Assad is an enemy of Isil, but not the West’s ally

[Roudy]

Assad has killed far more of his own people than the terrorists. The terrorists appeared when Obama drew the line and nobody came to help the secular uprising after Assad stsrted massacring his own people.

Assad is a dictator that took power after his father, another brutal dictator, died. He is doing what all Arab dictators do when their power is challenged: SLAUGHTER HIS OWN PEOPLE.

Assad, hezbollah and iranian troops inside syria have killed far, far more people than ISIS. Don't forget how assad slaughtered the palestinians in Latakia, but of course, none of the far left scum complained about it then.

They hardly mention it.

 

[jon_berzerk]

next you will start crying and roll around on the floor banging you fists like a three year old?

Assad lost the 82 brigade but it was not a blow to the moral? You can't believe Assad would blame his officers for the loss instead of his own actions and orders? That charges of treason would not follow for their failure?
You can't believe that Assad is that petty or vindictive?
Rather it should be a moral victory for Assad's forces and a failure of for the opposition or nusra?
Shake you head again and see of the marble settle in to their proper place.
Find someone that reads arabic and have them read the news report to you. Then you can yell at them to lying to you.
What did you think was going to happen? Do you have even the slightest comprehension of life culture or events in Syria? You thought Assad would give them a medal and a parade through the streets and maybe a ten course dinner at his place?

Keep you tantrums to yourself.

I was never a fan of nusra, I support the syria opposition of the FSA. I don't care for the sectarian forces of fundementalist Islam or the use of the faith to justify hate and violence. I understand the place religion has in the region but those pushing for any type of islamic law or authority is not the vision I want for syria. Not the assad alwaites, not the shiite, not the sunni.
I certain don't want to see ISIS with their idea of justice, like burning three girls that left europe to travel to syria, or the beheading of scores of prisoners, or the genocide of the yazidi, or the selling of girls into slavery.
I've seen the worse of both extremes.
How did you become so besotted with assad? You don't care about the syrian people or the country, so why are you even posting your propaganda and trying to put down everyone that is not as totally in love with assad as you are?

Nothing what you say is true. You are a certified enemy of the Syrian people and you are a potential enemy of any people that causelessly gets into Uncle Sam´s gun sight. What is making you an enemy of humanity and humankind in general.

Bullshit. Anybody who supports a brutal barbaric dictator like Assad is an enemy of the Syrian people.

I should personalize each IDF shelling´s civilian victim to Netanyahu and you won´t repeat your funny argument.
It is also good that the Syrian people makes the decision in that case. The "brutal dictator" is the only hope for millions for years. When there still were civilians the terrorists threatened to throw them from the buildings when the army would attack.

IDF is at war with Hamas terrorists, Assad is at war and killing his own people

No. The terrorists in Syria are far worse than Hamas. That´s public.

far worse than Hamas

probably not

hamas is pretty bad on its own

 

[Bleipriester]

Nothing what you say is true. You are a certified enemy of the Syrian people and you are a potential enemy of any people that causelessly gets into Uncle Sam´s gun sight. What is making you an enemy of humanity and humankind in general.

Bullshit. Anybody who supports a brutal barbaric dictator like Assad is an enemy of the Syrian people.

I should personalize each IDF shelling´s civilian victim to Netanyahu and you won´t repeat your funny argument.
It is also good that the Syrian people makes the decision in that case. The "brutal dictator" is the only hope for millions for years. When there still were civilians the terrorists threatened to throw them from the buildings when the army would attack.

IDF is at war with Hamas terrorists, Assad is at war and killing his own people

No. The terrorists in Syria are far worse than Hamas. That´s public.

Assad has killed far more of his own people than the terrorists. The terrorists appeared when Obama drew the line and nobody came to help the secular uprising after Assad stsrted massacring his own people.

Assad is a dictator that took power after his father, another brutal dictator, died. He is doing what all Arab dictators do when their power is challenged: SLAUGHTER HIS OWN PEOPLE.

Hello, "Syrian" "opposition" "activist" XY.
There was no secular uprising and all demands of the few secular demonstrants are implemented.
President Assad is not slaughtering "his own" people. You can keep repeating your lies but how does that change something?

 

[Bleipriester]

Nothing what you say is true. You are a certified enemy of the Syrian people and you are a potential enemy of any people that causelessly gets into Uncle Sam´s gun sight. What is making you an enemy of humanity and humankind in general.

Bullshit. Anybody who supports a brutal barbaric dictator like Assad is an enemy of the Syrian people.

I should personalize each IDF shelling´s civilian victim to Netanyahu and you won´t repeat your funny argument.
It is also good that the Syrian people makes the decision in that case. The "brutal dictator" is the only hope for millions for years. When there still were civilians the terrorists threatened to throw them from the buildings when the army would attack.

IDF is at war with Hamas terrorists, Assad is at war and killing his own people

No. The terrorists in Syria are far worse than Hamas. That´s public.

syrian people are the public. Those are the ones assad is barrel bombing.

Assad is not wasting his energy going after ISIS. ISIS is going after the kurds and christians.....and Iraqi.
Syrians are fighting for their lives and their freedom.
Assad has arms and support for russia, iran and hezbullah to fight his own people.

Hello, "Syrian" "opposition" "activist" XY.
In 2014, three major assault waves hit Syria:
- FSA and Al-Nusra from Turkey into Latakia, North Syria.
- FSA and Al-Nusra from Israel into Golan Heights, South Syria.
- Al-Nusra and ISIS from Lebanon into Qalamoun, West Syria.

There are other major frontiers where Syria faces the brutality of the terrorists, Idlib and Aleppo for example.

If the West would forbear from supporting this terrorists, the Syrian government would have more leeway to fight ISIS
But I am sure, you know that and your point is just full of hypocrisy.

 

[Roudy]

Bullshit. Anybody who supports a brutal barbaric dictator like Assad is an enemy of the Syrian people.

I should personalize each IDF shelling´s civilian victim to Netanyahu and you won´t repeat your funny argument.
It is also good that the Syrian people makes the decision in that case. The "brutal dictator" is the only hope for millions for years. When there still were civilians the terrorists threatened to throw them from the buildings when the army would attack.

IDF is at war with Hamas terrorists, Assad is at war and killing his own people

No. The terrorists in Syria are far worse than Hamas. That´s public.

Assad has killed far more of his own people than the terrorists. The terrorists appeared when Obama drew the line and nobody came to help the secular uprising after Assad stsrted massacring his own people.

Assad is a dictator that took power after his father, another brutal dictator, died. He is doing what all Arab dictators do when their power is challenged: SLAUGHTER HIS OWN PEOPLE.

Hello, "Syrian" "opposition" "activist" XY.
There was no secular uprising and all demands of the few secular demonstrants are implemented.
President Assad is not slaughtering "his own" people. You can keep repeating your lies but how does that change something?

Of course you are delusional and an Assad propagandist. Assad is a brutal dictator who has used his own military to slaughter his own people in order to stay in power. And it is because his neighbors and the West let Assad get away with this behavior, it gave rise to ISIS.

Timeline of Syria s raging war - Al Jazeera English

Timeline of Syria's raging war
Key events in conflict that so far claimed the lives of more than 150,000 people and displaced half the population.

09 Aug 2014 06:54 GMT | Politics, Human Rights, Syria, Humanitarian crises, Bashar al-Assad

• The Syrian conflict has been growing in intensity and scope for more than three years. An estimated 150,000 people have died since the uprising began in March 2011.

More than two million people have left the country, fleeing fighting between government forces and opposition fighters.

Here are some of the key events in the conflict:

2011: Protests, crackdown and condemnation

March: Protests are held in different parts of the country, inspired by other popular uprisings across the Arab world. The military cracks down on protesters in Damascus, Banias and Deraa, cradle of the uprising where 100 people are reportedly killed on the 23rd.

April: President Bashar al-Assad vows to crush what he called "terrorists". Protests calling for the downfall of the regime spread and strengthen. The crackdown intensifies. Hundreds are killed.

Syrians in their thousands took to the streets nationwide for the to demand an end to Assad's rule [Reuters]
May: The US imposes sanctions on Assad and senior Syrian officials for human rights abuses.

June: Details emerge of a mutiny by Syrian soldiers in the northern town of Jisr al-Shughour, where 120 troops were killed, according to the government.

August: After days of ferocious assault on the city of Hama, the epicenter of anti-regime protests, hundreds are left dead by Syrian security forces backed by tanks and snipers. The US, Britain, France and Germany and the European Union demand that Assad resign, saying he is unfit to lead.

The Syrian National Council is formed, the first opposition coalition of diverse groups seeking an end to Assad's rule. The body a year later becomes part of a supposedly more encompassing Syrian National Coalition.

October: Russia and China veto a European-backed UN Security Council resolution that threatens sanctions against Syria if it doesn’t immediately halt its military crackdown against civilians.US pulls its ambassador out of Syria. The Arab League votes to suspend Syria’s membership.

November: The Arab League overwhelmingly approves sanctions against Syria to pressure Damascus to end the crackdown, an unprecedented move against an Arab state.

December: Back-to-back car bombs near Syria’s intelligence agencies in Damascus kill at least 44 in the first major attack in the heart of the capital. Syria’s state-run TV blames al-Qaeda fighters.
Syrian security forces open fire on thousands of anti-government protesters in the central city of Hama, one day ahead of a visit by Arab League observers on a mission to end the crackdown.

2012: Massacres as international diplomacy fails

January: The Arab League halts its observer mission in Syria because of escalating violence.
Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria, announces its creation. Since then it has been described as "one of the most effective rebel forces" in Syria. The group has been designated as a terrorist organisation by the UN, US, UK, Australia and Turkey.

February:Russia and China veto a resolution in the UN Security Council that backs an Arab League plan calling for Assad to step down. The diplomatic development came a day after hundreds of casualties were reported in a major assault by government forces on Homs’ Khalidiyah district.

After months of fierce military assaults and rebel ambushes in Homs, Assad troops regain control of the central city [Reuters]
Syria holds referendum on a new constitution, a gesture by Assad to placate the opposition. The West dismisses the vote as a sham.

March: Syrian troops take control of shattered Bab Amr in Homs after a government assault that raged for weeks. The main opposition group, the Syrian National Council, forms a military council to organise and unify all armed resistance.

April: Syria promises to comply with a UN-brokered ceasefire but carves out an important condition - that the regime still has a right to defend itself against terrorists that it says are behind the uprising. The agreement ultimately fails to hold.

May: A massacre in Houla village in Homs leave more than 100 killed, nearly half of them children. The UN Human Rights Council later releases a report accusing Assad’s forces and pro-government militiamen of war crimes during the bloodbath.

June: UN observers suspend patrols in Syria due to escalating violence.

July: A blast at the National Security building in Damascus kills the defence minister and his deputy, who is also Assad’s brother-in-law, and wounds the interior minister. Rebels claim responsibility.

July: Syria threatens to unleash chemical and biological weapons if the country faces a foreign attack, the country’s first acknowledgement that it possesses weapons of mass destruction.

August: Kofi Annan announces his resignation as UN-Arab League envoy to Syria after failing to broker a ceasefire.
Obama says US will reconsider its opposition to military involvement in Syria if Assad’s regime deploys or uses chemical or biological weapons, calling such action a "red line" for the US.

November: Syrian anti-government groups strike a deal to form the Syrian National Coalition, a new opposition leadership that will include representatives from the country’s disparate factions fighting to topple Assad’s regime, responding to repeated calls from their Western and Arab supporters to create a cohesive and representative leadership.

2013: Chemical attack and rebel infighting

January: A defiant Assad blames "murderous criminals" for violence in Syria, ignores international demands to step down and pledges to continue the battle "as long as there is one terrorist left" in Syria.

April:The leader of the self-declared Jihadist group the Islamic State of Iraq, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, released a recorded audio message, in which he announces that Jabhat al-Nusra was an extension of al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria. The leader of al-Nusra, Abu Mohammad al-Joulani, refuses the merger. Divisions and infighting among the ranks of the self-labelled jihadists emerge.

Syrian activists accused Assad's forces of launching a chemical attack that killed hundreds of people[Reuters]
May: The European Union ends its embargo on sending weapons to help Syrian rebels.

June: Obama authorises sending weapons to Syrian rebels after White House discloses that US has conclusive evidence Assad’s government used chemical weapons on a small scale against opposition forces.

August: The Assad regime is accused of using chemical weapons in the Damascus suburbs to kill hundreds of civilians, including many children as they slept. The government denies using chemical weapons.
Obama says he has decided the United States should take military action against Syria. But the president says he will seek congressional authorisation for the use of force.

September: A possible diplomatic solution to avoid a US military strike arose when Syria welcomed a suggestion to move all of the country’s chemical weapons under international control. UN Security Council unanimously adopts a resolution requiring the Syrian regime to dismantle its chemical weapons arsenal.

October: Officials from OPCW arrive in Damascus to monitor the dismantling of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal.

2014: Failed peace attempts and presidential election

January: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon convenes the first round of peace talks in Geneva involving the Syrian government and Syrian National Coalition.

February:A second round of the Geneva talks is held; representatives of government and opposition fail to agree on agenda; Joint Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi apologises to the Syrian people for lack of progress in the talks. He resigns in May.

June: Syria holds a presidential election in government-held areas. More than one person could stand as a presidential candidate for the first time since the Assad family came to power more four decades ago.

The establishment of a new "caliphate" was announced by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi named as caliph. The group formally changed its name to "Islamic State".

July: The UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution on Syria allowing aid convoys to go into rebel-held areas without government approval.

 

[Desperado]

What ever happened to an enemy of my enemy is my friend?

 

[Bleipriester]

I should personalize each IDF shelling´s civilian victim to Netanyahu and you won´t repeat your funny argument.
It is also good that the Syrian people makes the decision in that case. The "brutal dictator" is the only hope for millions for years. When there still were civilians the terrorists threatened to throw them from the buildings when the army would attack.

IDF is at war with Hamas terrorists, Assad is at war and killing his own people

No. The terrorists in Syria are far worse than Hamas. That´s public.

Assad has killed far more of his own people than the terrorists. The terrorists appeared when Obama drew the line and nobody came to help the secular uprising after Assad stsrted massacring his own people.

Assad is a dictator that took power after his father, another brutal dictator, died. He is doing what all Arab dictators do when their power is challenged: SLAUGHTER HIS OWN PEOPLE.

Hello, "Syrian" "opposition" "activist" XY.
There was no secular uprising and all demands of the few secular demonstrants are implemented.
President Assad is not slaughtering "his own" people. You can keep repeating your lies but how does that change something?

Of course you are delusional and an Assad propagandist. Assad is a brutal dictator who has used his own military to slaughter his own people in order to stay in power. And it is because his neighbors and the West let Assad get away with this behavior, it gave rise to ISIS.

Timeline of Syria s raging war - Al Jazeera English

Timeline of Syria's raging war
Key events in conflict that so far claimed the lives of more than 150,000 people and displaced half the population.

09 Aug 2014 06:54 GMT | Politics, Human Rights, Syria, Humanitarian crises, Bashar al-Assad

• The Syrian conflict has been growing in intensity and scope for more than three years. An estimated 150,000 people have died since the uprising began in March 2011.

More than two million people have left the country, fleeing fighting between government forces and opposition fighters.

Here are some of the key events in the conflict:

2011: Protests, crackdown and condemnation

March: Protests are held in different parts of the country, inspired by other popular uprisings across the Arab world. The military cracks down on protesters in Damascus, Banias and Deraa, cradle of the uprising where 100 people are reportedly killed on the 23rd.

April: President Bashar al-Assad vows to crush what he called "terrorists". Protests calling for the downfall of the regime spread and strengthen. The crackdown intensifies. Hundreds are killed.

Syrians in their thousands took to the streets nationwide for the to demand an end to Assad's rule [Reuters]
May: The US imposes sanctions on Assad and senior Syrian officials for human rights abuses.

June: Details emerge of a mutiny by Syrian soldiers in the northern town of Jisr al-Shughour, where 120 troops were killed, according to the government.

August: After days of ferocious assault on the city of Hama, the epicenter of anti-regime protests, hundreds are left dead by Syrian security forces backed by tanks and snipers. The US, Britain, France and Germany and the European Union demand that Assad resign, saying he is unfit to lead.

The Syrian National Council is formed, the first opposition coalition of diverse groups seeking an end to Assad's rule. The body a year later becomes part of a supposedly more encompassing Syrian National Coalition.

October: Russia and China veto a European-backed UN Security Council resolution that threatens sanctions against Syria if it doesn’t immediately halt its military crackdown against civilians.US pulls its ambassador out of Syria. The Arab League votes to suspend Syria’s membership.

November: The Arab League overwhelmingly approves sanctions against Syria to pressure Damascus to end the crackdown, an unprecedented move against an Arab state.

December: Back-to-back car bombs near Syria’s intelligence agencies in Damascus kill at least 44 in the first major attack in the heart of the capital. Syria’s state-run TV blames al-Qaeda fighters.
Syrian security forces open fire on thousands of anti-government protesters in the central city of Hama, one day ahead of a visit by Arab League observers on a mission to end the crackdown.

2012: Massacres as international diplomacy fails

January: The Arab League halts its observer mission in Syria because of escalating violence.
Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria, announces its creation. Since then it has been described as "one of the most effective rebel forces" in Syria. The group has been designated as a terrorist organisation by the UN, US, UK, Australia and Turkey.

February:Russia and China veto a resolution in the UN Security Council that backs an Arab League plan calling for Assad to step down. The diplomatic development came a day after hundreds of casualties were reported in a major assault by government forces on Homs’ Khalidiyah district.

After months of fierce military assaults and rebel ambushes in Homs, Assad troops regain control of the central city [Reuters]
Syria holds referendum on a new constitution, a gesture by Assad to placate the opposition. The West dismisses the vote as a sham.

March: Syrian troops take control of shattered Bab Amr in Homs after a government assault that raged for weeks. The main opposition group, the Syrian National Council, forms a military council to organise and unify all armed resistance.

April: Syria promises to comply with a UN-brokered ceasefire but carves out an important condition - that the regime still has a right to defend itself against terrorists that it says are behind the uprising. The agreement ultimately fails to hold.

May: A massacre in Houla village in Homs leave more than 100 killed, nearly half of them children. The UN Human Rights Council later releases a report accusing Assad’s forces and pro-government militiamen of war crimes during the bloodbath.

June: UN observers suspend patrols in Syria due to escalating violence.

July: A blast at the National Security building in Damascus kills the defence minister and his deputy, who is also Assad’s brother-in-law, and wounds the interior minister. Rebels claim responsibility.

July: Syria threatens to unleash chemical and biological weapons if the country faces a foreign attack, the country’s first acknowledgement that it possesses weapons of mass destruction.

August: Kofi Annan announces his resignation as UN-Arab League envoy to Syria after failing to broker a ceasefire.
Obama says US will reconsider its opposition to military involvement in Syria if Assad’s regime deploys or uses chemical or biological weapons, calling such action a "red line" for the US.

November: Syrian anti-government groups strike a deal to form the Syrian National Coalition, a new opposition leadership that will include representatives from the country’s disparate factions fighting to topple Assad’s regime, responding to repeated calls from their Western and Arab supporters to create a cohesive and representative leadership.

2013: Chemical attack and rebel infighting

January: A defiant Assad blames "murderous criminals" for violence in Syria, ignores international demands to step down and pledges to continue the battle "as long as there is one terrorist left" in Syria.

April:The leader of the self-declared Jihadist group the Islamic State of Iraq, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, released a recorded audio message, in which he announces that Jabhat al-Nusra was an extension of al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria. The leader of al-Nusra, Abu Mohammad al-Joulani, refuses the merger. Divisions and infighting among the ranks of the self-labelled jihadists emerge.

Syrian activists accused Assad's forces of launching a chemical attack that killed hundreds of people[Reuters]
May: The European Union ends its embargo on sending weapons to help Syrian rebels.

June: Obama authorises sending weapons to Syrian rebels after White House discloses that US has conclusive evidence Assad’s government used chemical weapons on a small scale against opposition forces.

August: The Assad regime is accused of using chemical weapons in the Damascus suburbs to kill hundreds of civilians, including many children as they slept. The government denies using chemical weapons.
Obama says he has decided the United States should take military action against Syria. But the president says he will seek congressional authorisation for the use of force.

September: A possible diplomatic solution to avoid a US military strike arose when Syria welcomed a suggestion to move all of the country’s chemical weapons under international control. UN Security Council unanimously adopts a resolution requiring the Syrian regime to dismantle its chemical weapons arsenal.

October: Officials from OPCW arrive in Damascus to monitor the dismantling of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal.

2014: Failed peace attempts and presidential election

January: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon convenes the first round of peace talks in Geneva involving the Syrian government and Syrian National Coalition.

February:A second round of the Geneva talks is held; representatives of government and opposition fail to agree on agenda; Joint Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi apologises to the Syrian people for lack of progress in the talks. He resigns in May.

June: Syria holds a presidential election in government-held areas. More than one person could stand as a presidential candidate for the first time since the Assad family came to power more four decades ago.

The establishment of a new "caliphate" was announced by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi named as caliph. The group formally changed its name to "Islamic State".

July: The UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution on Syria allowing aid convoys to go into rebel-held areas without government approval.

Your timeline is nonsense. It doesn´t mention that the "protestors" were armed and fired at both peaceful demonstrators and security personnel. It doesn´t mention the Islamist terrorist nature of the "rebels". It doesn´t mention that the terrorist use chemical weapons but only reports that the government was accused of the use of chemical weapons. Your timeline doesn´t mention the many pro-Assad demonstrations of 2011. The timeline is a propaganda production.



UN accuses Syrian rebels of chemical weapons use - Telegraph


While all the evidences needed to prove that the "rebels" are murderous terrorists are available online with minimal research, people like you keep blaming the government following their government´s sinister agenda.

 

[Roudy]

IDF is at war with Hamas terrorists, Assad is at war and killing his own people

No. The terrorists in Syria are far worse than Hamas. That´s public.

Assad has killed far more of his own people than the terrorists. The terrorists appeared when Obama drew the line and nobody came to help the secular uprising after Assad stsrted massacring his own people.

Assad is a dictator that took power after his father, another brutal dictator, died. He is doing what all Arab dictators do when their power is challenged: SLAUGHTER HIS OWN PEOPLE.

Hello, "Syrian" "opposition" "activist" XY.
There was no secular uprising and all demands of the few secular demonstrants are implemented.
President Assad is not slaughtering "his own" people. You can keep repeating your lies but how does that change something?

Of course you are delusional and an Assad propagandist. Assad is a brutal dictator who has used his own military to slaughter his own people in order to stay in power. And it is because his neighbors and the West let Assad get away with this behavior, it gave rise to ISIS.

Timeline of Syria s raging war - Al Jazeera English

Timeline of Syria's raging war
Key events in conflict that so far claimed the lives of more than 150,000 people and displaced half the population.

09 Aug 2014 06:54 GMT | Politics, Human Rights, Syria, Humanitarian crises, Bashar al-Assad

• The Syrian conflict has been growing in intensity and scope for more than three years. An estimated 150,000 people have died since the uprising began in March 2011.

More than two million people have left the country, fleeing fighting between government forces and opposition fighters.

Here are some of the key events in the conflict:

2011: Protests, crackdown and condemnation

March: Protests are held in different parts of the country, inspired by other popular uprisings across the Arab world. The military cracks down on protesters in Damascus, Banias and Deraa, cradle of the uprising where 100 people are reportedly killed on the 23rd.

April: President Bashar al-Assad vows to crush what he called "terrorists". Protests calling for the downfall of the regime spread and strengthen. The crackdown intensifies. Hundreds are killed.

Syrians in their thousands took to the streets nationwide for the to demand an end to Assad's rule [Reuters]
May: The US imposes sanctions on Assad and senior Syrian officials for human rights abuses.

June: Details emerge of a mutiny by Syrian soldiers in the northern town of Jisr al-Shughour, where 120 troops were killed, according to the government.

August: After days of ferocious assault on the city of Hama, the epicenter of anti-regime protests, hundreds are left dead by Syrian security forces backed by tanks and snipers. The US, Britain, France and Germany and the European Union demand that Assad resign, saying he is unfit to lead.

The Syrian National Council is formed, the first opposition coalition of diverse groups seeking an end to Assad's rule. The body a year later becomes part of a supposedly more encompassing Syrian National Coalition.

October: Russia and China veto a European-backed UN Security Council resolution that threatens sanctions against Syria if it doesn’t immediately halt its military crackdown against civilians.US pulls its ambassador out of Syria. The Arab League votes to suspend Syria’s membership.

November: The Arab League overwhelmingly approves sanctions against Syria to pressure Damascus to end the crackdown, an unprecedented move against an Arab state.

December: Back-to-back car bombs near Syria’s intelligence agencies in Damascus kill at least 44 in the first major attack in the heart of the capital. Syria’s state-run TV blames al-Qaeda fighters.
Syrian security forces open fire on thousands of anti-government protesters in the central city of Hama, one day ahead of a visit by Arab League observers on a mission to end the crackdown.

2012: Massacres as international diplomacy fails

January: The Arab League halts its observer mission in Syria because of escalating violence.
Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria, announces its creation. Since then it has been described as "one of the most effective rebel forces" in Syria. The group has been designated as a terrorist organisation by the UN, US, UK, Australia and Turkey.

February:Russia and China veto a resolution in the UN Security Council that backs an Arab League plan calling for Assad to step down. The diplomatic development came a day after hundreds of casualties were reported in a major assault by government forces on Homs’ Khalidiyah district.

After months of fierce military assaults and rebel ambushes in Homs, Assad troops regain control of the central city [Reuters]
Syria holds referendum on a new constitution, a gesture by Assad to placate the opposition. The West dismisses the vote as a sham.

March: Syrian troops take control of shattered Bab Amr in Homs after a government assault that raged for weeks. The main opposition group, the Syrian National Council, forms a military council to organise and unify all armed resistance.

April: Syria promises to comply with a UN-brokered ceasefire but carves out an important condition - that the regime still has a right to defend itself against terrorists that it says are behind the uprising. The agreement ultimately fails to hold.

May: A massacre in Houla village in Homs leave more than 100 killed, nearly half of them children. The UN Human Rights Council later releases a report accusing Assad’s forces and pro-government militiamen of war crimes during the bloodbath.

June: UN observers suspend patrols in Syria due to escalating violence.

July: A blast at the National Security building in Damascus kills the defence minister and his deputy, who is also Assad’s brother-in-law, and wounds the interior minister. Rebels claim responsibility.

July: Syria threatens to unleash chemical and biological weapons if the country faces a foreign attack, the country’s first acknowledgement that it possesses weapons of mass destruction.

August: Kofi Annan announces his resignation as UN-Arab League envoy to Syria after failing to broker a ceasefire.
Obama says US will reconsider its opposition to military involvement in Syria if Assad’s regime deploys or uses chemical or biological weapons, calling such action a "red line" for the US.

November: Syrian anti-government groups strike a deal to form the Syrian National Coalition, a new opposition leadership that will include representatives from the country’s disparate factions fighting to topple Assad’s regime, responding to repeated calls from their Western and Arab supporters to create a cohesive and representative leadership.

2013: Chemical attack and rebel infighting

January: A defiant Assad blames "murderous criminals" for violence in Syria, ignores international demands to step down and pledges to continue the battle "as long as there is one terrorist left" in Syria.

April:The leader of the self-declared Jihadist group the Islamic State of Iraq, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, released a recorded audio message, in which he announces that Jabhat al-Nusra was an extension of al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria. The leader of al-Nusra, Abu Mohammad al-Joulani, refuses the merger. Divisions and infighting among the ranks of the self-labelled jihadists emerge.

Syrian activists accused Assad's forces of launching a chemical attack that killed hundreds of people[Reuters]
May: The European Union ends its embargo on sending weapons to help Syrian rebels.

June: Obama authorises sending weapons to Syrian rebels after White House discloses that US has conclusive evidence Assad’s government used chemical weapons on a small scale against opposition forces.

August: The Assad regime is accused of using chemical weapons in the Damascus suburbs to kill hundreds of civilians, including many children as they slept. The government denies using chemical weapons.
Obama says he has decided the United States should take military action against Syria. But the president says he will seek congressional authorisation for the use of force.

September: A possible diplomatic solution to avoid a US military strike arose when Syria welcomed a suggestion to move all of the country’s chemical weapons under international control. UN Security Council unanimously adopts a resolution requiring the Syrian regime to dismantle its chemical weapons arsenal.

October: Officials from OPCW arrive in Damascus to monitor the dismantling of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal.

2014: Failed peace attempts and presidential election

January: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon convenes the first round of peace talks in Geneva involving the Syrian government and Syrian National Coalition.

February:A second round of the Geneva talks is held; representatives of government and opposition fail to agree on agenda; Joint Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi apologises to the Syrian people for lack of progress in the talks. He resigns in May.

June: Syria holds a presidential election in government-held areas. More than one person could stand as a presidential candidate for the first time since the Assad family came to power more four decades ago.

The establishment of a new "caliphate" was announced by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi named as caliph. The group formally changed its name to "Islamic State".

July: The UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution on Syria allowing aid convoys to go into rebel-held areas without government approval.

Your timeline is nonsense. It doesn´t mention that the "protestors" were armed and fired at both peaceful demonstrators and security personnel. It doesn´t mention the Islamist terrorist nature of the "rebels". It doesn´t mention that the terrorist use chemical weapons but only reports that the government was accused of the use of chemical weapons. The timeline is a propaganda production.

UN accuses Syrian rebels of chemical weapons use - Telegraph


While all the evidences needed to prove that the "rebels" are murderous terrorists are available online with minimal research, people like you keep blaming the government following your government´s sinister agenda.

Nah, the people of Syria were protesting against a dictator and their basic human rights, and Assad told his tanks to open fire on civilians. Just how much are they paying you for this bullshit propaganda? You're about as bad as the Hamas propagandists. That pig won't fly.

Syria Conflict Timeline: 34 Months of Civil War

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  By Ludovica IaccinoJanuary 22, 2014 09:51 GMT

Men help a wounded boy who survived what activists say was an airstrike by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the Duma neighbourhood of DamascusReuters

The Syria conflict erupted in 2011, following the wave of uprisings known as "Arab Spring" that spread throughout the Middle East overthrowing regimes that had last for decades.

Syria Peace Talks: 25 Powerful Images of the Conflict
Some 30 countries are sending their envoys to Geneva to attend the second session of the peace conference aimed at ending the conflict.

Meanwhile, photographic evidence of alleged widespread torture by the Syrian government made headlines worldwide.

After 34 months of civil war, more than 100,000 people are dead, 9.5m are left uprooted and there appears no end in sight to the fighting.

IBTimesUK looks at the main key events of the conflict.

March 2011: Protestors take to the street demanding democratic reforms and the release of some teenagers, who had been imprisoned and tortured for having drawn Arab Spring inspired anti-political graffiti.

22 April 2011: The beginning of serious violence and one of the bloodiest days of the Syrian revolution, as over 100 people are killed by security forces during the "Great Friday protest", according to rights groups.

In an attempt to suppress the movement, Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad banned foreign journalists from the country and anyone attempting to film or otherwise report on events since mid-March has been subject to arrest and torture by the security forces.

July 2011: The Free Syrian Army group is formed and aims to overthrow President Bashar Assad's regime.

August 2011: Syria is sliding into civil war. At least 1,583 civilians and 369 members of the army and security forces have been killed since mid-March.
Western powers condemn the violence.

November 2011: The Arab League suspend Syria from its meetings and impose sanctions against Damascus over its failure to end a government crackdown on protesters.

Syrian officials reject the new sanctions imposed on the country by the Arab League and accuse foreign countries of a conspiracy.

December 2011: Some 200 people are killed by Syrian security forces in the hills and villages of the north-western province of Idlib. Most of those killed were reportedly army defectors.

UN links Assad to war crimes, but Assad denies responsibility for the brutal crackdown led by Syrian troops on protesters.

The estimated death toll of the conflict is raised to 125,835 by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The government releases 755 people detained during the protests against President Assad.

January 2012: General Mustafa Ahmad al-Sheikh defects to join the Free Syrian Army.

February 2012: US shuts embassy and withdraw all diplomats as bloody violence escalates.

March 2012: The total number of registered refugees in Turkey has reached 14,000.

10 May 2012: Two powerful explosions kill dozens in Damascus. The government and anti-regime forces blame each other for the attacks.

25 May 2012: Hundreds, most of which women and children, are killed in in the Houla region near Homs, in one of the worst massacres since the beginning of the conflict.

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and special envoy Kofi Annan issue a joint statement strongly condemning the attack.

The Syrian government releases another 500 political detainees in an attempt to show a commitment to Kofi Annan's plan to end violence.

June 2012: International Committee of Red Cross warns of humanitarian crisis facing thousands who fled Houla massacre and urge help.

A massacre allegedly by the Syrian security forces and Assad loyalists in Hama kills 70.

Amnesty International accuses UN Security Council of dithering while Syrian regime acts with impunity.

July-August 2012: Manaf Tlas, a general from a Sunni family close to the Assads, flees Syria.

A massacre in Hama kills more than 220 people; PM Riyad Hijab defects to join the revolution; Human Rights Watch documents a series of bombings in Aleppo.

A man carries a wounded child who survived what activists said was an air strike by forces loyal to Syria's president Bashar Al-Assad in the Al-Maysar neighbourhood of AleppoReuters


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October 2012: Syria agrees to ceasefire. US and Russian-Made Weapons raise conflict stakes.Clashes are reported across the country after a four-day truce is agreed.

December 2012: Assad warns about rebels using chemical weapons.
At least 90 people are killed in a government strike in Hama province.

January 2013: Forces loyal to Assad storm a small village killing 37 civilians.
100 people are killed in the village of Haswiya.

Assad gives "final orders" to commanders if he is assassinated.

March 2013: Activist group records 6,005 deaths.

Syria accused by IDF Official of Using Chemical Weapons

May 2013: Opposition activists say more than 200 men, women and children were killed in what they said was a brutal sectarian attack and one of the worst massacres of the war.

UN publishes claims that rebel troops, not regime forces, deployed banned chemical.

EU ends arm embargo on Syrian opposition group

June–July 2013: Rebels attacked the village of Hatla in eastern Syria, killing at least 60 Shia Muslim residents.

Rebels captured the northern town of Khan al-Assal, allegedly killing 150 government soldiers.

August 2013: Rebels carrying out a military offensive near Latakia killed as many as 190 civilians, according to Human Rights Watch.

Activists believe that more than 500 people lost their lives in an attack on the Ghouta agricultural belt around Damascus.

Iran and Russia oppose US and Britain intervention against Damascus.

September 2013: Assad warns US strike will Spark Middle East conflict

The number of people displaced by Syria's civil war has passed two million.

Syrian refugee children sit on boxes of humanitarian aid before its distribution by volunteers of the Bulgarian Red CrossReuters

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January 2014: UN stops updating the death toll in Syria conflict, as it can no longer verify the sources of information.

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No. The terrorists in Syria are far worse than Hamas. That´s public.

Assad has killed far more of his own people than the terrorists. The terrorists appeared when Obama drew the line and nobody came to help the secular uprising after Assad stsrted massacring his own people.

Assad is a dictator that took power after his father, another brutal dictator, died. He is doing what all Arab dictators do when their power is challenged: SLAUGHTER HIS OWN PEOPLE.

Hello, "Syrian" "opposition" "activist" XY.
There was no secular uprising and all demands of the few secular demonstrants are implemented.
President Assad is not slaughtering "his own" people. You can keep repeating your lies but how does that change something?

Of course you are delusional and an Assad propagandist. Assad is a brutal dictator who has used his own military to slaughter his own people in order to stay in power. And it is because his neighbors and the West let Assad get away with this behavior, it gave rise to ISIS.

Timeline of Syria s raging war - Al Jazeera English

Timeline of Syria's raging war
Key events in conflict that so far claimed the lives of more than 150,000 people and displaced half the population.

09 Aug 2014 06:54 GMT | Politics, Human Rights, Syria, Humanitarian crises, Bashar al-Assad

• The Syrian conflict has been growing in intensity and scope for more than three years. An estimated 150,000 people have died since the uprising began in March 2011.

More than two million people have left the country, fleeing fighting between government forces and opposition fighters.

Here are some of the key events in the conflict:

2011: Protests, crackdown and condemnation

March: Protests are held in different parts of the country, inspired by other popular uprisings across the Arab world. The military cracks down on protesters in Damascus, Banias and Deraa, cradle of the uprising where 100 people are reportedly killed on the 23rd.

April: President Bashar al-Assad vows to crush what he called "terrorists". Protests calling for the downfall of the regime spread and strengthen. The crackdown intensifies. Hundreds are killed.

Syrians in their thousands took to the streets nationwide for the to demand an end to Assad's rule [Reuters]
May: The US imposes sanctions on Assad and senior Syrian officials for human rights abuses.

June: Details emerge of a mutiny by Syrian soldiers in the northern town of Jisr al-Shughour, where 120 troops were killed, according to the government.

August: After days of ferocious assault on the city of Hama, the epicenter of anti-regime protests, hundreds are left dead by Syrian security forces backed by tanks and snipers. The US, Britain, France and Germany and the European Union demand that Assad resign, saying he is unfit to lead.

The Syrian National Council is formed, the first opposition coalition of diverse groups seeking an end to Assad's rule. The body a year later becomes part of a supposedly more encompassing Syrian National Coalition.

October: Russia and China veto a European-backed UN Security Council resolution that threatens sanctions against Syria if it doesn’t immediately halt its military crackdown against civilians.US pulls its ambassador out of Syria. The Arab League votes to suspend Syria’s membership.

November: The Arab League overwhelmingly approves sanctions against Syria to pressure Damascus to end the crackdown, an unprecedented move against an Arab state.

December: Back-to-back car bombs near Syria’s intelligence agencies in Damascus kill at least 44 in the first major attack in the heart of the capital. Syria’s state-run TV blames al-Qaeda fighters.
Syrian security forces open fire on thousands of anti-government protesters in the central city of Hama, one day ahead of a visit by Arab League observers on a mission to end the crackdown.

2012: Massacres as international diplomacy fails

January: The Arab League halts its observer mission in Syria because of escalating violence.
Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria, announces its creation. Since then it has been described as "one of the most effective rebel forces" in Syria. The group has been designated as a terrorist organisation by the UN, US, UK, Australia and Turkey.

February:Russia and China veto a resolution in the UN Security Council that backs an Arab League plan calling for Assad to step down. The diplomatic development came a day after hundreds of casualties were reported in a major assault by government forces on Homs’ Khalidiyah district.

After months of fierce military assaults and rebel ambushes in Homs, Assad troops regain control of the central city [Reuters]
Syria holds referendum on a new constitution, a gesture by Assad to placate the opposition. The West dismisses the vote as a sham.

March: Syrian troops take control of shattered Bab Amr in Homs after a government assault that raged for weeks. The main opposition group, the Syrian National Council, forms a military council to organise and unify all armed resistance.

April: Syria promises to comply with a UN-brokered ceasefire but carves out an important condition - that the regime still has a right to defend itself against terrorists that it says are behind the uprising. The agreement ultimately fails to hold.

May: A massacre in Houla village in Homs leave more than 100 killed, nearly half of them children. The UN Human Rights Council later releases a report accusing Assad’s forces and pro-government militiamen of war crimes during the bloodbath.

June: UN observers suspend patrols in Syria due to escalating violence.

July: A blast at the National Security building in Damascus kills the defence minister and his deputy, who is also Assad’s brother-in-law, and wounds the interior minister. Rebels claim responsibility.

July: Syria threatens to unleash chemical and biological weapons if the country faces a foreign attack, the country’s first acknowledgement that it possesses weapons of mass destruction.

August: Kofi Annan announces his resignation as UN-Arab League envoy to Syria after failing to broker a ceasefire.
Obama says US will reconsider its opposition to military involvement in Syria if Assad’s regime deploys or uses chemical or biological weapons, calling such action a "red line" for the US.

November: Syrian anti-government groups strike a deal to form the Syrian National Coalition, a new opposition leadership that will include representatives from the country’s disparate factions fighting to topple Assad’s regime, responding to repeated calls from their Western and Arab supporters to create a cohesive and representative leadership.

2013: Chemical attack and rebel infighting

January: A defiant Assad blames "murderous criminals" for violence in Syria, ignores international demands to step down and pledges to continue the battle "as long as there is one terrorist left" in Syria.

April:The leader of the self-declared Jihadist group the Islamic State of Iraq, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, released a recorded audio message, in which he announces that Jabhat al-Nusra was an extension of al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria. The leader of al-Nusra, Abu Mohammad al-Joulani, refuses the merger. Divisions and infighting among the ranks of the self-labelled jihadists emerge.

Syrian activists accused Assad's forces of launching a chemical attack that killed hundreds of people[Reuters]
May: The European Union ends its embargo on sending weapons to help Syrian rebels.

June: Obama authorises sending weapons to Syrian rebels after White House discloses that US has conclusive evidence Assad’s government used chemical weapons on a small scale against opposition forces.

August: The Assad regime is accused of using chemical weapons in the Damascus suburbs to kill hundreds of civilians, including many children as they slept. The government denies using chemical weapons.
Obama says he has decided the United States should take military action against Syria. But the president says he will seek congressional authorisation for the use of force.

September: A possible diplomatic solution to avoid a US military strike arose when Syria welcomed a suggestion to move all of the country’s chemical weapons under international control. UN Security Council unanimously adopts a resolution requiring the Syrian regime to dismantle its chemical weapons arsenal.

October: Officials from OPCW arrive in Damascus to monitor the dismantling of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal.

2014: Failed peace attempts and presidential election

January: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon convenes the first round of peace talks in Geneva involving the Syrian government and Syrian National Coalition.

February:A second round of the Geneva talks is held; representatives of government and opposition fail to agree on agenda; Joint Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi apologises to the Syrian people for lack of progress in the talks. He resigns in May.

June: Syria holds a presidential election in government-held areas. More than one person could stand as a presidential candidate for the first time since the Assad family came to power more four decades ago.

The establishment of a new "caliphate" was announced by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi named as caliph. The group formally changed its name to "Islamic State".

July: The UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution on Syria allowing aid convoys to go into rebel-held areas without government approval.

Your timeline is nonsense. It doesn´t mention that the "protestors" were armed and fired at both peaceful demonstrators and security personnel. It doesn´t mention the Islamist terrorist nature of the "rebels". It doesn´t mention that the terrorist use chemical weapons but only reports that the government was accused of the use of chemical weapons. The timeline is a propaganda production.

UN accuses Syrian rebels of chemical weapons use - Telegraph


While all the evidences needed to prove that the "rebels" are murderous terrorists are available online with minimal research, people like you keep blaming the government following your government´s sinister agenda.

Nah, the people of Syria were protesting against a dictator and their basic human rights, and Assad told his tanks to open fire on civilians. Just how much are they paying you for this bullshit propaganda? You're about as bad as the Hamas propagandists. That pig won't fly.

It´s not me who needs to get paid. It´s you. Your bogus terrorist-protective Anti-Assad propaganda cannot arise from conscience or conviction. It´s bullshit based on bullshit. A collection of lies, the mirror of US aggression policy using Islamist terrorists. The filth and stink that destroys your nation. Crap.

 

[Roudy]

Assad has killed far more of his own people than the terrorists. The terrorists appeared when Obama drew the line and nobody came to help the secular uprising after Assad stsrted massacring his own people.

Assad is a dictator that took power after his father, another brutal dictator, died. He is doing what all Arab dictators do when their power is challenged: SLAUGHTER HIS OWN PEOPLE.

Hello, "Syrian" "opposition" "activist" XY.
There was no secular uprising and all demands of the few secular demonstrants are implemented.
President Assad is not slaughtering "his own" people. You can keep repeating your lies but how does that change something?

Of course you are delusional and an Assad propagandist. Assad is a brutal dictator who has used his own military to slaughter his own people in order to stay in power. And it is because his neighbors and the West let Assad get away with this behavior, it gave rise to ISIS.

Timeline of Syria s raging war - Al Jazeera English

Timeline of Syria's raging war
Key events in conflict that so far claimed the lives of more than 150,000 people and displaced half the population.

09 Aug 2014 06:54 GMT | Politics, Human Rights, Syria, Humanitarian crises, Bashar al-Assad

• The Syrian conflict has been growing in intensity and scope for more than three years. An estimated 150,000 people have died since the uprising began in March 2011.

More than two million people have left the country, fleeing fighting between government forces and opposition fighters.

Here are some of the key events in the conflict:

2011: Protests, crackdown and condemnation

March: Protests are held in different parts of the country, inspired by other popular uprisings across the Arab world. The military cracks down on protesters in Damascus, Banias and Deraa, cradle of the uprising where 100 people are reportedly killed on the 23rd.

April: President Bashar al-Assad vows to crush what he called "terrorists". Protests calling for the downfall of the regime spread and strengthen. The crackdown intensifies. Hundreds are killed.

Syrians in their thousands took to the streets nationwide for the to demand an end to Assad's rule [Reuters]
May: The US imposes sanctions on Assad and senior Syrian officials for human rights abuses.

June: Details emerge of a mutiny by Syrian soldiers in the northern town of Jisr al-Shughour, where 120 troops were killed, according to the government.

August: After days of ferocious assault on the city of Hama, the epicenter of anti-regime protests, hundreds are left dead by Syrian security forces backed by tanks and snipers. The US, Britain, France and Germany and the European Union demand that Assad resign, saying he is unfit to lead.

The Syrian National Council is formed, the first opposition coalition of diverse groups seeking an end to Assad's rule. The body a year later becomes part of a supposedly more encompassing Syrian National Coalition.

October: Russia and China veto a European-backed UN Security Council resolution that threatens sanctions against Syria if it doesn’t immediately halt its military crackdown against civilians.US pulls its ambassador out of Syria. The Arab League votes to suspend Syria’s membership.

November: The Arab League overwhelmingly approves sanctions against Syria to pressure Damascus to end the crackdown, an unprecedented move against an Arab state.

December: Back-to-back car bombs near Syria’s intelligence agencies in Damascus kill at least 44 in the first major attack in the heart of the capital. Syria’s state-run TV blames al-Qaeda fighters.
Syrian security forces open fire on thousands of anti-government protesters in the central city of Hama, one day ahead of a visit by Arab League observers on a mission to end the crackdown.

2012: Massacres as international diplomacy fails

January: The Arab League halts its observer mission in Syria because of escalating violence.
Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria, announces its creation. Since then it has been described as "one of the most effective rebel forces" in Syria. The group has been designated as a terrorist organisation by the UN, US, UK, Australia and Turkey.

February:Russia and China veto a resolution in the UN Security Council that backs an Arab League plan calling for Assad to step down. The diplomatic development came a day after hundreds of casualties were reported in a major assault by government forces on Homs’ Khalidiyah district.

After months of fierce military assaults and rebel ambushes in Homs, Assad troops regain control of the central city [Reuters]
Syria holds referendum on a new constitution, a gesture by Assad to placate the opposition. The West dismisses the vote as a sham.

March: Syrian troops take control of shattered Bab Amr in Homs after a government assault that raged for weeks. The main opposition group, the Syrian National Council, forms a military council to organise and unify all armed resistance.

April: Syria promises to comply with a UN-brokered ceasefire but carves out an important condition - that the regime still has a right to defend itself against terrorists that it says are behind the uprising. The agreement ultimately fails to hold.

May: A massacre in Houla village in Homs leave more than 100 killed, nearly half of them children. The UN Human Rights Council later releases a report accusing Assad’s forces and pro-government militiamen of war crimes during the bloodbath.

June: UN observers suspend patrols in Syria due to escalating violence.

July: A blast at the National Security building in Damascus kills the defence minister and his deputy, who is also Assad’s brother-in-law, and wounds the interior minister. Rebels claim responsibility.

July: Syria threatens to unleash chemical and biological weapons if the country faces a foreign attack, the country’s first acknowledgement that it possesses weapons of mass destruction.

August: Kofi Annan announces his resignation as UN-Arab League envoy to Syria after failing to broker a ceasefire.
Obama says US will reconsider its opposition to military involvement in Syria if Assad’s regime deploys or uses chemical or biological weapons, calling such action a "red line" for the US.

November: Syrian anti-government groups strike a deal to form the Syrian National Coalition, a new opposition leadership that will include representatives from the country’s disparate factions fighting to topple Assad’s regime, responding to repeated calls from their Western and Arab supporters to create a cohesive and representative leadership.

2013: Chemical attack and rebel infighting

January: A defiant Assad blames "murderous criminals" for violence in Syria, ignores international demands to step down and pledges to continue the battle "as long as there is one terrorist left" in Syria.

April:The leader of the self-declared Jihadist group the Islamic State of Iraq, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, released a recorded audio message, in which he announces that Jabhat al-Nusra was an extension of al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria. The leader of al-Nusra, Abu Mohammad al-Joulani, refuses the merger. Divisions and infighting among the ranks of the self-labelled jihadists emerge.

Syrian activists accused Assad's forces of launching a chemical attack that killed hundreds of people[Reuters]
May: The European Union ends its embargo on sending weapons to help Syrian rebels.

June: Obama authorises sending weapons to Syrian rebels after White House discloses that US has conclusive evidence Assad’s government used chemical weapons on a small scale against opposition forces.

August: The Assad regime is accused of using chemical weapons in the Damascus suburbs to kill hundreds of civilians, including many children as they slept. The government denies using chemical weapons.
Obama says he has decided the United States should take military action against Syria. But the president says he will seek congressional authorisation for the use of force.

September: A possible diplomatic solution to avoid a US military strike arose when Syria welcomed a suggestion to move all of the country’s chemical weapons under international control. UN Security Council unanimously adopts a resolution requiring the Syrian regime to dismantle its chemical weapons arsenal.

October: Officials from OPCW arrive in Damascus to monitor the dismantling of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal.

2014: Failed peace attempts and presidential election

January: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon convenes the first round of peace talks in Geneva involving the Syrian government and Syrian National Coalition.

February:A second round of the Geneva talks is held; representatives of government and opposition fail to agree on agenda; Joint Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi apologises to the Syrian people for lack of progress in the talks. He resigns in May.

June: Syria holds a presidential election in government-held areas. More than one person could stand as a presidential candidate for the first time since the Assad family came to power more four decades ago.

The establishment of a new "caliphate" was announced by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi named as caliph. The group formally changed its name to "Islamic State".

July: The UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution on Syria allowing aid convoys to go into rebel-held areas without government approval.

Your timeline is nonsense. It doesn´t mention that the "protestors" were armed and fired at both peaceful demonstrators and security personnel. It doesn´t mention the Islamist terrorist nature of the "rebels". It doesn´t mention that the terrorist use chemical weapons but only reports that the government was accused of the use of chemical weapons. The timeline is a propaganda production.

UN accuses Syrian rebels of chemical weapons use - Telegraph


While all the evidences needed to prove that the "rebels" are murderous terrorists are available online with minimal research, people like you keep blaming the government following your government´s sinister agenda.

Nah, the people of Syria were protesting against a dictator and their basic human rights, and Assad told his tanks to open fire on civilians. Just how much are they paying you for this bullshit propaganda? You're about as bad as the Hamas propagandists. That pig won't fly.

It´s not me who needs to get paid. It´s you. Your bogus terrorist-protective Anti-Assad propaganda cannot arise from conscience.

Terrorist? Assad is the one who funds and arms Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon. Do I need to educate you on the relationship between, Iran, Assad, and Hezbollah and the death and terror they spread in the region?

 

[Bleipriester]

January 2014: UN stops updating the death toll in Syria conflict, as it can no longer verify the sources of information.

After all, the timeline ridicules itself. If the terrorists play Human Rights Organization (SOHR), what do you expect?
Massacres were only committed by the terrorists who then blame them on the government using SOHR.

 

[Bleipriester]

Hello, "Syrian" "opposition" "activist" XY.
There was no secular uprising and all demands of the few secular demonstrants are implemented.
President Assad is not slaughtering "his own" people. You can keep repeating your lies but how does that change something?

Of course you are delusional and an Assad propagandist. Assad is a brutal dictator who has used his own military to slaughter his own people in order to stay in power. And it is because his neighbors and the West let Assad get away with this behavior, it gave rise to ISIS.

Timeline of Syria s raging war - Al Jazeera English

Timeline of Syria's raging war
Key events in conflict that so far claimed the lives of more than 150,000 people and displaced half the population.

09 Aug 2014 06:54 GMT | Politics, Human Rights, Syria, Humanitarian crises, Bashar al-Assad

• The Syrian conflict has been growing in intensity and scope for more than three years. An estimated 150,000 people have died since the uprising began in March 2011.

More than two million people have left the country, fleeing fighting between government forces and opposition fighters.

Here are some of the key events in the conflict:

2011: Protests, crackdown and condemnation

March: Protests are held in different parts of the country, inspired by other popular uprisings across the Arab world. The military cracks down on protesters in Damascus, Banias and Deraa, cradle of the uprising where 100 people are reportedly killed on the 23rd.

April: President Bashar al-Assad vows to crush what he called "terrorists". Protests calling for the downfall of the regime spread and strengthen. The crackdown intensifies. Hundreds are killed.

Syrians in their thousands took to the streets nationwide for the to demand an end to Assad's rule [Reuters]
May: The US imposes sanctions on Assad and senior Syrian officials for human rights abuses.

June: Details emerge of a mutiny by Syrian soldiers in the northern town of Jisr al-Shughour, where 120 troops were killed, according to the government.

August: After days of ferocious assault on the city of Hama, the epicenter of anti-regime protests, hundreds are left dead by Syrian security forces backed by tanks and snipers. The US, Britain, France and Germany and the European Union demand that Assad resign, saying he is unfit to lead.

The Syrian National Council is formed, the first opposition coalition of diverse groups seeking an end to Assad's rule. The body a year later becomes part of a supposedly more encompassing Syrian National Coalition.

October: Russia and China veto a European-backed UN Security Council resolution that threatens sanctions against Syria if it doesn’t immediately halt its military crackdown against civilians.US pulls its ambassador out of Syria. The Arab League votes to suspend Syria’s membership.

November: The Arab League overwhelmingly approves sanctions against Syria to pressure Damascus to end the crackdown, an unprecedented move against an Arab state.

December: Back-to-back car bombs near Syria’s intelligence agencies in Damascus kill at least 44 in the first major attack in the heart of the capital. Syria’s state-run TV blames al-Qaeda fighters.
Syrian security forces open fire on thousands of anti-government protesters in the central city of Hama, one day ahead of a visit by Arab League observers on a mission to end the crackdown.

2012: Massacres as international diplomacy fails

January: The Arab League halts its observer mission in Syria because of escalating violence.
Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria, announces its creation. Since then it has been described as "one of the most effective rebel forces" in Syria. The group has been designated as a terrorist organisation by the UN, US, UK, Australia and Turkey.

February:Russia and China veto a resolution in the UN Security Council that backs an Arab League plan calling for Assad to step down. The diplomatic development came a day after hundreds of casualties were reported in a major assault by government forces on Homs’ Khalidiyah district.

After months of fierce military assaults and rebel ambushes in Homs, Assad troops regain control of the central city [Reuters]
Syria holds referendum on a new constitution, a gesture by Assad to placate the opposition. The West dismisses the vote as a sham.

March: Syrian troops take control of shattered Bab Amr in Homs after a government assault that raged for weeks. The main opposition group, the Syrian National Council, forms a military council to organise and unify all armed resistance.

April: Syria promises to comply with a UN-brokered ceasefire but carves out an important condition - that the regime still has a right to defend itself against terrorists that it says are behind the uprising. The agreement ultimately fails to hold.

May: A massacre in Houla village in Homs leave more than 100 killed, nearly half of them children. The UN Human Rights Council later releases a report accusing Assad’s forces and pro-government militiamen of war crimes during the bloodbath.

June: UN observers suspend patrols in Syria due to escalating violence.

July: A blast at the National Security building in Damascus kills the defence minister and his deputy, who is also Assad’s brother-in-law, and wounds the interior minister. Rebels claim responsibility.

July: Syria threatens to unleash chemical and biological weapons if the country faces a foreign attack, the country’s first acknowledgement that it possesses weapons of mass destruction.

August: Kofi Annan announces his resignation as UN-Arab League envoy to Syria after failing to broker a ceasefire.
Obama says US will reconsider its opposition to military involvement in Syria if Assad’s regime deploys or uses chemical or biological weapons, calling such action a "red line" for the US.

November: Syrian anti-government groups strike a deal to form the Syrian National Coalition, a new opposition leadership that will include representatives from the country’s disparate factions fighting to topple Assad’s regime, responding to repeated calls from their Western and Arab supporters to create a cohesive and representative leadership.

2013: Chemical attack and rebel infighting

January: A defiant Assad blames "murderous criminals" for violence in Syria, ignores international demands to step down and pledges to continue the battle "as long as there is one terrorist left" in Syria.

April:The leader of the self-declared Jihadist group the Islamic State of Iraq, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, released a recorded audio message, in which he announces that Jabhat al-Nusra was an extension of al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria. The leader of al-Nusra, Abu Mohammad al-Joulani, refuses the merger. Divisions and infighting among the ranks of the self-labelled jihadists emerge.

Syrian activists accused Assad's forces of launching a chemical attack that killed hundreds of people[Reuters]
May: The European Union ends its embargo on sending weapons to help Syrian rebels.

June: Obama authorises sending weapons to Syrian rebels after White House discloses that US has conclusive evidence Assad’s government used chemical weapons on a small scale against opposition forces.

August: The Assad regime is accused of using chemical weapons in the Damascus suburbs to kill hundreds of civilians, including many children as they slept. The government denies using chemical weapons.
Obama says he has decided the United States should take military action against Syria. But the president says he will seek congressional authorisation for the use of force.

September: A possible diplomatic solution to avoid a US military strike arose when Syria welcomed a suggestion to move all of the country’s chemical weapons under international control. UN Security Council unanimously adopts a resolution requiring the Syrian regime to dismantle its chemical weapons arsenal.

October: Officials from OPCW arrive in Damascus to monitor the dismantling of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal.

2014: Failed peace attempts and presidential election

January: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon convenes the first round of peace talks in Geneva involving the Syrian government and Syrian National Coalition.

February:A second round of the Geneva talks is held; representatives of government and opposition fail to agree on agenda; Joint Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi apologises to the Syrian people for lack of progress in the talks. He resigns in May.

June: Syria holds a presidential election in government-held areas. More than one person could stand as a presidential candidate for the first time since the Assad family came to power more four decades ago.

The establishment of a new "caliphate" was announced by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi named as caliph. The group formally changed its name to "Islamic State".

July: The UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution on Syria allowing aid convoys to go into rebel-held areas without government approval.

Your timeline is nonsense. It doesn´t mention that the "protestors" were armed and fired at both peaceful demonstrators and security personnel. It doesn´t mention the Islamist terrorist nature of the "rebels". It doesn´t mention that the terrorist use chemical weapons but only reports that the government was accused of the use of chemical weapons. The timeline is a propaganda production.

UN accuses Syrian rebels of chemical weapons use - Telegraph


While all the evidences needed to prove that the "rebels" are murderous terrorists are available online with minimal research, people like you keep blaming the government following your government´s sinister agenda.

Nah, the people of Syria were protesting against a dictator and their basic human rights, and Assad told his tanks to open fire on civilians. Just how much are they paying you for this bullshit propaganda? You're about as bad as the Hamas propagandists. That pig won't fly.

It´s not me who needs to get paid. It´s you. Your bogus terrorist-protective Anti-Assad propaganda cannot arise from conscience.

Terrorist? Assad is the one who funds and arms Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon. Do I need to educate you on the relationship between, Iran, Assad, and Hezbollah and the death and terror they spread in the region?

Hezbollah does a good job in fighting terrorists in Syria and Iraq. Hezbollah does not commit terrorist attacks like Hamas or others. It is a direct result of Zionist aggression policy.

 

[Roudy]

Of course you are delusional and an Assad propagandist. Assad is a brutal dictator who has used his own military to slaughter his own people in order to stay in power. And it is because his neighbors and the West let Assad get away with this behavior, it gave rise to ISIS.

Timeline of Syria s raging war - Al Jazeera English

Timeline of Syria's raging war
Key events in conflict that so far claimed the lives of more than 150,000 people and displaced half the population.

09 Aug 2014 06:54 GMT | Politics, Human Rights, Syria, Humanitarian crises, Bashar al-Assad

• The Syrian conflict has been growing in intensity and scope for more than three years. An estimated 150,000 people have died since the uprising began in March 2011.

More than two million people have left the country, fleeing fighting between government forces and opposition fighters.

Here are some of the key events in the conflict:

2011: Protests, crackdown and condemnation

March: Protests are held in different parts of the country, inspired by other popular uprisings across the Arab world. The military cracks down on protesters in Damascus, Banias and Deraa, cradle of the uprising where 100 people are reportedly killed on the 23rd.

April: President Bashar al-Assad vows to crush what he called "terrorists". Protests calling for the downfall of the regime spread and strengthen. The crackdown intensifies. Hundreds are killed.

Syrians in their thousands took to the streets nationwide for the to demand an end to Assad's rule [Reuters]
May: The US imposes sanctions on Assad and senior Syrian officials for human rights abuses.

June: Details emerge of a mutiny by Syrian soldiers in the northern town of Jisr al-Shughour, where 120 troops were killed, according to the government.

August: After days of ferocious assault on the city of Hama, the epicenter of anti-regime protests, hundreds are left dead by Syrian security forces backed by tanks and snipers. The US, Britain, France and Germany and the European Union demand that Assad resign, saying he is unfit to lead.

The Syrian National Council is formed, the first opposition coalition of diverse groups seeking an end to Assad's rule. The body a year later becomes part of a supposedly more encompassing Syrian National Coalition.

October: Russia and China veto a European-backed UN Security Council resolution that threatens sanctions against Syria if it doesn’t immediately halt its military crackdown against civilians.US pulls its ambassador out of Syria. The Arab League votes to suspend Syria’s membership.

November: The Arab League overwhelmingly approves sanctions against Syria to pressure Damascus to end the crackdown, an unprecedented move against an Arab state.

December: Back-to-back car bombs near Syria’s intelligence agencies in Damascus kill at least 44 in the first major attack in the heart of the capital. Syria’s state-run TV blames al-Qaeda fighters.
Syrian security forces open fire on thousands of anti-government protesters in the central city of Hama, one day ahead of a visit by Arab League observers on a mission to end the crackdown.

2012: Massacres as international diplomacy fails

January: The Arab League halts its observer mission in Syria because of escalating violence.
Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria, announces its creation. Since then it has been described as "one of the most effective rebel forces" in Syria. The group has been designated as a terrorist organisation by the UN, US, UK, Australia and Turkey.

February:Russia and China veto a resolution in the UN Security Council that backs an Arab League plan calling for Assad to step down. The diplomatic development came a day after hundreds of casualties were reported in a major assault by government forces on Homs’ Khalidiyah district.

After months of fierce military assaults and rebel ambushes in Homs, Assad troops regain control of the central city [Reuters]
Syria holds referendum on a new constitution, a gesture by Assad to placate the opposition. The West dismisses the vote as a sham.

March: Syrian troops take control of shattered Bab Amr in Homs after a government assault that raged for weeks. The main opposition group, the Syrian National Council, forms a military council to organise and unify all armed resistance.

April: Syria promises to comply with a UN-brokered ceasefire but carves out an important condition - that the regime still has a right to defend itself against terrorists that it says are behind the uprising. The agreement ultimately fails to hold.

May: A massacre in Houla village in Homs leave more than 100 killed, nearly half of them children. The UN Human Rights Council later releases a report accusing Assad’s forces and pro-government militiamen of war crimes during the bloodbath.

June: UN observers suspend patrols in Syria due to escalating violence.

July: A blast at the National Security building in Damascus kills the defence minister and his deputy, who is also Assad’s brother-in-law, and wounds the interior minister. Rebels claim responsibility.

July: Syria threatens to unleash chemical and biological weapons if the country faces a foreign attack, the country’s first acknowledgement that it possesses weapons of mass destruction.

August: Kofi Annan announces his resignation as UN-Arab League envoy to Syria after failing to broker a ceasefire.
Obama says US will reconsider its opposition to military involvement in Syria if Assad’s regime deploys or uses chemical or biological weapons, calling such action a "red line" for the US.

November: Syrian anti-government groups strike a deal to form the Syrian National Coalition, a new opposition leadership that will include representatives from the country’s disparate factions fighting to topple Assad’s regime, responding to repeated calls from their Western and Arab supporters to create a cohesive and representative leadership.

2013: Chemical attack and rebel infighting

January: A defiant Assad blames "murderous criminals" for violence in Syria, ignores international demands to step down and pledges to continue the battle "as long as there is one terrorist left" in Syria.

April:The leader of the self-declared Jihadist group the Islamic State of Iraq, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, released a recorded audio message, in which he announces that Jabhat al-Nusra was an extension of al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria. The leader of al-Nusra, Abu Mohammad al-Joulani, refuses the merger. Divisions and infighting among the ranks of the self-labelled jihadists emerge.

Syrian activists accused Assad's forces of launching a chemical attack that killed hundreds of people[Reuters]
May: The European Union ends its embargo on sending weapons to help Syrian rebels.

June: Obama authorises sending weapons to Syrian rebels after White House discloses that US has conclusive evidence Assad’s government used chemical weapons on a small scale against opposition forces.

August: The Assad regime is accused of using chemical weapons in the Damascus suburbs to kill hundreds of civilians, including many children as they slept. The government denies using chemical weapons.
Obama says he has decided the United States should take military action against Syria. But the president says he will seek congressional authorisation for the use of force.

September: A possible diplomatic solution to avoid a US military strike arose when Syria welcomed a suggestion to move all of the country’s chemical weapons under international control. UN Security Council unanimously adopts a resolution requiring the Syrian regime to dismantle its chemical weapons arsenal.

October: Officials from OPCW arrive in Damascus to monitor the dismantling of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal.

2014: Failed peace attempts and presidential election

January: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon convenes the first round of peace talks in Geneva involving the Syrian government and Syrian National Coalition.

February:A second round of the Geneva talks is held; representatives of government and opposition fail to agree on agenda; Joint Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi apologises to the Syrian people for lack of progress in the talks. He resigns in May.

June: Syria holds a presidential election in government-held areas. More than one person could stand as a presidential candidate for the first time since the Assad family came to power more four decades ago.

The establishment of a new "caliphate" was announced by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi named as caliph. The group formally changed its name to "Islamic State".

July: The UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution on Syria allowing aid convoys to go into rebel-held areas without government approval.

Your timeline is nonsense. It doesn´t mention that the "protestors" were armed and fired at both peaceful demonstrators and security personnel. It doesn´t mention the Islamist terrorist nature of the "rebels". It doesn´t mention that the terrorist use chemical weapons but only reports that the government was accused of the use of chemical weapons. The timeline is a propaganda production.

UN accuses Syrian rebels of chemical weapons use - Telegraph


While all the evidences needed to prove that the "rebels" are murderous terrorists are available online with minimal research, people like you keep blaming the government following your government´s sinister agenda.

Nah, the people of Syria were protesting against a dictator and their basic human rights, and Assad told his tanks to open fire on civilians. Just how much are they paying you for this bullshit propaganda? You're about as bad as the Hamas propagandists. That pig won't fly.

It´s not me who needs to get paid. It´s you. Your bogus terrorist-protective Anti-Assad propaganda cannot arise from conscience.

Terrorist? Assad is the one who funds and arms Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon. Do I need to educate you on the relationship between, Iran, Assad, and Hezbollah and the death and terror they spread in the region?

Hezbollah does a good job in fighting terrorists in Syria and Iraq. Hezbollah does not commit terrorist attacks like Hamas or others. It is a direct result of Zionist aggression policy.

"Hezbollah does not commit terrorist attacks" Ha ha ha ha! Your ignorance knows no bounds, does it?
Here is a short list:

Timeline of Hezbollah Violence

Hezbollah and its history of international terrorism and violence:

1982: Israel invades Lebanon to drive out the PLO's terrorist army, which had frequently attacked Israel from its informal "state-within-a-state" in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah, a Shiite group inspired by the teachings and revolution of Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini, is created with the assistance of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. The group is called Hezbollah–or "party of God"– after initially taking responsibility for attacks under the name "Islamic Jihad." (Not to be confused with the Palestinian terror organization Islamic Jihad.)

July 19, 1982: The president of the American University in Beirut, Davis S. Dodge, is kidnapped. Hezbollah is believed to be behind this and most of the other 30 Westerners kidnapped over the next ten years.

April 18, 1983: Hezbollah attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut with a car bomb, killing 63 people, 17 of whom were American citizens.

Oct. 23, 1983: The group attacks U.S. Marine barracks with a truck bomb, killing 241 American military personnel stationed in Beirut as part of a peace-keeping force. A separate attack against the French military compound in Beirut kills 58.

Sept. 20, 1984: The group attacks the U.S. embassy annex in Beirut with a car bomb, killing 2 Americans and 22 others.

March 16, 1984: William F. Buckley, a CIA operative working at the U.S. embassy in Beirut, is kidnapped and later murdered.

April 12, 1984: Hezbollah attacks a restaurant near the U.S. Air Force Base in Torrejon, Spain. The bombing kills eighteen U.S. servicemen and injures 83 people.

Dec. 4, 1984: Hezbollah terrorists hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane. Four passengers are murdered, including two Americans.

Feb. 16, 1985: Hezbollah publicizes its manifesto. It notes that the group's struggle will continue until Israel is destroyed and rejects any cease-fire or peace treaty with Israel. The document also attacks the U.S. and France.

June 14, 1985: Hezbollah terrorists hijack TWA flight 847. The hijackers severely beat Passenger Robert Stethem, a U.S. Navy diver, before killing him and dumping his body onto the tarmac at the Beirut airport. Other passengers are held as hostages before being released on June 30.

Dec. 31, 1986: Under the alias Organization of the Oppressed on Earth, Hezbollah announces it had kidnapped and murdered three Lebanese Jews. The organization previously had taken responsibility for killing four other Jews since 1984.

Feb. 17, 1988: The group kidnaps Col. William Higgins, a U.S. Marine serving with a United Nations truce monitoring group in Lebanon, and later murders him.

Oct. 22, 1989: Members of the dissolved Lebanese parliament ratify the Taif Agreement. Although the agreement calls for the "disbanding of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias," Hezbollah remains active.

Feb. 16, 1992: Sayyad Hassan Nasrallah takes over Hezbollah after Israel kills the group's leader, Abbas Musawi.

March 17, 1992: With the help of Iranian intelligence, Hezbollah bombs the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, killing 29 and injuring over 200.

July 18, 1994: Hezbollah bombs the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires–again with Iranian help–killing 86 and injuring over 200.

Nov. 28, 1995: Hezbollah bombards towns in northern Israel with volleys of Katyusha rockets in one of the group's numerous attacks on Israeli civilians.

March 30, 1996: Hezbollah fires 28 Katyusha rockets into northern Israeli towns. A week later, the group fires 16 rockets, injuring 36 Israelis. Israel responds with a major offensive, known as the "Grapes of Wrath" operation, to stop Hezbollah rocket fire.

Aug. 19, 1997: Hezbollah opens fire on northern Israel with dozens of rockets in one of the group's numerous attacks on Israeli civilians.

October 1997: The United States lists Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.

Dec. 28, 1998: Hezbollah opens fire on northern Israel with dozens of rockets in one of the group's numerous attacks on Israeli civilians.

May 17, 1999: Hezbollah opens fire on northern Israel with dozens of rockets in one of the group's numerous attacks on Israeli civilians.


June 24, 1999: Hezbollah opens fire on northern Israel, killing 2.

May 23, 2000: Israel withdraws all troops from Lebanon after 18 years patrolling the "security zone," a strip of land in the south of the country. The security zone was set up to prevent attacks on northern Israel.

June 2000: United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan certifies Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon. Shortly thereafter, the U.N. Security Council endorses Annan's report. Hezbollah nonetheless alleges Israel occupies Lebanon, claiming the small Shebba Farms area Israel captured from Syria during the 1967 war as Lebanese territory.

Oct. 7, 2000: Hezbollah attacks an Israel military post and raids Israel, kidnapping three Israeli soldiers. The soldiers are later assumed dead. In mid-October, Hezbollah leader Nasrallah announces the group has also kidnapped an Israeli businessman. In 2004, Israel frees over 400 Arab prisoners in exchange for the business man and the bodies of the three soldiers.

March 1, 2001: The British government adds Hezbollah's "military wing" to its list of outlawed terrorist organizations.

April 9, 2002: Hezbollah launches Katyushas into northern Israeli town. This assault comes amidst almost daily Hezbollah attacks against Israeli troops in Shebba farms.

Dec. 11, 2002: Canada lists Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.

Aug. 10, 2003: Hezbollah shells kills 16-year-old Israeli boy, wound others.

June 5, 2003: Australia lists Hezbollah's "military wing" as a terrorist organization.

Sept. 2, 2004: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1559 calls for "the disbanding and disarmament of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias," a reference to Hezbollah.

December 2004: Both the United States and France ban Hezbollah's satellite television network, Al Manar. A U.S. State Department spokesman notes the channel "preaches violence and hatred."

March 10, 2005: The European Parliament overwhelmingly passes a resolution stating: "Parliament considers that clear evidence exists of terrorist activities by Hezbollah. The (EU) Council should take all necessary steps to curtail them." The European Union nonetheless refrains from placing the group on its list of terror organizations.

July 12, 2006: Hezbollah attacks Israel with Katyushas, crosses the border and kidnaps two Israeli soldiers. Three Israeli soldiers are killed in the initial attack. Five more soldiers are killed as Israel launches operation to rescue the soldiers and push Hezbollah from its border. During the ensuing war, Hezbollah launches rockets at civilian targets across northern Israel.

Aug. 11, 2006: The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopts Resolution 1701, which calls for a cessation of hostilities, the deployment of Lebanese and U.N. forces into southern Lebanon, and the disarmament of armed groups in Lebanon.

 

[Roudy]

Hezbollah is listed by most Western nations as a TERRORIST ORGANIZATION, but to this Assad ASS-LICKER, "Hezbollah are the good guys":

Suicide and terror attacks

A smoke cloud rises from the bombed American barracks at Beirut International Airport, where over 200 U.S. marines were killed
Between 1982 and 1986, there were 36 suicide attacks in Lebanon directed against American, French and Israelis forces by 41 individuals, killing 659.[43] Hezbollah denies involvement in these attacks, though it has been accused of some or all of these attacks:[169][170]

• The 1982–1983 Tyre headquarters bombings
• The April 1983 U.S. Embassy bombing (by the Islamic Jihad Organization),[171]
• The 1983 Beirut barracks bombing (by the Islamic Jihad Organization), that killed 241 U.S. marines, 58 French paratroopers and 6 civilians at the US and French barracks in Beirut[172]
• The 1983 Kuwait bombings in collaboration with the Iraqi Dawa Party.[173]
• The 1984 United States embassy annex bombing, killing 24.[174]
• A spate of attacks on IDF troops and SLA militiamen in southern Lebanon.[43]
• Hijacking of TWA Flight 847 in 1985,[172]
• The Lebanon hostage crisis from 1982 to 1992.[175]

Since 1990, terror acts and attempts of which Hezbollah has been blamed include the following bombings and attacks against civilians and diplomats:

• The 1992 Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires, killing 29, in Argentina.[172] Hezbollah operatives boasted of involvement.[176]
• The 1994 AMIA bombing of a Jewish cultural centre, killing 85, in Argentina.[172] Hezbollah claimed responsibility.[176]
• The 1994 AC Flight 901 attack, killing 21, in Panama.[177] Hezbollah claimed responsibility.[176]
• The 1994 London Israeli Embassy attack, injuring 29, in the United Kingdom.[178]
• The 1996 Khobar Towers bombing, killing 19 US servicemen.[179]
• Providing "direct assistance" to al Qaeda, including training and explosives, in orchestrating the 1998 United States embassy bombings.[180]
• In 2002, Singapore accused Hezbollah of recruiting Singaporeans in a failed 1990s plot to attack U.S. and Israeli ships in the Singapore Straits.[181]
• The January 15, 2008, bombing of a U.S. Embassy vehicle in Beirut.[182]
• In 2009, a Hezbollah plot in Egypt was uncovered, where Egyptian authorities arrested 49 men for planning attacks against Israeli and Egyptian targets in the Sinai Peninsula.[183]
• The 2012 Burgas bus bombing, killing 6, in Bulgaria.[184]
• Training Shia insurgents against US troops during the Iraq War

2011 attack in Istanbul
In July 2011, Italian newspaper Corierre della Sera reported, based on American and Turkish sources,[213] that Hezbollah was behind a bombing in Istanbul in May 2011 that wounded eight Turkish civilians. The report said that the attack was an assassination attempt on the Israeli consul to Turkey, Moshe Kimchi. Turkish intelligence sources denied the report and said "Israel is in the habit of creating disinformation campaigns using different papers."[213]

2012 planned attack in Cyprus
Main article: 2012 Cyprus terrorist plot
In July 2012, a Lebanese man was detained by Cyprus police on possible charges relating to terrorism laws for planning attacks against Israeli tourists. According to security officials, the man was planning attacks for Hezbollah in Cyprus and admitted this after questioning. The police were alerted about the man due to an urgent message from Israeli intelligence. The Lebanese man was in possession of photographs of Israeli targets and had information on Israeli airlines flying back and forth from Cyprus, and planned to blow up a plane or tour bus.[214] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that Iran assisted the Lebanese man with planning the attacks.[215]

2012 Burgas attack
Main article: 2012 Burgas bus bombing
Following an investigation into the 2012 Burgas bus bombing terrorist attack against Israeli citizens in Bulgaria, the Bulgarian government officially accused the Lebanese-militant movement Hezbollah of committing the attack.[216] Five Israeli citizens, the Bulgarian bus driver, and the bomber were killed. The bomb exploded as the Israeli tourists boarded a bus from the airport to their hotel.

Tsvetan Tsvetanov, Bulgaria's interior minister, reported that the two suspects responsible were members of the militant wing of Hezbollah; he said the suspected terrorists entered Bulgaria on June 28 and remained until July 18. Israel had already previously suspected Hezbollah for the attack. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the report "further corroboration of what we have already known, that Hezbollah and its Iranian patrons are orchestrating a worldwide campaign of terror that is spanning countries and continents."[217] Netanyahu said that the attack in Bulgaria was just one of many that Hezbollah and Iran have planned and carried out, including attacks in Thailand, Kenya, Turkey, India, Azerbaijan, Cyprus and Georgia.[216]

John Brennan, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, has said that "Bulgaria's investigation exposes Hezbollah for what it is – a terrorist group that is willing to recklessly attack innocent men, women and children, and that poses a real and growing threat not only to Europe, but to the rest of the world."[218] The result of the Bulgarian investigation comes at a time when Israel has been petitioning the European Union to join the United States in designating Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.[218]

Assassination of Rafic Hariri
Main article: Assassination of Rafic Hariri
On February 14, 2005, former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri was killed, along with 21 others, when his motorcade was struck by a roadside bomb in Beirut. He had been PM during 1992–1998 and 2000–2004. In 2009, the United Nations special tribunal investigating the murder of Hariri reportedly found evidence linking Hezbollah to the murder.[219]

In August 2010, in response to notification that the UN tribunal would indict some Hezbollah members, Hassan Nasrallah said Israel was looking for a way to assassinate Hariri as early as 1993 in order to create political chaos that would force Syria to withdraw from Lebanon, and to perpetuate an anti-Syrian atmosphere [in Lebanon] in the wake of the assassination. He went on to say that in 1996 Hezbollah apprehended an agent working for Israel by the name of Ahmed Nasrallah – no relation to Hassan Nasrallah – who allegedly contacted Hariri's security detail and told them that he had solid proof that Hezbollah was planning to take his life. Hariri then contacted Hezbollah and advised them of the situation.[220] Saad Hariri responded that the UN should investigate these claims.[221]

On June 30, 2011, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, established to investigate the death of Hariri, issued arrest warrants against four senior members of Hezbollah, includingMustafa Badr Al Din.[222] On July 3, Hassan Nasrallah rejected the indictment and denounced the tribunal as a plot against the party, vowing that the named persons would not be arrested under any circumstances.[223]

 

[Bleipriester]

Your timeline begins with an Israeli aggression. Israel/USA must stop aggressions. Aggressions result in counter-violence.

As for the Hezbollah, It´s the means available to them. There is no difference, when an Israeli jet kills civilians but the fact, that the Israeli missiles are guided and old Soviet Katyusha rockets are imprecise WWII rocket artillery.

 

[montelatici]

Ruddy goes to Hasbara sites and cuts and pastes lists. There are similar lists showing a far greater number of Israeli terrorist attacks that have murdered far more people. As long as everyone is aware where he gets his info, it's no issue. He can make up anything he wants.

 

[aris2chat]

No. The terrorists in Syria are far worse than Hamas. That´s public.

Assad has killed far more of his own people than the terrorists. The terrorists appeared when Obama drew the line and nobody came to help the secular uprising after Assad stsrted massacring his own people.

Assad is a dictator that took power after his father, another brutal dictator, died. He is doing what all Arab dictators do when their power is challenged: SLAUGHTER HIS OWN PEOPLE.

Hello, "Syrian" "opposition" "activist" XY.
There was no secular uprising and all demands of the few secular demonstrants are implemented.
President Assad is not slaughtering "his own" people. You can keep repeating your lies but how does that change something?

Of course you are delusional and an Assad propagandist. Assad is a brutal dictator who has used his own military to slaughter his own people in order to stay in power. And it is because his neighbors and the West let Assad get away with this behavior, it gave rise to ISIS.

Timeline of Syria s raging war - Al Jazeera English

Timeline of Syria's raging war
Key events in conflict that so far claimed the lives of more than 150,000 people and displaced half the population.

09 Aug 2014 06:54 GMT | Politics, Human Rights, Syria, Humanitarian crises, Bashar al-Assad

• The Syrian conflict has been growing in intensity and scope for more than three years. An estimated 150,000 people have died since the uprising began in March 2011.

More than two million people have left the country, fleeing fighting between government forces and opposition fighters.

Here are some of the key events in the conflict:

2011: Protests, crackdown and condemnation

March: Protests are held in different parts of the country, inspired by other popular uprisings across the Arab world. The military cracks down on protesters in Damascus, Banias and Deraa, cradle of the uprising where 100 people are reportedly killed on the 23rd.

April: President Bashar al-Assad vows to crush what he called "terrorists". Protests calling for the downfall of the regime spread and strengthen. The crackdown intensifies. Hundreds are killed.

Syrians in their thousands took to the streets nationwide for the to demand an end to Assad's rule [Reuters]
May: The US imposes sanctions on Assad and senior Syrian officials for human rights abuses.

June: Details emerge of a mutiny by Syrian soldiers in the northern town of Jisr al-Shughour, where 120 troops were killed, according to the government.

August: After days of ferocious assault on the city of Hama, the epicenter of anti-regime protests, hundreds are left dead by Syrian security forces backed by tanks and snipers. The US, Britain, France and Germany and the European Union demand that Assad resign, saying he is unfit to lead.

The Syrian National Council is formed, the first opposition coalition of diverse groups seeking an end to Assad's rule. The body a year later becomes part of a supposedly more encompassing Syrian National Coalition.

October: Russia and China veto a European-backed UN Security Council resolution that threatens sanctions against Syria if it doesn’t immediately halt its military crackdown against civilians.US pulls its ambassador out of Syria. The Arab League votes to suspend Syria’s membership.

November: The Arab League overwhelmingly approves sanctions against Syria to pressure Damascus to end the crackdown, an unprecedented move against an Arab state.

December: Back-to-back car bombs near Syria’s intelligence agencies in Damascus kill at least 44 in the first major attack in the heart of the capital. Syria’s state-run TV blames al-Qaeda fighters.
Syrian security forces open fire on thousands of anti-government protesters in the central city of Hama, one day ahead of a visit by Arab League observers on a mission to end the crackdown.

2012: Massacres as international diplomacy fails

January: The Arab League halts its observer mission in Syria because of escalating violence.
Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria, announces its creation. Since then it has been described as "one of the most effective rebel forces" in Syria. The group has been designated as a terrorist organisation by the UN, US, UK, Australia and Turkey.

February:Russia and China veto a resolution in the UN Security Council that backs an Arab League plan calling for Assad to step down. The diplomatic development came a day after hundreds of casualties were reported in a major assault by government forces on Homs’ Khalidiyah district.

After months of fierce military assaults and rebel ambushes in Homs, Assad troops regain control of the central city [Reuters]
Syria holds referendum on a new constitution, a gesture by Assad to placate the opposition. The West dismisses the vote as a sham.

March: Syrian troops take control of shattered Bab Amr in Homs after a government assault that raged for weeks. The main opposition group, the Syrian National Council, forms a military council to organise and unify all armed resistance.

April: Syria promises to comply with a UN-brokered ceasefire but carves out an important condition - that the regime still has a right to defend itself against terrorists that it says are behind the uprising. The agreement ultimately fails to hold.

May: A massacre in Houla village in Homs leave more than 100 killed, nearly half of them children. The UN Human Rights Council later releases a report accusing Assad’s forces and pro-government militiamen of war crimes during the bloodbath.

June: UN observers suspend patrols in Syria due to escalating violence.

July: A blast at the National Security building in Damascus kills the defence minister and his deputy, who is also Assad’s brother-in-law, and wounds the interior minister. Rebels claim responsibility.

July: Syria threatens to unleash chemical and biological weapons if the country faces a foreign attack, the country’s first acknowledgement that it possesses weapons of mass destruction.

August: Kofi Annan announces his resignation as UN-Arab League envoy to Syria after failing to broker a ceasefire.
Obama says US will reconsider its opposition to military involvement in Syria if Assad’s regime deploys or uses chemical or biological weapons, calling such action a "red line" for the US.

November: Syrian anti-government groups strike a deal to form the Syrian National Coalition, a new opposition leadership that will include representatives from the country’s disparate factions fighting to topple Assad’s regime, responding to repeated calls from their Western and Arab supporters to create a cohesive and representative leadership.

2013: Chemical attack and rebel infighting

January: A defiant Assad blames "murderous criminals" for violence in Syria, ignores international demands to step down and pledges to continue the battle "as long as there is one terrorist left" in Syria.

April:The leader of the self-declared Jihadist group the Islamic State of Iraq, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, released a recorded audio message, in which he announces that Jabhat al-Nusra was an extension of al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria. The leader of al-Nusra, Abu Mohammad al-Joulani, refuses the merger. Divisions and infighting among the ranks of the self-labelled jihadists emerge.

Syrian activists accused Assad's forces of launching a chemical attack that killed hundreds of people[Reuters]
May: The European Union ends its embargo on sending weapons to help Syrian rebels.

June: Obama authorises sending weapons to Syrian rebels after White House discloses that US has conclusive evidence Assad’s government used chemical weapons on a small scale against opposition forces.

August: The Assad regime is accused of using chemical weapons in the Damascus suburbs to kill hundreds of civilians, including many children as they slept. The government denies using chemical weapons.
Obama says he has decided the United States should take military action against Syria. But the president says he will seek congressional authorisation for the use of force.

September: A possible diplomatic solution to avoid a US military strike arose when Syria welcomed a suggestion to move all of the country’s chemical weapons under international control. UN Security Council unanimously adopts a resolution requiring the Syrian regime to dismantle its chemical weapons arsenal.

October: Officials from OPCW arrive in Damascus to monitor the dismantling of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal.

2014: Failed peace attempts and presidential election

January: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon convenes the first round of peace talks in Geneva involving the Syrian government and Syrian National Coalition.

February:A second round of the Geneva talks is held; representatives of government and opposition fail to agree on agenda; Joint Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi apologises to the Syrian people for lack of progress in the talks. He resigns in May.

June: Syria holds a presidential election in government-held areas. More than one person could stand as a presidential candidate for the first time since the Assad family came to power more four decades ago.

The establishment of a new "caliphate" was announced by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi named as caliph. The group formally changed its name to "Islamic State".

July: The UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution on Syria allowing aid convoys to go into rebel-held areas without government approval.

Your timeline is nonsense. It doesn´t mention that the "protestors" were armed and fired at both peaceful demonstrators and security personnel. It doesn´t mention the Islamist terrorist nature of the "rebels". It doesn´t mention that the terrorist use chemical weapons but only reports that the government was accused of the use of chemical weapons. The timeline is a propaganda production.

UN accuses Syrian rebels of chemical weapons use - Telegraph


While all the evidences needed to prove that the "rebels" are murderous terrorists are available online with minimal research, people like you keep blaming the government following your government´s sinister agenda.

Nah, the people of Syria were protesting against a dictator and their basic human rights, and Assad told his tanks to open fire on civilians. Just how much are they paying you for this bullshit propaganda? You're about as bad as the Hamas propagandists. That pig won't fly.

Syria Conflict Timeline: 34 Months of Civil War

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  By Ludovica IaccinoJanuary 22, 2014 09:51 GMT

Men help a wounded boy who survived what activists say was an airstrike by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the Duma neighbourhood of DamascusReuters

The Syria conflict erupted in 2011, following the wave of uprisings known as "Arab Spring" that spread throughout the Middle East overthrowing regimes that had last for decades.

Syria Peace Talks: 25 Powerful Images of the Conflict
Some 30 countries are sending their envoys to Geneva to attend the second session of the peace conference aimed at ending the conflict.

Meanwhile, photographic evidence of alleged widespread torture by the Syrian government made headlines worldwide.

After 34 months of civil war, more than 100,000 people are dead, 9.5m are left uprooted and there appears no end in sight to the fighting.

IBTimesUK looks at the main key events of the conflict.

March 2011: Protestors take to the street demanding democratic reforms and the release of some teenagers, who had been imprisoned and tortured for having drawn Arab Spring inspired anti-political graffiti.

22 April 2011: The beginning of serious violence and one of the bloodiest days of the Syrian revolution, as over 100 people are killed by security forces during the "Great Friday protest", according to rights groups.

In an attempt to suppress the movement, Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad banned foreign journalists from the country and anyone attempting to film or otherwise report on events since mid-March has been subject to arrest and torture by the security forces.

July 2011: The Free Syrian Army group is formed and aims to overthrow President Bashar Assad's regime.

August 2011: Syria is sliding into civil war. At least 1,583 civilians and 369 members of the army and security forces have been killed since mid-March.
Western powers condemn the violence.

November 2011: The Arab League suspend Syria from its meetings and impose sanctions against Damascus over its failure to end a government crackdown on protesters.

Syrian officials reject the new sanctions imposed on the country by the Arab League and accuse foreign countries of a conspiracy.

December 2011: Some 200 people are killed by Syrian security forces in the hills and villages of the north-western province of Idlib. Most of those killed were reportedly army defectors.

UN links Assad to war crimes, but Assad denies responsibility for the brutal crackdown led by Syrian troops on protesters.

The estimated death toll of the conflict is raised to 125,835 by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The government releases 755 people detained during the protests against President Assad.

January 2012: General Mustafa Ahmad al-Sheikh defects to join the Free Syrian Army.

February 2012: US shuts embassy and withdraw all diplomats as bloody violence escalates.

March 2012: The total number of registered refugees in Turkey has reached 14,000.

10 May 2012: Two powerful explosions kill dozens in Damascus. The government and anti-regime forces blame each other for the attacks.

25 May 2012: Hundreds, most of which women and children, are killed in in the Houla region near Homs, in one of the worst massacres since the beginning of the conflict.

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and special envoy Kofi Annan issue a joint statement strongly condemning the attack.

The Syrian government releases another 500 political detainees in an attempt to show a commitment to Kofi Annan's plan to end violence.

June 2012: International Committee of Red Cross warns of humanitarian crisis facing thousands who fled Houla massacre and urge help.

A massacre allegedly by the Syrian security forces and Assad loyalists in Hama kills 70.

Amnesty International accuses UN Security Council of dithering while Syrian regime acts with impunity.

July-August 2012: Manaf Tlas, a general from a Sunni family close to the Assads, flees Syria.

A massacre in Hama kills more than 220 people; PM Riyad Hijab defects to join the revolution; Human Rights Watch documents a series of bombings in Aleppo.

A man carries a wounded child who survived what activists said was an air strike by forces loyal to Syria's president Bashar Al-Assad in the Al-Maysar neighbourhood of AleppoReuters


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October 2012: Syria agrees to ceasefire. US and Russian-Made Weapons raise conflict stakes.Clashes are reported across the country after a four-day truce is agreed.

December 2012: Assad warns about rebels using chemical weapons.
At least 90 people are killed in a government strike in Hama province.

January 2013: Forces loyal to Assad storm a small village killing 37 civilians.
100 people are killed in the village of Haswiya.

Assad gives "final orders" to commanders if he is assassinated.

March 2013: Activist group records 6,005 deaths.

Syria accused by IDF Official of Using Chemical Weapons

May 2013: Opposition activists say more than 200 men, women and children were killed in what they said was a brutal sectarian attack and one of the worst massacres of the war.

UN publishes claims that rebel troops, not regime forces, deployed banned chemical.

EU ends arm embargo on Syrian opposition group

June–July 2013: Rebels attacked the village of Hatla in eastern Syria, killing at least 60 Shia Muslim residents.

Rebels captured the northern town of Khan al-Assal, allegedly killing 150 government soldiers.

August 2013: Rebels carrying out a military offensive near Latakia killed as many as 190 civilians, according to Human Rights Watch.

Activists believe that more than 500 people lost their lives in an attack on the Ghouta agricultural belt around Damascus.

Iran and Russia oppose US and Britain intervention against Damascus.

September 2013: Assad warns US strike will Spark Middle East conflict

The number of people displaced by Syria's civil war has passed two million.

Syrian refugee children sit on boxes of humanitarian aid before its distribution by volunteers of the Bulgarian Red CrossReuters

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January 2014: UN stops updating the death toll in Syria conflict, as it can no longer verify the sources of information.

Geneva 2 peace conference begins

Lead-head will never understand till he takes that helmet off and actually listen to the syria people.

 

[aris2chat]

Hezbollah is listed by most Western nations as a TERRORIST ORGANIZATION, but to this Assad ASS-LICKER, "Hezbollah are the good guys":

Suicide and terror attacks

A smoke cloud rises from the bombed American barracks at Beirut International Airport, where over 200 U.S. marines were killed
Between 1982 and 1986, there were 36 suicide attacks in Lebanon directed against American, French and Israelis forces by 41 individuals, killing 659.[43] Hezbollah denies involvement in these attacks, though it has been accused of some or all of these attacks:[169][170]

• The 1982–1983 Tyre headquarters bombings
• The April 1983 U.S. Embassy bombing (by the Islamic Jihad Organization),[171]
• The 1983 Beirut barracks bombing (by the Islamic Jihad Organization), that killed 241 U.S. marines, 58 French paratroopers and 6 civilians at the US and French barracks in Beirut[172]
• The 1983 Kuwait bombings in collaboration with the Iraqi Dawa Party.[173]
• The 1984 United States embassy annex bombing, killing 24.[174]
• A spate of attacks on IDF troops and SLA militiamen in southern Lebanon.[43]
• Hijacking of TWA Flight 847 in 1985,[172]
• The Lebanon hostage crisis from 1982 to 1992.[175]

Since 1990, terror acts and attempts of which Hezbollah has been blamed include the following bombings and attacks against civilians and diplomats:

• The 1992 Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires, killing 29, in Argentina.[172] Hezbollah operatives boasted of involvement.[176]
• The 1994 AMIA bombing of a Jewish cultural centre, killing 85, in Argentina.[172] Hezbollah claimed responsibility.[176]
• The 1994 AC Flight 901 attack, killing 21, in Panama.[177] Hezbollah claimed responsibility.[176]
• The 1994 London Israeli Embassy attack, injuring 29, in the United Kingdom.[178]
• The 1996 Khobar Towers bombing, killing 19 US servicemen.[179]
• Providing "direct assistance" to al Qaeda, including training and explosives, in orchestrating the 1998 United States embassy bombings.[180]
• In 2002, Singapore accused Hezbollah of recruiting Singaporeans in a failed 1990s plot to attack U.S. and Israeli ships in the Singapore Straits.[181]
• The January 15, 2008, bombing of a U.S. Embassy vehicle in Beirut.[182]
• In 2009, a Hezbollah plot in Egypt was uncovered, where Egyptian authorities arrested 49 men for planning attacks against Israeli and Egyptian targets in the Sinai Peninsula.[183]
• The 2012 Burgas bus bombing, killing 6, in Bulgaria.[184]
• Training Shia insurgents against US troops during the Iraq War

2011 attack in Istanbul
In July 2011, Italian newspaper Corierre della Sera reported, based on American and Turkish sources,[213] that Hezbollah was behind a bombing in Istanbul in May 2011 that wounded eight Turkish civilians. The report said that the attack was an assassination attempt on the Israeli consul to Turkey, Moshe Kimchi. Turkish intelligence sources denied the report and said "Israel is in the habit of creating disinformation campaigns using different papers."[213]

2012 planned attack in Cyprus
Main article: 2012 Cyprus terrorist plot
In July 2012, a Lebanese man was detained by Cyprus police on possible charges relating to terrorism laws for planning attacks against Israeli tourists. According to security officials, the man was planning attacks for Hezbollah in Cyprus and admitted this after questioning. The police were alerted about the man due to an urgent message from Israeli intelligence. The Lebanese man was in possession of photographs of Israeli targets and had information on Israeli airlines flying back and forth from Cyprus, and planned to blow up a plane or tour bus.[214] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that Iran assisted the Lebanese man with planning the attacks.[215]

2012 Burgas attack
Main article: 2012 Burgas bus bombing
Following an investigation into the 2012 Burgas bus bombing terrorist attack against Israeli citizens in Bulgaria, the Bulgarian government officially accused the Lebanese-militant movement Hezbollah of committing the attack.[216] Five Israeli citizens, the Bulgarian bus driver, and the bomber were killed. The bomb exploded as the Israeli tourists boarded a bus from the airport to their hotel.

Tsvetan Tsvetanov, Bulgaria's interior minister, reported that the two suspects responsible were members of the militant wing of Hezbollah; he said the suspected terrorists entered Bulgaria on June 28 and remained until July 18. Israel had already previously suspected Hezbollah for the attack. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the report "further corroboration of what we have already known, that Hezbollah and its Iranian patrons are orchestrating a worldwide campaign of terror that is spanning countries and continents."[217] Netanyahu said that the attack in Bulgaria was just one of many that Hezbollah and Iran have planned and carried out, including attacks in Thailand, Kenya, Turkey, India, Azerbaijan, Cyprus and Georgia.[216]

John Brennan, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, has said that "Bulgaria's investigation exposes Hezbollah for what it is – a terrorist group that is willing to recklessly attack innocent men, women and children, and that poses a real and growing threat not only to Europe, but to the rest of the world."[218] The result of the Bulgarian investigation comes at a time when Israel has been petitioning the European Union to join the United States in designating Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.[218]

Assassination of Rafic Hariri
Main article: Assassination of Rafic Hariri
On February 14, 2005, former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri was killed, along with 21 others, when his motorcade was struck by a roadside bomb in Beirut. He had been PM during 1992–1998 and 2000–2004. In 2009, the United Nations special tribunal investigating the murder of Hariri reportedly found evidence linking Hezbollah to the murder.[219]

In August 2010, in response to notification that the UN tribunal would indict some Hezbollah members, Hassan Nasrallah said Israel was looking for a way to assassinate Hariri as early as 1993 in order to create political chaos that would force Syria to withdraw from Lebanon, and to perpetuate an anti-Syrian atmosphere [in Lebanon] in the wake of the assassination. He went on to say that in 1996 Hezbollah apprehended an agent working for Israel by the name of Ahmed Nasrallah – no relation to Hassan Nasrallah – who allegedly contacted Hariri's security detail and told them that he had solid proof that Hezbollah was planning to take his life. Hariri then contacted Hezbollah and advised them of the situation.[220] Saad Hariri responded that the UN should investigate these claims.[221]

On June 30, 2011, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, established to investigate the death of Hariri, issued arrest warrants against four senior members of Hezbollah, includingMustafa Badr Al Din.[222] On July 3, Hassan Nasrallah rejected the indictment and denounced the tribunal as a plot against the party, vowing that the named persons would not be arrested under any circumstances.[223]

you could throw a few tons of books at him and he won't get it

 

[Roudy]

Ruddy goes to Hasbara sites and cuts and pastes lists. There are similar lists showing a far greater number of Israeli terrorist attacks that have murdered far more people. As long as everyone is aware where he gets his info, it's no issue. He can make up anything he wants.

Israel does not commit terrorist attacks, moron. Your beloved Palestinian and Hezbollah Islamists do.

 

[Bleipriester]

Assad has killed far more of his own people than the terrorists. The terrorists appeared when Obama drew the line and nobody came to help the secular uprising after Assad stsrted massacring his own people.

Assad is a dictator that took power after his father, another brutal dictator, died. He is doing what all Arab dictators do when their power is challenged: SLAUGHTER HIS OWN PEOPLE.

Hello, "Syrian" "opposition" "activist" XY.
There was no secular uprising and all demands of the few secular demonstrants are implemented.
President Assad is not slaughtering "his own" people. You can keep repeating your lies but how does that change something?

Of course you are delusional and an Assad propagandist. Assad is a brutal dictator who has used his own military to slaughter his own people in order to stay in power. And it is because his neighbors and the West let Assad get away with this behavior, it gave rise to ISIS.

Timeline of Syria s raging war - Al Jazeera English

Timeline of Syria's raging war
Key events in conflict that so far claimed the lives of more than 150,000 people and displaced half the population.

09 Aug 2014 06:54 GMT | Politics, Human Rights, Syria, Humanitarian crises, Bashar al-Assad

• The Syrian conflict has been growing in intensity and scope for more than three years. An estimated 150,000 people have died since the uprising began in March 2011.

More than two million people have left the country, fleeing fighting between government forces and opposition fighters.

Here are some of the key events in the conflict:

2011: Protests, crackdown and condemnation

March: Protests are held in different parts of the country, inspired by other popular uprisings across the Arab world. The military cracks down on protesters in Damascus, Banias and Deraa, cradle of the uprising where 100 people are reportedly killed on the 23rd.

April: President Bashar al-Assad vows to crush what he called "terrorists". Protests calling for the downfall of the regime spread and strengthen. The crackdown intensifies. Hundreds are killed.

Syrians in their thousands took to the streets nationwide for the to demand an end to Assad's rule [Reuters]
May: The US imposes sanctions on Assad and senior Syrian officials for human rights abuses.

June: Details emerge of a mutiny by Syrian soldiers in the northern town of Jisr al-Shughour, where 120 troops were killed, according to the government.

August: After days of ferocious assault on the city of Hama, the epicenter of anti-regime protests, hundreds are left dead by Syrian security forces backed by tanks and snipers. The US, Britain, France and Germany and the European Union demand that Assad resign, saying he is unfit to lead.

The Syrian National Council is formed, the first opposition coalition of diverse groups seeking an end to Assad's rule. The body a year later becomes part of a supposedly more encompassing Syrian National Coalition.

October: Russia and China veto a European-backed UN Security Council resolution that threatens sanctions against Syria if it doesn’t immediately halt its military crackdown against civilians.US pulls its ambassador out of Syria. The Arab League votes to suspend Syria’s membership.

November: The Arab League overwhelmingly approves sanctions against Syria to pressure Damascus to end the crackdown, an unprecedented move against an Arab state.

December: Back-to-back car bombs near Syria’s intelligence agencies in Damascus kill at least 44 in the first major attack in the heart of the capital. Syria’s state-run TV blames al-Qaeda fighters.
Syrian security forces open fire on thousands of anti-government protesters in the central city of Hama, one day ahead of a visit by Arab League observers on a mission to end the crackdown.

2012: Massacres as international diplomacy fails

January: The Arab League halts its observer mission in Syria because of escalating violence.
Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria, announces its creation. Since then it has been described as "one of the most effective rebel forces" in Syria. The group has been designated as a terrorist organisation by the UN, US, UK, Australia and Turkey.

February:Russia and China veto a resolution in the UN Security Council that backs an Arab League plan calling for Assad to step down. The diplomatic development came a day after hundreds of casualties were reported in a major assault by government forces on Homs’ Khalidiyah district.

After months of fierce military assaults and rebel ambushes in Homs, Assad troops regain control of the central city [Reuters]
Syria holds referendum on a new constitution, a gesture by Assad to placate the opposition. The West dismisses the vote as a sham.

March: Syrian troops take control of shattered Bab Amr in Homs after a government assault that raged for weeks. The main opposition group, the Syrian National Council, forms a military council to organise and unify all armed resistance.

April: Syria promises to comply with a UN-brokered ceasefire but carves out an important condition - that the regime still has a right to defend itself against terrorists that it says are behind the uprising. The agreement ultimately fails to hold.

May: A massacre in Houla village in Homs leave more than 100 killed, nearly half of them children. The UN Human Rights Council later releases a report accusing Assad’s forces and pro-government militiamen of war crimes during the bloodbath.

June: UN observers suspend patrols in Syria due to escalating violence.

July: A blast at the National Security building in Damascus kills the defence minister and his deputy, who is also Assad’s brother-in-law, and wounds the interior minister. Rebels claim responsibility.

July: Syria threatens to unleash chemical and biological weapons if the country faces a foreign attack, the country’s first acknowledgement that it possesses weapons of mass destruction.

August: Kofi Annan announces his resignation as UN-Arab League envoy to Syria after failing to broker a ceasefire.
Obama says US will reconsider its opposition to military involvement in Syria if Assad’s regime deploys or uses chemical or biological weapons, calling such action a "red line" for the US.

November: Syrian anti-government groups strike a deal to form the Syrian National Coalition, a new opposition leadership that will include representatives from the country’s disparate factions fighting to topple Assad’s regime, responding to repeated calls from their Western and Arab supporters to create a cohesive and representative leadership.

2013: Chemical attack and rebel infighting

January: A defiant Assad blames "murderous criminals" for violence in Syria, ignores international demands to step down and pledges to continue the battle "as long as there is one terrorist left" in Syria.

April:The leader of the self-declared Jihadist group the Islamic State of Iraq, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, released a recorded audio message, in which he announces that Jabhat al-Nusra was an extension of al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria. The leader of al-Nusra, Abu Mohammad al-Joulani, refuses the merger. Divisions and infighting among the ranks of the self-labelled jihadists emerge.

Syrian activists accused Assad's forces of launching a chemical attack that killed hundreds of people[Reuters]
May: The European Union ends its embargo on sending weapons to help Syrian rebels.

June: Obama authorises sending weapons to Syrian rebels after White House discloses that US has conclusive evidence Assad’s government used chemical weapons on a small scale against opposition forces.

August: The Assad regime is accused of using chemical weapons in the Damascus suburbs to kill hundreds of civilians, including many children as they slept. The government denies using chemical weapons.
Obama says he has decided the United States should take military action against Syria. But the president says he will seek congressional authorisation for the use of force.

September: A possible diplomatic solution to avoid a US military strike arose when Syria welcomed a suggestion to move all of the country’s chemical weapons under international control. UN Security Council unanimously adopts a resolution requiring the Syrian regime to dismantle its chemical weapons arsenal.

October: Officials from OPCW arrive in Damascus to monitor the dismantling of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal.

2014: Failed peace attempts and presidential election

January: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon convenes the first round of peace talks in Geneva involving the Syrian government and Syrian National Coalition.

February:A second round of the Geneva talks is held; representatives of government and opposition fail to agree on agenda; Joint Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi apologises to the Syrian people for lack of progress in the talks. He resigns in May.

June: Syria holds a presidential election in government-held areas. More than one person could stand as a presidential candidate for the first time since the Assad family came to power more four decades ago.

The establishment of a new "caliphate" was announced by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi named as caliph. The group formally changed its name to "Islamic State".

July: The UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution on Syria allowing aid convoys to go into rebel-held areas without government approval.

Your timeline is nonsense. It doesn´t mention that the "protestors" were armed and fired at both peaceful demonstrators and security personnel. It doesn´t mention the Islamist terrorist nature of the "rebels". It doesn´t mention that the terrorist use chemical weapons but only reports that the government was accused of the use of chemical weapons. The timeline is a propaganda production.

UN accuses Syrian rebels of chemical weapons use - Telegraph


While all the evidences needed to prove that the "rebels" are murderous terrorists are available online with minimal research, people like you keep blaming the government following your government´s sinister agenda.

Nah, the people of Syria were protesting against a dictator and their basic human rights, and Assad told his tanks to open fire on civilians. Just how much are they paying you for this bullshit propaganda? You're about as bad as the Hamas propagandists. That pig won't fly.

Syria Conflict Timeline: 34 Months of Civil War

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  By Ludovica IaccinoJanuary 22, 2014 09:51 GMT

Men help a wounded boy who survived what activists say was an airstrike by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the Duma neighbourhood of DamascusReuters

The Syria conflict erupted in 2011, following the wave of uprisings known as "Arab Spring" that spread throughout the Middle East overthrowing regimes that had last for decades.

Syria Peace Talks: 25 Powerful Images of the Conflict
Some 30 countries are sending their envoys to Geneva to attend the second session of the peace conference aimed at ending the conflict.

Meanwhile, photographic evidence of alleged widespread torture by the Syrian government made headlines worldwide.

After 34 months of civil war, more than 100,000 people are dead, 9.5m are left uprooted and there appears no end in sight to the fighting.

IBTimesUK looks at the main key events of the conflict.

March 2011: Protestors take to the street demanding democratic reforms and the release of some teenagers, who had been imprisoned and tortured for having drawn Arab Spring inspired anti-political graffiti.

22 April 2011: The beginning of serious violence and one of the bloodiest days of the Syrian revolution, as over 100 people are killed by security forces during the "Great Friday protest", according to rights groups.

In an attempt to suppress the movement, Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad banned foreign journalists from the country and anyone attempting to film or otherwise report on events since mid-March has been subject to arrest and torture by the security forces.

July 2011: The Free Syrian Army group is formed and aims to overthrow President Bashar Assad's regime.

August 2011: Syria is sliding into civil war. At least 1,583 civilians and 369 members of the army and security forces have been killed since mid-March.
Western powers condemn the violence.

November 2011: The Arab League suspend Syria from its meetings and impose sanctions against Damascus over its failure to end a government crackdown on protesters.

Syrian officials reject the new sanctions imposed on the country by the Arab League and accuse foreign countries of a conspiracy.

December 2011: Some 200 people are killed by Syrian security forces in the hills and villages of the north-western province of Idlib. Most of those killed were reportedly army defectors.

UN links Assad to war crimes, but Assad denies responsibility for the brutal crackdown led by Syrian troops on protesters.

The estimated death toll of the conflict is raised to 125,835 by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The government releases 755 people detained during the protests against President Assad.

January 2012: General Mustafa Ahmad al-Sheikh defects to join the Free Syrian Army.

February 2012: US shuts embassy and withdraw all diplomats as bloody violence escalates.

March 2012: The total number of registered refugees in Turkey has reached 14,000.

10 May 2012: Two powerful explosions kill dozens in Damascus. The government and anti-regime forces blame each other for the attacks.

25 May 2012: Hundreds, most of which women and children, are killed in in the Houla region near Homs, in one of the worst massacres since the beginning of the conflict.

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and special envoy Kofi Annan issue a joint statement strongly condemning the attack.

The Syrian government releases another 500 political detainees in an attempt to show a commitment to Kofi Annan's plan to end violence.

June 2012: International Committee of Red Cross warns of humanitarian crisis facing thousands who fled Houla massacre and urge help.

A massacre allegedly by the Syrian security forces and Assad loyalists in Hama kills 70.

Amnesty International accuses UN Security Council of dithering while Syrian regime acts with impunity.

July-August 2012: Manaf Tlas, a general from a Sunni family close to the Assads, flees Syria.

A massacre in Hama kills more than 220 people; PM Riyad Hijab defects to join the revolution; Human Rights Watch documents a series of bombings in Aleppo.

A man carries a wounded child who survived what activists said was an air strike by forces loyal to Syria's president Bashar Al-Assad in the Al-Maysar neighbourhood of AleppoReuters


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October 2012: Syria agrees to ceasefire. US and Russian-Made Weapons raise conflict stakes.Clashes are reported across the country after a four-day truce is agreed.

December 2012: Assad warns about rebels using chemical weapons.
At least 90 people are killed in a government strike in Hama province.

January 2013: Forces loyal to Assad storm a small village killing 37 civilians.
100 people are killed in the village of Haswiya.

Assad gives "final orders" to commanders if he is assassinated.

March 2013: Activist group records 6,005 deaths.

Syria accused by IDF Official of Using Chemical Weapons

May 2013: Opposition activists say more than 200 men, women and children were killed in what they said was a brutal sectarian attack and one of the worst massacres of the war.

UN publishes claims that rebel troops, not regime forces, deployed banned chemical.

EU ends arm embargo on Syrian opposition group

June–July 2013: Rebels attacked the village of Hatla in eastern Syria, killing at least 60 Shia Muslim residents.

Rebels captured the northern town of Khan al-Assal, allegedly killing 150 government soldiers.

August 2013: Rebels carrying out a military offensive near Latakia killed as many as 190 civilians, according to Human Rights Watch.

Activists believe that more than 500 people lost their lives in an attack on the Ghouta agricultural belt around Damascus.

Iran and Russia oppose US and Britain intervention against Damascus.

September 2013: Assad warns US strike will Spark Middle East conflict

The number of people displaced by Syria's civil war has passed two million.

Syrian refugee children sit on boxes of humanitarian aid before its distribution by volunteers of the Bulgarian Red CrossReuters

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January 2014: UN stops updating the death toll in Syria conflict, as it can no longer verify the sources of information.

Geneva 2 peace conference begins

Lead-head will never understand till he takes that helmet off and actually listen to the syria people.

In sharp contrast to the anti-Syrian agenda driven terrorist supporters I do. Here, listen:

"The data, relayed to NATO over the last month, asserted that 70 percent
of Syrians support the Assad regime. Another 20 percent were deemed neutral and the remaining 10 percent expressed support for the rebels."
NATO data Assad winning the war for Syrians hearts and minds - World Tribune World Tribune