President Barack Obama came under increased pressure on Sunday regarding his discussion of a “red line” over Syria’s possible use of chemical weapons, amid accusations that his apparent promise of a trigger for further US action had been written in “disappearing ink”. Appearing on Fox News, the Republican senator John McCain suggested that to most [...]
The regime of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad is using chemical weapons, Brig.-Gen. Itai Baron, head of the Research Division at Military Intelligence, stated on Tuesday. Speaking at a conference held by the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, Baron said that Assad has access to an enormous arsenal of chemical weapons, and that [...]
Residents in the town, Jdaidet al-Fadl, and activists described a three-day campaign in which soldiers from the army and loyalist militias systematically burned houses, arrested men, took over field hospitals and killed the wounded. The state news agency SANA gave a somewhat different account: “Armed forces units inflicted heavy losses upon terrorists in the town [...]
DAMASCUS, Syria – President Bashar Assad vowed Friday to “wipe out” Muslim extremists in Syria, blaming them for a suicide bombing at a mosque that killed dozens of people, including a top cleric who supported the embattled regime in the civil war. The death toll from Thursday night’s bombing — the first suicide attack on [...]
AMMAN, Jordan — More than 200 Syrian soldiers and opposition fighters died in the eight-day battle for a police academy near the embattled northern city of Aleppo, activists said Sunday as President Bashar Assad lashed out at the West for sending aid to those trying to oust him. The Britain-based anti-regime group The Syrian Observatory [...]
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — More than 200 Syrian soldiers and opposition fighters died in the eight-day battle for a police academy near the embattled northern city of Aleppo, activists said Sunday as President Bashar Assad lashed out at the West for sending aid to those trying to oust him. The Britain-based anti-regime group The Syrian [...]
Link to video: Hague: Assad’s UK accusations are ‘delusional’ Britain’s foreign secretary, William Hague, labelled President Bashar al-Assad “delusional” on Sunday after the Syrian leader attacked the British government for its “shallow and immature rhetoric”, which he said highlighted a “tradition of bullying and hegemony”. In an interview with the Sunday Times, many of Assad’s [...]
Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad said he is ready to hold talks to end the conflict that began almost two years ago as the U.K. offered aid to rebels against his regime. “We’re ready to negotiate with anyone, including militants who surrender their arms,” Assad told the London-based Sunday Times in an interview. “We’re not going [...]
Syria’s President harshly criticised U.S. and British aid to rebels and set harsh terms for talking to his opponents in a newspaper interview published on Sunday, as fighting raged across the country. On the battlefield, rebels made significant gains in the heavily contested northeastern Syrian, capturing a police academy complex west of Aleppo and storming [...]
Link to video: Assad: UK is ‘famously unconstructive’ towards Syria The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, has accused the British government of being “naive, confused and unrealistic” in its approach to the conflict in his country and warned of dire consequences if the west armed its rebels. In an interview with the Sunday Times, Assad said [...]
Syrian president Bashar Assad has accused the British government of being “naive, confused and unrealistic” in its approach to the conflict in his country and warned of dire consequences if the west armed its rebels. In an interview with the Sunday Times, Assad said Britain was sacrificing peace talks to push for an end to [...]
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Bashar Assad vowed that Syria would retaliate against Israel for an airstrike on a weapons convoy in the Damascus area last month, which foreign news outlets attributed to the IDF. “Retaliation does not mean missile for missile or bullet for bullet. Our own way does not have to be announced,” the Syrian president said [...]
DAMASCUS, Syria – Iran and Syria condemned a U.S. plan to assist rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad on Saturday and signaled the Syrian leader intends to stay in power at least until 2014 presidential elections. The remarks came against the backdrop of a strategic victory for the regime as the military regained control [...]
BEIRUT – In a television interview with The Sunday Times newspaper shown in London late on Saturday, Syrian President Bashar Assad said he would react to Israel’s reported bombing of a research center in his country. Assad said Syria had always retaliated for Israeli actions, “But we retaliated in our own way, and only the [...]
By Nick Morrison (AFP) – 16 minutes ago LONDON — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said he is ready to negotiate with the country’s opposition but refuses to consider stepping down, in a rare interview with a UK newspaper. Assad offered to hold talks with rebels in a bid to end the crisis on the condition [...]
Syrian President Bashar Assad gestures as he speaks at the Opera House in central Damascus last month.(Photo: AP) DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Iran and Syria condemned a U.S. plan to assist rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad on Saturday and signaled the Syrian leader intends to stay in power at least until 2014 presidential [...]
The remarks were the first official statements from Iran and Syria since Secretary of State John Kerry’s announcement last week that Washington would provide, for the first time, nonlethal aid directly to Syria’s rebels, in addition to $60 million in assistance to Syria’s political opposition. Speaking at a joint news conference in Tehran, Foreign Minister [...]
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Iran and Syria condemned a U.S. plan to assist rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad on Saturday and signaled the Syrian leader intends to stay in power at least until 2014 presidential elections. The remarks came against the backdrop of a strategic victory for the regime as the military regained [...]
By ALBERT AJI and ALI AKBAR DAREINIAssociated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) – Syria and Iran said Saturday that Washington’s decision to provide aid to rebels will only prolong the fighting aimed at toppling President Bashar Assad whose troops scored a major strategic victory in the country’s heavily contested north. Syrian troops regained control of several [...]
Fulani Forum to NEF: You Do Not Represent The Good People of North Nigeri
Fulani Forum to NEF: You Do Not Represent The Good People of North Nigeria In lieu of your statement: NEF to Jonathan: You‘ve declared war on Northern Nigeria We progressive youth of North Nigeria hereby assert that the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) does not represent the good people of North Nigeria. We are disappointed in [...]
Japan, a subtle but effective partner for Africa
Japan, a subtle but effective partner for Africa Interview with JICA President, Akihiko Tanaka By Jocelyne Sambira Africa’s continued growth has sparked the interest of investors from industrialized nations, resulting in fierce competition for its resources and markets. The aggressive economic expansion efforts by China and India, among others, come to mind. Japan, however, has [...]
Malian children face education crisis
Malian children face education crisis Conflict disrupts schools By Kingsley Ighobor While the world remains focused on ending Mali’s conflict following rebel incursions into the northern part of the country early last year, there are about 400,000 Malian children facing severe disruptions in their education, warns the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF. The fund and other [...]
Livestock tracking in Africa goes high tech
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Boko Haram Are Cannibals and Drug Addicts; It Is Time To Eradicate This Scourge
Boko Haram Are Cannibals and Drug Addicts; It Is Time To Eradicate This Scourge To the President and Nigeria’s people AssalamualikumWe the MuslimsAgainstTerror.com here by offer our prayers and support for the mission to bring an end to Abubakar Shekau’s Boko Haram. We are pleased to hear of the declared states of emergency. Even though [...]
Clergy Bethrand Osinachi Ujunwa calls for unity among Christians
Clergy Bethrand Osinachi Ujunwa calls for unity among Christians By Nwaorgu Faustinus The former parish priest of St. Paul’s Catholic Parish Umuodagu Ntu in Ngor/Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State, Rev. Father Bethrand has called on Christians to be united as a body. Rev. Bethrand made the call at a send-off and reception church [...]
May 8, 2013 Boko Haram has waged a war against Nigeria In total violation of the fundamental principles of society, the Nigerian government is yet to respond to the war it’s people and military have been subjected to. The May 7th occurrence in Bama, Maiduguri is the latest in a series of full scale rebel [...]
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