The road to Raqqa is now blocked by U.S. forces and their allies. The chances that Raqqa (and the surrounding region) will be returned to Syria are now slim to none. Foreign armies and their proxies are sharpening their carving knives. U.S. Special Forces and Syrian Kurdish and Arab fighters have just captured a “strategic […]
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Washington’s Sponsored State of “Great Kurdistan” To Be Created in Syria And Iraq
According to the documents at our disposal, the U.S. authorities and the Syrian Kurds reached an agreement past week on the boundaries of the Kurdish autonomy in the territory of Syria, which had been guaranteed to Kurds in case of capturing Raqqa and Al-Tabqah (34 miles to the West of Raqqa). This confirms the reports […]
200 More U.S. Boots on the Ground to ‘advise and assist’ in Mosul Offensive…
The U.S. military is sending an additional two companies of soldiers to Iraq to help Iraqi troops fighting to retake Mosul from ISIS, defense officials confirmed to ABC News. Two companies of soldiers is equal to between 200 to 300 soldiers. Additional members of the 82nd Airborne Division’s second combat brigade are deploying to Iraq […]
Somalia: Reported U.S. Covert Actions Under Bush Jr. and Obama…
The Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) is the lead agency in the covert ‘war on terror’ in Somalia, although the CIA also has a strong regional presence. The US has been carrying out extensive covert military operations inside Somalia since 2001, as a major six-part investigation by the US Army Times recently revealed. Elite […]
The Airstrike in Mosul Was Potentially One of the Worst U.S. Led Civilian Bombings in 25 Years…
Even though Iraqi civil defense workers are still sorting through the rubble, the March 17 U.S. airstrike in West Mosul, if confirmed, could potentially rank among one of the most devastating attacks on civilians by American forces in more than two decades. Residents from the neighborhood where the strike occurred said that 137 civilians were […]
Is America’s War in Iraq, Syria and Libya Constitutional?…
In recent testimony before the Senate Judiciary hearing, I supported the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch, despite my disagreement with some of his opinions. I specifically noted that his textualist approach to statute and the Constitution is no vice in a federal judge. While I hold many liberal views, I also believe in a formalist […]
U.S. To Escalate Its Two Years War On Starving Yemen…
The picture shows yesterday’s rally in Sanaa,Yemen where up to 1 million people were condemning the war Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the UK and the U.S. have been waging on them for two years. Neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post reported of the million strong rally. Both though reported widely […]
Top Al-Qaida Terrorist Was Once Freed From U.S. Custody In Afghanistan…
A specially designated al-Qaida terrorist based out of Kuwait was released from U.S. custody in Afghanistan in 2001, The Long War Journal reveals. The terrorist, Muhammad Hadi al-Anizi, was designated by the U.S. Department of the Treasury March 14 for raising funds and arranging travel to Syria for would-be terrorists. The Treasury Department’s designation specifies […]
Guantánamo Judge Orders CIA Testimony on Destroyed ‘Black Site’ Videotapes…
A military judge ruled Tuesday that defense attorneys could call former CIA officials as witnesses in their bid to derail the death-penalty trial of the alleged USS Cole bombing plotter, who was waterboarded in the spy agency’s secret prison network, the Black Sites. The one-page ruling by Air Force Col. Vance Spath, the judge, authorized […]
That Was Fast: Signer of Anti-Trump Letter Withdraws from Pentagon Think Tank…
Patrick Cronin, a liberal Republican China hand who signed a letter denouncing President Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign, on Friday withdrew from taking a plum position as director of a Pentagon-funded think tank in Hawaii.
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Someone Stole a Humvee from the Army and Parked it in a Residential Garage…
A Ohio National Guard U.S. Army humvee stolen from the units base armory Tuesday was recovered in a vacant house’s garage Friday, the Associated Press reports. The humvee was stolen overnight by thieves who cut a chain link fence and somehow breached the vehicles locking mechanisms. Police and local authorities heavily publicized the theft, which […]
More Than 200 Dead in Suspected U.S. Airstrike That Hits Civilians in Mosul…
The U.S. military is investigating whether it was responsible for a bombing raid in the Iraqi city of Mosul that killed scores of civilians, making it the most deadly among Iraqi residents since the battle against the militant group Islamic State began more than two years ago. Col. Joseph Scrocca, a U.S. spokesman based in […]
Sec of State Tillerson’s Remarks to the Global Coalition Working to Defeat Islamic State (VIDEO)…
“The flow of foreign terrorist fighters into Syria and Iraq is down 90 percent over the past year. It is harder for terrorists to get in, and more importantly, harder for them to get out to threaten our homelands. Turkey has pushed ISIS off the Turkey-Syria border through Operation Euphrates Shield. This entire border is […]
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Continuity of Agenda: Thousands of U.S. Troops Being Sent to Combat in Syria?…
The US has been raining hellfire missiles, cluster bombs, depleted uranium and drone strikes on the Middle East for the past 15+ years… And how are things? Look around. Afghanistan is now called our longest war. Last year the Pentagon got caught being dishonest by omission about how many troops were in Iraq, then announced […]
Trial of 2 Psychologists over CIA Torture Pushed to September…
The civil trial of two psychologists who developed the harsh interrogation methods in the government’s war on terror has been moved back to Sept. 5 in Spokane, Washington. U.S. District Court Judge Justin Quackenbush moved the trial date this week because of disputes over access to top-secret documents sought by the defendants. Attorneys for the […]
Michael Flynn Discussed Covert Extradition Plan With Turkish Government…
Michael Flynn, the Trump administration’s first national security adviser, met with Turkish government officials in September to discuss a covert and potentially illegal plan to excise a political enemy of Turkey’s president from the U.S., according to former CIA director James Woolsey. Woolsey confirmed to The Wall Street Journal that he attended a Sept. 19 […]
75 Year Old Man Charged with Deserting from U.S. Military 45 Years Ago…
A Florida man is in custody after the Air Force determined he went “absent without leave,” or AWOL, 45 years ago. The 75-year-old was found living a quiet life with his wife under an assumed identity, and his neighbors had been none the wiser. His crime, committed half a lifetime ago, has come back to […]
You Probably Didn’t Notice, But Trump and Putin Are Rebuilding a Mighty Military Alliance…
The Western press is preoccupied with demon Russia. We’re told that Russia through its tool, WikiLeaks, cost Hillary Clinton the election; that Russia hacked U.S. servers, effectively installing Donald Trump as president; that Russia is blackmailing Trump over sex scandals and secret business dealings; that Trump isn’t releasing his tax returns because they show Russian […]
U.S. Will Honor Nuclear Deal…
Christopher Ford, the White House National Security Council’s senior director for weapons of mass destruction and counter-proliferation, made the remarks during a conference in Washington, DC on Tuesday. Ford told the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace that the Trump administration will stick to the Iran nuclear pact unless otherwise is decided…
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U.S. Marines Said to Land Behind Islamic State Lines in Syria…
An American-backed Syrian Kurdish coalition said Wednesday that the US had landed infantry behind Islamic State lines to spearhead an assault on the town of Tabqa. The Syrian Democratic Forces said the US airlifted several Marines and SDF fighters by helicopter into Islamic State-held territory, capturing four villages, and cutting the main artery running between […]
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