Hundreds of Thousands Take to the Streets in Syria
Zeina Karam, Associated Press, 12-30-2011 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/30/syria-protests-death-toll_n_1176129.html BEIRUT — In the largest protests Syria has seen in months, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets Friday in a display of defiance to…
Syria Receives Unprecedented Blow
By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY and MAAMOUN YOUSSEF 11/27/11 02:08 PM ET http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/27/arab-league-syria-sanctions_n_1114933.html BEIRUT — In an unprecedented move against a fellow Arab nation, the Arab League on Sunday approved economic sanctions on Syria…
Turkey Threatens to Turn Lights Out on Syria, Literally
By Ivan Watson, CNN November 15, 2011 http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/15/world/meast/syria-isolation/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 Istanbul (CNN) — Turkey threatened to cut off supplies of electricity to its neighbor Syria Tuesday, as the Damascus regime found itself under growing pressure from Arab, Turkish,…
Syrian Army Begins to Defect; Turns on Assad
Intro by Steve Beckow I’m watching a BBC News program on the resistance in Deraa, Syria. The program states that the army is beginning to defect from the Assad regime. The regime itself…
