Syria: Turkey allowing al-Qaida transit

 September 16, 2012 By ALBERT AJI AND BASSEM MROUE. The Associated Press  DAMASCUS, Syria -- Syria accused neighboring Turkey yesterday of allowing thousands of Muslim extremists to cross into its territory, as the government and opposition said an explosion killed...

Syrian Prime Minister Riad Farid Hijab Defects to Jordan

Riad Farid Hijab Flees Syria The Syrian government just lost its Prime Minister, as Riad Farid Hijab defected to Jordan. Riad Farid Hijab has only held the job for two months, and is the highest-ranking official (among many) to have abandoned Bashar al-Assad's regime as the...

Daily Alert on Syria and Iran

Syria's Plan B: An Alawite State? - Hugh Macleod and Annasofie Flamand (GlobalPost)    Last Thursday's massacre of rebel fighters and residents in the Sunni village of Tremseh, 20 miles northwest of Hama, fit a geographic pattern of attacks by forces loyal to...

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Egyptian President-Elect Denies Giving Interview on Stronger Ties with Iran (Al Arabiya)    The Egyptian presidency has denied that President-elect Mohammed Morsi gave an interview to Iran's Fars agency on Monday, in which he had said he was looking to expand ties...

CIA Sending Al Qaeda Rebels Weapons To Fight The Syrian Military

In latest another disturbing development a small number of C.I.A. officers are operating secretly in southern Turkey, helping allies decide which Syrian opposition fighters across the border will receive arms to fight the Syrian government, according to American officials...

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War Is Marching to Damascus - Patrick Cockburn (Independent-UK)    Damascus feels like a city expecting the worst to happen and seeing no way to avoid it.    Christians are fearful and are all too aware of what happened to their co-religionists in Iraq...

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In-Depth Issues: Iranian Officials Observed North Korean Rocket Launch - Danielle Demetriou (Telegraph-UK)    The high-profile rocket launch in North Korea was reportedly attended by 12 officials from the Iranian Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group (SHID).  ...

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In-Depth Issues: Joint Greek-Israeli-U.S. Military Drill to Defend Gas Platforms at Sea - A. Papapostolou (Greek Reporter)    Greece, Israel, and the U.S. are conducting joint air and naval exercises from March 26 until April 5, in part to simulate defending ...

Iraq hosts Arab Ministers’ summit

That’s the news as much as the topic they are addressing that is Syria. Odd to me is that Kofi Annan is the bearer of the message to the Arab leaders. Kofi is still in business. Bowing and scraping to China and Russia on this matter, the Arab leaders huddle to fret about...

Bashar Al-Assad Emails: Syrian Dictator Likes Chris Brown

Bashar Al-Assad: Syrian Dictator Likes Lying to the UN, Chris BrownA scrap of paper with two email addresses (sam@alshahba.com and ak@alshahba.com) and two passwords gave the Syrian opposition a glimpse of the private world of President Bashar Al-Assad and his wife, Asma.The...