Syria: The capture of ‘the eyes of Bab Amr’
William Hague joins calls for the release of prominent Syrian journalist; friends fear Ali Mahmoud Othman is being severely tortured… Video activist Ali Mahmoud Othman, head of the media office of Bab Amr, has been siezed by the Syrian goverment. Friends and colleagues believe he is being subjected to severe torture. His detention puts [...]
The man who called Syria’s Assad a breath of fresh air announces ‘Bradford Spring’ as he wins by-election… There’s no doubt that George Galloway’s by-election victory in Bradford West was nothing short of stunning, winning over 50 percent of the vote in a seat Labour had held since 1974. Galloway’s description of his [...]
Continue reading …Video has emerged from Azaz, north of Aleppo in Syria, that purports to show a helicopter gunship attacking unknown targets in the city.
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Campaigners push to bring Syria change as one year anniversary of revolution approaches… To mark the first anniversary of the violence which accompanied the Syrian revolution, which started on March 15th, a campaign is being launched to mobilise a global action for celebrities, leading Twitter users and NGOs from around the world to [...]
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Witnesses say troops placing anti-personnel mines near Turkey, Lebanon borders… Syrian forces have placed landmines near the borders with Lebanon and Turkey in recent weeks and months, Human Rights Watch said today, based on reports and confirmations from witnesses and Syrian deminers. Civilian casualties have already resulted, the witnesses said. The Syrian army should cease its use of antipersonnel landmines [...]
Continue reading …The Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad has continued it’s assault on the city of Idlib for a third day. Al Jazeera reporter Anita MacNaught spent time with Free Syrian Army fighters in the city, and says they are woefully out-gunned compared to the government forces.
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Has the Syrian regime been taking lessons from Sri Lanka’s defeat of the Tamil Tigers? President Bashar al-Assad is many things, some of them not printable, but undeniably he is a survivor. Few people will have observed the 13 months of the Syrian uprising and not spent at least one day thinking that [...]
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Lessons from Grozny: What Russia taught Syria… Following Russia’s humiliating defeat in the first Chechen war, new President Vladimir Putin returned to the country five years later, and embarked on a savage campaign that had many similarities to the Syrian regime’s current assault on Homs. To deal with Chechnya once and for all, [...]
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