Category: Syria

NOVANEWS BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria challenged the United Nations chief over the size and scope of a U.N. truce monitoring mission on Wednesday, resisting a larger presence as its army shelled targets in the city of Homs in violation of the […]

NOVANEWS   U.N.: Team heads to Syria ‘as soon as possible’ ed note–where is all the concern for human rights and wanton violence when it is the Palestinians or Lebanese on the receiving end and Israel […]

NOVANEWS by Stephen Lendman Soros is chairman of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Institute and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations.   Soros’ Open Society […]

NOVANEWS The Syrian debacle   With 83 states and intergovernmental organizations represented, the second “Friends” of Syria conference was a media success. Yet, all the glimmer and gloss cannot hide NATO’s and the GCC’s defeat […]

NOVANEWS By Ben Schreiner   As the proposed April 10 Syrian ceasefire goes up in smoke, so, too, does the hope for a Syrian-led political process to resolve the crisis.   Quite predictably, the U.S. […]

NOVANEWS By Stephen Lendman When Washington plans regime change, wars are waged if other methods fail. For over a year, Western-generated violence ravaged Syria. Assad remains firmly in control. As a result, expect war. All […]

NOVANEWS By Pepe Escobar There is a video that could be loosely translated as “Terrorist Turkish border opening fire on the Syrian side” that pretty accurately sums up what’s going on at the ultra-volatile geopolitical […]