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Syrian opposition leader rejects Kofi Annan’s call for dialogue with Assad regime

Syrian opposition leader Burhan Ghalioun

The leader of Syria’s main opposition group has rejected calls by former Kofi annan, the former UN chief, for dialogue between the government in Damascus and the opposition, describing them as unrealistic. In a telephone interview from Paris, Burhan Ghalioun told The Associated Press that Mr Annan already has disappointed the Syrian people. Mr Annan, who [...]

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Don’t Weep over the Grand Delusion of an Assadic Resistance – Abdul-Latif Halimi

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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 [...]

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China’s concerns over Syria: What is the reason for insistent support?

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The stance on Syria recently taken by China, one of the countries that has been most affected by the Arab Spring and which, along with Russia, vetoed a UN draft resolution seeking to condemn the growing pressure being applied to protesters by the Syrian government, has been attracting attention around the world. The draft resolution [...]

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Syria: Our Test of Sabr

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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 [...]

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[VIDEO] Tens of thousands Muslims give inspiring pledge to Allah in Homs, Syria [Dec 2011]

Syrian anti-government protesters march in Homs. Photograph: AP

Inspiring footage and translation! Tens of thousands of people in Homs, Syria, give their pledge to Allah. They pledge that: * Victory is from Allah only, not Obama, not Erdogan * They will not stay silent about the blood of the martyrs. * That they will protect their women, children, brothers, scholars and martryrs till [...]

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Syria SNC urges U.N. emergency meeting over ‘massacres’ as death toll mounts

Demonstrators protest against Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in al-Midan district in Damascus.

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 [...]

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America through its puppet, the Arab League, grants the Syrian Regime extra time to kill before another resolution emerges!

Protesters march through the streets of Douma

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم This is how the United States through its organ, the Arab League grants extra time to the Syrian Regime to kill more before a new Alternative emerges! The Arab League today i.e. Wednesday, November 2, 2011 issued another resolution under its initiatve in Syria granting the Syrian regime a two week [...]

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Apparent torture of boy reinvigorates Syria’s protest movement

a Syrian man holds a picture of 13-year-old Hamza Ali al-Khateeb during his funeral on Wednesday in the flash point region of Daraa.

BEIRUT — The boy’s head was swollen, purple and disfigured. His body was a mess of welts, cigarette burns and wounds from bullets fired to injure, not kill. His kneecaps had been smashed, his neck broken, his jaw shattered and his penis cut off. What finally killed him was not clear, but it appeared painfully, [...]

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