This is not like marching in Newark or Chicago or some other American city. These Christians were taking their lives into their hands, knowing that jihadis could have attacked them at any time. Christians of Damascus are marching through the streets tonight in solidarity with Al-Suqalbiya, chanting: “Nothing is more beautiful than dying on the […]
Syria: Muslims throw bomb at cathedral, threaten Christians with worse to come, Syrian media whitewashes incident
The Syrian media whitewashed the incident, reporting only that there had been an explosion in one neighborhood of Hama, without mentioning the cathedral or the threats against the Christians. This is the same pattern that the establishment media follows the world over. Any news item that might reflect poorly on Islam is thoroughly whitewashed so […]
Punished for Protecting His Town From Jihadis
Will Suleiman Khalil get justice? When Ahmed al-Sharaa, the former leader of a jihad terror group, took power in Syria, President Donald Trump met with him three times, and even welcomed him to the Oval Office. In Ankara in July 2026, Trump said of al-Sharaa: “He’s done a really fantastic job as President. He’s unified the country […]
Syria: Christian leader held without charge for 19 months, ‘sends message: Christians not welcome in Syria’
Does this have anything to do with the fact that Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa has a long history as a jihadi? Will Trump, who has professed his tremendous admiration for al-Sharaa, pressure his friend to release Suleiman Khalil? Or might that harm the relationship between the U.S. and its Syrian jihadi proteges? “‘Christians Are Not […]
Syria: Sunni Muslims kidnap and murder 24-year-old Alawite
The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights classifies this as having taken place on “retaliatory and sectarian grounds.” This man was apparently murdered for having the wrong beliefs. “Kill them wherever you find them…” (Qur’an 2:191, 4:89, 4:91, cf. 9:5). “Sectarian violence | Unidentified gunmen kidnap and kill young man in western Homs,” SOHR, September 5, […]
More Nonsense From Erdogan
U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack has a number of strange observations about Israel’s strike on the Abu al-Duhur military base and more: “Israel ‘baited’ Turkey with Abu al-Duhur airbase ‘pre-election’ strike, US Envoy Tom Barrack says,” by Idan Kweller, Jerusalem Post, August 22, 2026: According to Barrack, US President Donald Trump recently asked Erdogan […]
Tom Barrack Has the Middle East Situation Backwards
U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack has had a lot to say about the Israeli strike on the Abu al-Duhur military base: “Israel ‘baited’ Turkey with Abu al-Duhur airbase ‘pre-election’ strike, US Envoy Tom Barrack says,” by Idan Kweller, Jerusalem Post, August 22, 2026: According to Barrack, Israel raised the concern with the United States […]
Tom Barrack Accuses Israel of ‘Baiting’ Turkey and Risking ‘World War IIl’
Arab-American Tom Barrack is our ambassador to Turkey, and special envoy to Syria as well. Barrack has fallen hard for Ahmed al-Sharaa’s charade of being a “moderate” who wants to make “peace” with Israel. Barrack also seems as impressed as his boss with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the padishah who rules Turkey and nurses his neo-Ottoman […]
Syria admits holding nuclear material, but refuses handover, saying: ‘We have the right to use it’
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa is a former al-Qaeda terrorist who has also worked closely with Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, before double crossing him. The only thing that has changed about al-Sharaa is his name (from Abu Mohammad al-Jolani) and his attire: He now wears a suit. He has fooled the naive West, including […]
U.S. slams Israeli strikes on Syrian base as ‘unnecessary escalation,’ but which side is really escalating?
We are deeply concerned that the confirmed Israeli airstrikes on Abu al-Duhur Airbase constitute an unnecessary escalation that does not advance regional stability. The Al-Sharra government has neither adopted a predatory posture nor maintained proxy forces. It has, in fact,… — Ambassador Tom Barrack (@USAMBTurkiye) August 18, 2026 This comes along with the news of […]