Over 80 civilians in a town northwest of the Syrian capital of Damascus have been executed by Islamist rebels, sources within the Syrian military told RT. Many others were kidnapped to be used as human shields. Government forces are continuing a large-scale operation against Jabhat al-Nusra and Liwa Al-Islam fighters, who captured the town earlier […]
Sweden, as the only country to give Syrian refugees automatic residence, has struggled to house them and faces warnings of a coming surge in new arrivals. Josef Ariss and his mother Reina fled Aleppo in northern Syria three months ago when their family’s clothing factory was flattened by shelling. Although relieved to escape the violence, he is far […]
The head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on Tuesday called on Israel to renounce chemical weapons and join the convention banning them. Speaking to Reuters, OPCW head Ahmet Uzumcu, whose organization has been leading the mission to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal, also called on Egypt and North Korea to […]
A US investigative journalist has charged President Barack Obama with knowing that a Syrian terrorist rebel group had the capability to produce chemical weapons – but ignoring it and placing blame on Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime instead, according to the Business Standard. Veteran journalist Seymour Hersh published a scathing article in the London Review of […]
Syrian cities under terrorist rebel control are being ruled by a strict interpretation of Islamic, or Sharia, law – as a video surfaced this week showing a man being served with lashes demonstrates. Sharia courts are run by groups associated with Al Qaeda, including the Al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The Authority […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh has dropped yet another bombshell allegation: President Obama wasn’t honest with the American people when he blamed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for a sarin-gas attack in that killed hundreds of civilians. In early September, Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States had “proof” that the nerve-gas attack was made on […]
The international chemical weapons watchdog said Friday it has verified the destruction of all of Syria’s unfilled munitions, another milestone along the road to eradicating President Bashar Al-Assad’s chemical weapons program by mid-2014, reports The Associated Press (AP). The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said in a statement quoted by AP that its […]
A powerful explosion was heard on Friday evening in the Golan Heights, near an IDF vehicle that was on routine patrol along the Syrian-Israeli border, near the slopes of Mount Hermon. No one was injured as a result of the explosion, but damage was caused to the rear window of the military vehicle. The explosion […]
Western states have held their first “face-to-face” discussions with Syria’s main Islamist rebel groups, according numerous media reports. The meeting between western states, including the US, and the Syrian Islamic Front (SIF), was attended by Turkish and Qatari representatives and was held in the Turkish capital Ankara. It marks a shift in policy for US […]
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Obama supported “opposition fighters” abducted 12 nuns from a Christian village overrun by rebels, Syria’s Greek Orthodox patriarch and the head of a convent said Tuesday, adding to fears that hard-line Muslim terrorist that Obama has publicly backed are trying to overthrow President Bashar Assad were increasingly targeting Christians for genocide […]
