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April 2013

Brahimi Considers Resignation as Arab League Envoy

Observers speculate that the Arab League’s decision to grant the opposition National Coalition Syria’s seat at the Doha summit led to Brahimi’s position being undermined. The envoy himself has said that he would prefer to resign from his position with the Arab League and maintain his role with the UN.

Statement Regarding the Latest Decree by the Assad Regime

Nothing positive can be achieved with Bashar al-Assad’s decree regarding “amnesty” issued on April 16, 2013, as Assad’s words do not reflect the critical situation on the ground in Syria.

Al-Jaafari: Syria Serious in Cooperating with UN to Uncover Reality

Syria’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari, stressed that Syria supports all efforts exerted to put an end to all forms of sexual violence in case of armed conflicts and punishing the perpetrators, adding that Syria wishes to cooperate with the UN to uncover the reality of the situation in Syria far from politicization.

Statement on the Syrian-Lebanese Tension

he Syrian Coalition calls on the Lebanese government to exert control over its borders and put an immediate stop to Hezballah’s military operations on Syrian territory.

PM Reiterates Call on All Syrians to Take Part in National Dialogue

Prime Minister, Dr. Wael al-Halqi, expressed happiness for this meeting with those people who underwent the experience of taking up arms and who suffered its repercussions to become convinced that amity and tolerance are the only hope for the Syrian people.

Obama and the Syrian Caricature

In Syria, the US is not seated behind NATO troops, but rather behind the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and the Al-Nusra Front. Washington is allowing all of these groups to lead in the hope that it will reap the last-minute benefit: seeing Assad removed from power with the least possible effort.

Al-Nusra, Al-Qaeda, and the “Fourth Wave” Challenge

This fourth wave, which has discredited claims about Arab “exceptionalism,” is supposed to unequivocally topple tyranny and the isolation from a world where the United States and Western Europe occupy center-stage.

The Syrians between the Cup of Tyranny and the Poisons of Terrorism

Between a dictatorship and a less dictatorial tyranny that will last for a while, neither the Arabs’ situation during their spring nor the Iraqis’ situation a decade after Saddam’s fall is revealing that the hefty price that was paid is enough to launch a transitional phase, setting the foundations for the recognition of the rights of the other oppositionist as the only way to ensure stability and end the killing.

Government serious in inviting all political forces to national dialogue, PM

Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi affirmed that the government is serious in inviting all political, social powers, including the opposition abroad, coordination bodies and the armed groups which throw weapons, to take part in the political dialogue to come out of the current crisis in Syria.

FSA issues

FSA: the interim government did not take in consideration the opinion of the national, democratic, revolutionary, and military forces which are sidelined out of the National Coalition

Allahu Akbar!

Allahu Akbar has within the past two years in Syria taken a different –unfortunately contradictory- meaning. For it has been abused and the name of Allah taken in vain time and time again.

US-NATO Orchestrated War

Flanders warned against a catastrophic repetition of the Iraqi non-existed MDW’s, asserting that the same scenario, the same playbook seems to be used now in Syria with similar charges, pointing out that who has the weapons of mass destruction in the world today is but the Pentagon.

The Free Syria Army distances itself from an-Nusra

“We don’t support the ideology of Al-Nusra,” Louay Muqdad, FSA spokesman, told AFP news agency, stressing: “There has never been and there will never be a decision at the command level to coordinate with Al-Nusra.”