Car bombing rock Iraq leaving dozens dead as death toll rising to highest levels since 2008
Ten car bombs exploded in Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad Sunday morning, all exploding within 40 minutes of one another. The death toll estimates are scattered but appear over 50 dead. Forty-one civilians were More...
Saudi Arabia calls for US to attack Syria
Saudi Arabia’s intelligence chief told European diplomats this weekend that he plans to scale back cooperating with the US to arm and train Syrian rebels in protest against Washington’s policy in the region, More...
Syria: Car bombing near Damascus kills at least 20 injuring dozens
A car bomb killed at least 20 people and wounded dozens more on Friday when it exploded in Rankus, a town 20 miles north of the Syrian capital Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. April 10, 2012 More...
US and Russia move ahead with agreement to remove, destroy Syria’s chemical weapons
The United States and Russia reached an agreement which calls for Syria’s arsenal of chemical weapons to be removed or destroyed by the middle of 2014 and indefinitely stalled the prospect of American airstrikes. photo More...
President Obama urges US attack on Syria but says ‘some of Assad’s opponents are extremists’
President Obama is speaking out to garner support for military intervention in Syria, against the Bashar al-Assad, targeting the regime for alleged use of chemical weapons. President Barack Obama delivers an address More...
Bashar al Assad denies use of chemical weapons on his citizens, asks where the evidence is
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad rejected claims that he was behind a purported chemical weapons attack in a Damascus suburb in August, in an interview with U.S. based CBS News on Sunday. “There has been no evidence More...
Russia PM Vladimir Putin says US intervention in Syria is ‘act of aggression’ adds John Kerry is lying
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday the US Congress had no right to approve the use of force against Syria without a decision from the UN Security Council, and that doing so would be an “act More...
US Naval forces move towards Syria as reports of chemical weapons use continue, most Americans oppose intervention
The US navy continues to move naval warships in the towards Syria in the Mediterranean gearing up for a possible military strike, with Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel saying today, “President Obama has More...
Dispatch Radio: August 3, 2013 – Naghmeh Abedini details Pastor Saeed imprisonment in Iran, Daniel McAdams discusses Iran, Syria, Egypt, Benghazi and foreign policy
AUGUST 3 GUESTS Naghmeh Abedini, wife of Christian pastor Saeed Abedini who is jailed in Iran, now for over one year (more details here) Follow Naghmeh will realtime updates on her Facebook page, click here Pastor More...
Dispatch Radio: July 13, 2013 – Constance ‘Happy’ Dickey talks lyme disease, abortion in news, ‘Red 2’ film review
JULY 13 GUESTS Constance “Happy” Dickey, RN, President of MaineLyme.org, to discuss the new Maine Lyme disease law. More on the vote, read the story here NEWS ON LYME DISEASE – CLICK HERE Mike Smith, More...
Dispatch Radio: July 6, 2013 – Guests Dr Vincent Racaneillo on coronavirus, Mike Smith from MediaMikes.com
JULY 6 GUESTS Vincent Racaniello Ph.D., Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Columbia University to discuss Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) Dr. Racaniello’s Virology Blog – More...
Russian PM Vladimir Putin calls out US aid to Syrian rebels asking why America sides with cannibals
“Don’t arm people that eat people” began The Jewish Voice article covering the recent statements by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. “I think you will not deny that one does not really More...
White House condemns Syria’s alleged sarin gas use, Putin calls it ‘unconvincing’ and John McCain calls for ‘more decisive actions’
In a statement from the Obama White House yesterday, the administration condemned the alleged Syrian action of chemical weapons use on the opposition saying “that the Assad regime has used chemical weapons, including More...
Russia sending air defense system to Syria to assist Assad regime
Russia will not cancel plans to deliver an air-defense system to Syria despite Western opposition in order to help deter foreign intervention in the two-year-old conflict, according to the country’s deputy More...
John McCain visits Syria, meets with rebels as Hezbollah terrorists assist Assad regime
Republican Sen. John McCain has quietly slipped into Syria for a meeting with Syrian rebels. Rachael Dean, a spokeswoman for the politician, confirmed that the Arizona Republican made the visit. That said, she has More...
Two new Syrian rebel videos show execution of 11 prisoners, leader Abu Sakkar butchers prisoners, eat his heart
As a new video is published Thursday showing fighters of the Al Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra Front in Syria executing 11 men they say are Bashar Assad’s soldiers, a video from the weekend showing one of their leaders More...
Two missiles fired from Syria at Russian passenger plane
Two missiles were reportedly fired at a Russian plane with at least 159 passengers on board flying over Syrian territory. Russian officials admit the jet faced danger, but are not talking of a targeted attack. Reported More...
Syrian rebels capture pro-Assad cleric, Sheikh Hassan Seifeddin, behead man and parade body
Syrian rebel forces killed a pro-regime Sunni cleric in the city of Aleppo, beheaded the man, and then dragged his body through the streets, a watchdog group said on Saturday. Michael Thompson from One Love, Earth More...
UN reports Syrian refugees now tops 1 million, violence displaced 2 million more
The number of Syrians who have fled their homeland during the almost two years of violence has officially exceeded 1 million, the United Nations said Wednesday. The milestone had long been anticipated as the influx More...
Syrian violence spreads to Iraq as 40 soldiers murdered during attack on Iraqi military transport
More than 40 Syrian soldiers who had sought temporary safety in Iraq from rebel fighters along the border were killed on Monday in an attack by unidentified gunmen as the Iraqi military was transporting the soldiers More...
