Rebels: Gulf States and Candlelight Vigil

rebels: Assad might have won this battle but the war is not over, he told the gathered crowd, many of them fellow Syrian refugees who have made a new home in Canada after fleeing their homeland's five-year civil war, which broke out after the regime opened fire on Arab Spring demonstrations and rebels took up arms, according to Metro News. The conflict has pulled in major world powers Russia and Iran propping up Assad, and Gulf states and the U.S. backing the armed opposition and it's become a political quagmire. Alsaleh spoke to a crowd of several hundred attending a candlelight vigil against dictator Bashar al-Assad outside the Vancouver Art Gallery, as the strongman took back the city of Aleppo, Syria from rebels. Humanity is dead and nobody is really caring about what is happening in Syria, Alsaleh lamented. We as Canadians are demanding change not only from our politicians in Canada but from politicians across the world, she said. Contributed/Zarah Tinholt For another rally speaker, Zarah Tinholt with the group Refugees Matter, the United Nations Security Council's deadlock over whether to intervene in the conflict need not paralyze the rest of the world. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.