Greater Middle East

International hunger strike for Syria launched

US activists are fasting in solidarity with Syrian civil resistance figure Qusai Zakarya, who is on hunger strike to protest the siege of over 30 towns by the Assad regime.

Greater Middle East

Syria: imperialists keep flipping script

Ex-CIA director Michael Hayden says Bashar Assad is the best option for stability in Syria—while the White House now considers arming jihadist rebels.

Greater Middle East

Lebanon: army seizes strife-torn Tripoli

​Lebanon's government has ordered the coastal city of Tripoli placed under army control amid growing sectarian clashes pitting Sunni residents against Alawites.

Greater Middle East

Israel bombs Syria —again

The Israel Air Force was reportedly responsible for an attack on a military base in the Syrian city of Latakia, targeting a Russian missile shipment bound for Hezbollah.

Palestine

200 Palestinians in Malta shipwreck: report

The Action Group for Palestinians in Syria said that at least 200 Palestinian refugees fleeing conflict in the country were aboard the boat that capsized off Malta's coast.

Syria

Evo Morales betrays Syrian people

By saying the US “funds rebels that fight against presidents who don’t support capitalism or imperialism,” Evo Morales allies himself with a regime that is committing war crimes.

Greater Middle East

Greek fascists fight for Assad in Syria

Greek "National Socialist" organzation Black Lily boasts that it has dispatched a brigade to Syria to fight for Bashar Assad against "the American-Zionist war machine."