In July, the White House and Pentagon requested authority from Congress to build further “temporary intermediate staging facilities” inside Syria in order to combat ISIS more effectively. This request, it must be noted, comes in the wake of devastating ISIS defeats in Syria, mostly by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allied forces…
7,000 Syrian Refugees and AQ Fighters Return Home from Lebanon…
More than a hundred buses carrying thousands of al-Qaeda-linked fighters and Syrian refugees drove down a dirt road from Lebanon into Syria on Wednesday, in what was the last phase of an exchange deal between Syria’s al-Qaeda branch and Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group. The departure of al-Qaeda fighters from the Lebanon-Syria border…
Islamic State Claims Baghdadi Was Killed…
Militants from the Islamic State (IS, terror group, outlawed in Russia) have said the organization’s leader Abu Bakr al-Bahgdadi is dead, the Al Sumaria TV channel reported on Tuesday citing a source in Iraq’s Nineveh province. According to the source, IS gunmen issued a brief statement announcing that their leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead […]
House Panel Votes to Force Congress to Vote on War Against Islamic State…
The House Appropriations Committee, in a surprise move, adopted an amendment Thursday offered by leading anti-war Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) that would force Congress to vote on a new authorization for the battle against the Islamic State. The amendment, which passed by voice vote, would repeal within 240 days of the enactment of appropriations for […]
WSJ Reports Israel and Saudi Arabia Secretly Giving Money to Islamic State…
The WSJ reports that Israel has been “supplying Syrian rebels near its border with cash as well as food, fuel and medical supplies for years, a secret engagement in the enemy country’s civil war aimed at carving out a buffer zone populated by friendly forces.” The Israeli army is in regular communication with rebel groups […]
Canadian Sniper Takes Out ISIS Terrorist From over 2 Miles Away…
A Canadian sniper in Iraq took out an ISIS terrorist from more than 2 miles away, Canadian Armed Forces confirmed on Thursday. “The Canadian Special Operations Command can confirm that a member of Joint Task Force 2 successfully hit a target at 3,540 metres,” the forces told the Globe and Mail. “For operational security reasons […]
U.S. Fighter Jet Shoots Down Armed Iranian Drone Over Syria…
A U.S. fighter jet shot down an Iranian drone in southeastern Syria on Tuesday, according to a statement from the military. The drone was shot down by a U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle near Al-Tanf, Syria, where the U.S. is training local fighters to combat the Islamic State, and where the U.S. has already fired on […]
UN: ‘Staggering’ Civilian Deaths in Raqqa Offensive…
Intensified coalition air strikes supporting an assault by US-backed rebel forces on Syria’s Raqqa are causing a “staggering loss of civilian life”, United Nations war crimes investigators have said. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a group of Kurdish and Arab militias supported by a US-led coalition, began attacking Raqqa a week ago to take it […]
Meet Robert Ford, the US Diplomat Who Helped Send Syria to Hell in the Name of Democracy…
There are so many lies written about the Syria/Iraq/Turkey wars that after a few years of trying to sift through it, your expectations drop like a 2008 market graph. And they keep dropping. On a whiteboard you’d need to tape extra paper at the bottom. Hell, you’d need to dig a hole to the center […]
Eliminating Islamic State Is Top Priority for Damascus and Its Allies: The Military Operations in Iraq and Syria Are Being Harmonized…
Just as military activities have quieted on most fronts between the soldiers of Damascus and the Syrian rebels supported by al-Qaeda (Hay’atTahrir al-Sham) following the Astana agreement imposed by Russia, Turkey and Iran, more than 40,000 soldiers and elite special forces of Damascus and its allies – supported by Russian Air Force and Special Forces […]
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