researchers at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) shows jihadist rebels killing a prisoner, said to be a loyalist of President Bashar al Assad. The incident is thought to have happened in the last two weeks near Raqqa in northern Syria. …
Read More »Color Revolutions. Getting Our Facts Straight on the “Arab Spring”
Apr 28, 2014, Global Research The so-called Arab Spring is one of the most pivotal geopolitical happenings of the current century and one which will no doubt reverberate and define the academic discourse on the subject in later generations. That being said, it becomes disheartening to find out that the …
Read More »FBI: Foreign Fighters Head to Syria in Increasing Numbers
May 2, 2014, Antiwar.com FBI Director James Coney today warned that the long-standing problem of foreign fighters flocking to Syria to join al-Qaeda-linked rebels is actually getting worse, with fighters going in increased numbers from Western nations in recent months. Though Comey declined to offer specific numbers, he said the …
Read More »Ceasefire to allow Syrian rebels to flee Homs
May 2, 2014, al Akhbar Syrian authorities and rebel fighters agreed to a 24-hour ceasefire in the Old City district of Homs on Friday to allow besieged rebels to pull out of their last stronghold in the central Syrian city, television stations said. A final rebel withdrawal from the city …
Read More »Syria: 24 registered candidacy for presidential elections as deadline expired
The total number of presidential hopefuls who registered their candidacy in the upcoming presidential elections increased to 24 as the deadline for registration expired May 1. Presidential elections have been scheduled for June 3. Syrians living abroad can vote at the Syrian Embassies on May 28. May 1, 2014, NSNBC The …
Read More »Eleven children among 18 killed in Syria suicide attacks: state TV
May 2, 2014, al Akhbar Eleven children were among 18 people killed in two bombings in central Syria Friday, state media reported. The deadly attacks, in which suicide bombers blew themselves up in vehicles, targeted two towns in Hama province. The first bombing, in the town of Jibrin, in the …
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