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Samir Kuntar Narrowly Escapes Lynching by Armed Salafis in Tunisia

The Salafis justified their attack by recalling Kuntar’s allegiance to Shi’ism (he is a Druze convert) and his support for the Syrian government.

(BEIRUT, Lebanon) - The resistance hero, Samir Kuntar, who was imprisoned in Israel for 30 years on false charges, narrowly escaped being lynched by a group of 500 Salafi thugs.

They were armed with swords, batons, knives and other weapons, on his recent visit to Tunisia.

Damascus: A Deserted City, a Deserting UN, and a Storm About to Break

The great gloomy eyes of the UN donkey will close sleepily on Wednesday; it's the failure of another mission...

(DAMASCUS) - Last week a UN security guard was kidnapped, tortured and murdered near his home.

The man on the state television, a self-confessed Salafist – nom de guerre "Abu Dolha", – admitted right there in front of the cameras, that he "regretted" killing 200 people with his own hands.

Stop the War in Syria - No Intervention

Foreign intervention from all sides is contributing to the escalation of violence, the possibility of civil war, and total destabilization.

(DAMASCUS) - The ominous signs of impending war with Syria are escalating. A nightmare is unfolding across the country and has now reached the streets of Damascus and Aleppo.

As we are writing these lines, the Minister of Defence Dawoud Raha and Assad’s brother in-law Assef Shawkat have just been assassinated, supposedly by terrorist attack.

Syrian Atrocity: Bodies of Postal Workers Thrown from Roof

SHOCKING VIDEO: VIEW WITH DISCRETION

(DAMASCUS) - A horrific amateur video appeared on YouTube, apparently showing an atrocity against public service workers in Syria.

The footage displays a crowd of people callously throwing the bodies of slain postal workers from a post office rooftop.

Orwellian Ramifications Begin to Unfold in Syria

Turkey is making a tactical mistake by supporting terrorism in Syria and supplying them with weapons, military training and human resources.

(TEHRAN) - There is horrible speculation that the insurgents in Syria may have seized hold of chemical weapons.

Apart from the catastrophically unthinkable havoc the rebels can wreak in Syria and in the region with the WMDs, the rhetorical question which remains is how these weapons of mass destruction have fallen into the hands of the insurgents who are chiefly composed of Wahhabi al-Qaeda mercenaries...

Sanctions: Diplomacy`s Weapon of Mass Murder

America, a morally bankrupt nation and the self-appointed global morality police, obeying the wishes of the pro-Israel lobby groups, has for years now pointed its deadly weapon of mass murder at Iran -- sanctions disguised as diplomacy.

(WASHINGTON DC) - In 1945, the United States of America dropped two atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagaski immediately killing 120,000 civilians.

The final death toll of the horrendous bombings has been conservatively estimated at well over 200,000 men, women, and children.

US and its Allies Setting Stage for Syria Invasion

The UK has already been giving out financial and military help to the insurgents in Syria.

(TEHRAN) - The sudden resignation of UN peace envoy Kofi Annan from the peace efforts circle in Syria which evidently materialized under duress from the US government has caused extreme joy in Washington.

Officials see this as a sign that the international community is prone to accept that Syrian President Bashar Assad had to go and that the peace efforts would eventually reach a cul-de-sac.

Annan Quits as Special UN-Arab League Envoy to Syria

Kofi Annan has decided to quit his mission as the special UN-Arab League envoy to Syria, citing lack of support and increasing militarization of the unrest.

(TEHRAN Press TV) - "I did not receive all the support that the cause deserved,” Annan said at a press conference in Geneva on Thursday.

Free Syrian Army Threatens Christians Who Were Protected Under Assad

Pray for the persecuted Syrian Churches and Christians.

(FAISALABAD, Pakistan) - The streets are most dangerous that is, unless it’s a Friday, when a few Syrian Christians dare to step outside of their homes amidst the persecution of Syria’s Christians by the Islamic rebels of the ‘Free Syrian Army.

The Christians in Syria (10% of its population) could be facing a bloodbath. The signs are there right now, and only Russian and Chinese resistance to ‘the West’ is keeping the Syrian church from complete extermination.

The Role of CIA-pampered Saudi Spymaster in Syria

Saudi Arabia has long been working on a plan to overthrow the regime in Syria and sabotage the Islamic Republic through Bandar bin Sultan who served as the Saudi ambassador to the US from 1983 to 2005.

(TEHRAN) - Prince Bandar bin Sultan was appointed as the Director General of Saudi Arabia’s main intelligence agency on July 19.