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  Jan 22, 2014 The camp at Yarmouk – the largest centre of Palestinian refugees in Syria – is more of a small town than a refugee camp. There are no tents to be seen, but instead streets of houses that are home to every strata of Palestinian society and …

Jan 20, 2014, Mahdi Nazemroaya As Turkey works for harmonization with Iran and Russia, an internal struggle has developed between the PM and the Gulenists that may threaten the process. If the leadership of the AKP is to be believed, it’s part of a foreign conspiracy to remove them. Regarding …

  Jan 16, 2014, interview with Ken Stone The UN human rights office says a soaring number of executions in northern Syria could amount to war crimes. In a statement released on Thursday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has warned militants and armed opposition groups that such executions …

Jan 21, 2014, Interventions Watch Today saw the release of a report, commissioned by the regime in Qatar via the law firm Carter Ruck, alleging the systematic mass killing and torture of detainees by the Assad regime in Syria. Up to 11’000 people, and perhaps more, could have died in this …

  Jan 21, 2014, Press TV Foreign-backed militants continue attacks on a Christian town on the outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus, Press TV reports. Militants targeted Cherubim Monastery, which is located on top of a mountain in Qalamoun region. The armed militants continuously attack the monastery from Rankus village …

Jan 21, 2014, Finian Cunningham There is a good reason why Iran has been blocked from attending the Geneva II conference on Syria – because the meeting is not about finding a peaceful settlement. Rather, it is merely an American mechanism for engineering regime change in Syria. What the Americans …

Jan 19, 2014, RT

Jan 19, 2014, Levant Report Only a couple of major newspapers in the world have bothered to regularly cover the plight of Syria’s diverse religious and ethnic minorities living in rebel held areas. Lebanon’s The Daily Star and Al-Akhbar newspapers have featured consistent coverage of Syria’s Armenians, Kurds, Iraqis, Druze, Christians, and Ismailis …

Jan 20, 2014, Nile Bowie Preconditions placed on attending the Geneva 2 conference insisted on by the United States are detrimental to building a conducive environment for ending the fighting in Syria. Despite months of effort by diplomats and the international community, the long-awaited Geneva 2 peace conference is in …

Jan 21, 2014, Guardian Bashar al-Assad’s key international allies in Moscow and Tehran have reacted angrily to the UN’s decision to rescind Iran‘s invitation to this week’s peace talks on the crisis in Syria. The UN hastily withdrew its surprise invitation after pressure from the US and a threat that …