Syria & Syrian Civil War Archive

If Syria and Iraq become fractured, so too will Tripoli and North Lebanon: BEIRUT — The talk now is all about whether Syria and Iraq will end up as divided states. The impetus for such speculation derives firstly from the latest Saudi, Qatari and Turkish joint resolve to mount huge numbers of jihadists

WikiLeaks reveals Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar in secret anti-Syria plot: ‘Whistleblower website WikiLeaks says leaked documents from Saudi ministries have revealed that Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey had a secret deal three years ago to topple the Syrian government. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told Rossiya-1 (Russia 1) TV

امریکی خفیہ مراسلے : شام کیسے لہو رنگ ہوا- دوسرا حصّہ: مارچ 22 ، 2009ء – سعودی عرب میں امریکی سفارت خانے سے ایک مراسلہ امریکی حکومت کو ” سعودی انٹیلی جنس چیف سے جان برینان کی علاقائی سلامتی بارے بات چیت ” کے عنوان سے ارسال کیا گیا –

امریکی خفیہ مراسلے : شام کیسے لہو رنگ ہوا – پہلا حصہ: ویکی لیکس نے 2010ء میں دو لاکھ اکیاون ہزار دو سو ستاسی کلاسی فائیڈ سٹیٹ ڈیپارٹمنٹ تار کو ریلیز کرڈالا تھا اور اب ان کلاسی فائیڈ کیبلز کے بارے میں کئی ایک لکھاریوں کے تجزیاتی مضامین پر مشتمل ایک

Saudi backing of radical imams/schools bred the extremist ideology that is backbone of ISIS: Much of the world agrees that the Islamic State needs to be crushed. But how that can be accomplished, and what the unintended consequences may be, are a lot more complicated. The group, also known as ISIS, ISIL and

Paris massacre: The only real solution is the destruction of Isis – by Patrick Cockburn: The “Islamic State”, as Isis styles itself, will be pleased with the outcome of its attacks in Paris. It has shown that it can retaliate with its usual savagery against a country that is bombing its territory and

Saudi Arabia, ISIS and the Paris massacre – by Robert Fisk: People weep as they gather to observe a minute-silence at the Place de la Republique in memory of the victims of the Paris terror attacks It wasn’t just one of the attackers who vanished after the Paris massacre.

بادشاہان عرب کے حضور مدار جمہوریت باراک اوبامہ کا خراج عقیدت – عامر حسینی: میں دہشت گردی کے خلاف ہوں، جمہوری حقوق کا علمبردار ہوں، ان سب حکومتوں کو ہٹانے کا حامی ہوں جو عوام کی مرضی کے بغیر قائم ہیں تو شام میں بشار کی حکومت کو رخصت ہونا ہوگا، عورتوں کے

Saudi Arabia’s Curriculum of Intolerance: Freedom House’s Center for Religious Freedom released a report analyzing a set of Saudi Ministry of Education textbooks in use during the current academic year in Islamic studies courses for elementary and secondary students. The textbooks promote an

40 states financing Daesh terror group, says Russian president: Russian President Vladimir Putin says financing for the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group comes from dozens of countries, including some G20 member states. Speaking at a Press briefing after the G20 summit of world leaders in the Turkish Mediterranean coastal

Sunni victims of Saudi inspired Salafi Deobandi extremists: The group’s killing of Westerners gets attention. But ISIS has killed far more Muslims, and publicizing that fact would harm it more. Last Thursday, the United Nations released a report that could provide us with one of the

Paris Attacks: How the Wahhabi terrorists of ISIS also killed Sunni French musicians: PARIS — Although officials have been slow to release the names of the victims of the Paris terror attacks, from those that are known a portrait is emerging of vibrant young people as diverse as the city they called

The Deadly consequences of Washington Post disingenuous re-branding of Wahabi ISIS terrorists as “Moderate”: More on that sick Wahabi “moderate rebel” of Ahrar Al Sham praising the horrific attacks in Paris. Those who continue to justify these Wahabi Al Qaeda FSA ISIS sickos and misrepresent them as “moderate rebels” who were “oppressed” and

France must use all options against ISIS and other takfiri Salafi groups: French newspapers described Paris attacks as a ‘War in the heart of Paris’ with black mastheads. The Paris attacks are indeed an act of radical terrorism. It is an insult to humanity, and an incident that should unite the

Wahhabism and Deobandism are the new forms of Nazism – by Jon Snow: The causes of this spread of terrorism are complex, but one aspect we have to tackle head on — its ideological roots in Wahhabi Islam, the official religion of Saudi Arabia. The House of Saud rules at the

The sometimes upright President Hollande of France – by Khurrum Zaki: We must not bow down to Terrorism. We must support Democratic Norms everywhere. Assad Must Go. Women must have equal rights the world over. Minorities must be allowed the freedom of religion. We must punish those regimes that

WikiLeaks Reveals How the US Aggressively Pursued Regime Change in Syria, Igniting a Bloodbath – By Robert Naiman: In 2010, WikiLeaks became a household name by releasing 251,287 classified State Department cables. Now, a new book collects in-depth analyses of what these cables tell us about the foreign policy of the United States, from authors including Truthout

بیروت دہشت گردی اور فلسطینی خود کش بمبار: بیروت لبنان میں بارہ نومبر15 20کو تقریبا پچاس شیعہ، سنی اور مسیحی لبنانیوں کو شہید کرنے والے تین خود کش حملہ آوروں میں دو فلسطینی اور ایک شامی شامل تھے ،شیعہ وہ واحد قوم ہے جو فلسطین کی تقریبآ

Isis claims responsibility as suicide bombers kill dozens in Beirut: Dozens of people have been killed in Lebanon’s worst terrorist attack this year after a double suicide bombing in south Beirut upended a fragile peace. The health ministry said 43 people had died and 239 had been wounded

We stand in solidarity with the grieving cities of Beruit, Paris and Baghdad – Riaz Malik Hajjaji: As we stand in solidarity with the grieving cities of Beruit, Paris and Baghdad – all of them the victims of the attacks of the same Takfiri Salafi/Wahabi menace bred and sponsored by Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar. As

Comment: The Ankara bombings highlight dangerous Turkish fault lines: Hours after the Ankara bombings on Friday, which killed at least 100 people and injured over 400, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the twin bomb blasts an ‘attack on our unity‘. The statement was ironic considering that Erdogan’s

Henry Kissinger: Realpolitik and Kurdish Genocide – Dr M. Koohzad: “Our movement and people are being destroyed in an unbelievable way, with silence from everyone. We feel, your Excellency, that the United States has a moral and political responsibility towards our people, who have committed themselves to your country’s

From the “Moderate Rebels” of the 1980s Afghan Jihadis to the “Moderate Rebels” of Al Qaeda in Syria – Riaz Malik Hajjaji: The leader of the Syrian brand of Al Qaeda “Moderate Rebels” , General Salim Edriss even endorses them as “the aspirations of the Syrian people”. I think he too is weak with geography and probably meant Erdogan supporters.

کمیلشور کا کردار ” بلقییس ” جہاد النکاح میں زندہ ہوگیا – عامر حسینی: ہندوستانی ناول نگار کمیلشور نے 90ء کے آخری عشرے میں جب اپنا ناول ” کتنے پاکستان ” لکھا تھا تو اس کو شاید یہ اندازہ بھی نہیں ہوگا کہ اس کے ناول میں لگی ” ادیب کی عدالت ”

The Saudi prince caught up in a drugs bust is lucky it happened in Beirut – Robert Fisk: It’s not every day you get to bust a Saudi prince. Amphetamines. Twenty-five boxes and six suitcases, all – according to photos and video – stamped with the Saudi Arabia emblem of palm tree and crossed swords, to be

Moderate Takfiri Al Queda to join with Extreme Takfiri ISIS: Elijah J. Magnier (@EjmAlrai) is one of the most insightful journalists in the Iraq Syria theater. Interesting twitter exchange shows there are no “moderate” Takfiri khawarij. Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri called on Muslim supporters to band together to

Saudi Arabia, a primary supporter of the “Moderate” Al Qaeda/ISIS rebels in Syria – Riaz Malik Hajjaji: Saudi Arabia, a primary supporter of the “Moderate” Al Qaeda/ISIS rebels in Syria wants “secular” Great Britain, another supporter of the “Moderate” Al Qaeda, to support Sharia! Saudi Arabia wants Great Britain to bow down even further. “The furious

It’s time to talk about Saudi Arabia – Stanley Weiss: In the House of Commons this past Tuesday, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond made two announcements pertaining to Saudi Arabia that sounded like they came straight out of the ninth century. The first was that thanks to British

How i moved from opposition To Assad before 2011 to defending him from Imperialist and Takfiri attack – by Steven Argue: [Photo: 2014 Syrian protest organized by women supporting the Syrian Arab Army against takfiri and wahhabi rebels.] Before 2011 I did not like Bashar al-Assad’s: 1. Oppression of the Kurds; 2. Human rights abuses; 3. Neo-liberal economic reforms that

Did Turkey’s regime just kill its own people at a peace rally?: Turkey’s government would have you believe that Kurdish terrorists killed more than 100 Kurdish party faithful at a peace rally. It’s clear the Erdogan regime thinks the world is pretty stupid to believe that. Amazingly, Western leaders are buying

شمس کویتی : جہنم میں کھلا در باد نسیم کا: اس سے پہلے کہ میں آپ کو ” جہیم العرب ” ( جہنم عرب ) کی اصطلاح استعمال کرنے والی اس آزاد ، خوش گلو و خوش رو عرب حسینہ سے متعارف کراؤں ، پہلے اس کے ٹوئٹر اکاؤنٹ

Turkey is the next failed state in the Middle East: Spengler: We do not know just who detonated the two bombs that killed 95 Kurdish and allied activists in Ankara Saturday, but the least likely conjecture is that President Erdogan’s government is guiltless in the matter. As Turkish member of

When it comes to spinning Syria, the Pakistani establishment has nothing on the current US administration: Welcome to the Good Al Qaeda vs Bad Al Qaeda binary where the US media is currently (attempting to) spinning Ahrar ul Sham as the “moderate” “secularly-inclined” Al Qaeda (lite?). Yes, the very group that lashes those who miss

The dirty war on Syria: barrel bombs, partisan sources and war propaganda – Prof. Tim Anderson: War propaganda often demands the abandoning of ordinary reason and principle, and the Dirty War on Syria demonstrates this in abundance. A steady stream of atrocity stories – ‘barrel bombs’, chemical weapons, ‘industrial scale’ killings, dead babies – permeate

Truth in media : origins of ISIS: Ben Swann explores the origin of ISIS that has already been long forgotten by American media. Swann takes on the central issue of whether or not ISIS was created by “inaction” by the United States government or by

A useful prep-sheet on Syria for media propagandists – Gary Leupp: State Department talking points on Syria for cable news anchors: * Keep mentioning the barrel bombs. Do not mention how their use was pioneered by the Israeli Air Force in 1948, and how they were used by the U.S.

مشرق وسطی کی سیاست اور جنگیں دنیا بھی بدل سکتی ہے – شفیق طوری: آج روس نے شام میں فضائی حملوں کا آغاز کردیا ہے۔ روس نے ایک ایسے جنگ میں کودنے کا فیصلہ کیا ہے، جس میں تقریباً دو لکھ افراد بچوں اور عورتوں سمیت لقمہ اجل بنے ہیں۔ باؤثوق ذرائع کیمطابق

Letter to Uncle Sam on Syria – Riaz Malik Hajjaji: Now that you have pinpointed the presence of Water on Mars, please use the same technology to pin point ISIS in Syria. Please don’t let Mother Russia take all the credit. And Do all the bombing. Yes, yes,

Saudi Arabia backed “moderate rebels” of Al Qaeda and ISIS – Riaz Malik Hajjaji: It seems that the World has gone back in time to 1980. Back then, the USSR which was backing a secular muslim regime was lured into protecting that regime with troops on the ground. The regime was threatened by

The silence of the Left on Saudi aggression on Yemen and Bahrain – Riaz Malik Hajjaji: The world has flipped. Sections of the Left are wrong in portraying Salafi-Wahabi and Deobandi terrorists groups like ISIS/FSA/Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, ASWJ-LeJ, Taliban and Al Shabab as “misunderstood” “deprived” and victims of “economic deprivation”. Sections of the Left