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Sep 14, 2013, Press TV   The United States halted its plan to attack Syria as Washington was apprehensive of the resistance movement and the opposition of the world public opinion to such an offensive, an Iranian lawmaker says. In a Saturday interview, Mohammad Esmaili, a member of the National …

10 April 2013, BBC The leader of the al-Nusra Front, a jihadist group fighting in Syria, has pledged allegiance to the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri. Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani said the group’s behaviour in Syria would not change as a result. Al-Nusra claims to be have carried out many suicide …

Dec 2, 2012, McClatchy Newspapers QALAT AL MUDIQ, Syria — When the group Jabhat al Nusra first claimed responsibility for car and suicide bombings in Damascus that killed dozens last January, many of Syria’s revolutionaries claimed that the organization was a creation of the Syrian government, designed to discredit those …

Sep 14, 2013, Press TV   Over the past few days, there has been a tremendous wave of optimism that it may be possible for war with Syria to be averted. Unfortunately, it appears that a diplomatic solution to the crisis in Syria is extremely unlikely. Assad is certainly willing …

September 13, 2013, Global Research President Bashar al-Assad gave a speech to Rossiya 24 TV channel.  Following is the full transcript of the interview largely focusing on the issue of chemical weapons Interviewer: Why did Syria agree to the Russian initiative which proposes handing over its chemical weapons to the …

Sep 13, 2013, Truthdig In the wake of an apparent break in the march to a wider war, the reality of a nuclear dimension in Syria remains largely unspoken. There are at least five key reasons why American military intervention in Syria’s civil war could go nuclear: (1) There’s a …

September 13-15, 2013,  Counterpunch by FRANKLIN LAMB Damascus. At the height of the war scare here in early September, a group 9 primarily Sunni, Christian, and Alawite students and activists, led by a charismatic and agnostic pro-Hezbollah Lebanese Shia woman from Hermel in Lebanon’s North Bekaa Valley, set up a …

International Action Center Statement  Response To Obama’s Speech: Accelerate The Antiwar Movement! The President’s speech Tuesday night repeated all of the lies the United States has been telling about Syria to justify war — and shows that war may be delayed, but is not off the table. The biggest lie being told …

September 12, 2013, RT.com While the Obama administration pays lip service to the Russian solution, there is no reason to believe that Washington will take its finger off the trigger. In a recent interview with CBS, Syrian President Bashar Assad warned that the United States should “expect everything” if it …

Sep 10, 2012, Dissident Voice by Paul Larudee If there was ever any doubt about the purpose of intervention in Syria, it has been dispelled as hoards of lobbyists from AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, including 250 Jewish leaders, descend upon Capitol Hill.  Their mission is to make …