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Syrian Leader Assad Talks of the Opposition’s Imminent Defeat

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 […]

Arab League Human Rights Mission to Syria Helmed by Founder of Feared Janjaweed Guerrillas of Darfur.

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 […]

Has the Arab Spring Cemented A Russian-Chinese Global Alliance?

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 […]

Russian Warships Moved to Mediterranean to Deny Area to Foreign Intervention Against al-Assad Regime.

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 […]

The Rise of Qatar: How a Tiny Emirate in the Middle East is Turning the Arab Spring to Its Advantage.

Qatar is probably best known in the west as the home of media outlet Al Jazeera and perhaps secondly as a less grand, Dubai-esque sheikdom in the Middle East. Recent events in the Middle East such as the uprising against Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the fall of Qaddafi in Libya and the toppling of Mubarak […]

Violence Against Bashar al-Assad’s Regime Intensifies in Syria.

According to Al Jazeera at least 70 people have been killed in the “bloodiest day” in the uprising against Bashar al-Assad’s government, many of the victims in the province of Deraa. Syrian Security Forces are responsible for the majority of the killings according to human rights groups in Syria. Regional condemnation of Assad’s regime continues, […]

Bashar al-Assad claims the media has distorted what is happening in Syria.

SANA, Syria’s official news agency, has Bashar al-Assad claiming that media distortion has led to a great number of misconceptions to grow in the public’s perception of events on the ground in Syria. Of course, al-Assad is blaming the unrest and destruction in his country on rebel elements backed by foreign conspiracies, which may or […]

Syrian Shabeeha attack popular cartoonist Ali Ferzat in the capital’s Ummayad Square.

Bashar al-Assad’s Ba’athist militiamen have allegedly attacked and broken the hands of famed Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat to silence him. This comes after many international calls for Bashar al-Assad to relinquish power in the deteriorating situation in Syria. Ali Ferzat’s plight shows the extent to which some governments are willing to go to quiet even […]

Obama tells Assad to give it up.

The jig is up for Bashar al-Assad. Much of Europe and now the US is telling him to stop slaughtering his people and step aside. With Qadaffi rumored to be seeking exile in Tunisia, events in this region of the world just keep getting more promising. What shape these regimes take in the future will […]

Pravda claims that Turkey is trying to push Syria’s Bashar al-Assad’s regime to collapse.

Pravda surmises that if Syria’s Bashar al-Assad were to accept Turkey’s demands to cease actions against demonstrators and to welcome free elections that the regime would certainly collapse. Pravda’s Sergei Balmasov writes that the ‘peaceful demonstrators’ are armed with Kalashnikov rifles and that Turkey is actively exacerbating the situation on the ground in order to […]