Headline News 24/02/2016
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Message titled "Advice and Warning to the people of Syria do not fall into the trap of truces and negotiations!" delivered by Brother Abu Batoul in the town of Ghabagheb in Daraa countryside.
With all of the uncertainties that Yemen’s civil war and epidemic lawlessness brings, one thing remains constant and reliable, that is, the ever widening gap between the wealthily and privileged pre Arab Spring elite and the malnourished and desperate citizens who are kept as a weakened underclass. Like the other Arab Spring countries, much was promised to the hopeful majority of citizens, but very little was delivered in terms of real progress or advantage for its venerable women and children.
At the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011, the Middle East saw what would become known as the ‘Arab Spring’. Beginning in Tunisia and spreading to Yemen, Libya and Egypt mass protests broke out in the streets against the regimes and the Presidents who had ruled them for decades. First Ben Ali fled, then the Egyptian army staged a coup against Mubarak whilst Gadhafi was killed when the people caught up with him.