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Jon Stewart: Republicans think ‘freedom magic’ is key to U.S. adventure in Syria
On his show Tuesday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart slammed Republicans for offering a convoluted plan to intervene in the two-year-old Syrian civil war. Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) has insisted the United States needs to intervene because the country had never sat back and allowed innocent civilians to…
Syria says chemical weapons claims ‘barefaced lie’
US and British accusations that the regime in Damascus may have used chemical weapons are a “barefaced lie,” Syria’s information minister told Russian television Saturday. “First of all, I want to confirm that statements by the US Secretary of State and British government are inconsistent with reality and a barefaced…
White House: ‘All options on the table’ in Syria
A senior US administration official said Thursday that “all options are on the table” if it is confirmed that Syria has used chemical weapons against opposition forces. The White House said earlier in the day that Syria had likely used chemical weapons against rebel fighters on a “small scale,” but…
Syrian rebels’ pledge of allegiance to al Qaeda complicates Western intervention strategies
The West is floundering over how to respond to Syria’s worsening civil war, especially after a leading Islamist rebel group pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda, opposition officials and experts say. The move by the Al-Nusra Front this week has complicated efforts by US and European officials to come up with unified…
Syria activists reject Qaeda call for Islamic state
Syrian activists on Thursday dismissed as “blatant interference” a weekend call by Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri for an Islamic state to be established in the strife-torn country. “The Local Coordination Committees in Syria completely reject the statement by … Zawahiri in which he called for the establishment of an Islamic…
Reports indicate CIA helping Syria rebels obtain arms and intelligence
The US Central Intelligence Agency has been feeding information to select rebel fighters in Syria to try to make them more effective against government troops, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. Citing unnamed current and former US officials, the newspaper said the new CIA effort reflected a change in the…
Obama ends four-day Middle East tour with visit to Jordan’s ‘spectacular’ Petra ruins
US President Barack Obama strolled among the ancient Jordanian ruins at Petra on Saturday, on the final leg of a four-day Middle East tour dominated by his embrace of Israel. Obama flew by helicopter to view the rose-coloured stone ruins of the ancient Nabataean city, after winds from a sandstorm…
CIA may target Syrian extremists with drones: LA Times
The US Central Intelligence Agency is collecting information on Islamic radicals in Syria for possible lethal drone strikes against them at a later stage, The Los Angeles Times reported late Friday. Citing unnamed current and former US officials, the newspaper said President Barack Obama had not authorized any drone missile…
John Kerry hints at more aid for Syria rebels
More Western assistance for Syria’s rebels is in the works, according to Secretary of State John Kerry and the leaders he is meeting with at the outset of his nine-country trip through Europe and the Middle East. The crucial question for Syria’s opposition forces is whether that stepped-up aid… …
Turkey ‘will not remain silent on the brutal dictator in Syria’
Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan Sunday vowed his country will not remain silent over Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s “crimes”, as Washington condemned a missile strike on Aleppo that left 58 dead. “Every day a large number of innocent children and women fall dead in Syria,” Erdogan, a key backer of…
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