While the rate of return for those displaced by the war is steadily increasing, the IOM notes that there are still high rates of displacement in many areas of the country. In the first half of 2017, 602,759 Syrians displaced…
Syria
Why Are Syrian Refugees Running Back To This Evil Dictator Who Likes To Kill Them?
August 20, 2017
by Caitlin Johnstone Al Jazeera, not often known to rock the establishment boat when it comes to the official narrative about Syria, has published an interesting new report on some recent findings of the International Organization for Migration. According to…
The Case against the ABC – Culpable failure to provide impartial coverage of the Syrian conflict
May 1, 2017
Letter to: Ms Michelle Guthrie. Managing Director, Australian Broadcasting Commission. The screening by Four Corners of Channel 4’s documentary “The Case against Assad” marks a new low in the ABC’s editorial policy on this highly contentious subject, and at…
Fighting the ‘Army of Conquest’
June 18, 2015
The situation in Syria is deteriorating rapidly, following the campaign by Saudi Arabia and Turkey to send thousands of fighters into the North West back in March. Recently Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei has recognised this action as a specific act of…
Synergising conflicts – the connection between Syria and Ukraine explored
March 29, 2015
In the introduction we talked of the ‘Russian connection’ between the Ukraine conflict and the Syrian one, and aimed to explore this later. But today an ‘authoritative source’ has put the two conflicts into sharp focus as intimately associated through…
Ratting on Obama – Hersh’s second volley
April 9, 2014
When Seymour Hersh asked the question that no-one else seemed to think necessary – ‘Whose Sarin’ was it that killed people in a Damascus suburb last August? – he didn’t, or couldn’t provide a definitive answer. Even though his elimination…
War Apologists Force Syria’s Best Hope of Reconciliation Out of Anti-War Conference
November 19, 2013
JONATHAN COOK’S EXCELLENT ARTICLE UNCOVERS COMPLETELY HOW A GROUP OF PRO-WESTERN INTERVENTIONISTS SUCCESSFULLY PRESSURED CAREER-MINDED ‘LEFTISTS’ LEADING TO MOTHER AGNES MARIAM – A KEY PEACEMAKER AND RECONCILER IN WAR AFFLICTED SYRIA – TO PULL OUT OF STOP THE WAR COALITION’S…
The real story of Moadamiya
October 31, 2013
And how the ‘release’ of over 5000 women and children was negotiated and secured by a team led by Mother Agnes Mariam. While Western media have been talking of the siege of Moadamiya – of a siege imposed on suffering…
RT: “Homemade sarin was used in attack near Damascus – Lavrov”
September 26, 2013
Russia has enough evidence to assert that homemade sarin was used on August 21 in a chemical attack near Damascus, the same type but in higher concentration than in an Aleppo incident earlier this year, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov said.…
A plea for Australian neutrality on Syria
September 23, 2013
As the UN General Assembly gathers for its annual session this week, and the UN Security Council deliberates on a resolution over Syria under the chairmanship of Australia, there are worrying signs that Australian ‘guidance’ may not be impartial on…