NOVANEWS Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem, Sr ITV News They emerged from the shadows of a rubble-strewn street, hands raised and stripped to the waist to ensure they weren’t wearing suicide vests. But this wasn’t a […]
NOVANEWS Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem Sr President Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to Agence France Presse. Following is the full text of the interview: Mr. President, what do you expect from the Geneva conference? President […]
NOVANEWS Ajamu Baraka There is one thing that the so-called peace conference on Syria is guaranteed to achieve and that is that when the last speech is made and the delegates leave the hall, the […]
NOVANEWS Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L-R), U.N.-Arab League Envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, U.N. Acting Director Genera Michael Moeller and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry attend a plenary session […]
NOVANEWS The camp at Yarmouk – the largest centre of Palestinian refugees in Syria – is more of a small town than a refugee camp. There are no tents to be seen, but instead streets of houses […]
NOVANEWS by Dean Henderson In a March 7, 2011 article in The Independent of London titled “America’s Secret Plan to Arm Libya’s Rebels”, journalist Robert Fisk reported that the Obama Administration had asked Saudi Arabia to arm the […]
NOVANEWS A worker walks past the pumping station on the border between Iran and Turkey (Reuters) Mahdi Nazemroaya As Turkey works for harmonization with Iran and Russia, an internal struggle has developed between the PM […]
NOVANEWS HAND’S OFF SYRIA interview with Ken Stone The UN human rights office says a soaring number of executions in northern Syria could amount to war crimes. In a statement released on Thursday, UN High […]
NOVANEWS Finian Cunningham There is a good reason why Iran has been blocked from attending the Geneva II conference on Syria – because the meeting is not about finding a peaceful settlement. Rather, it is […]