I received the following message from Syria…
A live Massacre unfolds in the Saydnaya prison in Syria
The regime denies, and the world is silent
Update One
The event was reportedly instigated on July 4th, by the attitude of the prison guards, who during an unannounced search of prison cells, where Islamist prisoners are held, desecrated copies of the [...]

… Thanks to habibi Yaman!

The domino effect is working from Cairo to Damascus and from Mahalla to Beirut, as Zenobia notes…

Imad Mughniyeh, a major resistance figure wanted by the US for his suspected role in the 1983 bombing of US barracks in Beirut, was killed in a car bomb in Syria… Click on Fathi Abul Ezz’s cartoon below to read more about him…

From Al-Jazeera…
Syria’s parliament has unanimously nominated Bashar al-Assad, the country’s president, for a second term and set May 27 as the date for a referendum which many dissidents have condemned as undemocratic.
The referendum marks another step in a process that all but guarantees al-Assad’s hold on power for another seven years.
Mahmoud al-Abrash, parliament’s speaker, [...]

I’ve been following Al-Jazeera and BBC since the morning, and there seems to be several conflicting stories about the attack, which has ended few minutes ago, according to the news outlets.
Eyewitnesses are talking about two attackers who approached the embassy and then detonated a Lebanese-licenseplated car; others talk about exchange of gun fire and grenades.
But [...]