Friday August
10, 2012
Cities
& Towns Under Shelling: Harasta, Arbeen, Moadamiah, Harran Al-Awameed, Deir Al-Asafeer, Ain
Terma, Zabadani, Madaya, Eltal, Dmeir, Hameh, Yelda, Rankous, Qarrah (Damascus
Suburbs), Sit Zeinab, Al-Qadam, Midan,
Tadamon, Al-Hajar Al-Aswad, Yarmouk, Kafar Sousseh, Mazzeh, Qaboun, Barzeh,
Salhiyeh, Ruknaddine, Dafelshawk (Damascus City), Daraa City, Khirbet Al-Ghazaleh, Tafas, Bostra Al-Sham, Na’eemah,
Mseifrah, Jimreen, Hraak , Saida, Tal Shihab (Daraa), Rastan, Talbisseh, Houla, Tal Kalakh, Al-Qusayr, Al-Hosn, Al-Ghanto,
Al-Bouaydah, Old Homs (Homs Province), Hreitan, Elbab, Eizaz, Marei, Bayanoun (Aleppo
Province), Haffeh, Jabal Al-Akrad (Lattakia), Deir Ezzor City, Mouhassan, Albou Kamal (Deir
Ezzor Province), Kafar Zeiteh, Hawash,
Shahshabo, Hama City (Hama Province), Jabal Al-Zawiyeh, Ma’rrat Al-Nouman, Saraqib, Maar Shoureen,
Ariha, Kafroumah, Al-Rami, Khan Shaikhoon (Idlib).
News
Former
Lebanese minister arrested for planning attacks for Syria's Assad Michel Samaha, a former Lebanese minister, reportedly confessed to
helping plan attacks on Sunni targets in Lebanon. If true, it illustrates how
far Syria's Assad regime can reach into Lebanon.
Op-Eds
& Special Reports
How,
when and whether to end the war in Syria Spillover may force
Washington to contemplate real solutions to the Syrian conflict, rather than
indulge in frivolous sideshows. If that day comes, our choice will almost
certainly be between picking a winner and leading a multilateral intervention.
Syria’s
Rebel Judges Promise Sharia Justice With Mercy In Tal Rifaat, the
Assad regime has been replaced by a local tribunal of clerics, guided by
Islamic law and the pursuit of political reconciliation
Syria:
buried besides his fields - a farmer who fought for freedom The
cemetery where the Unity Brigade buried Omar Ismail looks out over the
wheat-fields he once worked. One of four brothers who farmed their father's
rented land, he had volunteered for the amateur army that took him to the big
city an hour away, whose lights and tourist souqs were alien to him.
I will be
on the road for weeks, but will try to keep sending updates. I will be back to regular
pace in early September for sure.
Good article here on the likelihood (or not) of intervention in Syria by western forces: http://defencereport.com/assad-must-create-srebrenica-genocide-for-west-to-help-syria/
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