Voices from Syria: Assad is Essential for Syria’s Unity & Security Part 3

Feb 28, 2016, 21st Century Wire Part 1 and Part 2 -Rev. Andrew Ashdown “Syria’s triumph over terrorism and maintaining the secular identity of Syria is what will bring back a good relationship with Europe. It will also solve the problem of refugees and it will restore peace. Nothing can be achieved without getting rid…

Voices from Syria: “Syria’s Secularism and Pluralism Cannot Survive without Assad.” Part 2

Feb 27 2016, 21st Century Wire -Rev. Andrew Ashdown Part 1 here “What the government and Russian army are doing is fighting Takfiris. Few civilians are left there [Aleppo], but we know there has been collateral damage. That is sad, but war is dirty and everyone is guilty. But the government is not targeting civilians.”…

Voices from Syria: Reports from Inside Syria by Rev. Andrew Ashdown – Part 1

Feb 26, 2016, 21st Century Wire -Rev. Andrew Ashdown ” ‘Freedom?’ I hate the word ‘Freedom’. ‘Freedom’ to me means guns and bullets, suicide bombings and killings. I have deleted the word from my vocabulary. Don’t talk to me about ‘freedom’. We had peace before they brought us ‘freedom’.” I was sitting in an old…

Syria Dispatch: Most Syrians Support Assad, Reject Phony Foreign ‘Revolution’

© Eva Bartlett A newly opened fruit and vegetable stand in Homs’ Old City. Mon, 07 Mar 2016, SOTT.net -Eva Bartlett In April 2014 I first visited Syria, going to Homs and Latakia, in addition to Damascus. On each of my three subsequent trips to Syria, speaking moderate colloquial Arabic, I have been able…