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Syria’s main opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC) leader Nasr al-Hariri, center, arrives for a meeting of Intra Syria peace talks at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, on Thursday, March 2, 2017. (Philippe Desmazes/Keystone via AP, Pool)
After two relatively productive rounds of peace talks in Astana had many upbeat about the possibility of finally negotiating a settlement to the Syrian Civil War, the third round of talks began today and appear to be dead in the water, with no rebels in attendance.

“He may be a son-of-a-bitch, but he’s our son-of-a-bitch” – this is what U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt is rumoured to have once said about Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza. We examine how the western media, always so full of editorials and columns praising western values (whatever those may be), have covered the Syrian opposition during the Syrian war, focusing on three groups in particular.

Archive image of Homs suicide bombings in 2014
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A well-equipped Syrian rebel using a US-made BGM-71 TOW on the Syrian Arab Army. (Photo YouTube Screenshot)

(MEE) The US-led coalition is killing more civilians than Russia in its campaign in Syria for the first time since Moscw entered the country’s civil war in 2015, according to data from a war monitor.

Smoke rises in green government buses, in Idlib province, Syria, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2016. Militants have burned at least five buses assigned to evacuate wounded and sick people from two villages in northern Syria. (SANA via AP)

Overlooking the terrorist-occupied Bustan al-Qasr district of eastern Aleppo. Nov. 4, 2016. (Photo: Eva Bartlett)ALEPPO, Syria — (OPINION) In early November, Fares Shehabi, a member of the Syrian parliament from Aleppo, organized a trip to Aleppo for 13 Western journalists, including myself, with security provided by forces in the Syrian Arab Army.

Seven is a winning throw of the dice. But in our civil society, seven now signifies the multi-thong scourge, the whip used by the Western world as its instrument of punishment and, in response; seven signifies Nemesis and her sisters, the inescapable agents of the West’s downfall.
The seven scourges of the Western world are used against the people of Asia, Africa, Latin and North America. These whips are constructed, wielded and unleashed especially by the US and the UK.

Russian DM: US should think of consequences before attacking Syrian Army.

Familiar scene of US coalition terrorist devastation in Sheikh Maqsoud, North Aleppo. (Photo: Vanessa Beeley)
Vanessa Beeley
Mint Press