Mar 29, 2014, Tony Cartalucci The small northwestern Syrian town of Kassab, located directly on the Syrian-Turkish border, has turned into a pivotal battleground between Syrian security forces and armed militants backed by the Turkish military. The clashes grabbed headlines last Sunday when Turkey shot down a Syrian warplane conducting …
Read More »Syria peace convoy to start journey from Tehran [VIDEO]
Apr 5, 2014, Press TV CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO A group of prominent international figures has arrived in Tehran to start a movement for peace in Syria titled “Pilgrims of Peace”. The “Pilgrims of Peace” international initiative for Syria is being supported by various human rights and anti-war organizations. The …
Read More »Armenians Wake Up to the Truth: Turkey and NATO Behind Ethnic Cleansing in Lattakia and Kessab
Mar 31, 2014, NSNBC The Syrian government stressed that Turkey has regularly facilitated the entry of armed terrorist groups into the Kessab area in Syria’s Lattakia province. An Armenian M.P. who visited Syria is calling on the world to wake up to the fact that thousands of extremists have crossed the …
Read More »Obama, the Sauds, and Bottomless Hypocrisy
Apr 4, 2014, New Eastern Outlook US President Barack Obama’s recent visit to Saudi Arabia confirms what many even causal political observers have begun to suspect regarding recent US political history, that Washington’s values aren’t just nonpartisan, driven entirely by special interests permeating both sides of the political aisle, but …
Read More »WAR IN SYRIA SET TO INTENSIFY
Mar 22, 2014, Eric Margolis As Syria lies dying, western media cries, “we must save Syria’s suffering children.” Indeed so, among Syria’s nine million internal and external refugees, some 450,000 are children. All civil wars are bloody and cruel, but Syria’s strife has reached new extremes of violence and mass …
Read More »In Talks with Saudi Monarch, Obama prepares Escalation of US-backed War in Syria
Mar 29, 2014, Global Research US President Barack Obama arrived in Saudi Arabia Friday, trailed by leaks to the Washington media suggesting that the US government had decided to escalate its intervention in the civil war in Syria. Press reports cited the ongoing conflict with Russia over Ukraine as a …
Read More »Call for Peace in Syria
Mar 20, 2014, Universal Peace Federation Syrians coming from most diverse social, educational, political and national backgrounds gathered on March 8 and 9, 2014, in the Castle of Schlaining, Austria, in the framework of an “All Sides Consultation for a Political Solution in Syria” organized by the international initiative …
Read More »All-Sides Consultation in Austria on the Syrian Conflict
Mar 9, 2014, Universal Peace Federation An All Sides Consultation for a Political Solution to the Syrian Conflict took place March 8-9, 2014 at Burgschlaining, Austria, an ancient castle that has become a center for peace studies and a European Museum for Peace. Panel discussions addressed a variety of concerns …
Read More »“Humanitarian War” on Syria: Al-Qaeda Flag Now Flies on the Mediterranean, Courtesy of NATO
Mar 29, 2014, Global Research The Syrian rebels are in the midst of a new coastal offensive in Northwest Syria – a region that has historically been a stronghold of government support. This offensive has the full backing of Turkey and other NATO countries, including the United States. The Kassab border …
Read More »NATO’s Secret Drone War in Syria – Turkish Drone Allegedly Downed by Syrian Army
Mar 27, 2014, NSNBC While Turkish and Western – backed Jihadists in the region around Kassab are on the run from the Syrian armed forces, an MP for Turkey’s largest opposition party CHP alleged that the Syrian Army has drowned a Turkish drone over Kassab. The Turkish Aydinlik Dayly (AD) …
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