Security forces and firefighters take position as supporters of the Syrian regime demonstrate in Homs (AFP Photo / Gianluigi Guercia) Thirteen French officers have been captured by the Syrian Army, according to Lebanon’s Daily Star…
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For decades the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has eluded well-intentioned peacemakers. Diplomats have talked, shaken hands, snapped photos — and returned home from summits with strikingly little to show for their efforts. Meanwhile,…
“You can’t kill and talk at the same time.” – William Luers, former U.S. Ambassador & senior State Dept. official In 2006, after Palestinians democratically elected Hamas to the shock and chagrin of both Israel…
BEIJING, March 5 (Xinhua) — China opened its annual parliamentary session on Monday, cutting the economic growth to 7.5 percent and vowing to “make progress while maintaining stability” in 2012. This is the first time…
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has admitted that Al-Qaeda and other groups on the State Department’s terror list are on the same side as the United States in Syria and that they are aiding opposition…
Testifying before a Senate committee Tuesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated that Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad could be branded a “war criminal.” “Based on definitions of war criminal and crimes against humanity, there would…
The battle that has been raging in the southern Syrian city of Homs and that now seems to have been resolved with a ‘win’ for the government, though it would seem at a terrible cost…
“We have met the enemy and he is us.” (Walt Kelly, 1913-1973.) It was political analyst Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, in November 2006, who wrote in detail(1) of US plans for the Middle East: “The term…
Israeli President Shimon Peres reportedly plans to declare in a speech at an American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference that Tel Aviv does not seek to “rush into war” with Iran. **************************** The Israeli…
Brazilian Foreign Affairs Minister Reprimands Ban Ki-moon Last week, Brazil’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Antonio Patriota, reminded Ban Ki-moon regarding his role as UN Secretary General. it referred to the issue of criminal actions in derogation…