This piece first appeared in The Epoch Times Canada on December 9, 2024. Assad is gone from Syria. Hip hip hooray. Actually, let’s wait a minute before celebrating. Any time a dictator who has abused his nation’s citizens—jailing them, torturing them, and even using chemical weapons against them—is forced to flee has to be a […]
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Episode 247 – Is it time to yet to celebrate a new beginning in Syria? Any time a brutal dictator is ousted is a good day for the world as there are far too many still in power in the world. The Assads, father and son, were particularly inhumane, using, among other tools, chemical weapons […]
On May 4, 2016 Jabhat Al-Nusra attacked a village of in Syria, killing 15 civilians, including 4 children.
On April 10, 2016 ISIS terrorists claimed the shooting of a Syrian TV presenter in Gaziantep, Turkey, near the border with Syria.
On September 27, 2008 a car bomb on the outskirts of Syria’s capital Damascus killed at least 17 people.
On June 9, 2016 Jabhat Al Nusra terrorists shelled the Syrian city of Aleppo with explosives placed in gas balloons killing 5 and wounding 50
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On this day in 2016, the terrorist group ISIS beheaded four football players in Raqqa, Syria after having declared that sport are ‘un-Islamic’.
We talk about Islamic State (ISIS) for a simple reason: it is a lethal terrorist group. IRAQ/SYRIA – If you have been following this series for a while you will have seen that I am trying to accomplish a few things. I want to highlight a particularly large or significant act of terrorism on a […]
You gotta feel for the Kurds, history’s version of ‘always a bridesmaid, never a bride’. Oft described as the world’s largest ethnic group without a country to call their own, the Kurds have come ever so close on several occasions. They were kinda promised autonomy following the breakup of the Ottoman Empire in the post […]