Supported by US-NATO: Thousands of Al Qaeda Terrorists Arrive in Syria

Supported by US-NATO: Thousands of Al Qaeda Terrorists Arrive in Syria

By Fars News Agency

Global Research, May 04, 2016

FARS News Agency 2 May 2016

Region: Middle East & North Africa

Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi informed on Tuesday that thousands of terrorists have crossed the border into his country in the last few days.

“Around 6,000 terrorists have crossed the border and entered Syrian territories in recent days,” the Arabic-language media outlets quoted al-Zoubi as saying on Tuesday.

Late in April, Syrian Prime Minister Wael Nader al-Halqi also warned that more than 5,000 fresh militants crossed the border into the Northwestern provinces of Aleppo and Idlib from Turkey, stressing that the ceasefire agreement was being violated by certain parties.

“In the end we see that Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Qatar, as well as Western countries such as Great Britain and France have no real desire to move the process of the political settlement in Syria forward,” al-Halqi said.

The Syrian prime minister stressed that it’s “just the opposite, they are aiding in the escalation of terrorist activity and arming terrorists. Over the last week, more than 5,000 troops crossed the border with Turkey into the provinces of Aleppo and Idlib.”

FARS -- Top Military Aide: Iran-Led Coalition Formed to Confront Triangle of US, Saudi Arabia, Israel

Wed Jan 13, 2016 4:9

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 Top Military Aide: Iran-Led Coalition Formed to Confront Triangle of US, Saudi Arabia, Israel

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TEHRAN (FNA)- Top Military Aide to the Iranian Supreme Leader Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi underlined that formation of an alliance by Tehran, Moscow, Beirut, Damascus and Baghdad is meant to confront the coalition of Washington, Tel Aviv and Riyadh.

"The policies of the Al Saud are influenced by the Zionist regime and this regime is seeking to push the region towards insecurity, unrest, turmoil and chaos," General Rahim Safavi said on Wednesday.

He reiterated that the coalition comprising the US, Saudi Arabia and Israel have created insecurity in the region and the alliance of Iran, Russia, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq have been set up to confront those countries.

"A coalition comprising the US, Saudi Arabia and Israel which has been formed in the region massacred the people of Syria, Iraq and Yemen and to confront this coalition, an alliance by Iran, Russia, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq was formed," General Rahim Safavi said.

He underlined that the massacre of not only the people of Syria and Iraq, but also the oppressed people of Yemen have been done by the Al Saud under the influence of Israel and one should be watchful of such policies.

Iranian leader's top military aide said that Saudi Arabia has dispatched the highest number of the ISIL terrorists to Syria and Iraq which resulted in the death and injury of thousands of people of those countries and displacement of tens of thousands.

"The Zionist regime is looking to stir tension between Iran and Saudi Arabia and this issue needs the vigilance of the country's political officials because insecurity is in the interest of the Zionists and the Americans," Rahim Safavi added.

Prof. Matthew Crosston: Yemen War is Largely Absent from the Main Media Sour

Prof. Matthew Crosston: Yemen War is Largely Absent from the Main Media Sources

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TEHRAN (FNA)- Criticism against the Saudi Arabian government has turned more vehement as the military campaign in Yemen worsens the humanitarian situation, and the death of scores of Muslim pilgrims in the Mina stampede is being widely attributed to the incapability of Riyadh officials in handling the Hajj rituals adeptly.

Many Muslim leaders and scholars have blamed the Saudi rulers for investing their political and military capital on attacking Yemen while failing to take care of the safety of pilgrims.

The Saudi military intervention in Yemen has just entered its tenth month, and the number of civilian casualties and the damages sustained by the infrastructure of the impoverished Arab country are rising rapidly.

There are many reflective aspects to the war on Yemen, including the media coverage of Yemen’s developments in the United States and Europe, the importance of international law and the underlying reasons behind the eruption of the bloody conflict in Yemen.

A professor of political science tells Fars News Agency that the problem with the media coverage of the Yemeni war is not the level of bias in news stories, commentaries and video footage being released, but the overall absence of the conflict from the media reports.

“The problem is not how biased the media is here in the West, trying to portray it in a one-sided and unfair fashion and engendering a misinformed public perception. No. The problem is how absent the conflict largely is from the main media sources,” said Prof. Matthew Crosston.

“This of course means the population simply does not have an opinion one way or another, because it simply does not know. There is no real awareness of the Yemen conflict. I fear it is in the shadow of such ignorance and indifference that the worst of human nature comes out,” he added.

Prof. Matthew Crosston is the Miller Chair for Industrial and International Security and Director of the International Security and Intelligence Studies (ISIS) program at Bellevue University in Nebraska. He has authored two well-received books, several book chapters and nearly two dozen peer-reviewed articles in venues like the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Journal of Strategic Security, International Politics, Journal of Military and Strategic Affairs, and Journal of Global Analysis. Prof. Crosston has received his Ph.D. from the Brown University. He looks at the war on Yemen from a strategic perspective. In the following interview, he shared his viewpoints with FNA about the different dimensions of the Saudi military campaign in Yemen, which started in March 2015 and has claimed more than 6,000 lives so far.

Q: The Saudi Arabian forces have been leading a military invasion of Yemen for the past ten months. They continue carrying out airstrikes on the different parts of Yemen on a daily basis. Legally speaking, the attacks have not been endorsed and authorized by the UN Security Council. Do you think Saudi Arabia is violating the international law by spearheading airstrikes on Yemeni cities, regardless of the political justification for their attacks?

A: This conflict provides a perfect case study for those of us in the school of skepticism when it comes to international law. We skeptics have raged for years that, perhaps unfortunately, international law acts more like ‘international guidelines’ rather than actual law. What this means in real terms is that power balances and dominant control over conflict narratives often determine just which conflicts will come up on the global stage for judgment by the international community.

FARS -- Bombing Hospitals and Clinics: Something Is Very Wrong in Yemen --

Mon Jan 11, 2016 11:59

Bombing Hospitals and Clinics: Something Is Very Wrong in Yemen

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TEHRAN (FNA)- The United States provided free tutorials in Afghanistan and Iraq on how to bomb hospitals and clinics, kill doctors, nurses and patients, and get away with it.

Saudi leaders didn’t ignore the advice. They have just bombed another Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Yemen, killing and wounding several medical staff and patients. It marks the third attack in as many months against a facility associated with the medical charity.

 

MSF says it cannot confirm the origin of the attack on the Shiara Hospital, which is located in the Razeh district. But the organization notes that "planes were seen flying over the facility at the time." And we all know the resistance group of Ansarullah or Yemeni forces don’t have fighter jets flying over the besieged country. We also know the main culprits here are the Saudis and the mere extras, which have been waging an aerial assault on Yemen for nearly ten months with the backing of the United States and NATO.

Madaya: Why Would Assad Starve His Own Supporters?

Mon Jan 11, 2016 2:34

Madaya: Why Would Assad Starve His Own Supporters?

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TEHRAN (FNA)- Images of malnourished children from the town of Madaya have emerged on the internet. The photos are so shocking that I refuse to share them as they are a testament to the evil that lies within humans. It is inconceivable that such suffering can be brought onto innocent children who had no choice or say in the war.

What has emerged however is the myth that ‘Assad and his army’ are besieging the town, and that he is the one bringing this suffering upon his own people. This is the very people that he claims he is fighting to protect from jihadist forces.

The Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC) ran with the line that Madaya has been ‘under siege for seven months by Syrian government forces and Hezbollah militias.’ It makes a passing mention that Ahrar ash-Sham are holed up in the town of 40,000 people, but fails to mention that Ahrar ash-Sham are a key ally to Al-Qaeda’s franchise in Syria, Jabhat Al-Nusra and shares its radical ideology.

FARS -- Analyzing Madaya’s Starvation Falsification

Mon Jan 11, 2016 6:14

Analyzing Madaya’s Starvation Falsification

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TEHRAN (FNA)- Public outcry and condemnation against the Syrian government spread like wildfire across mainstream news and social media when the horrific photos of starved children and civilians from the besieged town of Madaya emerged.

No one could understand why Assad would allow this to happen to his own people, especially since videos emerged under a month ago that displayed rallies against the occupying terrorist forces and in support of the Syrian government.

Hours after my last article, truth seekers quickly unveiled the lies shrouding around the starvation of the people.

It was also interesting to see that an official statement by the neutral Red Cross could not verify or deny the systematic starvation of Madaya’s people.

ICRC Statement about Arab and Western Media Reports on Madaya

However, for the sake of analysis, I must now retract from my previous refusal of posting photos of malnourished people so that the truth can be open.

How Zionism Helped Create Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Sun Jan 10, 2016 4:23

How Zionism Helped Create Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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TEHRAN (FNA)- The covert alliance between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Zionist entity of Israel should be no surprise to any student of British imperialism.

The problem is the study of British imperialism has very few students. Indeed, one can peruse any undergraduate or post-graduate British university prospectus and rarely find a module in a Politics degree on the British Empire let alone a dedicated degree or Masters degree. Of course if the European led imperialist carnage in the four years between 1914 – 1918 tickles your cerebral cells then it’s not too difficult to find an appropriate institution to teach this subject, but if you would like to delve into how and why the British Empire waged war on mankind for almost four hundred years you’re practically on your own in this endeavour. One must admit, that from the British establishment’s perspective, this is a formidable and remarkable achievement.