Syria

IN POLITICS AND SELF INTEREST THERE ARE NO PERMANENT FRIENDS OR ENEMIES. READ HOW YESTERDAY'S TERRORISTS BECOME TODAY'S FRIENDS.  Yemeni Jihadist personally trained by Bin Laden   A militant who fought alongside Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan and is now the leader of a group affiliated with Al-Qaeda in South Yemen has struck a deal with the United States and Saudi …

  A NUN who has been superior at a Syrian monastery for the past 18 years has warned that media coverage of ongoing violence in that country has been “partial and untrue”. It is “a fake”, Mother Agnes Mariam said, which “hides atrocities committed in the name of liberty and democracy”. Superior of the Melkite Greek Catholic monastery of St …

  Al Jazeera's weekend coverage of the critical battle for Aleppo, Syria reveals a major obstacle for the United States-NATO Empire Project. Hardly anyone in Aleppo is signing up to fight with rebels. Syrian rebels get limited support in Aleppo, Al Jazeera, August 11 Reporter Anita McNaught: "[The rebels] know they have to win if the revolution is to succeed …

  Neither party is likely to back off before achieving their objectives in what appears to be a zero-sum game, but the Makkah summit will give both sides time to recalibrate their positions on the conflict By Marwan Kabalan  August 10, 2012 "Information Clearing House" —  Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz’s invitation to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to attend …

Jeddah, 12 Ramadan 01 August (IINA) – Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Secretary-General Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu welcomed the call by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah to hold an extraordinary Islamic summit in Makkah on Aug. 14-15 to discuss the grave situation in a number of Muslim countries and chalk out ways to solve them.   “The tragic …