NOVANEWS http://www.zcommunications.org/tormenting-the-souls-of-religious-arabs-arab-spring-degrades-into-sectarian-counterrevolution-by-nicola-nasser.html Islamist Copy of Christian Inquisition The “Arab Spring” was optimistically named after a season in nature during which life is reborn and was supposed to promise a renewal of the stagnant political, social […]
NOVANEWS Clare Short, former British MP and secretary of state for International Development has claimed on her blog that the US-lead war on Syria has nothing to do with “achieving democracy and dignity but to overthrow […]
NOVANEWS In the article titled, “Blocking action on Syria makes an attack on Iran more likely,” Ross argues that cancelling the strike would weaken the moderate position of the new Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, “who […]
NOVANEWS http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/172037#.Ujm0e381A9U In the Middle East, “you have to have sticks with the carrots,” Finance Minister tells CNN. Finance Minister Yair Lapid said on Tuesday that, when it comes to Syria and Iran, “words are not […]
NOVANEWS http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/09/iran-pflp-gaza-palestine-syria.html High-level PFLP sources at home and abroad revealed to Al-Monitor that Iran has resumed its financial and military support for the group in recent months in order to strengthen its alliance with the “Palestinian resistance […]
NOVANEWS A Reflection on PAC’s Syria Event http://thepoliticole.com/2013/09/12/679/ For PAC’s first dinner debate of the year, Time Magazine’s 2002 “Person of the Year” and former FBI agent, Coleen Rowley, addressed over two hundred St. Olaf undergrads […]
NOVANEWS Haaretz Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, says Israel has wanted to see Syrian President Bashar Assad removed from power since before the outbreak of war there – a shift from its publicly-stated position. It […]
NOVANEWS By Lauren Williams The Daily Star The Raqqa Media Center released a video of the execution. Al-Qaeda-linked gunmen with the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) executed two men they said were members of […]
NOVANEWS Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, and his French counterpart Laurent Fabius have a meeting in the Russian Foreign Ministry’s mansion (RIA Novosti / Eduard Pesov) The resolution that the UN Security Council is […]
NOVANEWS news.yahoo.com Israel wants to see Syrian President Bashar al-Assad toppled, its ambassador to the United States said on Tuesday, in a shift from its non-committal public stance on its neighbor’s civil war. Even Assad’s […]