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The Weird Connection Between 'The Simpsons' And The Syrian Rebels
According to an Egyptian TV network al-Tahrir, evidence contained in an old episode of "The Simpsons" suggests the U.S. may have been behind a conspiracy to destabilize the Arab world, in particular...
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Syrian Rebels Are Withdrawing From The Heart Of The Revolution
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels started withdrawing from the heart of Homs city on Wednesday, leaving an early center of the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad and handing him a symbolic victory...
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Iran Pulls News Story Admitting It Is Militarily-Involved In Syria
Iran's hard-line Fars news agency has removed comments by a commander of the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), who was quoted as saying that the Islamic republic is militarily...
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This Is Syria's Third Largest City
Homs, formerly Syria's third-largest city, is now a concrete wasteland after three years of war — including a two years of siege by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.The last of the...
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Syrians Will Soon Make Up One-Fourth Of Lebanon [MAPS]
More than one million Syrians — including 520,000 children — are now living in neighboring Lebanon as a result of civil war. And the UN is still registering one person each minute.Nine million people...
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Iran Might Be Sending Chlorine Bombs To Syria's Assad Regime
Reports that Iran is sending chlorine bombs to Syria have prompted lawmakers to criticize the Obama administration for ignoring Iran’s non-nuclear efforts to foster terrorism and discord across the...
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The UN's Top Syria Negotiator Quit Today, And It Might Not Even Matter
When veteran Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi took over as the UN’s Syria envoy on August 12th, 2012, the conflict’s death toll stood at an estimated 26,000, and there were fewer than a...
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The West's Utter Failure In Syria In One Sentence
On Tuesday, the U.N. mediator for the Syrian war quit, and France accused Syrian President Bashar Assad of using chemical weapons — primarily chlorine bombs — at least 14 times after agreeing to give...
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Two Journalists Narrowly Escape Syrian Rebels Who Shot And Beat Them In...
Two British journalists were recovering in Turkey on Thursday after being shot and beaten by rebel kidnappers while covering the Syrian conflict, the Times reported.Times writer Anthony Loyd was shot...
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U.S. Judge Halts Force-Feeding Of Guantanamo Prisoner On Hunger Strike
A U.S. federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the military from force-feeding a Syrian prisoner on hunger striker at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.It was the first time a judge ordered a halt to...
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Here's A Syrian Su-22 Fighter Launching Rockets Against Syria's Largest City...
Assad’s Su-22 Fitters are a constant presence in the Syrian skies.The following footage, recorded last week, shows a Syrian Arab Air Force Su-22M-4K Fitter firing S-8 rockets against a ground target in...
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Western Intelligence Services Admit That They Can't Keep Track Of Returning...
Today is Day 1,160 of the Syrian conflict.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the death toll in the conflict has risen to at least 162,000 — meaning, as The New York Times points out, that it...
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Syria Is Probably Going To Miss Its Next Deadline For Destroying Its Chemical...
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Syria has made no progress in relinquishing a last batch of chemical weapons it says is inaccessible due to fighting, making it increasingly likely it will miss a final deadline...
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Americans Fighting In Syria Have US Officials Increasingly Worried
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department has tapped a veteran prosecutor to probe the flow of foreign fighters, including Americans, who are joining Syria's rebels, U.S. officials said, in a sign...
View ArticleSyria Video Shows Chlorine Gas Floating In Streets: Activists
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian opposition activists have posted a video of what they say is chlorine gas floating through the streets of a village, the first such footage of they say is a chemical weapon...
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Here's How Obama Will Defend His Controversial Foreign Policy Record
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Stung by criticism, President Barack Obama will use a speech on Wednesday to launch a sweeping defense of his approach to foreign policy, one that he will say is reliant on...
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Canadian Hezbollah Commander, One Of FBI's 'Most Wanted,' Killed In Syria
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A senior Lebanese-Canadian commander in the Shi'ite Muslim militant group Hezbollah has been killed in Syria where he was fighting alongside Syrian government troops against rebels,...
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Syria's Civil War Might Have Its First American Suicide Bomber
A "correspondent" for the Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, al Qaeda's official branch in Syria, said that three foreign fighters and a Syrian national conducted a complex suicide assault...
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US Special Forces May Soon Be Training Syrian Rebels
WASHINGTON (AP) — In an open move that would significantly boost U.S. support to Syrian rebels seeking military help in their quest to oust President Bashar Assad, the White House may soon sign off on...
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The American Suicide Bomber Shows How Unprecedented Syria’s Civil War Really Is
This week likely saw the first American suicide bomber of Syria's ongoing civil war, which has killed upwards of 150,000 people. But the attacker, a still-anonymous individual known as "Abu Hurayra...
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