Syria & Syrian Civil War Archive
Deleted official report says Saudi key funder of Hillary Clinton campaign: Saudi Arabia is a major funder of Hillary Clinton’s campaign to become the next president of the United States, according to a report published by Jordan’s official news agency. The Petra News Agency published on Sunday what
Advocating a war in Iraq, and offering an apology for what came after – Agha Shaukat Jafri: Kanan Makiya, a foremost and formidable Arab intellectual of the contemporary times, and presently embedded in an American academic setting, has unleashed a blistering mea culpa in his recently released book, “The Rope”, while recalling his role prior
شام: سیدہ زینب کےمزار کے قریب دھماکے، ہلاکتوں میں اضافہ: شام کے دارالحکومت دمشق کے جنوب میں واقع پیغمبر اسلام کی نواسی سیدہ زینب کے مزار کے قریب ہونے والے بم حملوں میں ہلاک ہونے والے افراد کی تعداد 20 ہوگئی ہے۔ برطانیہ میں قائم انسانی حقوق کی تنظیم
NYT’s editorial : The world reaps what the Saudis sow – Agha Shaukat Jafri: The Editorial Board of the New York Times have exhibited all the moxie and the mettle in offering the summation of a most comprehensive and convincing investigation by that Newspaper’s foreign correspondent Carlotta Gall. Not much can be
[EXCLUSIVE] The village turned to rubble in Yemen’s “forgotten war”: As part of the mission covering the war in Yemen, Euronews correspondent Mohammed Shaikhibrahim visited the historic village of Attan Fort. It was built by the ancient Yemenis or people who are known as “the Montagnards” in Yemen. It
The world reaps what the Saudis sow: Saudi Arabia has frustrated American policy makers for years. Ostensibly a critical ally, sheltered from its enemies by American arms and aid, the kingdom has spent untold millions promoting Wahhabism, the radical form of Sunni Islam that inspired the
شام پر قیامت ٹوٹ پڑی، طرطوس اور جبلہ میں خوارج کے گروہ داعش اور النصرہ کے حملوں میں 145 افراد شہید، اکثریت اہلسنت کی ہے: شام کے ساحلی شہروں طرطوس اور جبلہ پر وہابی دیوبندی خوارج کے گروہ داعش اور النصرہ (القاعدہ) کے حملوں میں 145 افراد شہید ہو گئے، یاد رہے کہ شام میں اہلسنت حنفی اور شافعی کی اکثریت ہے جبکہ شیعہ،
Chomsky: Saudi Arabia is the “center of radical Islamic extremism” now spreading among Sunni Muslims: As Saudi Arabia continues to fund fighting in Syria and Yemen, Noam Chomsky says it is “the center of radical Islamic extremism.” Chomsky adds that the U.S. ally is “a source of not only funding for extremist
میں اس قبیلے کا آدمی ہوں – عامر حسینی: مرا ایک شامی دوست جوکہ ‘بہار شام ‘ کا زبردست کارکن تھا اور وہ ایک عرصے سے بشار الاسد رجیم کے خلاف جدوجہد کررہا تھا اب ترکی ، خلیج ریاستوں کے حمایت یافتہ سلفی جہادیوں اور نام نہاد آزاد
مڈل ایسٹ : مسلکی چورن فروش ٹولے کے مغالطے – حیدر جاوید سید: یہاں پاکستان میں مسلکی چورن سے عبارت دانش کی جگالی کرنے میں مصروف خواتین و حضرات کی عراق و شام کے حالات پر بحث اٹھاتے ہوئے تان اس بات پر ٹوٹتی ہے کہ دونوں ملکوں مین شیعہ سنی بنیادوں
Dangerous Fiction of Saudi-CIA mouthpiece Dexter Filkins: In a panegyric account of Pakistani novelist Muhammad Hanif’s life and works, New Yorker journalist Dexter Filkins indulges in an astonishingly uninformed conversation with the former, and the end result is as dangerously fictitious as his usual write-ups on
حلب نامہ – قاری حنیف ڈار: شام کے شہر حلب میں مظالم نے اسرائیل کے شقی القلب یہودیوں کو بھی پیچھے چھوڑ دیا ھے ،، ھر ملک اپنی اپنی جنگ شام میں لے آیا ھے اور قیمت شامیوں کا خون ادا کر رھا ھے ،
Citizen Journalism on Syria – by Janice Korthamp: I knew this trip would be an emotional roller coaster…and I had no idea. I have been in non-stop meetings with goverment ministers, high level officials as well as talking with soldiers, office workers, taxi drivers etc. thanks
Belgium refuses arms sales to Saudi Arabia, Germany may follow: MOSCOW — “We have rejected the request [for military equipment supplies to Saudi Arabia],” Geert Bourgeois told the Flemish Parliament, as quoted by the RTBF broadcaster. On Tuesday, Bourgeois said in an interview with the broadcaster that he would not give permission for arms
Syria ‘White helmets’ exposed: Propaganda instrument. Nobel peace prize for Al Qaeda?: As the Syrian battle front rages in Aleppo, the ‘White Helmets’ are emerging even more strongly as part of the long arm of US and UK propaganda in Syria. The Manhattan campaign managers at Purpose Inc have sprung into action.
The unspoken truth is that America is supporting Al Qaeda: Heavy propaganda rages in the battle for Aleppo. The terrorists are portrayed as “Freedom Fighters”: Heavy propaganda accompanies the strategic battle in Aleppo between the Syrian Army and its allies (Russia, Iran, Hezbollah and other militia) and the Saudi-Turkey-NATO backed terrorist groups (Jabhat al Nusra, Jaysh al Islam, Ahrar as Sham and ISIS).
Western media break their silence on Aleppo with flagrant lies, omissions, obfuscations: Syrian News: “Abdulrahman was killed by a terrorist rocket on his way home back from school today (April 25).” -Eva Bartlett, In Gaza (republished at SOTT.net, Uprooted Palestinians) Terrorists mortars, rockets, and Hell Cannon-fired gas canister bombs continue
Syria: The real US-NATO creators of hell in Aleppo: As US and NATO propaganda reaches another crescendo in Aleppo, it is important to remind ourselves of a few salient facts. First and foremost we need to understand that the prevailing force occupying Aleppo and terrorising civilians is
Uyghur Militants in Syria: The Turkish Connection: The Chinese authorities have claimed that since 2013, “hundreds” of Uyghurs have travelled to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State and other jihadist organizations; such claims have been used as justification for new counter-terrorism policies (Xinhua, July
Saudi government has vast network of PR, lobby firms in U.S: The Saudi government and its affiliates have spent millions of dollars on U.S. law, lobby and public relations firms to raise the country’s visibility in the United States and before the United Nations at a crucial time. And some of Washington’s premier law and lobby
World played with fire in Syria, scholar says – John Rosenthal: Pakistan was greatly damaged when the military dictator Genreral Zia ul Haq streamlined the practice of using radical Deobandi and Wahhabi (Ahle Hadith) militants as an instrument of foreign policy. His successor PM Nawaz Sharif has never explicitly
Why the Arabs don’t want us in Syria: In part because my father was murdered by an Arab, I’ve made an effort to understand the impact of U.S. policy in the Mideast and particularly the factors that sometimes motivate bloodthirsty responses from the Islamic world against our
اسرائیل درجنوں سعودی ملٹری آفیسرز کی تربیت کر رہا ہے – حزب اللہ: حزب اللہ کے ڈپٹی سیکریٹری جنرل نعیم قاسم کا انکشاف کیا ہے کہ اسرائیل درجنوں سعودی ملٹری آفیسرز کی تربیت کر رہا ہے۔ ملٹری آفیسرز کی تربیت کا یہ سلسہ دونوں ممالک کے درمیان خفیہ تعلقات کا شاخسانہ ہے۔
Hezbollah deputy leader: ‘Israel is training Saudi army officers’: A Hezbollah official claimed on Sunday night that “Israel is training dozens of Saudi military officers” under the framework of alleged clandestine ties between the two countries. Hezbollah deputy leader Naim Qassem told Lebanese media that the secret relations
Turkish border guards ‘shoot eight Syrian refugees dead’ including women and children trying to reach safety: Abdmunem Kashkash, a lawyer from Aleppo who was with the group but escaped injury, said they had been repelled by gunfire several times before attempting the crossing near the Syrian town of Khirbet. “There was one little girl
ISIS terror thugs have a new and barbaric execution method: ISIS terrorists forced 45 of its own terrified men into a forensic freezer and left them to die slowly, it has been reported. The terror fiends committed the sickening act because the men retreated from advancing Iraqi
This is what happens when you get into bed with extremists: The West has brought terrorists attacks on their own people by supporting for decades Islamist terrorists trying to achieve geostrategic objectives, said the editor of Politics First Marcus Papadopoulos, commenting on the Brussels blasts. “The roots of these
John Kerry: ISIS committing genocide – by Agha Shaukat Jafari: The enclosed YouTube is a must watch because it unleashes, in a most clear and credible manner, the information with respect to the horrific happenings in the Levant for the past few years. Thursday, March 17, 2016 will
The Saudi origins of Belgium’s Islamist threat: The roots of Islamist extremism in Belgium are deep and complex. In the wake of Tuesday’s attacks in Brussels, investigators are puzzling over the scope of the terrorist plot, in which bombs exploded in the capital’s main airport and on its busy metro,
حقیقت داعش ، داعش کا مدلل رد – سمیر خان: بسمہ اللہ الرحمٰن الرحیم ۔ اور جب اُنہیں کہا جاتا ہے کہ ملک میں فساد نہ ڈالو تو کہتے ہیں کہ ہم ہی تو اصلاح کرنے والے ہیں (سورہ بقرہ 11) نوٹ: یہ داعشی خوارج جہنم کے کتے ھیں
پیرس سے آگ برسلز جا پہنچی : ” دہشت گرد ” کون ہیں ؟ – علی تاج: القاعدہ ، داعش النصرہ ، بوکو حرام ، الشباب ہو یا لشکر جھنگوی – آل سعود ہو یا سپاہ صحابہ طالبان – یہ تمام ایک ہی نفرت انگیز نظریاتی اساس سے تعلق رکھنے والے مختلف چہرے ہیں جو مختلف
How narratives killed the Syrian people – Sharmine Narwani: On March 23, 2011, at the very start of what we now call the ‘Syrian conflict,’ two young men – Sa’er Yahya Merhej and Habeel Anis Dayoub – were gunned down in the southern Syrian city of Daraa.
An open letter to ISIS and other Salafi and Deobandi extremists, from the World’s Muslim community: This is an open letter addressed to ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram and all other violent Islamist extremist groups ( Salafi, Wahhabi, Deobandi, ISIS, Taliban, Sipah-e-Sahaba); their members, followers, and supporters… We, the other Muslims of the world, would like
Saudi Crown Prince’s stinging riposte to those mourning the Wahhabi afflicted terrorist attacks in Brussels: THIS AL-AGGRESSION WILL NOT STAND AL-MAN” – Riaz Malik Hajjaji: Dozens are once murdered in the tragic attack in Brussels by Saudi/GCC sponsored Wahhabi terrorists. After coming under pressure, Saudis revert to their favourite lobbyists – CNN and BBC journalists, Hamid Mir and some other Pakistani “liberals” to
باراک اوبامہ کی سعودی عرب اور اس کے اتحادیوں بارے سچی باتیں – عامر حسینی: “مرے بچپن کے دن جہاں گزرے وہ انڈونیشیا ہے ایک متحمل مزاج ، تنوع و تکثیر کو پسند کرنے والا سنّی اسلام کی اکثریت والا ملک تھا ان دنوں ، لیکن اب وہاں عدم برداشت ، خارج کردینے ،
Brussels Burns after Paris: Who are the “terrorists” ? – by Ali Taj: Al Qaeda, ISIS, Al Nusra, Boko Haram, Al Shabab, Taliban and Saudi family are different names for the same exclusionist and hateful ideology that drives Global Takfiri Terrorism. Different wrapper but same candy. The first Takfiri Terrorists were Saudi
Brussels attacks: will European leaders again profit from terror they helped unleash?: Over 30 innocnt people killed in terrorist attacks in Brussels – headquarters of EU and NATO – today. So let me guess, this is another moment for Europe to have a shared grieving experience; to apply Belgian flag filters to Facebook profiles, to
مڈل ایسٹ کو ” آزاد ” کرانے کی مغربی خواہش خام ہی رہی ہے ہمیشہ کی طرح –رابرٹ فسک – ترجمہ وتلخیص : عامر حسینی: نوٹ : رابرٹ فسک نے اپنے اس آرٹیکل میں تاریخی حوالوں سے یہ بتانے کی کوشش کی ہے کہ کیسے مغربی طاقتیں اپنے تئیں ہمیشہ سے مڈل ایسٹ کو ” آزاد ” کرانے کی مہم جوئی کرتا رہا اور
ISIS have fired chemical weapons at the Iraqi town of Taza: In 2013, when the Al Qaeda dominated Free Syrian Army conducted a heinous false flag operation by launching a chemical weapons attack on Syrian children in Ghouta, some Pakistani liberals were howling in protest…… against Assad! Since then,
Saudi Arabia and Israel want Shia Sunni conflict in Lebanon – Hasan Nasrallah Secretary General Hezbollah: The head of Lebanon’s resistance organization Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, has published an open letter to the people of Lebanon. In this letter he emphatically declared that there will be no silence adopted on the conspiracy of Saudi Arab against