North Korea Launches Three Short-Range Missiles Somaliland Marks 22 Years of Independence Meteor Smashes Into Earth’s Moon Greece’s Golden Dawn Makes Genocidal Anti-Muslim Statements Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad Will Not Step Down, Grants Rare Television Interview Russia Deploys 12 Warships to Syria Pakistan Female Politician Zahra Shahid Hussain Assassinated in Karachi Lebanese Man Murders Sister [...]
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News Headlines May 17, 2013
Posted on 17 May 2013.
Greek Golden Dawn MP Shouts ‘Heil Hitler’ During Parliamentary Session Russia Confused About International Outrage Over Syrian Arms Sales UK Public Accounts Committee Chairperson Margaret Hodges Tells Google: ‘You Do Evil’ in Underpaying Taxes Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel Protest Israeli Defense Ministry Plans to Draft Them Bashar Al-Assad Winning in Syrian Civil War Internet Sensation, [...]
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Israel Threatens to Strike Syria If Rebels Gain Access to Chemical Weapons
Posted on 28 January 2013.
Silvan Shalom, Israel’s vice premier, said that if it appeared that the Syrian government was losing control of its chemical weapons stockpile in its struggle against rebels fighting against the government of Bashar al-Assad that Israel would launch military strikes on those bases. Silvan Shalom was commenting on a report that leaked to the [...]
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Airstrikes in Northern Syria Leave Destruction in Their Wake
Posted on 07 November 2012.
Airstrikes on Harem town leave 70 dead and there are reports of killings by rebel militias in Idlib. Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has allegedly resorted to heavy aerial bombardments of the suburbs after failing to regain territory on the ground. [Al Jazeera]
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Killings By Syrian Rebels Caught on Video Could Be War Crimes According to the United Nations (UN)
Posted on 05 November 2012.
A video appearing to show Syrian rebels executing a group of captured soldiers is shedding new light on the level of brutality being employed in Syria’s ongoing civil war. Human rights groups claim the video is proof of war crimes in Syria by the opposition militias fighting to overthrow Bashar Al-Assad’s government. [The Star]
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The Civil War in Syria
Posted on 26 September 2012.
The growing violence in Syria to topple the Bashar al-Assad regime has international spectators increasingly concerned over the humanitarian crisis unfolding in the state. Who exactly is fighting against the Bashar al-Assad regime, and for what are they fighting? Why does the international regime stand-back while so many Syrians are killed in some of the [...]
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Syrian Leader Assad Talks of the Opposition’s Imminent Defeat
Posted on 21 September 2012.
In comments made to Egyptian magazine Al-Ahram al-Araby, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad predicted defeat for Syria’s opposition’s groups but also said that the door to dialogue remained open. An air strike on a fuel station in al-Riqqa in northern Syria killed 54 people or more on Thursday as the fighting in the civilly torn nation [...]
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Arab League Human Rights Mission to Syria Helmed by Founder of Feared Janjaweed Guerrillas of Darfur.
Posted on 28 December 2011.
Hypocrisy decried as international observers note General Mohammad Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi’s role founding the genocidal janjaweed guerrillas. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s crackdown on civil society weathered intense criticism for months before any substantive action being taken against him by his Arab League partners. Now it is the Arab League’s Human Rights Mission to Syria that is [...]
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Has the Arab Spring Cemented A Russian-Chinese Global Alliance?
Posted on 24 November 2011.
Foreign Policy’s article “The Axis of No,” by Dmitri Trenin, argues that the events of the Arab Spring and the toppling of authoritarian regimes in the Middle East has contributed to a tightening of relations between the Chinese and Russians who have positioned themselves in opposition to United Nations’ backed maneuvers to aid the collapse [...]
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Russian Warships Moved to Mediterranean to Deny Area to Foreign Intervention Against al-Assad Regime.
Posted on 19 November 2011.
Syria’s unrest continues and now Russia has involved itself in the preservation of the al-Assad regime by announcing it is moving warships into Syrian territorial waters to prevent any intervention in Syria’s domestic situation by foreign powers like NATO or Turkey. During the overthrow of Qaddafi, NATO warships and planes provided great assistance to the [...]
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