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DAMASCUS, Syria – Syria defied international calls to halt attacks on rebel enclaves as at least 89 people were killed nationwide Saturday on the eve of a constitutional referendum that the opposition sees as a ploy by President Bashar Assad’s regime. Assad presented the revised charter — which allows for at least a theoretical opening [...]
February 26th, 2012 | Filed under Middle East,News Watch | Read More »

At least three demonstrators were killed Saturday, medical sources said, as protesters tried to storm a U.N. compound in northern Afghanistan in Two American members of the NATO force in Afghanistan were shot dead within the interior ministry in Kabul Saturday, military and government sources said, as anti-U.S. protests raged for a fifth day. “Initial [...]
February 26th, 2012 | Filed under News Watch,South Asia | Read More »

It will not be long before Bashar al-Assad will sit naked and battered, haemorrhaging to death on the curb of history like other uninhibited despots before him. As his regime hurtles chaotically out of control amidst an ever-reddening blur of desperate savagery, allies are solemnly administering Last Rites, predators and victims are circling for a [...]
February 13th, 2012 | Filed under Perspective,Political Analysis | Read More »

As Syria’s rebellious cities are bombarded and the regime’s tank crews prepare to move, only a rag-tag and poorly armed but determined army stands in their way. The last straw for Captain Abu Mahmoud came when 13 of his fellow officers were lined up and shot by a Syrian firing squad. They had been identified [...]
February 11th, 2012 | Filed under Middle East,News Watch | Read More »

To our horror, Bashar Al-Assad continues to ravage and massacre his people, a people who are under his dreadful custodianship. Such a paradox! That Bashar Al-Assad holds such a position rather than protecting and guarding his people from harm’s way, while he is the clear and present danger to his population. He heavily bombards any [...]
February 11th, 2012 | Filed under Perspective,Viewpoint | Read More »

Bahraini people staged new anti-regime rallies around the capital, Manama, as the ruling Al Khalifa dynasty continues to use force against peaceful protests. Protesters poured into the streets in several towns and villages around Manama on Thursday, urging the Al Khalifa regime to step down. The demonstrators called for the immediate release of prisoners and [...]
December 29th, 2011 | Filed under Middle East,News Watch | Read More »

The opposition Syrian National Council on Wednesday urged the U.N. Security Council and Arab League to hold emergency meetings after “massacres” carried out by regime forces. Reacting to this week’s reports of the killing of hundreds of civilians, the opposition bloc called for an “emergency U.N. Security Council session to discuss the regime’s massacres in [...]
December 21st, 2011 | Filed under Middle East,News Watch | Read More »

BEIRUT – Syrian troops battled army defectors Sunday in clashes that left several military vehicles in flames. The fighting and other violence around the nation killed at least five people, activists said. For the first time, an act of violent protest against President Bashar Assad’s regime spilled across the border into Jordan, where about a [...]
December 11th, 2011 | Filed under Middle East,News Watch | Read More »