Greater Middle East
Syria: nuclear flashpoint
The breakdown of US-Russia cooperation over Syria comes as Moscow moves missiles to the Polish border and withdraws from an agreement on plutonium disposal.
Tag: Syria
Greater Middle East
70,000 Syrian refugees stranded in ‘buffer zone’
Thousands of displaced Syrians are trapped between sand berms on the border with Jordan, denied entry—facing hostile soliders on either side, receiving no aid.
North America
Court blocks Indiana from refusing Syrian refugees
A federal appeals court affirmed an Indiana district court ruling that blocked the state government's effort to prevent resettlement of Syrian refugee families in the state.
Greater Middle East
Global day of ‘Rage for Aleppo’
Protests are reported from more than 30 cities across the world as part of a global day of "Rage for Aleppo" to oppose the siege and bombardment of Syria's largest city.
Greater Middle East
Syria: hideous escalation fruit of bogus ‘ceasefire’
Two weeks after the Syrian "ceasefire," Aleppo is under intense bombardment and 2 million are without water in the besieged city—portending a massive death toll.
Greater Middle East
Syria: genocidal regime troops’ lives matter
With over a quarter million dead in Syria, the UN Security Council finally called an emergency meeting after the US for the first time bombed Assad regime forces—by accident.
Greater Middle East
Syria: aerial terror continues despite ‘ceasefire’
Days after the supposed Syria "ceasefire" took effect, Assad regime and Russian warplanes carried out multiple air-strikes on rebel-held towns, leaving some 20 dead.
Watching the Shadows
Bill Weinberg: against the left-right convergence
In his latest vlog, Bill Weinberg rants about the current left-right convergence, and how the politics of the Hitler-Stalin Pact are being revived in the age of Trump and Putin.
Greater Middle East
Syria: ‘peace deal’ signals escalation… of course
The announced new cooperation between imperial rivals the US, Russia and Turkey can only mean a betrayal of the Rojava Kurds and and other democratic forces in Syria.
Watching the Shadows
Ex-Gitmo detainee hospitalized in hunger strike
A former Guantánamo detainee who was resettled in Uruguay was hospitalized after a hunger strike to press his demand to be reunited with his family in Syria.
Greater Middle East
Syria: reject Arab-Kurdish ethnic war
The Turkish intervention in northern Syria has set off open war between Free Syrian Army factions and the Rojava Kurds—which only serves the interests of ISIS and Assad.
Greater Middle East
Russia accused of using cluster munitions in Syria
Human rights organizations claim mounting evidence that Russia is behind the increasing use of cluster bombs in Syria, despite Moscow's denial that it has deployed the banned weapon.