Since 2011 NATO-backed armed groups have systematically attacked more than two thirds of Syria’s public hospitals, and have murdered, kidnapped or injured more than 300 health workers. The most recent example of this was the destruction of Aleppo’s specialist Al-Kindi hospital. Syria’s Health Minister Dr Sa’ad al Nayef told a […]
Tag: Jabhat Al-Nusra
The humanitarian tragedy of Syrian Christians: a challenge to the whole civilized world
We are publishing the remarks by Metropolitan Hilarion at the Colloquium on Serious Crisis in Syria, Vaduz, Lichtenstein, November 17, 2013. “We have gathered together today to discuss the most terrible humanitarian disaster of the last decades – the tragedy of the Syrian people. What is happening there today is […]
Suffering in Sadad: Bodies of family discovered in a well
Horrific details are emerging of atrocities carried out in a Christian town in Syria, where 1,500 families were held hostage and 45 were killed, including two teenage boys, their mother and three of their grandparents who were thrown down a well. Inhabitants of Sadad, near Homs, who fled the largely […]
Kenya Mall Attack: The Bitter Fruits of Interventionism
In his speech on Tuesday at the United Nations General Assembly, President Obama devoted little time to the recent slaughter of some 62 shoppers at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Said Obama, in toto: But even a glance at today’s headlines indicates that dangers remain. In Kenya, we’ve seen […]
The Ghouta chemical attack: Where are the missing children?
The UN Report published earlier this week on the alleged use of chemical weapons in the Ghouta area of Damascus on Aug. 21, 2013 has clarified many issues but left the key questions unanswered: who committed the attack and who are the victims? The UN inspection team led by Prof. […]
American Fair-Play In Syria
Notorious fair-play, allegedly immanent for the American political and business culture, doesn’t really work when it comes to practice. Here is the last example. On September 16 the United Nations inspection team submitted a report to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. The document summed up the results of investigation […]
A Plea for Caution From Russia
Recent events surrounding Syria have prompted me to speak directly to the American people and their political leaders. It is important to do so at a time of insufficient communication between our societies. Relations between us have passed through different stages. We stood against each other during the cold war. […]
Getting to the bottom of the rebels’ chemical weapons use in Syria
There is little doubt that Syrian rebels, including the Al Qaeda affiliate, the Jabhat Al Nusra, have been in possession of chemical weapons in Syria and have used these weapons against civilians and Syrian government forces. The U.S. intelligence that Syrian forces used chemical weapons has, according to CBS News, […]
Obama Administration Stoking Sunni Violence Against Alawites and Shi’as in Syria
One thing U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry avoided telling the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during his plea for approval of the Syria war resolution is how the Central Intelligence Agency and militant Saudi intelligence-backed Al Qaeda elements are targeting Alawite and Shi’a communities in Syria. The Alawites, the minority […]
US Indicts Itself in Anti-Syrian Chemical Plot
I watched with utter astonishment how quickly the West and the Obama regime moved to put wind into the sails of the totally bogus claims of the Syrian army using nerve gas on its own people in the Damascus suburbs when the effectiveness of its traditional counter insurgency operations have […]
White House Courts Al-Qaeda from Kabul to Damascus. 9/11 Becomes Thing of the Past
On August 3 the US government issued a new terrorist warning. 22 US foreign missions from Mauritania to Afghanistan are closed, including Israel, the closest ally. The New York Police Department is on high alert. US citizens are warned of possible terrorist acts in the Middle East, North Africa and […]
Growing Inner-European Discord about Lifting E.U. Ban on Arming Syrian Opposition
The Austrian Foreign Minister, Michael Spindelberger and Germany´s Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle have expressed their opposition against lifting the E.U. ban on arming the Syrian opposition. Inner-European discord about lifting the ban grows as more details about massacres and chemical weapons use by opposition forces emerge. The inner-European discord also […]
Popular
-
An ISIS fighter: ‘I was forbidden at the Gates of Heaven…’ (161,163)
-
A New Twist in the Investigation into Flight MH17 (37,510)
-
Grandmaster Putin’s Trap (30,584)
-
Pakistan’s Asymmetrical Response To Trump Is A Clever Way To Flip The Tables On Afghanistan (27,092)
-
What The Guardian Is Afraid Of When Attacking Honest Syria Reporters? (25,878)
Our top contributors
Andrew KORYBKO 
Nikolay STARIKOV 
Vladislav SOTIROVIC 
Gulam ASGAR MITHA 
Vladimir KOZIN 
M. K. BHADRAKUMAR 
Eric MARGOLIS 
Fr. Lawrence FARLEY 
Thierry MEYSSAN 
Peter CHAMBERLIN 
Michael AVERKO 
Fr. Andrey TKACHEV 
Fr. Stephen FREEMAN 
Nauman SADIQ Adam GARRIE
Iqbal ALIMOHAMED 
Oliver RICHARDSON Sophie MANGAL
William DUNKERLEY 
Matthew COOPER
Comments