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Interview with Assad

Posted by seumasach on July 7, 2013

President al-Assad to al-Thawra daily: Syria still home for all..what is taking place in Egypt the fall of so-called Political Islam

SANA

4th July, 2013

Damascus, (SANA)-President Bashar al-Assad gave a speech to Syrian al-Thawra daily published on Thursday.

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Syrian Christians: ‘Why Is America at War with Us’

Posted by seumasach on July 4, 2013

CBN

27th June, 2013

Syrian Christians are asking why the United States supports extremists who want to turn Syria into an Islamic state.

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In Defence of the Syrian Arab Army

Posted by seumasach on July 3, 2013

Tim Anderson

Op-Ed News

2nd July, 2013

Attacks on the Syrian Arab Army have come from all sides, most western media claiming it has been ‘brutal’, defends a ‘dictatorship’, or represents an ‘Alawite regime’. While the army has confronted violence with violence, a series of ‘false flag’ accusations have been leveled at it, the most recent over the use of sarin gas.

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Morsy Syria policy tipping point for Egypt army

Posted by seumasach on July 3, 2013

This army statement seems to be a reference to precisely this issue: “We swear to God that we will sacrifice even our blood for Egypt and its people, to defend them against any terrorist, radical or fool,” 

Morsy role at Syria rally seen as tipping point for Egypt army

Egypt Independent

3rd July, 2013

Army concern about the way President Mohamed Morsy was governing Egypt reached tipping point when the head of state attended a rally packed with hardline fellow Islamists calling for holy war in Syria, military sources said.

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Tunis hints of backpedaling on Syria

Posted by seumasach on July 1, 2013

Huffington Post

30th June, 2013

TUNIS. As the Obama administration has parried pressures to enmesh the United States more deeply in Syria’s murderous civil war, last year’s high tide of international insistence on Bashar al-Assad’s departure seems to be receding. One sign has been in eroding vote tallies in the United Nations. Another is the very public rethinking of Syria policy one hears here in Tunisia, where the Arab uprisings began.

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Syria: Vatican confirms beheading

Posted by seumasach on July 1, 2013

Francois Murad, Catholic Priest Beheaded By Jihadist Fighters In Syria, Vatican Confirm

Huffington Post

1st July, 2013

A Catholic priest has been beheaded by jihadist fighters in Syria, it has been confirmed by the official Vatican news agency.

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Russia accuses Saudi Arabia

Posted by seumasach on June 30, 2013

Russia Accused Saudi Arabia Of “Arming International Terrorists In Syria”

In Serbia

27th June, 2013

The Russian Foreign Ministry has accused Saudi Arabia of financing international terrorists in Syria, a commentary of official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich says in connection with the statement of Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia, Prince Saud al Faisal, who blamed Russia for unlimited military support of mass killings in Syria.

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Brzezinski: Saudi Arabia, Qatar, their western allies orchestrated Syria crisis

Posted by seumasach on June 29, 2013

PressTV

29th June, 2013

The former US national security adviser says the ongoing crisis in Syria has been orchestrated by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and their western allies.

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Arms for rebels or peace

Posted by seumasach on June 27, 2013

Al-Jaafari: No meaningful conference can be held if weapons continue to flow into Syria

SANA

26th June, 2013

New York, (SANA)_ Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari said that the UN Assistant secretary-general for political affairs Oscar Fernandez-Taranco has not provided a complete picture of the situation in the Middle East, especially as regards the situation in the Syrian Golan.

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Syrian resistance, a puzzle without solution for the West

Posted by seumasach on June 27, 2013

La résistance de la Syrie, un casse-tête sans solution pour l’Occident

Ghaleb Kandil

Voltairenet

24th June, 2013

La guerre universelle menée par Barack Obama contre la Syrie est entrée dans une nouvelle phase après une remobilisation des moyens sous l’égide de l’Arabie saoudite et de la France. La répartition des rôles a eu lieu à la réunion de Doha.

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Meeting to prepare international peace conference on Syria ends in failure

Posted by seumasach on June 27, 2013

Voltairenet

26th June, 2013

The second USA-Russia-UN meeting, which was held on 25 June 2013 in Geneva, was no more successful than the one held on 5 June: Participants parted without fixing a date for “Geneva 2” or drawing up the list of participants.

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