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Devastated communities in Syria
8 August 2012
Syria: Is there an alternative to the developing civil war?
Syria's agony continues unabated. Across the country there are indiscriminate attacks by the Assad regime forces and their militias, bloody sectarian reprisals by the armed opposition, refugee floods and humanitarian disasters.
6 June 2012
Syria: Is there a way to avoid a bloody civil war?
The killing of 108 people near the Syrian town of Houla shocked and appalled people everywhere. Particularly abhorrent was the cold blooded murder of 49 children, many of them shot at close range.
15 February 2012
Syria: Anti-regime protesters facing ferocious repression
No trust in Arab League and imperialist powers: The Syrian regime has dramatically stepped up its savage military onslaught on civilians in Homs and other areas, in the worst upsurge of bloody repression since the start of the uprising last March, writes Judy Beishon.
23 November 2011
Syria: Eight months of mass protests met with bloody brutality
United working class-led movement needed for real regime change: Grenade attacks by Syrian army defectors on the ruling Baath party headquarters in Damascus and a few days earlier on an air force intelligence centre mark a new phase in the Syrian uprising
3 August 2011
Syria: State unleashes new terror
The death toll is rising from the Syrian army's brutal assault on the mass uprising in the city of Hama and other areas
29 June 2011
Syria: Regime steps up repression... but opposition continues to grow
Eyewitness reports of horrific brutality have been emerging from Syria. In and around the northern city of Jisr al-Shughour, the Syrian army has pursued a 'scorched earth' policy, evicting whole villages...
Syria - protests
27 April 2011
Syria: Assad's regime uses brutal terror to suppress opposition
The Assad regime's increasing brutal crackdown on opposition in Syria is following in the footsteps of Libya's Gaddafi and the Bahraini regime as they all attempt to stem the tide of revolution in North Africa and the Middle East, writes Robert Bechert.
21 May 2008
Lebanon: Hezbollah routs pro-US Siniora government forces
LEBANON HAS been wracked by a week of armed clashes between supporters of the Western backed Fouad Siniora government and the Hezbollah-led opposition...
12 March 2005
Lebanon: A new crisis in the Middle East?
ONCE AGAIN the Middle East is in turmoil. As ROBERT BECHERT explains, the 14 February assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri...
11 October 2003
Syria Bombing Ratchets Up Middle East Tensions
ISRAELI AIRCRAFT bombed an abandoned Palestinian militia camp deep inside Syrian territory last weekend...
19 April 2003
LAST WEEK, Bush and Blair were celebrating their 'victory' over Iraq. But within a matter of hours it became clear that piecing Iraq back together again could prove much more difficult than the war itself.
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