Syria
The Day the Media Decided Militant Jihadism Was Respectable
Suddenly, after years of misrepresenting Hamas, western politicians and media are desperate to clarify – if only in Syria – the difference between jihadists...
Syrian minorities flee to Lebanon in fear of extremists
Dec 13, 2024
Tens of thousands of Syrians from various minority groups have fled their villages and made their way to the Lebanese border in...
Now Iran’s turn. The spectre of a new “1989”
Iran is now the key to the world situation
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
In my previous article on Syria I argued that there is a "Damascus-Tehran (not...
How the US and Israel Destroyed Syria and Called it Peace
American interference, at the behest of Netanyahu’s far-right Israel, has left the Middle East in ruins, with over a million dead and open wars...
Syria’s Assad has fallen – just as the Pentagon planned 23...
By Jonathan Cook
Dec 11, 2024
When westerners see ‘enemy’ governments fall, or civil wars erupt, they are led to think they are the geopolitical equivalent...
The first statements by Syria’s new Minister of Justice on women...
The new Minister of Justice, Shadi Alwaisi, has made statements about the way the courts will operate in Syria from now on.
He announced that there...
SYRIA: Greek Orthodox Christians beheaded, shot in the Valley of the...
By Paul Antonopoulos
Dec 16, 2024
Two Greek Orthodox Christians in Wadi al-Nasara (Valley of the Christians) were murdered in their home during a reported "burglary."
Samaan...
Détruire et démembrer la Syrie
Par Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
11 décembre 2024
Κάλλιον το προλαμβάνειν του θεραπεύειν,
Mieux vaut prévenir que guérir,
Hippocrate
La presse et les gouvernements occidentaux (y compris l’inénarrable nôtre) célèbrent la...
Little reason for the West to exult over Assad’s downfall
by Brahma Chellaney*
Dec 12, 2024
With the dramatic fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s autocratic regime, the West may have achieved its objective in Syria....
International watchdog investigation finds Islamic State used mustard gas in 2015...
By MIKE CORDER
February 22, 2024
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An international investigative team said Thursday that its probe into a 2015 attack in...