Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu: “Both Al-Qaeda and the Assad regime are not only benefiting from each other but also supporting each other… Both sides are likely to be in touch behind the scenes… Al-Qaeda had received support from the Assad regime in the past.” Davutoglu […]
Read more →– More than 140,000 confirmed deaths in Syria, including hundreds of Hezbollah and Sepah fighters – Syrian regime blacklists opposition’s delegates to Geneva conference MORE THAN 140,000 CONFIRMED DEATHS IN SYRIA, INCLUDING HUNDREDS OF HEZBOLLAH AND SEPAH FIGHTERS The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says it has […]
Read more →A placard from Kafrnabl, Idlib, Syria – 7 February 2014 COMMENT: Do we really want Sepah Pasdaran and Hezbollah Lebanon to lead us to ‘a Vietnam in Syria’? Isn’t their support for the Assad regime a futile attempt to keep a dying regime alive? What about the […]
Read more →New US sanctions target one of al-Qaeda’s top agents who operates from… Iran The US Treasury has released a new list of sanctions against companies and persons it accuses of breaching the international sanctions against Iran. Like previous editions, the list targets companies and people facilitating the […]
Read more →The former vice president of Syria, Farouq al-Sharaa, who is considered by many as a “wise, long-sighted politician”, has been reportedly under house arrest in Damascus for months. According to new revelations by an unnamed, prominent Iraqi politician, the reasons behind this drastic measure were more to […]
Read more →Hezbollah Lebanon seems to have found a justification for its new military campaign against the Syrian town of Yabroud, and the wider Qalamon region on the Lebanese border. “Yabroud is the main source of the explosive-rigged cars” that have targeted civilian areas in Lebanon (mainly Hezbollah strongholds) […]
Read more →From a Reuters report on the attitudes of the Assad soldiers during the evacuation of the Old City of Homs: “That’s them, that’s them, the bastards,” one soldier was overheard telling another, raising his phone high for a better shot of the men getting off a bus […]
Read more →A popular Lebanese website has published an exclusive, eye-opening interview with Hezbollah Lebanon fighters who participated in battles inside Syria.[1] The Lebanon Debate article summarising the interview focuses on the deteriorating relationship between Hezbollah and the Syrian army, but it raises important questions about Hezbollah’s role in […]
Read more →Over 1,500 mosques in Syria, including some historical ones, have been targeted and destroyed by the Syrian regime forces, backed by Hezbollah Lebanon and Sepah Pasdaran. We would like to remind our readers that when Hezbollah Lebanon and Sepah Pasdaran fighters started to fight in Syria in […]
Read more →During an official ceremony for the 35th anniversary of the Iranian revolution, which took place in Teheran’s Azadi Square on 11 February 2014, President Hassan Rouhani claimed Iran did not interfere in the affairs of other countries. The official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) quoted Rouhani saying […]
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