May 3rd marked the World Press Freedom Day. As the world celebrated this important day for journalism, tens of Syrian media workers and citizen-journalists continued to be incarcerated in Syrian regime prisons, almost forgotten by the rest of the world. Since the early days of the Syrian […]
Read more →This week marks the first anniversary of the al-Bayda and Baniyas massacres, where Syrian regime forces executed at least 248 unarmed civilians with cold blood. The executions were one of the first and deadliest instances of mass murder since the start of the Syrian revolution in March […]
Read more →Dozens of Armenians held a demonstration in front of the UN mission in Tehran on 16 April 2014. They were protesting against alleged massacres committed by Syrian rebels against the Armenian residents of the northern town of Kasab in March 2014. [1] Similar protests had been held […]
Read more →Even Obama has got it: “I’m always darkly amused by this notion that somehow Iran has won in Syria. I mean, you hear sometimes people saying, “They’re winning in Syria.” And you say, “This was their one friend in the Arab world, a member of the Arab […]
Read more →2,500 trained Shia ‘volunteers’ ready to join ISIS and other ‘Sunni’ terrorist groups Internal Syrian state security documents leaked to the media have provided further proof that some Islamist terrorist groups fighting in Syria, particularly the Al-Qaeda offshoot the Islamic State in Iraq and Sham (ISIS), […]
Read more →Hezbollah fighter: ‘We lead the way in battle and train Syrian soldiers’ A recent report by the news agency AFP, based on interviews with Hezbollah Lebanon members, reveals details of the training programmes that the group’s fighters undergo before going to fight in Syria: “Initial training for […]
Read more →A big number of [corpses of] Hezbollah members who were killed in al-Qusayr are still in corpse refrigerators and Hezbollah cannot take them out. It is important to distinguish between the Shia and Hezbollah, because many honourable [Shiites] are opposed to Hezbollah and strongly refuse to send […]
Read more →Naame Shaam’s correspondent in Beirut had a little tour of several predominately Shia districts in the Lebanese capital last week. In one area, near the Amiliyeh school, within just 20 meters he saw posters of three Hezbolah and one Amal ‘martyrs’ who had died in Syria. Local […]
Read more →As the Syrian regime announced its plans to hold presidential elections in June 2014, the Huffington Post published a good summary of why this is “another cruel joke played on Syria’s suffering population.” The five reasons listed by Eline Gordts’ article, which was published on 21 April […]
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