Saturday, August 31, 2013

Putin: it would be "utter nonsense" for the Syrian government to use chemical weapons when it was winning its war with rebels

    Saturday, August 31, 2013   No comments
Putin told journalists that if Obama had evidence Assad's forces had the chemical weapons and launched the attack, Washington should present it to the U.N. weapons inspectors and the Security Council.

"I am convinced that it (the chemical attack) is nothing more than a provocation by those who want to drag other countries into the Syrian conflict, and who want to win the support of powerful members of the international arena, especially the United States," Putin said.

The Russian president said Obama, as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, should remember the impact any U.S. attack would have on Syrian civilians.

Friday, August 30, 2013

U.S. intelligence assessment of August 21 suspected chemical-weapons attack near Damascus cites

    Friday, August 30, 2013   No comments

A U.S. intelligence assessment of last week’s suspected chemical- weapons attack near Damascus cites intercepted communications that allegedly showed Syrian government officials making preparations...

Representative Adam Smith: Simply lashing out with military force under the banner of 'doing something' will not secure our interests in Syria

    Friday, August 30, 2013   No comments

What seemed inevitable just 48 hours ago – an imminent U.S. missile attack on Syrian targets in response to an alleged chemical attack that...

Thursday, August 29, 2013

After initially insisting that Syria give United Nations investigators unimpeded access to the site of an alleged nerve gas attack, the administration of President Barack Obama reversed its position on Sunday and tried unsuccessfully to get the U.N. to call off its investigation

    Thursday, August 29, 2013   No comments

In Rush to Strike Syria, U.S. Tried to Derail U.N. Probe.The administration’s reversal, which came within hours of the deal reached between Syria and...

We should have been traumatised into action by this war in 2011. And 2012. But now?

    Thursday, August 29, 2013   No comments

Before the stupidest Western war in the history of the modern world begins – I am, of course, referring to the attack on Syria...

A Pilgrimage to a Person

    Thursday, August 29, 2013   No comments

When you are not with close friends,you are not in the presence.It is sad to leave the people you travel with.How much more so...

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

YPG Commander: Kurds Are Bulwark Against Islamic Extremism in Syria

    Wednesday, August 28, 2013   No comments

Sipan Hemo, commander of the controversial People’s Defense Units (YPG) in Syria, is adamant: “We are not a military wing of any party,” he...

Doctors without Borders: Evidence Syrian rebels used sarin, nerve gas, in the Damascus suburb attack

    Wednesday, August 28, 2013   No comments

French charity Medecins sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) reported that 355 people died in the attack.  However, evidence from witnesses indicates Syrian rebels used...

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Does Obama know he’s fighting on al-Qa’ida’s side?

    Tuesday, August 27, 2013   No comments

If Barack Obama decides to attack the Syrian regime, he has ensured – for the very first time in history – that the United...

Military strikes on Syria 'as early as Thursday,' US officials say

    Tuesday, August 27, 2013   No comments

By Jim Miklaszewski, Catherine Chomiak and Erin McClam, NBC News The United States could hit Syria with three days of missile strikes, perhaps beginning...

The Egyptian military uses religion to keep troops from deserting or disobeying orders

    Tuesday, August 27, 2013   No comments

The Egyptian military uses religion to keep troops from deserting or disobeying orders: ...

'A Slow Death': How the War Is Destroying Syria's Economy

    Tuesday, August 27, 2013   No comments

Food is scarce in Syria, the currency is collapsing and entire industries have come to a standstill. But not even economic suffering brought on...

Monday, August 26, 2013

Gulf Islamists irked as monarchs back Egypt's generals

    Monday, August 26, 2013   No comments

A scuffle broke the reflective atmosphere of Friday prayers in Riyadh's al-Ferdous mosque after the imam deplored the recent bloody crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood...

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Tension between Gulf countries and Turkey may harm economic relations

    Sunday, August 25, 2013   No comments

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's critical remarks about some Gulf countries that have offered support for the coup in Egypt may harm Turkey's business...

Erdoğan says history will curse Al-Azhar Sheikh for endorsing coup

    Sunday, August 25, 2013   No comments

Turkey's prime minister has slammed Egypt's leading Islamic cleric for endorsing the military coup in Egypt, saying that history will curse scholars like him....

A senior Turkish diplomat has strictly denied a news report that cited a Syrian rebel operative as saying that 400 tons of arms have been sent into Syria from Turkey

    Sunday, August 25, 2013   No comments

“As has been the case with similar news reports in the past, this claim is definitely not true,” the diplomat, speaking under condition of...

Tunisia opposition starts week of protests calling for resignation of Islamist-led government

    Sunday, August 25, 2013   No comments

TUNIS, Tunisia — Thousands of Tunisians have demonstrated in front of the national assembly calling for the resignation of the Islamist-led government. Saturday night's...

Report: Syrian soldiers find chemical agents in rebel tunnels

    Sunday, August 25, 2013   No comments

According to Reuters, Syrian state television reported that some soldiers were overcome by fumes after coming across the chemical agents in the tunnels while...

Polls: Americans strongly oppose U.S. intervention in Syria's civil war and believe Washington should stay out of the conflict even if reports that Syria's government used deadly chemicals to attack civilians are confirmed

    Sunday, August 25, 2013   No comments

About 60 percent of Americans surveyed said the United States should not intervene in Syria's civil war, while just 9 percent thought President Barack...

Saturday, August 24, 2013

POV | The Law in These Parts

    Saturday, August 24, 2013   No comments

Acclaimed Israeli filmmaker Ra'anan Alexandrowicz has pulled off a tour-de-force examination of the system of military administration used by Israel since the Six Day...

Friday, August 23, 2013

Saudis give Egypt ‘blank cheque’: Saudi Arabia and several conservative Gulf Emirates have pledged to support Egypt’s interim authorities as they continue their crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood

    Friday, August 23, 2013   No comments

Saudi Arabia and the Gulf emirates – with the notable exception of Qatar – remain unfazed by last week’s bloody crackdown on the Muslim...

Thursday, August 22, 2013

When anti-terrorism laws are used to harass journalists (and/or their partners)

    Thursday, August 22, 2013   No comments

David Miranda, partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald who broke the NSA sruvelance story in June, was detained by British intelligence authorities to pressure...

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: Israel was behind the military coup that ousted Egypt's first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi

    Tuesday, August 20, 2013   No comments

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has stated that Israel was behind the military coup that ousted Egypt's first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi, in...

10 biggest US Defense contracts involving direct military aid to Egypt from 2009 to 2011

    Tuesday, August 20, 2013   No comments

The irony is thick: Obama calls on Egypt’s interim government to stop its bloody crackdown on protesters, but continues to give it $1.3 billion...

PORTRAIT OF A CAIRO LIBERAL AS A MILITARY BACKER

    Tuesday, August 20, 2013   No comments

In Cairo Friday morning, before the midday call to prayer and an afternoon of protest marches that resolved in violence, chaos, and the overnight...

Monday, August 19, 2013

The CIA has publicly admitted for the first time that it was behind the notorious 1953 coup against Iran's democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddeq

    Monday, August 19, 2013   No comments

The CIA has publicly admitted for the first time that it was behind the notorious 1953 coup against Iran's democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, in documents...

Sunday, August 18, 2013

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has accused Egypt’s interim rulers of committing state terrorism and compared army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad

    Sunday, August 18, 2013   No comments

“The Al-Fath Mosque is under siege. People’s place of worship is innocent. They have burned, destroyed our mosques in Syria and in Egypt. Either...

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Propaganda Trap: Egyptian Elite Succumb to the Hate Virus

    Saturday, August 17, 2013   No comments

Just weeks ago, they decried police violence and the heavy-handed state apparatus. Now, after over 600 members of the Muslim Brotherhood were killed on...

On the streets of Cairo it's not just a fledgling democracy that lies in ruin. US policy too is in tatters - in the eyes of many - or at least America's reputation and credibility

    Saturday, August 17, 2013   No comments

Since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak in 2011, the US has struggled to strike a balance between support for the tenuous progress towards democracy...

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has said that radical Sunni Islamists were likely behind a car bomb attack that killed dozens of people in the Lebanese group's stronghold in southern Beirut

    Saturday, August 17, 2013   No comments

The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah on Friday blamed Sunni extremists for a string of attacks targeting the group’s strongholds over the past few...

Murdering the Wretched of the Earth

    Saturday, August 17, 2013   No comments

Radical Islam is the last refuge of the Muslim poor. The mandated five prayers a day give the only real structure to the lives...

Friday, August 16, 2013

Commander Haji Ahmad told Firat News that his fighters killed two members of the Turkish Intelligence Service (MIT) in the last two days of clashes in the region of Sad Shahab where the Kurdish villages are located

    Friday, August 16, 2013   No comments

The general commander of Jabhat al-Akrad said 117 Kurdish villages in the Aleppo / Bab / Azzaz triangle are under attack by al-Qaeda-linked groups...

A leading member of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has accused Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu of being engaged in efforts to aid armed groups in Syria that have been clashing with Syria's Democratic Union Party (PYD)

    Friday, August 16, 2013   No comments

A leading member of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has accused Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu of being engaged in efforts to aid...

A protester attacked Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ and was immediately stopped by security forces at a ceremony he attended today to commemorate Alevi - Bektaşi figure Hacı Bektaş Veli in Nevşehir

    Friday, August 16, 2013   No comments

The protester, who hit Bozdağ in the chest, was identified as Hüseyin Satı, a local journalist. Satı was detained by police after his attempted...

Thursday, August 15, 2013

The reaction to this week's massacre in Cairo will be key to the reputations of the United States and Europe in Arab states and the Muslim world in general for years to come. Its credibility and influence are at stake

    Thursday, August 15, 2013   No comments

When historical turning points present themselves, there's no avoiding the need for decisive action. Now that the Egyptian armed forces -- with the backing...

army claims the supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi were armed and it has broadcast footage in a bid to prove it

    Thursday, August 15, 2013   No comments

The death toll continues to rise in Egypt, a day after the presidency declared a month-long state of emergency in most of the country....

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

industry sources: Iraq’s Kurdistan region is exporting crude oil by truck to an Iranian port for shipping to Asia

    Wednesday, August 07, 2013   No comments

In a dispute largely over revenue sharing, Kurdistan’s crude exports through a pipeline controlled by the Iraqi central government dried up last year. However,...

Obama cancels meeting with Putin over Snowden asylum tensions

    Wednesday, August 07, 2013   No comments

Relations between the United States and Russia deteriorated further on Wednesday when Barack Obama abandoned a presidential summit with Vladimir Putin that was due...

Sunday, August 4, 2013

'No coups, yes to elections!': Massive pro-govt rally held in Tunis

    Sunday, August 04, 2013   No comments

Thousands of Tunisians flooded the capital in support of their Islamist-led government amid calls for its ouster. Members of the secular opposition have alleged...

Hassan Rouhani has taken the oath of office as president of Iran before parliament in Tehran, promising to lead a government of hope and moderation

    Sunday, August 04, 2013   No comments

In his first speech he promised to lead a government of righteousness, honesty and trustworthiness. He said Iranians had rejected extremism in the June...

PYD leader: Turkey continues to support al-Nusra Front against Kurds

    Sunday, August 04, 2013   No comments

Turkey continues to provide support for al-Qaeda-linked groups fighting Kurds in Syria's north despite statements by Turkish officials that such groups are a threat...

Friday, August 2, 2013

Ibrahim Boubacar Keita (pictured right) won the first round of Mali’s presidential election with 39.24% of the vote while Soumaila Cisse (left) earned 19.44%, the Interior Ministry said Friday. The victor will be decided in an August 11 run-off

    Friday, August 02, 2013   No comments

Former prime minister Ibrahim Boubacar Keita came in first in Mali’s presidential election but he will face ex-finance minister Soumaila Cisse in a run-off...

Bashar al-Assad Is On Instagram

    Friday, August 02, 2013   No comments

If you're looking for new follows to spice up your Instagram feed, why not check out the official account of Syria's one and only...

Dianne Feinstein Initiates Pro-Iran Diplomacy Letter in Senate

    Friday, August 02, 2013   No comments

Dear President Obama:We urge you to seize the opportunity presented by the upcoming inauguration of Iran’s new president, Dr. Hassan Rouhani, by reinvigorating diplomatic...

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