The U.S. and Saudi Arabia are working on a package of arms deals and financial investments aimed at elevating economic and security cooperation between Washington and Riyadh after several years of strained relations over the U.S. diplomatic outreach to Iran. The potential agreements, coupled with Mr. Trump’s scheduled arrival in Saudi Arabia this week or […]
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Syria Talks Restart in Geneva…
A new round of Syria peace talks opened Tuesday in Geneva as the Damascus regime fiercely denied it used a prison crematorium to hide evidence of thousands of murdered detainees. Five previous rounds of UN-backed negotiations have failed to yield a solution to the six-year conflict. UN envoy Staffan de Mistura met with Syrian government […]
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Strategic Syria Policy Now Lies with Tillerson and Lavrov by Alistair Crooke…
No, we are not referring to James Comey’s dismissal (though this too, does reflect a change of mode). Perhaps we should have paid closer attention to Roger Stone, a long-time friend of the President, and his erstwhile campaign manager, who insists, and insists trenchantly, that Trump is his ‘own man’. Those who think Trump can […]
Germany May Pull Troops Out of Turkish Base…
Wolfgang Hellmich, the chairman of the Bundestag Defense Committee told the German news agency dpa “we’re not going to be blackmailed” by the Ankara government after a second German parliamentary delegation was prevented from visiting Turkey’s Incirlik facility. The air base is being used in the international fightback against so-called “Islamic State” (IS) militants…
Newly Formed Militant Group in Syria Receives Training and Equipment from Turkey…
The militant groups known as the Sultan Mohammed Al-Fateh Brigade, the Samarkand Brigade, Jaish al-Ahfad, the Al-Muntaser Bellah Brigade, the 101st Division, the Al-Fatah Brigade, the Tala’a al-Nasr Brigade joined the First Corps. The group now includes 10,000 fighters, according to Capt. Abu Kanan al-Homsi. Its militants had received training and equipment from Turkey…
Syrian and Iraqi Armies Fortify Border…
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Trump Agrees to Arm Kurds in Hugely Significant Move for Syria by Patrick Cockburn…
President Trump’s decision to provide weapons to the Syrian Kurds, who are fighting Isis, potentially marks a crucial change in the political geography of the Middle East. In effect, the US is choosing to support its Kurdish ally in Syria, in defiance of Turkey, whose aim is to prevent the establishment of a quasi-independent Kurdish […]
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Syria’s Conflict: Russia Scores Big Foreign Policy Win…
What seemed to be unbelievable has finally happened! A pipe dream has come true! For the first time in six years since the Syrian conflict sparked, light is seen at the end of the tunnel. In a major foreign policy breakthrough, Moscow has received major international support of its conflict management initiative. On May 4, […]
How U.S. Nuclear Force Modernization Is Undermining Strategic Stability…
The US nuclear forces modernization program has been portrayed to the public as an effort to ensure the reliability and safety of warheads in the US nuclear arsenal, rather than to enhance their military capabilities. In reality, however, that program has implemented revolutionary new technologies that will vastly increase the targeting capability of the US […]
Man Jailed In North Korea Warns “There’s A Lot More Americans Locked Up Here Than Anyone Knows”…
We should all hope that the current level of antagonism between the US and North Korea eventually passes, as it has many times before. But if it does, North Korea will fade from the news cycle. And with that, most people are going to forget about some of the crazy things that country has done, […]
Secretary Tillerson Meets With Russia’s FM Sergei Lavrov…
“I want to welcome Foreign Minister Lavrov to the State Department and express my appreciation for him making the trip to Washington so that we can continue our dialogue and our exchange of views that began in Moscow with the dialogue he hosted on a very broad range of topics. Thank you”…
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Lavrov, Tillerson to Discuss Ukraine, Syria in Wednesday Meeting…
Tillerson visited Moscow in April, meeting both with Foreign Minister Lavrov and President Putin. Trump praised the meeting and said that the talks were successful. However, later in April Tillerson said that Moscow and Washington had not solved any issues during his visit to Russia. The top diplomats are expected to discuss stopping violence in […]
Photos from Syria Show White Helmets and Nusra/Qaeda Are the Same Organization…
Unlike journalists associated with the Western corporate media, Vanessa Beeley has been reporting from inside Syria on and off since early 2016. In many cases, while the Western corporate press was reporting in the most authoritative manner about the alleged “crimes against humanity” committed by the Syrian government in Aleppo despite having no one on […]
Lawsuit to Acquire Trump Records on Deadly January Yemen Raid – U.S. Rights Group…
“The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit today demanding that the Trump administration release documents about a January 29 raid in Yemen that left one Navy Seal and many Yemeni civilians dead,” the release stated…
Disturbing OIG Report: More Than 100 Vets Died Waiting for Care at Los Angeles VA…
More than 100 veterans died while waiting for care at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Los Angeles, Calif., over a nine-month span ending in August 2015, according to a new government report. The VA Office of Inspector General found in a recent healthcare inspection that 225 veterans at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System […]
Soon to Be Released, Chelsea Manning Thanked Obama and Supporters for Keeping Her Alive…
Chelsea Manning, a transgender soldier imprisoned for publishing classified military information, released her first statement on Tuesday since being granted clemency by former President Barack Obama in the waning days of his presidency, according to the Associated Press. In the statement, Manning said she hopes to use the lessons she’s learned to help others improve […]
Pentagon to Spend $8 Bln on Boosting Its Military Presence in Asia…
The US Department of Defense (DoD) ostensibly plans to increase its footprint in Asia by allocating nearly $8 billion on modernizing military infrastructure, carrying out more war-games and deploying additional forces to the region. The move comes at a time when Washington’s relations with North Korea have become increasingly strained.
What We Know About The Mysterious Air Force Space Plane That Just Landed After A Top Secret 718-Day Mission…
The U.S. military’s X-37B space plane landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Sunday, ending its record-breaking 718-day orbit with a sonic boom during its first landing in Florida. The U.S. Air Force has two X-37B Orbital Test Vehicles, which it calls its newest and most advanced re-entry spacecraft. At 29 feet long and with […]
U.S. and Russia Compete in Syria on ‘Reducing Escalation’ and ‘Safe Zones’…
There is no doubt that the main players (Russia and America) are competing in Syria to secure their interests and the interests of their allies in a country that was once, before 2011, called the Levant; the unity of that country is now uncertain. The partition of Syria between the two superpowers (and Turkey) seems […]
REPORT: 15k Sexual Assaults Were Committed in U.S. Military in 2016…
…The Military Services received 6,172 reports of sexual assault involving Service members as either victims or subjects of criminal investigations throughout fiscal year 2016…Using these rates, the Department estimates that about 14,900 Service members experienced some kind of sexual assault in 2016, down from about 20,300 in 2014…
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