First, let me thank our members at 21WIRE.TV and also our donors who have contributed to our Middle East travel fund – because of all of you, we made it to our goal. This was a great collective effort and we thank you all for helping to make that happen. Our readers and listenership are second to none, and I can’t tell you all how much I appreciate everyone of you for stepping up to support this independent media operation.
21st Century Wire Associate Editor Vanessa Beeley and I are here in Syria right now. If you listened to last week’s Sunday Wire you heard our broadcast from Aleppo and guest segments from Vanessa, along with Norwegian journalist Tommy Soltvedt and Australian activist Gail Malone, and our local guide Mohammed. This was our first show broadcast from Syria and we hope to do it again this coming weekend even better than before…
Highlights from the first hour of the broadcast:
After we landed in Beirut, we took a long taxi journey over the Lebanese border and into Syria. You can read more about this journey here. Once we made it to Damascus, the situation quickly became clear with shelling happening on the outskirts of the city center – in other words, this is an active war zone…
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21WIRE.TV Members: Read more about our time in Damascus, Aleppo, Homs – including exclusive photos and coverage of the evacuation of Al Nusra Front and other terrorists – in the latest members newsletter at 21WIRE.TV.
READ MORE SYRIA NEWS AT: 21st Century Wire Syria Files
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