Syria: Its not a Civil War and it never was.

29th December 2015 First Published in New Eastern Outlook. Written by: Ulson Gunnar   The weapons are foreign, the fighters are foreign, the agenda is foreign.  As Syrian forces fight to wrest control of their country back and restore order within their borders, the myth of the “Syrian civil war” continues on. Undoubtedly there are…

President Bashar Al Assad. The Truth from Damascus.

20th December 2015   Earlier this morning, Zionist warplanes struck a residential building in Jaramana city in Damascus countryside killing the famous Hezbollah resistance fighter, Samir Quntar and reportedly massacring up to 9 innocent civilians.  We are still awaiting confirmation of the total number of deaths and casualties from this illegal raid that has been…

Syrian President Bashar Al Assad

19th December 2015 My personal reflections on the man who has confounded Western regime change pundits and media demonization. This is the man accused of “killing his own people and murdering children” photographed with the children of Syria.  This is the man accused of sectarianism, of hating & persecuting Christians, Sunnis, & Druze photographed with…

ON THE ROAD FROM DAMASCUS

  19th December 2015 Timothy Radcliffe: The Tablet The bell rang out from the Carmelite monastery in the Syrian mountains between Damascus and Homs. It would be audible to Islamic State (IS) jihadists, whose front line is less than three miles away. It said defiantly: “We are still here.” The terrorists captured Qara, the local…

Lebanon: Remembering the Martyrs

29th November 2015 Lebanon: Update from Father Andrew Ashdown.   “This morning we went to the site of the bombing in Burj Al Burajneh that killed over 40 people and injured over 100 the day before the Paris bombing, and laid flowers and placed candles there. One young man (whose picture is highlighted above) had…

Syria: The Stifled Truth

28th November 2015 When one reads the accounts of truly neutral, independent observers who enter Syria with no agenda or donor directives, one realises why the Western propaganda apparatus is so keen to drive these narratives underground or to discredit them. Father Andrew Ashdown has been working tirelessly for some time now to foster interfaith…