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 […]
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It seems the creative energy of the Syrian revolution has no limits. Last year, Syrian activists managed to establish ‘Daesh’, a mocking name derived from the Arabic initials of the Islamic State in Iraq and Sham (ISIS), as a widely used name for the al-Qaeda-affiliated group, even […]
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Mikhail Kalashnikov, the Russian general who invented the Kalashnikov in 1974, has died. But his legacy lives on, certainly in Syria. For the popular automatic rifle, also known as AK-74, features on the flags of Hezbollah Lebanon and Sepah Pasdaran, both of which are fighting alongside the […]
Read more →For all Hezbollah’s talk about being a resistance movement against US and Zionist imperialism, and the US talk about fighting Hezbullah’s terrorism, it turns out the two supposed enemies are holding secret talks! The Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Ra’i (The Opinion) yesterday reported that the UK government is mediating […]
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