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by Susan Dirgham and Rick Sterling It’s a David vs Goliath story. A former local newspaper reporter, Robert Stuart, is taking on the British Broadcasting Corporation. Stuart believes that a sensational video story about an alleged atrocity in Syria “was largely, if not entirely, staged.”  The BBC would like it …

The following article by Finian Cunningham was originally published at Sputnik: The campaign is on for Syrian national forces to retake the last-remaining redoubt of militants in northwest Idlib. That might explain why the New York Times was prompted to publish a 5,000-word article based on flimsy anti-Syrian propaganda. It …

Ambassador Bashar al-Ja’afari, May 17, to Security Council: Statement of Ambassador Bashar al-Ja’afar on May 17 to the UN Security Council’s meeting on the situation in the Middle East, specifically in Idlib: Mr. President, I would like to start by congratulating you and your friendly country, Indonesia, on your successful …

The following document is an assessment produced by the engineering sub-team of the OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) Fact-Finding Mission charged with investigating the alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria in April 2018. Previously, this engineering report was excluded from the published OPCW final report of the …

With the family of martyr,  22 year old Majed Monif Qiddeeseh , in Mhardeh. This is his mother. (Photo: Vanessa Beeley.) The following video and article were originally published by Vanessa Beeley on Facebook: A MOTHER OPENS HER HEART AFTER HER YOUNGEST SON WAS MARTYRED BY A NUSRA FRONT ROCKET …

Below is the second part of the wide-ranging interview with journalist Sharmine Narwani, conducted by Patrick Lawrence for Salon. The first part of the interview is available here, and the full text of this part is available at the Salon website: https://www.salon.com/2019/04/28/sharmine-narwani-on-the-end-of-the-syrian-war-and-the-post-imperial-middle-east/ Journalist Sharmine Narwani with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad …

Sandy, Mpho and Shaka with Palestinian Children in Mar Elias Refugee Camp, Beirut, Lebanon May 5, 2019 Tim Anderson* From 28 April to 5 May three former political prisoners under South Africa’s apartheid regime – Mpho Masemola, Sandy Lebese and Shaka Radebe – visited Lebanon and Syria to share their …

The following article is republished from SANA News: Washington, SANA- The US Department of State admitted again Washington’s  support to the “White Helmets” terrorist group which is affiliated to Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organization in Syria. The US Department of State posted a tweet saying that a number of its senior …

Sharmine Narwani comments on RT. This wide-ranging interview with Sharmine Narwani was published on April 21 at Salon, conducted by foreign affairs reporter Patrick Lawrence. The full interview is available here: https://www.salon.com/2019/04/21/reporter-sharmine-narwani-on-the-secret-history-of-americas-defeat-in-syria/ As Lawrence notes, Narwani earned her master’s in journalism at Columbia University before serving as a senior associate …

Photo credit: Xavier Granja Cedeño/Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (2013). The Hamilton Coalition To Stop The War condemns the governments of Ecuador, the UK, and USA, for their collaboration in arresting and extraditing journalist Julian Assange. This was not a secretive operation carried out under the cover of darkness. Rather, it …