Yesterday, a massacre was committed in northern Syria with more than 22 martyrs and tens of wounded, and hasn’t made it to the headlines in any western or Arabic media platform. The two villages” Kafarya &foua” have been under siege since the beginning of the crisis, more than four years ago, preserving one safe-access road,…
More and more people are asking us: what can we do? Now that we can all see the political implications, the international manipulations, the interests that have caused and keep stoking the flames of the conflict in Syria, now that everyone – or almost everyone – is talking about it and yet everything is incredibly…
Not only did Israel drop enough explosives on Gaza to equal the Hiroshima bomb, they left behind [UN reported] 7000 unexploded missiles, of which only one third have been cleared. That leaves over 4000 unexploded bombs that are lurking under the rubble of the destroyed houses and civilian infrastructure. In Gaza, a strip of land,…
HRW, Amnesty International and assorted Humanitarian offshoots are on a ceaseless crusade against the SAA use of barrel bombs. Today, Ken Roth even compared the use of Barrel bombs to the destruction caused by the nuclear bomb used on Hiroshima whilst failing to mention that the Israeli bombardment of Gaza in 2014 can very credibly…
“Yemen today displays an example of courage and lucidity to the world, and its heroic and tragic struggle for independence, despite the shameful abandonment of the entire world – with the exception of Iran and Hezbollah –, honours the Arab world and all humanity by its example, like the struggle of the Palestinian people.” While…
As all observers have realized, the situation in Syria has noticeably gone from bad to worse. ISIL isadvancing , the US and Turkey are preparing for a “ comprehensive battle ” there (ostensibly against the terrorists, but most reckon that it’s really against the Syrian Arab Army ), and Erdogan’s War on the Kurds is…
Originally posted on Yemen News Today:
The estimates of numbers killed in this terrible war have varied from website to website. On the 31st July FARS news agency reported the number killed as 5313 people, most of them women and children. Al Jazeera quoted UN statistics on 27th July, stating that 3,640 have died altogether,…
Originally posted on Mideast Shuffle:
US-designated Syrian terrorist group Jabhat al-Nusra with an American-made TOW Missile in its possession. Former US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford said in an interview yesterday to PBS Newshour: “We need – and we have long needed – to help moderates in the Syrian opposition with both weapons and other…
In the last four months of devastating war in my country, and in my years as a journalist before this conflict began, I have seen and written about many terrible things. But nothing prepared me for this. On July 24, my uncle, my aunt and their five children – the oldest of them 16 and…
Amir Askari Yahyavi ~ ” The Yemeni people have through the machinations of a coalition of barbarians in suits been exposed to perdition. I condemn the tabloids to hell for their complicity in imposing this mean, cruel existence of the Yemeni people, through the lies, false castigations and the whitewashing of the culprits for this…
The Wall Will Fall 