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The likelihood of military strikes around Syria has put its neighbors on high alert, and as RT’s Paula Slier reports, some worry it could be the catalyst for a large-scale regional war.

Daily Mail August 31, 2013 Team of chemical weapons experts left war-torn country for Lebanon U.S has ‘high confidence’ that Assad launched chemical weapons attack Britain left sidelined after David Cameron’s humiliating Commons defeat Sources say White House ‘now know the Brits cannot be counted…

And so, at the behest of Israel, the U.S. is poised to effect yet another round of regime change, this time in Syria. Thomas Goodrich Wild West Blog August 31, 2013 Assad in Syria, Morsi in Egypt, Khadafy in Libya, Saddam in Iraq . .…

Daily Mail August 31, 2013 This is the face Putin makes when Obama and his Jew masters fake an atrocity to start yet another massive insane invasion. This is the other face he makes when that happens. Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that it…

Mac Slavo SHTF Plan August 31, 2013 Sigh. As Jerome Corsi warned earlier today, “this is one of the most serious moments that we’ve ever faced in world history.” Events are happening quickly and as it stands, the United States, Britain and other western allies…

Assad’s popularity, Arab League observers, US military involvement: all distorted in the west’s propaganda war Jonathan Steele The Guardian August 31, 2013 Suppose a respectable opinion poll found that most Syrians are in favour of Bashar al-Assad remaining as president, would that not be major…

Intifada August 31, 2013 Large number of Greek Orthodox Palestinian Christians held a sit-in at the courtyard of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher to express sympathy with Syria which is exposed to threats and pressures targeting its stance and national role. In a speech…

AFP August 30, 2013 They fled the conflict raging in their native Syria, crossing Turkey and finally slipping into Bulgaria in hopes of making a new life in the European Union. But these refugees now find themselves behind bars in a Bulgarian detention centre, shoved…

Michelle Chabin Huffington Post August 30, 2013 Fearful that Syria might retaliate against Israel if the U.S. launches a military strike, Orthodox Jews and others are demanding the Israeli government distribute gas masks that will fit over their beards. In recent days, as Orthodox Jews…

Srdja Trifkovic Chronicles Magazine August 27, 2013 Whenever there is a widely publicized atrocity in a country gripped by civil war, followed by an orgy of the pornography of compassion , it is sensible to ask cui bono and to examine all evidence in minute…

AFP August 29, 2013 Russia will “over the next few days” be sending an anti-submarine ship and a missile cruiser to the Mediterranean as the West prepares for possible strikes against Syria, the Interfax news agency said on Thursday. “The well-known situation shaping up in…

AP August 29, 2013 The intelligence linking Syrian President Bashar Assad or his inner circle to an alleged chemical weapons attack that killed at least 100 people is no “slam dunk,” with questions remaining about who actually controls some of Syria’s chemical weapons stores and…

The fruits of the Arab Spring. Today Secretary of State John Kerry claimed that the use of chemical weapons in Syria is “undeniable”: The civil war in Syria is reported to have already claimed 100,000 lives over the past two years, and yet our leaders…

AFP August 25. 2013 Russia on Sunday welcomed Damascus’ offer to allow a mission by UN inspectors probing alleged chemical weapons use and warned the West that an Iraq scenario in Syria would be a “tragic mistake”. “We strongly urge those who, by attempting to…

Israel does not expect a U.S. military strike against Assad’s regime to impact it directly; according to intelligence assessments, Assad seeks to avoid a direct military confrontation with Israel. Amos Harel Haaretz August 25, 2013 The likelihood is increasing of an American strike on Syria…

Wall Street Journal August 25, 2013 “Yes, we maybe destroyed your entire country and killed more than a hundred thousand people, but we only did that because five days ago you gassed six million.” -Barack Obama Syria said Sunday it would allow United Nations inspectors…

Bradley Klapper and Robert Burns AP August 24, 2013 U.S. naval forces are moving closer to Syria as President Barack Obama considers military options for responding to the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Assad government. The president emphasized that a quick intervention in…

France 24 July 25, 2013 More than 100,000 people have now been killed in the Syrian civil war, UN leader Ban Ki-moon said Thursday as he appealed for new efforts to convene a peace conference. On the ground, violence raged in the flashpoint city of…

PressTV July 27, 2013 Smoke rises from burned factories damaged in fighting between foreign-sponsored militants and government forces in Khan al-Assal, Syria. Foreign-sponsored militants in Syria have executed 51 civilians in Khan al-Assal, a strategic town close to the northern city of Aleppo. Reports said…