A Daily Beast article on 25 September 2014, based on Naame Shaam’s forthcoming report on ‘Iran in Syria’. Quote: “Naame Shaam has produced a 105-page report on Iran’s mischief inside Syria and its ties to al Qaeda, al Nusra, and ISIS. Al Qaeda and ISIS are under […]
Read more →Naame Shaam was among a group of Iranian, Arab and Western activists and groups who published an open letter in the Guardian newspaper on 26 June 2014, criticising the British government’s decision to reestablish diplomatic ties with the Iranian regime. Below is the full text of the […]
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 Lebanon issued a statement last week condemning “terrorist organizations” for destroying “shrines and Islamic and Christian sanctities in Syria.” The statement was in reaction to a decision by the al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Sham (ISIS) to demolish what’s left […]
Read more →Yassin al-Haj Saleh is a Syrian intellectual and writer from Ar-Raqqah. He spent 16 years of his life (1980 to 1996) in Syrian regime prisons. Saleh has been heavily involved in the Syrian revolution, writing and working alongside young activists. He was in hiding in Eastern Ghouta […]
Read more →If you watch Iranian mainstream TV or read official Iranian newspapers, the impression you often get from their coverage of what’s happening in Syria is that the country is going through a ‘civil war’ between al-Assad’s government, allegedly so beloved and supported by ‘Syrian people’, and various […]
Read more →In an interview with the Lebanese Future TV on 5 February 2014, the leader of the main Syrian opposition coalition, Ahmad Jarba, said Hezbollah Lebanon was no different from the criminal extremists of the Islamic State in Iraq and Sham (ISIS). “Hezbollah, ISIS and the Syrian regime […]
Read more →French president Francois Hollande: Assad is not fighting Islamists; he is placing blame on armed Islamist extremists to pressure the moderate opposition. Hollande in an interview with Al-Hayat newspaper, http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2013/12/29/Hollande-Assad-blocks-political-solution-for-Syria.html
Read more →– Mass Friday protests against al-Qaeda crimes in Syria – Why does Iran want to attend the Geneva II conference? MASS FRIDAY PROTESTS AGAINST AL-QAEDA CRIMES IN SYRIA Popular protests were held across Syria on Friday to condemn crimes committed by the Syrian regime as well […]
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