Étiquette : Syria

  • Covering Syria: The information war

    The narrative that has been constructed by the Western mainstream media on Syria may seem to be self-evident from the scenes presented on television, but it is a narrative duplicitously promoted and coordinated so as to conceal and facilitate the regime-change project that is part of the war on Iran. What we are seeing is…

  • ‘UN Commissioner report on Houla? But they only talk to Syrian opposition – by phone’

    The Houla Massacre is to be brought before a rare gathering of the UN Human Rights Council. But what kind of findings will be presented? Anti-war campaigner Marinella Corregia worries the HR commissioner talks only to its sources: the opposition. The meeting, set for Friday, has been called by 21 of the 47 council members….

  • Syria blames rebels in Houla massacre

    The Head of Syria’s inquiry committee said Thursday that preliminary investigations indicated that 800 heavily armed men carried out attacks on government forces and slaughtered families in Houla. Brigadier-General Qasem Jamal Sulaiman said during a press conference that the armed groups’ attacks targeted two army bases in the area. He added that the government troops…

  • Syrian rebels get influx of arms with gulf neighbors’ money, U.S. coordination

    Syrian rebels battling the regime of President Bashar al-Assad have begun receiving significantly more and better weapons in recent weeks, an effort paid for by Persian Gulf nations and coordinated in part by the United States, according to opposition activists and U.S. and foreign officials. Obama administration officials emphasized that the United States is neither…