Analysis

January 24, 2017 Gareth Porter – Middle Easy Eye The Trump administration may recognise that the Syrian army is the only institution committed to resisting terrorism in its country A new coalition of US-based organisations is pushing for a more aggressive US intervention against the Assad regime. But both the …

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21Wire The Syrian Law Journal interviews Kamal Alam “The war in Syria has divided the political and military establishment in the West, especially in the UK and US. Perhaps no other war since World War II has raised so many divisions and cracks in Western policymaking.” One subject of key …

December 30,2016, Tim Hayward I have unbounded admiration for the doctors who volunteer for the invaluable and often dangerous work of Médicins Sans Frontières (MSF). The question concerns MSF’s policy of ‘bearing witness’. MSF will speak out – even against governments – when it thinks a humanitarian situation could and …

January 5, 2017 – Gareth Porter, TruthDig Airstrikes by the United States and its allies against two Syrian army positions Sept. 17 killed at least 62 Syrian troops and wounded dozens more. The attack was quickly treated as a non-story by the U.S. news media; U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) claimed …

January 2, 2017, Madaniya Civiqu et citoyen -RENÉ NABA «Saladin ! Réveille-Toi Nous sommes revenus ! Le petit fils de Godefroy de Bouillon est devant toi, où sont les tiens ?» Proclamation du Général Gouraud entrant à cheval à Damas et piétinant le catafalque du tombeau de Saladin à l’intérieur …

May 21, 2016, Sputnik News -Finian Cunningham Alleged peace-maker John Kerry threatened to wage war-without-end on Syria – if the Middle East country does accept the US demand for regime change. That’s hardly the language of a supposed bona fide diplomat who presents an image to the world as a politician concerned to bring …

May 8, 2016, American Herald Tribune -Eva Bartlett The momentous Syrian-Russian liberation of world heritage site Palmyra on March 27, 2016, came and went with zero congratulations from world leaders who are supposedly fighting terrorism. Palmyra is an area that was subject to ten months of Da’esh (ISIS) occupation, slaughters, …

Apr 23, 2016, Consortium News By pouring weapons and money into the Syrian war, the West and its Gulf state allies share in the guilt for the Islamic State’s partial destruction of Palmyra’s historic ruins, which Jeff Klein visited. -Jeff Klein ISIS/Daesh is on the retreat in Syria, which is …

Mar 23, 2016, RT.com -Sharmine Narwani [related: Syria: The hidden massacre, May 7, 2014, RT.com] On March 23, 2011, at the very start of what we now call the ‘Syrian conflict,’ two young men – Sa’er Yahya Merhej and Habeel Anis Dayoub – were gunned down in the southern Syrian …