Tag Archives: Bashar Al-Assad

Looking for Way Out of Syrian Crisis

Boris DOLGOV On March 11 a delegation of the Syrian National Coordinating Committee for Democratic Change led by its Coordinator Heysam Manaa, visited Moscow to hold talks with top officials of Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At the negotiations and … read more »

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2013 Kenyan Presidential Election Update 5: With 226 constituencies: Kenyatta 4,867,683; Odinga 4,335,488

13: 12 With 226 constituencies reporting: Kenyatta 4,867,683; Odinga 4,335,488. Rejected votes 94.020. 13:10 Kenyatta 4,849,194; Odinga 4,323,153. 225/291 constituencies have filed returns. 13:00 Amani coalition presidential candidate Musalia Mudavadi (right) addressed a press conference in Nairobi where he conceded … read more »

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Kenya: When a Criminal Leads a Country

The modern effort to build a global system of international justice based on universal human rights is usually dated to the Nuremberg trials, after the Second World War, and the ratification of the Geneva Conventions. In the decades since then, … read more »

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Israel Threatened by Syria and Iran

The presumed Israeli airstrike within Syrian territory on Wednesday has elicited threats of retaliation from both Syria and Iran. Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdul-Karim Ali, quoted at al-Ahd, a Hezbollah-run news website, contended that his nation could make “a surprise decision to respond … read more »

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Why did Israel attack Syria now, and why did the Syrians admit it?

By Amos Harel, haaretz The alleged Israeli attack came one day after an Iranian announcement that Tehran will view any attack on Syrian territory as an attack against Iran itself. Two days before the night when Israeli planes attacked a … read more »

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The Choice: The ‘Somalia-ization’ of Syria or a Political Settlement

Free Syrian Army fighters are seen at buildings damaged by what activists said were missiles fired by a Syrian Air Force fighter jet loyal to President Bashar al-Assad at Taftanaz near Idlib, Jan. 5, 2013. (photo by REUTERS/Ismail Al-Taftanazi/Shaam News … read more »

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Syria rebels ‘beheaded a Christian and fed him to the dogs’ as fears grow over Islamist atrocities

Syrian rebels beheaded a Christian man and fed his body to dogs, according to a nun who says the West is ignoring atrocities committed by Islamic extremists. The nun said taxi driver Andrei Arbashe, 38, was kidnapped after his brother … read more »

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Syria: The Use of Chemical Weapons Would be a “suicide” for Assad

The use of chemical weapons would be a “political suicide” for the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad, said the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview released Monday by the channel Russia Today. “I do not think that Syria … read more »

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Assad: ‘If I Go, None of Syria Remains’

Syrian dictator Bashar Assad has privately pledged to “fight to his last bullet” in his ancestral hometown of Qardaha, vowing, “If I go, none of Syria remains.” The daily pools of blood spilled by his madmen cause hearts to be … read more »

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Living up to the Nobel: EU must act on Syria

By Lotte Leicht BRUSSELS – Catherine Ashton’s mandate is to provide leadership on foreign policy and human rights. She has failed, however, to ensure a collective EU voice for bringing the crimes in Syria before the International Criminal Court (ICC). … read more »

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Tolerance or War

WASHINGTON, DC – Throughout history, mistreatment of minorities – whether ethnic, religious, linguistic, cultural, regional, ideological, sexual, or other – has fueled violence and devastated societies worldwide. Egregious cases in the last century include the Holocaust in Nazi Germany, the … read more »

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Military Voyeurism or Invasion of Syria?

By Ismail Salami As part of the sinister plan for Syria at work, French military agents have recently held face-to-face meetings with the foreign-backed militants inside the country in a bid to “assess the situation on the ground.” A report … read more »

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We Have Too Many Problems: The US, Iraq, North Africa, Afghanistan And Syria

By: Elcano Royal Institute By Joaquín Roy The general consensus on the November 2012 US presidential election campaign is that foreign policy will not play a major role. Both candidates know that what concerns the voters is the economy and … read more »

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The Real Reason Behind Benghazigate?

by Frank Gaffney, Jr. President Obama’s once-seemingly-unstoppable march towards reelection hit what he might call “bumps in the road” in Benghazi, Libya late on September 11, 2012.  It might be more accurate to describe the effect of the well-planned and … read more »

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Are Assad and Hezbollah Terrorizing Lebanon Again?

by FaridGhadry   A car bomb exploded in Beirut today killing a key intelligence figure who was investigating the terror of Assad and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan died in the blast with eight other people. Some eighty innocent … read more »

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U.S. Administration: From fighting terrorism to supporting Radical Islam

By Ibrahim A. Ibrahim The eleventh commemoration anniversary of 9/11 brings to the forefront the issue of “War on Terrorism”. This war had lasted more than a decade and claimed more than the victims’ count of September 11 attacks. Both … read more »

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French government accused of ordering Libyan leader Gaddafi’s assassination

Former leaders of the Libyan National Transitional Council (NCT), which fought as a NATO proxy in last year’s war against Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in Libya, have accused then French President Nicolas Sarkozy of ordering the assassination of the Libyan … read more »

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Libya: How Many Dirty Hands?

By Felicity Arbuthnot, Palestine Chronicle ‘Oh what a tangled web they weave When first they practice to invade A sovereign nation and deceive The world about their dark crusade.’– (Michael Leunig, Poet, Cartoonist, 1945:) This weekend a detailed article in the … read more »

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In death as in life, Colonel Gaddafi wins the crazy prize

By dailymaverick Always a larger-than-life character, it’s no surprise that even in death Muammar Gaddafi continues to make outrageous headlines. This time round the late Libyan leader is at the centre of a first-class political thriller starring a corrupt president, … read more »

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French Nicolas Sarkozy ordered Gaddafi killed,Latest reports

  A French secret serviceman acting on the express orders of Nicolas Sarkozy is suspected of murdering Colonel Gaddafi, it was sensationally claimed today. He is said to have infiltrated a violent mob mutilating the captured Libyan dictator last year … read more »

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Anti-American Autumn Follows Arab Spring

By: Oriental Review The brutal assassination of the American Ambassador Chris Stevens and three US diplomats in Benghazi, the cradle of anti-Qaddafi uprising in Libya, suggests an extremely improvident foreign policy of the United States in recent years. The commentators … read more »

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President Ikililou Dhoinine of the Comoros addresses 67th UN General Assembly

Comoros voices climate change concerns while Cape Verde flags development needs The leader of the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros, President Ikililou Dhoinine, took the podium at the United Nations General Assembly today to appeal for international aid to help … read more »

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President Mohamed Morsy of Egypt addresses 67th UN General Assembly

Egypt President highlights Palestine issue as key concern Addressing the United Nations General Assembly for the first time since becoming his country’s first democratically and freely elected civilian President, Egypt’s Mohamed Morsy today highlighted his nation’s progress over the past … read more »

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What Happened, Canada?

The probable outcome of the Canadian diplomatic split with Tehran will be a net loss in Western intelligence and no appreciable economic fallout for Iran. (DENVER Tehran Times) – “You cannot claim your eagerness for democracy, human rights and all … read more »

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Syrian Conundrum and Evolution of World System

Andrei VOLODIN We are witnessing the shaping of polycentric, «post-American» world that is «broadcast» live. The process is non-linear. In the middle of the 1990s Charles Kindleberger, a world- renowned economist, suggested in his «World Economic Primacy» that the coming … read more »

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Syrian refugees in Turkey tops 50,000

More than 2,000 people fled violence in Syria to reach neighbouring Turkey in the past two days, bringing the total number of Syrians who have sought refuge there to more than 50,000, Turkish authorities said on Thursday. The rate of … read more »

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Syria: Iran tries to hijack international diplomacy to defend Assad

Tehran will today host a summit of Iran-friendly foreign ministers in an attempt to wrest the international focus away from calls for Bashar al-Assad to step down. Iran accuses Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar of arming the opposition in Syria, … read more »

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Will the West ever listen to Bashar al-Assad?

An interview with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad taken by a prominent German writer Jürgen Todenhöfer and broadcast by ARD in July is still sparkling criticism and outrage all over the western media community. The New York Times has edicated a … read more »

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Dealing with the Devil in Syria

A video circulating this week of Syrian rebels shouting “Allahu akbar” and executing four Assad partisans has horrified many in the West, but there have been numerous indications before this that the resistance to the Assad regime is not made up … read more »

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New Video shows Gaddafi’s body ‘being used by rebels as ventriloquist’s doll’

A gruesome new video which appears to show Muammar Gaddafi’s dead body being abused by rebels has surfaced online. In the shocking clip, which was posted to YouTube on Monday, high-spirited demonstrators apparently use the Libyan dictator’s corpse as a … read more »

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