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Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad is seen during the filming of an interview with the BBC, in Damascus February 9, 2015. Assad said third parties including Iraq were conveying information to Damascus about a U.S.-led campaign of air strikes against the Islamic State militant group in Syria. In an interview with the BBC broadcast on Tuesday […]


Opinion: Assad is no better than Saddam

Opinion: Assad is no better than Saddam

The Syrian people are being oppressed, humiliated and killed by a criminal and tyrannical regime. This is the only view that any rational, objective and just person can have of the Syrian revolution, and this is the right view. Syria is being ruled by a criminal gang...
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People holding signs reading “Je suis Charlie” (I am Charlie) and “I am against fascism” march in Toulouse on January 10, 2015 after a three-day killing spree in Paris. Hundreds of thousands of people took to streets in France to demonstrate against terrorism and in tribute to 17 victims after three days of Islamist attacks. […]


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A U.S. Marine watches a statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled in Firdaus Square in downtown Baghdad on April 9, 2003 file photo. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)


Ten Years On: The Iraq War Was Justified

Ten Years On: The Iraq War Was Justified

The debate over the 2003 international intervention in Iraq is ongoing, and many people continue to express the view that the toppling of the Ba’athist regime by the US and its allies was an example of foreign occupation. Some of those espousing this view rely...