News From Syria

“Palmyra’s citadel. The Syrian Army and Russian air power made great efforts to avoid historic sites, but the citadel did suffer some damage in the fierce fighting,, as DAESH tried to seize that higher ground.” -Professor Tim Anderson   April 16, 2016, Professor Tim Anderson [see: Why Palmyra, Recently Liberated, …

-Ken Stone,  Treasurer, Hamilton Coalition To Stop The War Damascus: Today, the members of the Second International Tour of Peace to Syria were offered the privilege of accompanying the Patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church as he went to vote in the Syrian parliamentary elections. Gregorious III, the spiritual …

  © Eva Bartlett A newly opened fruit and vegetable stand in Homs’ Old City. Mon, 07 Mar 2016, SOTT.net -Eva Bartlett In April 2014 I first visited Syria, going to Homs and Latakia, in addition to Damascus. On each of my three subsequent trips to Syria, speaking moderate colloquial …

Jan 18, 2016, American Herald Tribune ISIS committed a massacre in Eastern Syrian city of Deir el-Zour on Sunday leaving as many as 280 people dead. News agencies reported different death tolls with state news agencies reporting a number as high as 300 people and opposition groups and news agencies …

Jan 18, 2016, Taylor Report Steve Sahiounie is an activist and reporter who has lived in Syria for 20 years. Click HERE to listen The Syrian army is beginning to score significant victories with Russian air support. They are now at the doors of the second biggest headquarters of the …

Jan 18, 2016, Stephen Lendman, Global Research CIA operatives, US special forces and their rogue state counterparts train ISIS recruits in the fine art of committing gruesome atrocities, including beheadings, use of chemical and other toxic agents, as well as mass slaughtering civilians. US-led Western imperial ruthlessness bears full responsibility …

Jan 21, 2016, Middle East Channel Getting back to a normal life in Al-Hussinieh Al-Hussinieh was the first quarter in Damascus and its countryside to witness a reconciliation which allowed its residents to return and live there. The reconciliation process took 3 months to be achieved, and it followed a …

Jan 21, 2016, Press TV Hundreds of displaced Syrians have been able to return to their homes in a district in southern Damascus. This comes as part of a reconciliation deal between the Syrian government and foreign-backed militants. Press TV’s Mohamad Ali has more on the story from the Syrian …

Nov 23, 2015, Sputnik News The Al-Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria, has released a grateful video, where they openly thank the Free Syrian Army (FSA), which the US has touted as a “moderate opposition group”, for supplying them with US-made anti-tank TOW missiles (“Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided”). A recently …

Nov 24, 2015, RT The video posted online shows armed men around an alleged Russian pilot who seems to be unconscious and immobile. His face is bruised and bloodied. The men seem to be happy and are praising Allah, with some regretting that they hadn’t burned him on the spot. …