By Tim Hayward
‘Every religious minority in Syria—there are 23 of them—is petrified at the thought of a victory for the Syrian rebels, whom the British Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary have been doing their utmost to supply with weapons and money over the last two years.’ ~ George Galloway
Billboard in Aleppo. April 2017 (Photo: Vanessa Beeley)
Bruno Guigue
21st Century Wire
US forces bombed a militia group aligned with Syrian President Assad on Syria's border with Iraq and Jordan. The US says the militia posed a threat to US-backed coalition forces. US Representative, Ted Lieu, tweeted that Trump does not have Congressional authorization to attack Syria, a country that has not attacked the US. [...]
Israel's Housing and Construction Minister Yoav Galant called for the assassination of Syrian President Assad following yesterday's US State Department claim that the Syrian regime was using a prison crematorium to hide mass killings outside Damascus. [...]
By David Krieger
Trump may have acted with insufficient evidence as to whether the chemical weapons attack was actually the responsibility of Assad and the Syrian government. Would Syrian president Assad be foolish enough to launch a chemical attack against civilians, when a military response from the US would be possible, even likely?
Boris Johnson, Britain’s well-known journalist and occasional foreign minister, has written a curious article for the Daily Telegraph, which exposes both the bankruptcy of the West’s thinking about the crisis in Syria, and the West’s lack of any truly strong cards to play in that crisis.
The article begins with the important admission that President Assad is winning the war in Syria
Dr Bouthaina Shaaban, Political and Media Advisor to Syrian President, Bashar Al Assad.
