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Syria: The Battle For Homs: No relief in sight for Syrian city where neither...
By Patrick Cockburn February 05, 2014 “Information Clearing House – “The Independent” – The intensity of the fighting in the battered city of Homs, which began unexpectedly on Monday evening, was...
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Destruction of the Idols
by PATRICK COCKBURN Counterpunch (Damascus) - Islamic fundamentalists in Syria have started to destroy archaeological treasures such as Byzantine mosaics and Greek and Roman...
View ArticleThe Nature of War has Changed, Which is Bleak News for Syria’s Minorities
By Patrick Cockburn “The Independent” – A new kind of war is developing. It is very different from the mass conflict of the First World War when governments mobilised millions of men and vast...
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Is Saudi Arabia Regretting Its Support for Terrorism?
by PATRICK COCKBURN Counterpunch It is a chilling five-minute film made by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis), showing its fighters stopping three large trucks...
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MI6, The CIA And Turkey’s Rogue Game In Syria
World View: New claims say Ankara worked with the US and Britain to smuggle Gaddafi’s guns to rebel groups By Patrick Cockburn April 13, 2014 “ICH” – “The Independent” – The US’s Secretary of...
View ArticleCapture of Mosul Ushers in the Birth of a Sunni Caliphate
The capture of Mosul by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) means a radical change in the political geography of Iraq and Syria. It is not just in Iraq that the balance of power is...
View ArticleISIS: the Birth of a Terrifying New State
In Iraq the army shows no signs of recovering from its earlier defeats and has failed to launch a single successful counter-attack; in Syria the other opposition groups, including the battle-hardened...
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Syria and Iraq: Why US policy is fraught with danger
In seeking to combat Isis, President Obama is becoming involved in two vicious civil wars and risks taking sides in complex sectarian and ethnic struggles by Patrick Cockburn (The Independent) The...
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Nothing Will Stop Isis Except A Syrian Truce
US policy has an Alice in Wonderland absurdity about it, everything being the opposite of what it appears to be. The so-called “coalition of the willing” is, in practice, very unwilling to fight ISIS,...
View ArticleFrom Syria to Paris
by PATRICK COCKBURN Couterpunch There is a feeling of inevitability about the attack in Paris. The likelihood must be that the killers were Islamic fanatics, the murder of...
View ArticleSyrian civil war: Why the endless conflict is at a decisive point
Talks in Geneva may produce little of substance, but winners and losers are starting to emerge by Patrick Cockburn Originally appeared at The Independent The Syrian peace talks between government...
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