A U.S.-led air strike mistakenly killed 18 members of a Kurdish and Arab militia backed by Washington south of the Syrian city of Tabqa, the Pentagon said on Thursday. The U.S.-led coalition forces struck the position on Tuesday after another partner in the fight wrongly told them its was occupied by Islamic State militants, the […]
OPCW Executive Council Meets to Address Alleged Use of Chemical Weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic…
The Director-General shared with the Executive Council the immediate steps taken by Technical Secretariat experts to analyse the available information and their preliminary assessment that this was a credible allegation. He also shared that the OPCW Fact-Finding Mission has focused its work to investigate the incident in Khan Sheikhun and that it has collected samples, […]
Trump Reverses Himself On 6 Major Issues in 2 Days…
President Donald Trump has reversed himself on at least six major issues this week, pulling back on long-held promises supported by his base. Four of these reversals alone came in an interview with The Wall Street Journal published Wednesday…
Dereliction of Duty, Redux by Scott Ritter (Outstanding Read)…
During the night of April 6, Trump ordered a pair of U.S. Navy destroyers operating in the eastern Mediterranean Sea to launch 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles against targets located in and around the Syrian air base of Shayrat. The cruise missile attack was in response to allegations of a chemical weapons attack by a Syrian […]
Assad to the BBC: Chemical Attack “100% Fabrication”…
“We gave up our arsenal 3 years ago. Even if we had them we wouldn’t use them. We have never used our chemical arsenal in our history. Our information, that the West, mainly the United States, is hand and glove with the terrorists. They fabricated the whole story in order to have a pretext for […]
Trump Withholds Syria-Sarin Evidence by Robert Parry….
After making the provocative and dangerous charge that Russia is covering up Syria’s use of chemical weapons, the Trump administration withheld key evidence to support its core charge that a Syrian warplane dropped sarin on a northern Syrian town on April 4. A four-page white paper, prepared by President Trump’s National Security Council staff and […]
Trump Should Rethink Syria Escalation by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity…
Syria: Where the Rubber Meets the Road by Mike Whitney…
MIT National Security Expert Challenges White House White Paper on Alleged Syrian Chemical Attack (WHITE PAPER)…
My understanding from your note is that this White House intelligence summary was released to you sometime on April 11, 2017. I have reviewed the document carefully, and I believe it can be shown, without doubt, that the document does not provide any evidence whatsoever that the US government has concrete knowledge that the government […]
Russia Vetoes West’s Syria Resolution at UN Security Council…
Moscow has vetoed a draft resolution submitted to the UN Security Council which demands that Damascus grant full access to UN inspectors at any military site in Syria, under the threat of military action. ”The result of the vote is as follows: ten votes in favor, two votes against, three abstentions. The draft resolution has […]
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