syria issues

I say that ISIS's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and all his lieutenants are secretly operating in safehouses in the wealthy suburbs of the Syrian cities of Raqqa and Palmyra. Also, I'm sure that the nearby residents of these places who suddenly became rich overnight are gonna say they don't know...

It's too early to make a lot of sense out of the gruesome chemical attack in Syria that killed a number of children. Assad denies Syrian forces are responsible. What I see (sorry to sound so cynical) does not have the staged look of other child casualties. Anyone can put up pictures of bloody...

Seems like the main outlets like BBC,CNN,are wrong mainly on Syria. Reporter who speaks Arabic goes to Syria 6 times and talks with the average Syrian and goes to Aleppo 4 times. What she uncovers is outright media bias against the Russians and Assad as it is proven time and again that the US...

I don't need to detail this much: it has been openly in the news that the US is critical of Russian support for Assad and is actively trying to thwart military aid to Assad, as well as passively by letting stooges within EU governments act on its behalf: Google: "France attempts to block...

A few days ago there was post of Israelis shooting down an Syrian bomber that was only .5miles s in its airspace and conducting a mission to bomb syrian rebel factions close to the israeli border. US and Israel knew this, yet israel shot down the bomber. Today we learn that the US is now...

I first posted the following couple paragraphs in the main Syria thread, but decided it merits its own space. I'd like to start with the x-ray, and expand into other evidence to see as clearly as possible what's actually happening to whom, where, when, and why. Obviously, not just pregnant women...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/05/07/syria-disappears-off-internet/ Speculation at this point is speculation. The fact that backdoors haven't healed this is somewhat remarkable, ditto satellite links not doing so.

But on which side? According to the UN it's the rebels who may have been using poison gas. Fancy that. So, since they crossed the red line we should pile in on Assad's side, right? The US is having none of it: 'Highly likely' huh? Well, how would they know? They didn't know...

We have some smart people here with military backgrounds and common sense. Right? So why not crowd-source here? We all know about this heinous event that killed how many?Around 100 give or take. It's not an issue I have looked at in-depth yet (our fairly scant wiki page I started but took a...

Bickering for a percentage in the new Parliament when Syrian citizens die under the bombs. http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20121105_Divisions_among_Syrian_opposition.html "However, the main opposition group, the Syrian National Council, is sharply critical of Seif's plan. The...

While supporters of both sides of the Syrian conflict angle for their own political advantage, Syrians are dying by the thousands. An estimated 20,000 people have died in Syria already, and there is no indication that the number will stop increasing any time soon. The most important question...

What if the Syrian government's recent investigation and their consistent claims of no role in the Houla massacre is not all a "blatant lie?" (Susan "Viagra" Rice) The question matters. Let's say intervention happens ala Libya, triggered by this plus the follow-on murders of random people at...

Anyone else notice the deafening silence? For example, the ANSWER Coalition web site: http://www.answercoalition.org/national/ Not a peep about the ongoing slaughter of civilians there, in fact no mention at all except to say "hands off Syria". Not even sanctions are allowed according to...

I'm trying to understand why China and Russia would block the Security Council Decision to sanction Syria see Russia and China Block U.N. Action on Crisis in Syria. It doesn't seem they would offend anyone in the Arab world since the Arab league has already spoken out against Syria and Syria...

U.N. accuses Syria forces of crimes against humanity Now even the Arab League has turned against the Assad regime. He still has allies in Iran and Hezbollah though. And what's going to happen if/when the regime falls? It's hard to imagine there won't be reprisals when children have been...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110323/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_syria this on top of the 7 killed in a mosque yesterday. this is not good. Syria may be the next authoritarian domino to fall.

America's actions in Vietnam brought the term "boat-people" into our vocabulary. What about today's refugees? There may be 1.4 million Iraqi refugees in Syria Syria has a population of 20,314,747, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria 1.4/20 = 7 % That is a huge commitment. And...

Hariri and 20 others were killed by a massive bomb in Beirut on Feb. 14th, 2005 (emphasis mine)... I believe Syria did assasinate Hariri because he was anti-Syrian and one of the most powerful men in Lebanon. The UN Security Council even went so far as to issue a statement calling on all...