Syria Support Movement solidarity with the Syrian people
Sep 12, 2013, The Passionate Attachment On September 7, The Economist’s “Pomegranate” blog on the Middle East reported Israeli “consternation” over President Obama’s “seeming lack of resolve” to bomb Syria. After noting the help that Israel’s army has been giving to the Syrian rebels, the piece ended with an account …
Read More »Turkey indicts 11 linked with Syria militants caught with sarin gas
Sep 14, 2013, Press TV The Turkish public prosecutor has issued an indictment for eleven suspects caught with sarin gas in the Turkish province of Hatay, Press TV reports. The public prosecutor claimed on Friday that the detainees had relations with the al-Qaeda-linked groups of al-Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham …
Read More »Resistance mindset, public opinion averted US war on Syria: Iran MP
Sep 14, 2013, Press TV The United States halted its plan to attack Syria as Washington was apprehensive of the resistance movement and the opposition of the world public opinion to such an offensive, an Iranian lawmaker says. In a Saturday interview, Mohammad Esmaili, a member of the National …
Read More »Syria crisis: Al-Nusra pledges allegiance to al-Qaeda
10 April 2013, BBC The leader of the al-Nusra Front, a jihadist group fighting in Syria, has pledged allegiance to the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri. Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani said the group’s behaviour in Syria would not change as a result. Al-Nusra claims to be have carried out many suicide …
Read More »Al Qaida-linked group Syria rebels once denied now key to anti-Assad victories
Dec 2, 2012, McClatchy Newspapers QALAT AL MUDIQ, Syria — When the group Jabhat al Nusra first claimed responsibility for car and suicide bombings in Damascus that killed dozens last January, many of Syria’s revolutionaries claimed that the organization was a creation of the Syrian government, designed to discredit those …
Read More »10 reasons why diplomatic solution is unlikely in Syria
Sep 14, 2013, Press TV Over the past few days, there has been a tremendous wave of optimism that it may be possible for war with Syria to be averted. Unfortunately, it appears that a diplomatic solution to the crisis in Syria is extremely unlikely. Assad is certainly willing …
Read More »SYRIA: President Bashar Al Assad Interview on Chemical Weapons
September 13, 2013, Global Research President Bashar al-Assad gave a speech to Rossiya 24 TV channel. Following is the full transcript of the interview largely focusing on the issue of chemical weapons Interviewer: Why did Syria agree to the Russian initiative which proposes handing over its chemical weapons to the …
Read More »Five Ways a Wider Syrian War Could Go Nuclear
Sep 13, 2013, Truthdig In the wake of an apparent break in the march to a wider war, the reality of a nuclear dimension in Syria remains largely unspoken. There are at least five key reasons why American military intervention in Syria’s civil war could go nuclear: (1) There’s a …
Read More »American Bombing Still Likely: “Go Tell It on the Mountain, From the Peaks of Qasioun!”
September 13-15, 2013, Counterpunch by FRANKLIN LAMB Damascus. At the height of the war scare here in early September, a group 9 primarily Sunni, Christian, and Alawite students and activists, led by a charismatic and agnostic pro-Hezbollah Lebanese Shia woman from Hermel in Lebanon’s North Bekaa Valley, set up a …
Read More »Response to Obama’s Speech: Accelerate the Antiwar Movement!
International Action Center Statement Response To Obama’s Speech: Accelerate The Antiwar Movement! The President’s speech Tuesday night repeated all of the lies the United States has been telling about Syria to justify war — and shows that war may be delayed, but is not off the table. The biggest lie being told …
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