Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with syria www.salem-news.com 2013 It’s not hard to find critics of the Assad government in Muhafazat or Homs or for that matter, to varying degrees, in Syria’s other thirteen Governorates... However, after nearly 27 months of turmoil, the public opinion pendulum is markedly shifting back in support of the current regime. http://salem-news.com/articles/may182013/homs-update-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may182013/homs-update-fl.php Sat, 18 May 2013 16:10:00 PDT The United Nations Special Rapporteur for Palestine, Professor Richard Falk, came to Lebanon last week on an unofficial visit to survey opinion while fact finding the condition in Palestinian refugee’s camps. It was the Professors first visit to Lebanon since the fateful summer of 1982. http://salem-news.com/articles/may102013/falk-lebanon-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may102013/falk-lebanon-fl.php Fri, 10 May 2013 20:18:00 PDT While the U.S. peddled the threat of chemical weapon use to justify its arming of the ‘opposition’ in Syria, Israel destroyed a chemical research facility near Damascus which was allegedly developing such weapons. The attack unleashed every single potentially-poisonous particle on the Syrian public. http://salem-news.com/articles/may102013/israel-syria-jwp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may102013/israel-syria-jwp.php Fri, 10 May 2013 17:28:00 PDT Dramatic video footage from Syria reveals startling evidence that counters Israel’s claims of “surgical strikes” on weapons headed to Lebanon. Syria had come under attack by Israel using, not just nuclear weapons, but an American nuclear bunker buster bomb. http://salem-news.com/articles/may102013/syria-nuked-gd.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may102013/syria-nuked-gd.php Fri, 10 May 2013 15:05:00 PDT The civil war in Syria between rebel forces and President Bashar Assad’s Syrian army, escalated this weekend when Israel bombed Damascus, the capital of Syria. With its standard rationale familiar to Gaza residents, Israel released an official story that claimed the bombing was carried out for defensive purposes. http://salem-news.com/articles/may092013/israel-syria-jw.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may092013/israel-syria-jw.php Thu, 09 May 2013 12:53:00 PDT “Hujribn‘Adi was a pious companion of the Prophet (PBUH) and played a vital role in the correction of the Ummah.”- Abul A’la Maududi. In a disdainful display of disrespect for the deceased, members of the U.S.-backed Salafist Free Syrian Army have claimed responsibility for desecrating the 7th century grave of Hujr ibn‘Adi al-Kindi. http://salem-news.com/articles/may092013/damascus-desecrated-yw.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may092013/damascus-desecrated-yw.php Thu, 09 May 2013 12:06:00 PDT Have you ever heard a racist make reference to Blacks or Hispanics in gangs and say, "Let 'em kill each other off"? I heard it while growing up in LA. I am hearing it again in relation to Syria. People are calling for the end of the Assad government and they're supporting the most dangerous people on the face of the earth. http://salem-news.com/articles/may092013/hoodwinked-syria-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may092013/hoodwinked-syria-tk.php Thu, 09 May 2013 01:48:00 PDT Once again we see a familiar pattern: our united 'progressives' -- a veritable synagogue, a collective of great humanists -- lend their support to the oppressed. This time it is the ‘Syrian people’ whom they wish to liberate and their enemy is obviously Bashar Al-Asad. http://salem-news.com/articles/may082013/bed-with-bibi-ga.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may082013/bed-with-bibi-ga.php Wed, 08 May 2013 22:00:00 PDT If there is one thing I learned from this conversation with a jihadist, (Mujahidin) who goes by the name of 'Sandman' - it is that the whole Islamic world may be fragmented beyond repair. Our perceptions in the west are generally far from reality because Muslim on Muslim conflicts are complicated. http://salem-news.com/articles/may082013/sandman-interview-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may082013/sandman-interview-tk.php Wed, 08 May 2013 01:54:00 PDT Mother Agnes Mariam and other religious leaders are trying to illustrate a 'third' way to deal with Syria. She stands opposed to the endless war that has gripped this country. They want human rights for all - particularly the normal citizens caught in the crossfire, and strongly object to outsider Free Syrian Army rebels who operate like mafia. http://salem-news.com/articles/may032013/mother-agnes.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may032013/mother-agnes.php Fri, 03 May 2013 10:36:00 PDT On July 23, 2012, Syria admitted possessing a stockpile of chemical weapons, which it claimed are reserved for national defense against foreign countries. One of Syria’s main facilities for producing chemical weapons of mass destruction (WMD), including sarin, a lethal nerve gas, is located in the town of al-Safira, near Aleppo. http://salem-news.com/articles/may022013/syria-sarin-rs.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may022013/syria-sarin-rs.php Thu, 02 May 2013 18:26:00 PDT Is there any way of escaping the theatre of chemical weapons? First, Israeli "military intelligence" says that Bashar al-Assad's forces have used/have probably used/might have used/could use chemical weapons... http://salem-news.com/articles/april292013/syria-sarin-rf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april292013/syria-sarin-rf.php Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:28:00 PDT “This is one damn fine idea, what took us so long to see a simple solution that was right in front of our eyes for Christ’s sake”, said Senator John McCain He reportedly demanded an answer from Dennis Ross during a recent Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) brain storming session in Washington DC. http://salem-news.com/articles/april272013/hez-syria-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april272013/hez-syria-fl.php Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:30:00 PDT War proponents in the US are pleased today. An unconfirmed report that Syria used chemical warfare, has Obama and his supporters playing a steady beat on the war drum. http://salem-news.com/articles/april252013/chemical-syria-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april252013/chemical-syria-tk.php Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:56:00 PDT “Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral” What would Hafez have done? Every Syrian asks this question. Would the old lion of Damascus, whose son Bashar al-Assad became president when he died in 2000, have handled the present Syrian tragedy more harshly or more leniently? http://salem-news.com/articles/april232013/hafez-approach-rf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april232013/hafez-approach-rf.php Tue, 23 Apr 2013 01:59:00 PDT Bab Touma Jewish Quarter, Damascus -- Growing up in the small town of Milwaukie, Oregon and until after graduating from high school, I never knew or knowingly met a Jew. Not until my first post-high school job as a swimming instructor and life guard at the Portland Jewish Community Center... http://salem-news.com/articles/april132013/damascene-jews-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april132013/damascene-jews-fl.php Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:14:00 PDT An Israeli tank has fired into Syrian territory after Syrian mortar and small-arms fire hit the Israeli-occupied sector of the Golan heights, the Israeli Defence Forces told AFP. An Israeli army statement said troops "returned precise fire at the source and reported a direct hit". http://salem-news.com/articles/april022013/syria-idf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april022013/syria-idf.php Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:50:00 PDT Medical Teams international (MTI) is responding to the Syrian refugee crisis by mobilizing teams of medical volunteers and supplies to provide care to Syrians living in refugee settlements in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. Civil war inside Syria has caused more than 70,000 deaths. http://salem-news.com/articles/april012013/syria-med-teams.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april012013/syria-med-teams.php Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:14:00 PDT Frankly, it never was much of a “League” of Arab states. And arguably it never really achieved a whole lot but two dozen lavish ‘summits’ offering inflated rhetoric, often calculated to assuage the Arab people about their central cause, Palestine. http://salem-news.com/articles/april012013/war-syria-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april012013/war-syria-fl.php Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:53:00 PDT Reports of a chemical weapon attack in Syria’s Aleppo Province last week provoked Western political leaders to advocate more fiercely for the overthrow of the Assad regime, despite the vague details. Current data now suggests, that rebel forces were behind the attack. http://salem-news.com/articles/march292013/fsa-chemicals-rc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march292013/fsa-chemicals-rc.php Fri, 29 Mar 2013 01:51:00 PDT Each time the United Nations and media around the globe report news from Syria, it is almost exclusively designed to back pro-Syrian rebels. Sadly, the rebels from the FSA (Free Syrian Army) have proven time and time again that they are essentially operating as terrorist jihadists against the legitimate Syrian government. http://salem-news.com/articles/march272013/syria-inspectors.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march272013/syria-inspectors.php Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:32:00 PDT For the past year, US-Israel projects in Syria have failed to topple the Assad government. Now, both Tel Aviv and the White House are pinching themselves in disbelief over their good luck with installing republican leaning conservative Dixie businessman, the congenial, Ghassan Hitto, as Syria’s new interim Prime Minister. http://salem-news.com/articles/march222013/syria-election-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march222013/syria-election-fl.php Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:20:00 PDT Students everywhere are special people and this observer has discovered that Syrian students are among the very best. Meeting and interviewing students again this past week, before and following, a frank and enlightening discussion with Dr. Mohammad Amer Al-Mardini, the indefatigable President of Damascus University... http://salem-news.com/articles/march082013/syria-obama-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march082013/syria-obama-fl.php Fri, 08 Mar 2013 11:10:00 PST This observer lost count more than a year ago of the sheer number of predictions by analysts and lobbyists that the “tipping point” signaling the Assad government’s collapse was a sure thing and would happen any time now. “It’s just a matter of days, not weeks” President Obama declared back in 2011. http://salem-news.com/articles/march022013/syria-tipping-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march022013/syria-tipping-fl.php Sat, 02 Mar 2013 21:54:00 PST At least 42 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in a powerful car bomb targeting the ruling Baath Party headquarters in central Damascus on Thursday, state media and activists say. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based anti-government rights group, said the attack took place in the capital's central Mazraa neighbourhood on Thursday... http://salem-news.com/articles/february212013/damascus-bomb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february212013/damascus-bomb.php Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:50:00 PST The Syrian General Command of the Army and Armed Forces said in his 30/01/2013 statement that: - Israeli warplanes violated Syrian airspace on Wednesday dawn and bombarded directly a scientific research center... http://salem-news.com/articles/january312013/syria-west.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january312013/syria-west.php Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:20:00 PST What a difference a week can make. The heaviest snow in Syria in a quarter-century, some claimed, last week’s storm even closed the main highway from Damascus to Beirut. But that was then and now its spring in Damascus, or so it feels to those of us used to a New England January. http://salem-news.com/articles/january272013/syria-us-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january272013/syria-us-fl.php Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:27:00 PST Later today, I will board a flight to Geneva to attend the Syrian International Conference for a Democratic Syria and a Civil State. http://salem-news.com/articles/january262013/syrian-peace-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january262013/syrian-peace-pl.php Sat, 26 Jan 2013 21:10:00 PST A year and a half after the revolution in Syria began, activists struggling for freedom need support more than ever. The Suffering Grasses is a film on Syria's troubled revolution, which conveys the situation in all of its complexity... http://salem-news.com/articles/january232013/suffering-grasses-il.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january232013/suffering-grasses-il.php Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:22:00 PST William Nicholas Gomes, Human Rights Ambassador for Salem-News.com had extensively shared his concern regarding widespread violations by Syrian government security forces and officials. Gomes has concluded that government forces have committed crimes against humanity. http://salem-news.com/articles/january202013/syria-gomes.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january202013/syria-gomes.php Sun, 20 Jan 2013 17:21:00 PST