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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 …

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 …

  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 …

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, …

Jun 3, 2014, Al Jadeed

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 …

  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 …

May 28, 2014, NSNBC Figures from Turkey’s Statistical Institute (TÜIK), reveal that Turkey sold 16.026 tons of isopropyl alcohol, the main ingredient for the manufacturing of Sarin gas to Syria in 2013, reports Masum Gök in Turkey’s Aydinlik Daily. The figures suggest that the timing of most of the sales …

Hundreds are expected to sign petitions backing al-Assad at rallies in major cities, in absence of polling stations May 30, 2014, the Guardian Australians backing Bashar al-Assad in the upcoming Syrian presidential elections are staging rallies across the country to help expats register their support. Hundreds are expected to sign …

May 30, 2014, Haaretz The U.S. State Department on Friday confirmed that an American citizen carried out a suicide bombing in Syria. The bomber, who called himself Abu Hurayra al-Amriki, carried out one of four suicide bombings on May 25 in Syria’s Idlib province on behalf of Jabhat al-Nusra, Al-Qaida’s …