Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — A leading human rights organization has urged Turkey to stop aiding Al Qaida-aligned rebels in Syria. The Human Rights Association said Al Qaida militias in Syria were using Turkey for recruitment and financing. In a report, the association urged the government of Prime Minister Recep Erdogan to crack down on […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Sunni rebels have sustained heavy casualties in the latest offensive by the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Opposition sources said at least 130 rebels, most of them Palestinians, were killed in Army operations that captured two suburbs south of Damascus on Oct. 11. “The Army and their agents — […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — The United States is said to have blocked weapons shipments to Western-aligned rebels in Syria. A Syrian opposition member, Farid Ghadry, said the decision by President Barack Obama was taken in late 2011 as part of White House policy to sustain the regime of President Bashar Assad. “The embargo was […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs Sept. 24, 2013, saw the final nail driven into the coffin of the U.S. and Western effort to influence, let alone control, the Syrian armed opposition. Abdul-Aziz Salamah, the political leader of Liwaa al-Tawhid in northern Syria, announced that […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Islamist militias have broken away from a Western-sponsored rebel coalition in Syria. Thirteen Islamist militias announced they would not cooperate with the Western-sponsored Syrian National Coalition. The militias said they did not recognize the authority of the new coalition, led by Ahmed Toumeh and financed by Saudi Arabia. “These forces […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System /Defense & Foreign Affairs On Friday, Sept. 13, the United States and the Russian Federation signed an agreement aimed to bring to an end the political fiasco engendered by the Barack Obama administration in the aftermath of the Aug. 21, chemical attack in Damascus. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — President Bashar Assad has defeated a U.S. effort to use Jordan as a launching pad for the overthrow of his regime. Western diplomatic sources said Assad’s military and security forces crushed a U.S. campaign to send hundreds of trained and equipped Sunni rebels from Jordan to regain a key city […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Syrian rebels have received hundreds of tons of weapons in the war against the regime of President Bashar Assad. Diplomatic sources said Sunni rebels were receiving a huge amount of weapons and munitions through Turkey. They said the arms, including anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles, stemmed from eastern Europe and Pakistan […]
Special to WorldTribune.com AMMAN — Jordan has been transformed into the main base of the Sunni revolt against Syrian President Bashar Assad. Western diplomatic sources said Jordan has been hosting thousands of foreign fighters recruited to fight the Assad regime. They said Jordan, aided by Saudi Arabia and the United States, has also helped train […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Iranian Kurdish fighters said they would be deployed in Syria to help establish an autonomous region near the Turkish border. The Party of Free Life in Kurdistan said it would send fighters to join their counterparts in northern Syria. In a statement, Free Life, known as the Iranian branch of […]