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Zafar Bangash, Apr 2014 Calling for reforms is “terrorism,” withdrawing your allegiance to the monarchy is “treason” and contacting international news organizations about human rights violations in the kingdom will land you in prison. Welcome to the Saudi kingdom! Has the Saudi regime shot itself in the foot over its …

Mar 29, 2014, Tony Cartalucci The small northwestern Syrian town of Kassab, located directly on the Syrian-Turkish border, has turned into a pivotal battleground between Syrian security forces and armed militants backed by the Turkish military. The clashes grabbed headlines last Sunday when Turkey shot down a Syrian warplane conducting …

Apr 5, 2014, Press TV CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO A group of prominent international figures has arrived in Tehran to start a movement for peace in Syria titled “Pilgrims of Peace”. The “Pilgrims of Peace” international initiative for Syria is being supported by various human rights and anti-war organizations. The …

Apr 4, 2014, New Eastern Outlook US President Barack Obama’s recent visit to Saudi Arabia confirms what many even causal political observers have begun to suspect regarding recent US political history, that Washington’s values aren’t just nonpartisan, driven entirely by special interests permeating both sides of the political aisle, but …

Mar 22, 2014, Eric Margolis As Syria lies dying, western media cries, “we must save Syria’s suffering children.” Indeed so, among Syria’s nine million internal and external refugees, some 450,000 are children. All civil wars are bloody and cruel, but Syria’s strife has reached new extremes of violence and mass …

Mar 29, 2014, Global Research US President Barack Obama arrived in Saudi Arabia Friday, trailed by leaks to the Washington media suggesting that the US government had decided to escalate its intervention in the civil war in Syria. Press reports cited the ongoing conflict with Russia over Ukraine as a …

  Mar 20, 2014, Universal Peace Federation Syrians coming from most diverse social, educational, political and national backgrounds gathered on March 8 and 9, 2014, in the Castle of Schlaining, Austria, in the framework of an “All Sides Consultation for a Political Solution in Syria” organized by the international initiative …

Mar 9, 2014, Universal Peace Federation An All Sides Consultation for a Political Solution to the Syrian Conflict took place March 8-9, 2014 at Burgschlaining, Austria, an ancient castle that has become a center for peace studies and a European Museum for Peace. Panel discussions addressed a variety of concerns …

Mar 27, 2014, NSNBC While Turkish and Western – backed Jihadists in the region around Kassab are on the run from the Syrian armed forces, an MP for Turkey’s largest opposition party CHP alleged that the Syrian Army has drowned a Turkish drone over Kassab. The Turkish Aydinlik Dayly (AD) …

March 14, 2014   Dear Friends of Peace in Syria, As we approach the March 15 end of the third year of deadly conflict in Syria, some organizations are pushing for greater US intervention and escalation of the conflict. They have organized a concerted lobbying campaign in the halls of …