Entries by AIFD
9/11/13 Exclusive: U.N. Report Will Point to Assad Regime in Massive Chemical Attack
Source: Foreign Policy U.N. inspectors have collected a “wealth” of evidence on the use of nerve agents that points to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons against his own people, according to a senior Western official. The inspection team, which is expected on Monday to present U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon with a highly […]
8/6/13 CNN: Analysis: Is Al Qaeda Back?
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7/16/13 UN says about 5,000 Syrians being killed every month and refugee flight worst in 20 years
Source: Fox News UNITED NATIONS – An estimated 5,000 Syrians are dying every month in the country’s civil war and refugees are fleeing at a rate not seen since the 1994 Rwanda genocide, U.N. officials said Tuesday. “In Syria today, serious human rights violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity are the rule,” said Ivan […]
[USCIRF Release] SYRIA: The Sectarian Divide
Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, President & Founder of AIFD is a member of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom. The Commission released this statement today. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SYRIA: The Sectarian Divide WASHINGTON, D.C., May 16, 2013 – The two-year armed conflict in Syria has left at least 80,000 people dead and more than 5 […]
Why Syria’s Islamists Are Gaining
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR Why Syria’s Islamists Are Gaining By J. MALCOLM GARCIA Published: February 14, 2013 ALEPPO, Syria A YOUNG fighter for the Free Syrian Army sat at a checkpoint on a couch taken from an abandoned house. He cradled his Kalashnikov and waited on the empty street for a car to inspect, or a pedestrian to pat […]