U.S. Senator John McCain. (Reuters / Soe Zeya Tun) Two congressional conservative warhawks have spoken up about how to handle the uprising in Syria, and their solution would involve arming the rebel forces with American…
Category: Mid-East
A Foot in the Door The conventional picture of US policy in the Middle East is of a hellbound train rushing toward war with Iran, pulling burning coaches filled with European passengers howling praise of…
US and its allies are pushing Syria into civil war by backing the armed opposition, a Chinese newspaper writes. The article asserts that Beijing must stick to opposing violence in Damascus. “If Western countries continue…
In contrast to Libya, Syria became the scene of a revolt that almost immediately went off script: the majority of Syria’s population remain the government’s loyalists, and the Syrian army never disintegrated into warring factions. According to Western estimates, the rebel forces in Syria combined with the relatively small bunch of army defectors are outnumbered by at least a factor of four by the regular army which is also much better armed. The attacks launched by guerrillas on the regions where most of the residents are traditionally hostile to B. Assad and the attempts to cause the people to rebel are at the moment being successfully suppressed, while the opposition’s street marches typically run into response rallies staged by the supporters of the legitimate authority. Importantly, Russia and China strongly hold their own in the UN and block whatever Security Council resolutions that might be read as authorizing an intervention against Syria. As a result, the key objective behind the revolt in the country — to unleash a full-blown civil war in Syria — at the moment stays out of reach for those who orchestrated the unrest.
[anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/news/un-assembly-vote-syrian-resolution-521/i94d716f80cac1e4cb0772f4bfd108a67_portnaya-live-0200.flv] The UN General Assembly has called on Syrian President Assad to step down. The resolution passed Thursday is worded similarly to a document vetoed in the UN Security Council by Russia and China. The…
The Syrian crisis continues even though the attempt to have a Libyan-style solution through the Security Council failed with Russia and China vetoing this move. The US, other western powers along with the Arab monarchies…
An analysis by Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, which the U.S. Army has not approved for public release but has leaked to Rolling Stone magazine, provides the most authoritative refutation thus far of the official military…
Harretz: Mossad chief’s secret U.S. visit meant to gauge American response to Israeli attack on Iran
The Daily Beast report follows disclosure of Tamir Pardo’s clandestine meetings in Washington last month during Senate panel hearing. ******************* Mossad chief Tamir Pardo’s secret visit to Washington earlier this month was meant…
Last week, the Tehran Times noted that the Iranian oil bourse will start trading oil in currencies other than the dollar from March 20. This long-planned move is part of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s vision of…
TEHRAN (FNA)- Armed resistance is the best option for defending the Palestinian territories against Zionist attacks and aggressions, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya underlined. ************* “Gun is our only response to Zionist regime. In time,…