The most important change over the last days was the Syrian government forces move (red areas and arrows) in the south-east towards the Iraqi border. The original plan was to retrieve al-Tanf further south-west to secure the border crossing of the Damascus-Baghdad highway there. But al-Tanf was occupied by U.S., British and Norwegian invaders and […]
The Battles of Deir al-Zor and al-Qaem Will Mark the End of the Syrian War…
Russia Tells U.S. Not to Strike Syrian Pro-Government Forces Again…
Russia said on Saturday it had told the United States it was unacceptable for Washington to strike pro-government forces in Syria after the U.S. military carried out an air strike on pro-Assad militia last month. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov relayed the message to U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a phone call on […]
Former Official: Obama Admin ‘Systematically Disbanded’ Units Investigating Iran’s Terrorism Financing Networks…
The Obama administration “systematically disbanded” law enforcement investigative units across the federal government focused on disrupting Iranian, Syrian, and Venezuelan terrorism financing networks out of concern the work could cause friction with Iranian officials and scuttle the nuclear deal with Iran, according to a former U.S. official who spent decades dismantling terrorist financial networks. David […]
NYT’s New Syria-Sarin Report Challenged by Robert Parry…
For U.S. mainstream journalists and government analysts, their erroneous “groupthinks” often have a shady accomplice called “confirmation bias,” that is, the expectation that some “enemy” must be guilty and thus the tendency to twist any fact in that direction. We have seen this pair contribute to fallacious reasoning more and more in recent years as […]
Report: Saudi Arabia Hid Knowledge of Saudi Students in U.S. Who Joined the Islamic State…
A newly released investigative report from the Institute for Gulf Affairs (IGA) based in Washington, D.C. details what they have referred to as “one of the biggest terrorist threats against the United States homeland.” The report “From American College Campuses to ISIS Camps: How Hundreds of Saudis Joined ISIS in the U.S.” describes how Saudi […]
Lavrov: Deconfliction Zones in Syria Announced Without Damascus’ Consent Illegitimate…
Russia considers the US-led coalition airstrike against pro-Damascus fighters in Syria an act of aggression and rejects the justification for the attack issued by the Pentagon, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. The Tuesday airstrike near the town of At Tanf in eastern Syria “was an aggressive act, that violated the sovereignty and territorial integrity […]
U.S. Central Command Statement on ‘destroying additional pro-Syrian regime forces’ near At Tanf Garrison…
The Coalition destroyed additional pro-Syrian regime forces that advanced inside the well-established de-confliction zone in southern Syria, June 6. Despite previous warnings, pro-regime forces entered the agreed-upon de-confliction zone with a tank, artillery, anti-aircraft weapons, armed technical vehicles and more than 60 soldiers posing a threat to Coalition and partner forces based at the At […]
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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