News From Syria

Apr 17, 2014, New Eastern Outlook The Long War Journal reported in its post, “Former Guantanamo detainee killed while leading jihadist group in Syria,” that: Ibrahim Bin Shakaran, a Moroccan who spent more than three years at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility before being released to Moroccan custody, has been …

Apr 7, 2014, the Guardian A masked gunman shot dead a Dutch priest in the garden of a monastery in the Syrian city of Homs on Monday. Father Francis van der Lugt, 75, a Jesuit – the same order as Pope Francis – had lived in Syria for decades and …

Mar 27, 2014, OpEd News Lilly Martin, an American who is married to a Syrian and has lived in the Alawite border region with Turkey for twenty-one years, sent me this email today, after I enquired about the taking of a village by Islamists: “My only home for 21 years …

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 …

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 …

BADROUSIEH, Syria (AP), Mar 28, 2014 When hundreds of residents of the postcard-pretty coastal Syrian village of Kassab fled this week, it bore historic weight: it was the third time since 1900 that ethnic Armenians there felt compelled to run for their lives.They left once at the hands of vengeful …

Mar 21, 2014, al Akhbar Kuwaiti Salafis have played a central role in supporting armed groups in Syria. They have established support entities, and most of them do their work in public and are highly organized. Major credit goes to unofficial Kuwaiti money in arming a number of the biggest …

  Mar 4, 2014, Press TV A high-ranking Syrian official says Israel is dispatching officers and undercover agents to Syria to join foreign-sponsored militants fighting against the Damascus government. In an interview with Arabic-language al-Mayadeen news network on Monday, Bouthaina Shaaban, the political and media adviser to Syrian President Bashar …

Feb 21, 2014, Global Research We invite GR readers to review the video and images below and make up their own mind as to what is happening in Syria.  There is a mass movement across the country against foreign interference.  This mass movement is not being reported by the Western …

Feb 21, 2014, nsnbc The head of the Syrian National Dialog Committee for the Qalamoun region, Ahmad Amin Saad Eddin, and the Muezzin of the Great Umayyad Mosque, Sheikh Fahd al-Maghribi have been assassinated by terrorists. Both were prominent voices for peace, reconciliation and the rejection of violence and terrorism. Saad Eddin has been …