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Syria: Arrest of Prominent Human Rights Defender Mr Khalil Matouk

William Gomes asks President Bashar al-Assad to release human rights attorney from custody.

(SALEM) - The Syrian government has jailed a prominent human rights lawyer, Khalil Matouk, who provides legal assistance to victims of human rights abuses in Syria.

If any single government in the world today needs to set an example with regard to human rights, it is Syria.

What Impact does Oil have on the Syrian Civil War?

The names on the maps may have changed, but very little else has ~ except for the caravans giving way to trade routes and oil pipelines.

(LONDON OilPrices.com) - There is a popular belief in the Middle East that Washington's foreign policy, particularly as it relates to this precarious region, is largely driven by America's dependency on, and insatiable appetite for Arab oil.

One can make a good argument for that.

Turkish Parliament Authorizes Cross-Border Military Operations in Syria

Turkey’s parliament has authorized cross-border military operations into Syria ‘when necessary.’ The move follows a cross-border mortar-shelling into Turkey which Damascus has apologized for.

(MOSCOW) - Parliament voted 320-129 in favor of the bill, though the government was quick to eliminate the perception they country preparing for a unilateral military assault.

“The bill is not for war… It has deterrent qualities,” Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay told reporters after the vote on Thursday.

Syria`s Propaganda War

To the embarrassment of the opposition army, the presence in Syria of jihadist groups, some claiming links to Al-Qaida, is an established fact.

(PARIS Le Monde) - Both sides in the Syrian conflict — and all the Middle Eastern powers — are manipulating events and rumours for their own purposes.

Media access to hard facts is limited where it exists at all, and anyway most media want a simple, sympathetic narrative, and want it now.

Americans Ring the Death Bell for Supporting Islamic Radicals in Benghazi

A new tragedy for 9/11...

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Here is an idea: next time leave a stable sovereign government like Libya alone. Another suggestion, don't hire people who hate you to overthrow someone you trusted for decades.

Let us remember the destabilizing attacks and whose decisions led to the deaths of thousands and thousands of innocent people, mostly at the hands of Benghazi rebels and western air raid attacks organized by the EU and UN

Syria: Manufacturing Dissent

Manufacturing Dissent includes evidence of fake reports broadcasted/published by the likes of CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera and others.

(ROME) - Manufacturing Dissent is a documentary about the psychological-warfare by the media and political establishment of the west and their allies aimed at facilitating the US, European and Israeli agenda of getting rid of the current Syrian government.

It demonstrates how the media has directly contributed to the bloodshed in Syria.

Daraya Residents Respond to `Astonishing` Fisk Report

Fisk's huge insinuation – that the Free Syria Army was behind the one of the worst atrocities of the Syrian uprising – was inevitably going to outrage the opposition.

(LONDON Independent) - The Independent’s Robert Fisk raised eyebrows, as he rather often does, with a report yesterday from Syria’s Daraya.

It's the site of a “massacre” of over 300 civilians last week, in which he enticingly alleged that local residents “told a story different from the version that has been repeated around the world.”

Inside Daraya - How a Failed Prisoner Swap Turned Into a Massacre

Exclusive: The first Western journalist to enter the town that felt Assad's fury hears witness accounts of Syria's bloodiest episode.

(DAYARA, Syria) - "The Independent" - - The massacre town of Daraya is a place of ghosts and questions.

It echoed to the roar of mortar explosions and the crackle of gunfire yesterday, its few returning citizens talking of death and assault, of foreign ‘terrorists’, its cemetery of slaughter haunted by snipers.

Damascus` Middle-Way Solution

The announcement of the resignation of Assad through a transitional process seems to be a mid-way solution.

(TEHRAN Iran Review) - In his recent visit to Moscow, Syria’s Deputy Prime Minister, Qadri Jamil, said that the government of Syria is ready to negotiate the resignation of the incumbent President, Bashar al-Assad, during the process of talks with the oppositions.

This development is in itself, a turning point in the Syrian government’s policy.

`They snipe at us then run and hide in sewers`

Independent writer was given exclusive access to the Assad Generals accused of war crimes as they seek to defeat the rebels in Aleppo

(DAMASCUS) - Mortars crashed into the middle-class streets around us and a T-72 tank baked in the heat under a road viaduct.

But Bashar al-Assad's most senior operational commander in Aleppo – a 53-year-old Major-General with 33 years in the military and two bullet wounds from last month's battles in Damascus – claims he can "clean" the whole province of Aleppo from "terrorists" in 20 days.