by Rick Sterling, published on the LA Progressive, December 10, 2023 My friend lives in Damascus. I will call him Qusay to protect his identity. Qusay was born and grew up in Aleppo and still has family there. He is a high-level translator and university professor. From his family, he …
Read More »Assad Pledges Further Support for Palestinian Cause, Resistance
by Editor, Mideast Discourse, published on May 5, 2024 Syrian President Bashar al-Assad underlines that Damascus stands with the Palestinian Resistance and cause despite the perilous circumstances undergone by Syria. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad emphasized that his country’s position has been consistent since the emergence of the Palestinian cause in …
Read More »Antidotes Against the Allure of War: Information and Empathy
by Susan Dirgham, published on Pearls and Irritations, December 22, 2023 ‘In the document drawn up by a top secret and high-level working group that met in Washington in September 1957, Mr Macmillan and President Eisenhower were left in no doubt about the need to assassinate the top men in …
Read More »Mainstream Media Colludes with U.S. Government To Conceal Source of Syria’s Heartbreaking Humanitarian Crisis
by Jeremey Kuzmarov, published on CovertAction Magazine, June 30, 2023 Illegal U.S. bombing raids, brutal economic sanctions, and incredibly brazen theft by U.S. forces of 66,000 barrels of Syrian oil per day (80% of its total output) have visited a biblical-scale tragedy upon the Syrian people that has battered them virtually back …
Read More »International People’s Tribunal On U.S. Imperialism: Syria Hearing
This is a really interesting, information packed Webinar, as are the ones for other countries. In any case, we are interested in Syria here.
Read More »We Will Deliver Aid to Syrians Even if Bab al Hawa Crossing Closes
They can’t deliver aid to needy Syrians in most of Syria, because US sanctions prevent charities from operating in the government-controlled parts of Syria unless their own personnel distribute the aid. For this reason, most desperate Syrians do not receive that aid. We are the only US-based charity that administers …
Read More »An open letter from a Syrian Arab priest to His Holiness, Pope Francis
The following letter was issued by Fr. Elias Zahlaoui on March 13, 2020: Holy father, The tenth anniversary of the cosmic war on Syria, my homeland, is in a couple of days. I would like, today, to ask you, personally, and the whole Catholic Church, everywhere, a question that is …
Read More »President al-Assad: The American presence in Syria will generate military resistance
The following interview, initially published by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) is reprinted from Mark Taliano’s website: DAMASCUS- President Bashar al-Assad has stressed that nobody believes that Turkey will repatriate 3 million Syrian refugees to the northeast of the country and this is a deceptive humanitarian slogan raised by …
Read More »Open Letter from a Syrian Priest to Pope Francis
Damascus, September 14, 2019 Holy father, This is the tenth letter I, a simple Catholic priest, allow myself to write to you from Syria on this day of September 14, 2019. I am addressing it to the representative of Jesus Christ only, not to the President of the Vatican City. Yes, …
Read More »Syrian Permanent Representative Dr. Ja’afari at UN: Syria has sovereignty over the province of Idlib, not western powers
Ambassador Bashar al-Ja’afari, May 17, to Security Council: Statement of Ambassador Bashar al-Ja’afar on May 17 to the UN Security Council’s meeting on the situation in the Middle East, specifically in Idlib: Mr. President, I would like to start by congratulating you and your friendly country, Indonesia, on your successful …
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