Five Turkish generals are reportedly seeking to retire from the military after being tasked with operations along the southern border and in Syria’s Idlib, handing the army another headache as it grapples with a tense situation in the Syrian province. Two Turkish officials confirmed to Middle East Eye that some generals have asked for retirement […]
Erdogan and Putin in Emergency Call as Assad Surrounds Turkish Troops…
Forces belonging to the Syrian government and Turkey came within a stone’s throw of one another on Friday, as Bashar al-Assad’s troops surrounded a Turkish observation point in Syria’s Idlib province. Far from friends, the forces’ proximity has heightened tensions even further amid a Syrian government offensive into territory held by rebels backed by Turkey. […]
Russia Acknowledges Its Ground Troops Are Fighting in Idlib…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has acknowledged for the first time the presence of Russian military fighting alongside Syrian regime forces in the Idlib assault, confirming numerous earlier reports. During a press conference he held following a meeting with Ghana’s Foreign Minister Shirley Botchway yesterday, Lavrov confirmed that “There are Russian soldiers on the ground […]
Syria – Army Cuts Off Khan Shaykhun – Russia Bombs Turkish Reinforcement…
This is an update to last weeks post Syria – Frontline Breach Opens Door To A Deep Battle For Idlib. Today the Syrian army gained fire control over the M5 highway north of Khan Shaykhun. The jihadists in the soon closed cauldron south of that point are now cut off from road bound resupplies. Throughout […]
From 2006 to 2019: After Failures in Syria, Iraq, Palestine and Yemen War Is No Longer an Option for Israel by Elijah J. Magnier…
During the summer war of 2006, Israel managed to destroy a large number of Hezbollah’s rocket and missile stocks. Most Hezbollah missile units were destroyed and, in the suburb of the capital Beirut, over 250 buildings (mainly but not exclusively hosting Hezbollah offices, warehouses and officers’ homes) were flattened by Israeli precision bombs targeting Hezbollah […]
The Only Strategic Rationale for America’s Involvement in Syria Finally Revealed…
“Washington lacks a clear strategy in Syria “; those were the recent words of Robert Ford, the last American ambassador to Syria who served prior to and during the first few years of the Syrian uprising from 2010 to 2014. A man of Ford’s intricate knowledge of the Syrian/American political dynamic is surly knowledgeable enough […]
Syrian Refugee Charged for Allegedly Planning to Bomb Pittsburg Church…
Mustafa Alowemer, a 21-year-old man who was admitted to the United States as a refugee from Syria, is facing one count of attempting to provide material support and resources to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and two counts of distributing information relating to an explosive, destructive device or weapon of mass destruction. […]
One Man’s Quest to Expose a Fake BBC Video About Syria…
It’s a David vs Goliath story. A former local newspaper reporter, Robert Stuart, is taking on the British Broadcasting Corporation. Stuart believes that a sensational video story about an alleged atrocity in Syria “was largely, if not entirely, staged.” The BBC would like it all to just go away. But like David, Stuart will not […]
Hitchens: My Urgent Questions to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on Staged Chemical Attack in Syria…
I have studied your recent response https://www.opcw.org/sites/default/files/documents/2019/05/s-1755-2019.pdf to this Russian Federation Request https://www.opcw.org/sites/default/files/documents/2019/05/ec90nat41%28e%29.pdf In your response, you say on page 19: ‘Answer 14.1: The FFM report does not refer in any part to “the argument that they were dropped from an aircraft.” Also, the FFM [Fact Finding Mission] report does not elaborate in any part […]
Leaked OPCW Report Suggests Syria Gas Attack Was ‘Staged’ MIT Scientist Says…
A newly leaked OPCW assessment challenges the claim that the Syrian government carried out a chemical weapons attack in Douma in April 2018. Award-winning scientist and MIT professor emeritus Theodore Postol says the report shows the gas attack was “staged,” and undermines the case for the US strikes that followed. “The evidence is overwhelming that […]
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