SYRIA News, Aug 31, 2011

Landau: If PA goes to UN, declare all agreements null Jerusalem Post “I don't know what will be in Syria in the future,” Landau said. “The only thing I know is that if he falls there will be big short-term advantages. First, it is a heavy blow to Iran, since Assad is their most important ally.” Also, he said, Assad's ... See all stories on this topic »

Amnesty slams Syrian torture, deaths in detention Jerusalem Post ... burns, electric shocks; Syria researcher: These may point to crimes against humanity, UNresponse so far utterly inadequate. LONDON - Deaths in Syrian prisons and police detention have soared in recent months as President Bashar Assad's government ... See all stories on this topic »

U.S. Sanctions Syrian Foreign Minister and Assad Adviser Wall Street Journal The United Nations estimates that more than 2000 Syrians have been killed since the uprising began in mid-March. Bouthaina Shaaban, adviser of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, at a news conference in Damascus in a March 2011 file photograph. ... See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal

Russia suggests settlement plan for Syria The Voice of Russia Moscow voiced support of Syria's course for political and economic change. Following negotiations with Mikhail Bogdanov, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad referred to Russia's stand as balanced, unlike that of the West which only envisages pressure on... See all stories on this topic » The Voice of Russia

The real story today is in Syria Jewish Chronicle As well as the regular army and police forces, Assad has Alawite militias and Hezzbollah death squads he can unleash on a largely defensive population. Syria is story that cries out for coverage. But it is not receiving the 'play' it deserves. ... See all stories on this topic »

UN Security Council has choice of resolution dealing with Syria Monsters and Critics.com A second, separate draft was submitted by Russia, which proposed a diplomatic settlement rather than measures like financial and assets freeze sanctions against the government of President Bashir al-Assad. The US and the UN said Syrian security forces ... See all stories on this topic »

Why wait for politicians to oust foreign tyrants? Every one of us can do our bit The Guardian Such methods entailed no violence and yet might have hastened Gaddafi's downfall – and are applicable to today's Syria. The target would emphatically not be the Syrianpeople but the Assad regime, restricting the travel and freezing the bank accounts ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

Mitt Romney: 'We can't lead the world by hoping our enemies will hate us less' Los Angeles Times The administration was quick to criticize Israel but slow to confront Syria's strongman, Bashar alAssad, even though he facilitated arming Hezbollah, allowed terrorists to cross his border into Iraq to attack US troops, and turned weapons on his own ... See all stories on this topic »

France Wants To Be A Player In 'New Middle East' NPR President Nicolas Sarkozy is pressing for the UN Security Council to act against Syrian President Bashar Assad, who has brutally cracked down on his people. France will also try to extend its influence on the Middle East peace process. ... See all stories on this topic »

Analysis: Iran Pushing for Global Caliphate? Christian Broadcasting Network (blog) The lone exception is Syria, where Iran wants desperately to prop up the secular, fascist regime of its close strategic ally, Bashar al-Assad. With Ghadaffi on his way out and the rebels--a good portion of whom are linked to Al Qaeda and other jihadist ... See all stories on this topic »

Thorny road towards Palestinian statehood The Voice of Russia We have now the uprising in Syria and Bashar al-Assad and his father Hafez al-Assadwere horrible dictators and terrible to their own people, but from the Israeli point of view since 1975 Israeli border with Syria on the Golan Heights has been Israel's ... See all stories on this topic » The Voice of Russia

Eid al-Fitr 2011: How the Muslim World Celebrated International Business Times Syria: After early morning prayers, thousands of demonstrators once again rallied in the streets, and were once again attacked by President Assad's forces. At least seven people were shot dead in the Daraa province, including a 13-yera-old boy. ... See all stories on this topic » International Business Times

The Secret Deals of the Gulf War FrontPage Magazine All these regimes – Egypt, Libya, Syria – are socialist regimes and former Soviet clients. What we witness today is simply the collapse of the Soviet empire in the Middle East, part of the same process which we had seen in Europe in 1989-1991. ... See all stories on this topic » FrontPage Magazine

NGO Summit on Discrimination and Persecution, Sep. 21-22, NY Scoop.co.nz (press release) Bringing together prominent dissidents and human rights activists from countries with abysmal human rights records—including China, Syria, Sudan, Zimbabwe, North Korea and Iran—the conference will produce draft UN resolutions on governments that ... See all stories on this topic »

Russian Envoy in Syria Urges Assad to Stop Violence The Moscow Times Russia also opposes an initiative by the United States, Britain and France, to impose United Nations sanctions on Syria. The UN puts the death toll at more than 2200. Vitaly Churkin, Russia's ambassador to the UN, told reporters in New York on Aug. ... See all stories on this topic »

News Briefs The Rotunda This occurred shortly after Farzat's depicted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad "hitching a ride with outgoing Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi." It is reported that the thugs inflicted most of their attacks on the artist's hands—"a clear message that ... See all stories on this topic »

The Arab League can't keep up The National And money can make a guerrilla war last a long time. A regime like Bashar Al Assad's in Syriacannot reform itself, because doing that would spell the end of it, according to columnist Ilyas Harfoush in the pan-Arab newspaper Al Hayat. Next page. See all stories on this topic »

Press digest Times of Malta Thousands took to the streets demanding the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad after morning prayers marking the end of the Islamic month of Ramadan. USA Today reports that soldiers have begun airlifting storm-relief supplies to Vermont towns which ... See all stories on this topic »

Four killed in Eid protests in Syria: activists Reuters The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay said this month that 2200 people have been killed, with Assad's forces continuing "to employ excessive force, including heavy artillery, to quell peaceful demonstrations and regain control over the ... See all stories on this topic » Reuters

"No one shall be subjected to enforced disappearance" Reporters without borders (press release) The uprisings in Libya and Syria have led to extra-judicial arrests of many journalists. Mexico has many cases of unsolved disappearances of journalists. The inhumane prison conditions in Eritrea, a small country forgotten by the international ... See all stories on this topic »

Statement on Palestinian Refugees in Syria Al-Arabiya We, the Palestinian people, express - in the name of the movement of the Free Palestinian Refugees in Syria - our condemnation of the acts of violence and massacre committed by Assad's militias against the Palestinian refugees in several refugee camps ... See all stories on this topic »

US sanctions Syrian foreign minister, two others Khaleej Times 18 called on Assad to leave power but the Syrian leader has shown no signs of doing so. “We are bringing additional pressure to bear today directly on three senior Assad regime officials who are principal defenders of the regime's activities,” David ... See all stories on this topic »

Times Suddenly OK With Warring President: Is Obama Intervention in Syria Next? Media Research Center While military intervention in Syria is highly unlikely, administration officials say that the coordinated approach to calling for Mr. Assad's ouster and imposing financial penalties on the Syrian government show that they are already applying the ... See all stories on this topic »

Arab Spring to spur arms exports to Middle East ArabianBusiness.com Rosoboronexport on Wednesday said it would continue to supply Syria with weapons deliveries because the United Nations had failed to impose sanctions against President Bashar al-Assad's regime. “There are no sanctions and we have received no such ... See all stories on this topic » ArabianBusiness.com

3Qs: A second 'Arab Awakening' News@Northeastern Men like Gadhafi, along with Bashar al-Assad of Syria, are a legitimate focus of people's anger and sense of injustice. This is not only true for the Libyan (or theSyrian) people; it is also true for many people around the world who have also been... See all stories on this topic » News@Northeastern

Algeria, Forgotten by Arab Spring, May Rue Taking Qaddafi Family BusinessWeek At home, the ninth president of Algeria since France's 132- year colonial rule in Algeria ended in 1962 moved swiftly to quash signs of unrest with a brutality matching that of Qaddafi in Libya or President Bashar Al-Assad in Syria, according to ... See all stories on this topic »

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