Jun 13, 2014, Press TV The US government is ‘urgently’ considering air assaults on Iraq and Syria in an attempt to flush out the al-Qaeda-linked Takfiri militants operating in the two countries, a US official says. The unnamed official, quoted by the Guardian, said on Friday that the White House …
Read More »ISIS Unveiled: The Identity of The Insurgency in Syria and Iraq
Jun 15, 2014, NSNBC The ISIS/ISIL offensive of June 2014 in Iraq and any political or military responses to it cannot be understood without first “unveiling ISIS”. ISIS/ISIL brigades seized Iraq’s northern city of Mosul and most of western Iraq within days. Iraqi military withdrew from Iraq’s second-largest city after …
Read More »NATO’s Terror Hordes in Iraq a Pretext for Syria Invasion
Jun 13, 2014, New Eastern Outlook All roads lead to Baghdad and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is following them all, north from Syria and Turkey to south. Reading Western headlines, two fact-deficient narratives have begun gaining traction. The first is that this constitutes a “failure” of …
Read More »Battle to Establish Islamic State Across Iraq and Syria
Jun 9, 2014, the Independent Islamic fundamentalists have opened new fronts in their battle to establish an Islamic state across Iraq and Syria as they launch attacks in cities which were previously under the control of the Baghdad government. A multi-pronged assault across central and northern Iraq in the past …
Read More »Rebel General: US Arms to Syria Creating Warlords
Jun 9, 2014, Antiwar.com For a long time, Free Syrian Army (FSA) complaints about US aid were that they weren’t sending enough weapons. Now that the spigot is loose, the FSA’s leadership is being forced to rethink its old position. FSA Brigadier General Abdelilah al-Bashir, one of the top leaders …
Read More »Syrians cast their votes to choose their next leader [VIDEO]
Jun 3, 2014, Press TV Syrians cast their votes in the country’s presidential election to choose their next leader. The poll was held in areas controlled by government forces amid tight security and it was extended for five hours due to reported high turnout.The winner of the vote will …
Read More »Syrians Celebrate First Pluralistic Presidential Election
Jun 3, 2014, NSNBC Polling stations in Syria opened Tuesday at 7:00 am, with voters turning out in large numbers throughout the country, to participate in Syria’s first pluralistic presidential elections based on the new Constitution of Syria, which was adopted by an overwhelming majority of Syrians on February 27, …
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Jun 3, 2014, Al Jadeed
Read More »Dispatches from the Election Observation Team in Syria: June 3: Election day
On election day, teams of observers were sent to Sweida, Homs, Tartous, Latakia and of course Damascus. In many cases, they were split into smaller teams at these sites, and also met with teams from other countries, including Uganda, Russia, North Korea and others. A team of parliamentarians from several …
Read More »Former Al-Qaeda Leader says that the CIA runs Al-Nusra, Al-Qaeda
May 18, 2014, Global Research TV The following is an interview of Osama bin Laden’s personal guard, Nabil Na’eem Abul Fattah. Na’eem tells Lebanon’s Asian News Agency in an interview that not only is the leader of Al-Qaeda, his former colleague Ayman Al-Zawahiri, a US double agent working on …
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