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*note: since initial reports, the number of dead is now over 100. May 23, 2016, SANA At least 78 people were killed and scores, were injured, some critically, in a series of terrorist bombings that rocked the coastal cities of Tartous  and Jableh on Monday morning. A source at Lattakia …

May 1, 2016, 21st Century Wire Silvia Cattori Arret sur Info When the US and NATO war of aggression was launched against Syria,  Dr Nabil Antaki could have abandoned Aleppo to ensure his own safety. Instead he decided to remain and to serve the besieged people of his City, working with …

Apr 25, 2016, 21st Century Wire -Eva Bartlett “Aleppo/Daraa: The death toll from terrorist attacks with rocket shells launched by Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists on al-Zahraa town and residential areas in Aleppo city rose to 16 killed and 86 injured.” ~ SANA Two days ago, a friend in Aleppo messaged me: …

May 8, 2016, American Herald Tribune -Eva Bartlett The momentous Syrian-Russian liberation of world heritage site Palmyra on March 27, 2016, came and went with zero congratulations from world leaders who are supposedly fighting terrorism. Palmyra is an area that was subject to ten months of Da’esh (ISIS) occupation, slaughters, …

May 20, 2016, RT.com -Finian Cunningham There is a simple explanation why Washington refuses to proscribe the militant groups Jaysh al-Islam and Ahrar al-Sham as terrorist. Because Washington relies on them for regime change in Syria. Therefore, Washington and its Western and Middle East allies cannot possibly designate Jaysh al-Islam …

The Western Press does not have anything to say about terrorism in Syria. These acts are perpetrated by groups of foreign combatants, supported by a few Syrian collaborators, and armed and funded by Germany, Saudi Arabia, Bulgaria, the United States, France, Israël, Qatar, the United Kingdom and Turkey. Here is …

May 1, 2016, Global Research -Prof. Tim Anderson Heavy propaganda accompanies the strategic battle in Aleppo between the Syrian Army and its allies (Russia, Iran, Hezbollah and other militia) and the Saudi-Turkey-NATO backed terrorist groups (Jabhat al Nusra, Jaysh al Islam, Ahrar as Sham and ISIS). Fighting escalated in late …

Apr 23, 2016, Consortium News By pouring weapons and money into the Syrian war, the West and its Gulf state allies share in the guilt for the Islamic State’s partial destruction of Palmyra’s historic ruins, which Jeff Klein visited. -Jeff Klein ISIS/Daesh is on the retreat in Syria, which is …

Mar 23, 2016, RT.com -Sharmine Narwani [related: Syria: The hidden massacre, May 7, 2014, RT.com] On March 23, 2011, at the very start of what we now call the ‘Syrian conflict,’ two young men – Sa’er Yahya Merhej and Habeel Anis Dayoub – were gunned down in the southern Syrian …

  © Eva Bartlett A newly opened fruit and vegetable stand in Homs’ Old City. Mon, 07 Mar 2016, SOTT.net -Eva Bartlett In April 2014 I first visited Syria, going to Homs and Latakia, in addition to Damascus. On each of my three subsequent trips to Syria, speaking moderate colloquial …