The chemical attack on the Ghouta region of Syria has forced the world to discuss intervention in Syria, but is intervention more about maintaining the international image of the US and France?
The reports of a chemical weapons attack on the outskirts of Damascus has caused condemnation from around the world, with Russia backing a UN investigation into the claims and US President Obama calling it a “grave concern”.
Western support for the opposition in Syria’s bloody civil war raises fears of a blowback from the European extremists who have flocked to the new land of jihad.
Early in the night of May 5th Damascus was shook up by a massive explosion on Mount Qasioun from an Israeli airstrike
The battle around Damascus has grown fierce as the regime strives to take back suburbs around the capital city that have fallen into rebel hands. It is a vital showdown in the political survival of President Bashar Assad’s regime.