SYRIEN - En sammanställning av konflikten

The battalion headquarters, as the FSA guides called it, comprised of fourwhite tents pegged in 100-meter radius. The commander, Abdullah, appeared within minutes after the journalists finished the tea and eat some dates while sitting on carpets. From his looks, he seemed a 28 year-old athletic tall man with green eyes and extremely fair complexion. “Hello, gentlemen! Welcome to the land of the free. Please feel at home and ask whatever you want to,” he greeted, in authentic American accent. Seeing curious faces of the guests, Abdullah explained, “I lived in New York for 12 years, completed my degree in medicine and have a job there as well.” “When are you going back then? The fighting may take months if not years,” a colleague asked. Nodding in disagreement, Abdullah told the group that he came here on two-month leave to serve Syrian people as doctor but the commanders found a better soldier in him. “We are going to wrap up in Ramazan or hopefully be by the 15th,” he said as if it was scheduled but the world did not know. Abdullah introduced the journalistswith his ‘men’who looked more like college-going boys. They hailed fromvarious villages of Aleppo but had never met before. Amongst his 30-odd men, four were Orthodox Christians and two Alawites, belying the claim that uprising for Syria’s democratic future was merely a sectarian battle waged only by oppressed Sunni Muslims.

A Western conspiracy against the government of Bashar al-Assad is not due to a dislike of dictatorships, but because the Syrian regime refuses to follow Western orders, claims British MP George Galloway in an interview with RT.

MOSCOW — Russia's flagship airline Aeroflot says it is suspending flights to Syria's capital Damascus next month.

State-controlled Aeroflot has four flights to Damascus and is the only Russian airline currently operating direct Moscow-Damascus flights. The company's spokeswoman Irina Dannenberg said Monday that Aeroflot will suspend the flights Aug. 6 for commercial reasons.