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Saudi Arabia’s Prince Turki: time to step up the war in Syria
It’s startling to hear someone advocate all out warfare: no negotiations with Iran, a campaign to defeat Assad by military means, faith in a “moderate” opposition.
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It’s startling to hear someone advocate all out warfare: no negotiations with Iran, a campaign to defeat Assad by military means, faith in a “moderate” opposition.
Now 103, the last survivor of the German army’s most notorious WWI war crime remembers her father’s words: “If you don’t obey, the Germans will kill you.”
British Muslims who fight against the Assad regime in Syria risk being prosecuted as terrorists. What about Brits who volunteer to fight for Israel?
Religious leaders call on British Muslims not to go to Syria or Iraq for jihad, amid rising fears of radicalisation in the conflicts which could spread across the globe.
In a live Channel 4 News debate, a jihadi trainer says he is “looking into Isis” but his main aim is ridding Syria of Assad, while a British aid worker warns “someone’s going to lash out” in the UK.
Western public opinion has turned against military intervention, but those who deplore the use of chemical weapons have yet to come up with a viable alternative response.
British MPs may think they’re debating Syria, but their frame of reference is Iraq. Of course we should learn from past mistakes but the two situations are different, the proposed intervention is different and the aim is different.
The war in Syria is stoking region-wide tensions between Sunni and Shia Muslims, with extremists on both sides fighting for more than the downfall of the Assad regime.
You see him here, you see him there – the Syrian man with an uncanny knack of turning up whenever the cameras roll has become a figure of fun for Syrian exiles. And he’s not alone.
Former US deputy defence secretary Paul Wolfowitz says the international community should have supported the Syrian opposition months ago and time has now run out.
Are Syrians paying the price for Libyans’ freedom given that one year on, it seems unlikely that such international intervention will be contemplated again.
The visit of the UN envoy Kofi Annan to Damascus this week underscored international concern about the horror being visited on civilians, but no-one, it seems, has an easy way of resolving the deeper issues.
Lebanon, it was always said, is where Syria has its wars. So now that Syria is actually hosting what amounts to a war, people next door expect violence in Lebanon any day. However thus far, the hideous conflict next door has yet to migrate next door, and there are reasons to hope it may not.
That civil war many predict if President Bashar al-Assad is deposed…. well it may have already started.
As the Syrian government’s crackdown continues, a report says 88 protesters have died in custody since April. Human rights groups tell Channel 4 News there is evidence of “horrific cases of torture”.