– 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 →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 […]
Read more →Shirin Ebadi: I am ashamed of my country’s intervention in Syria, where civilians are killed, and as an Iranian, I apologize to the Syrian people. The Iranian state intervenes in Syria despite the will of Iranian people. The activist and lawyer, who won the Nobel Peace Prize […]
Read more →A brilliant caricature by the most celebrated Syrian cartoonist, Ali Firzat, depicting eloquently what the Iranian regime is dragging us into.
Read more →European fascists and neo-Nazis have been pouring into Syria to fight alongside the Syrian regime forces, which are also supported by Sepah Qods and Hezbollah Lebanon fighters. Where does that leave the latter two, who are supposedly the ‘defenders of Islam and Palestine’ against ‘Western imperialism’ and […]
Read more →In January 2014, Orient TV released a four-part documentary about “Bashar’s Secret Life”.[1] Based on al-Assad’s hacked emails [2] and high-profile interviews with former Syrian officials and politicians from Assad’s inner circle, the documentary paints a picture of the Syrian president as an irrational, irresponsible dictator who […]
Read more →A Syrian opposition website has published hundreds of names and profile pictures of men it claims were Hezbollah Lebanon fighters who died in battle in Syria.[1] To double-check the authenticity of the photos, Naame Shaam chose a random sample from the pictures and tried to verify them […]
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