May 23, 2016, 21st Century Wire “We forgot what is to wake up to sunshine in this land now we wake up to limbs all over the streets, to cries of fear, to the smell of blood..” ~ Shababeek Souria This morning, at 9am, a series of suicide bomb attacks rocked the Syrian coastal regions…
Apr 21 2016, Crescent International -Ken Stone, Liberated Palmyra Ken Stone, executive member of the Syria Solidarity Movement (syriasolidaritymovement.org) and a longtime antiwar activist, was among the first foreigners to enter the historic city of Palmyra after its liberation from the takfiri terrorists at the end of March. Below we give his report from Palmyra.…
Apr 23, 2016, Consortium News By pouring weapons and money into the Syrian war, the West and its Gulf state allies share in the guilt for the Islamic State’s partial destruction of Palmyra’s historic ruins, which Jeff Klein visited. -Jeff Klein ISIS/Daesh is on the retreat in Syria, which is very good news for the…
April 15, 2016, Crescent Online -by Ken Stone The western mainstream media portray Syria as a brutal dictatorship. However, that description does not at all fit Ali Heidar, Minister for National Reconciliation of the Syrian government. Our Second International Tour of Peace visited Mr. Heidar at 8 pm in his private office in downtown Damascus…
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…
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.”…
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…