Vienna talks: Iran nixed Assad ouster clause in joint statement
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif. Photo AFP. Iran’s Press TV reports: Iran says it opposed the inclusion of a clause that...
Raqqa airstrikes in Syria: How reporting changes
how reporting changes after learning it was French, not Russian, airstrikes [today against the city of Raqqa, ISIS’ capital, in Syria] h/t to Adam Johnson on Twitter
AFP: Mass grave of ‘Yazidi women executed by ISIS’ found in Iraq
A mass grave site in Khana Sor, Iraq, where ISIS militants executed and buried fleeing Yazidis. Photo Yusuf Sayman/BuzzFeed News Lebanon’s The Daily Start reports, quoting AFP: IRBIL, Iraq:...
AFP: Syria army scores key victories ahead of Vienna talks
Agence France Presse reports: Damascus (AFP) – Syria’s army scored its second important victory in two days ahead of international talks in Vienna, but the US warned a deal...
Report: Saudi Arabia stuck in quagmire in Yemen
Press TV reports: Some eight months into the deadly Saudi war against Yemen, the Riyadh regime now seems stuck in a quagmire, without a clear strategy to end the...
Opinion: ISIL and its supporters must face international trial
An image released by ISIL in Iraq. Vladimir Platov writes in Neo Eastern Outlook: International media has been actively discussing the recent publication of the British edition of Mirror Online featuring shocking footage...
Breaking: Israeli air force attacks near Damascus airport, reports
by Systematic Still from the video below. Press TV reports: Israeli warplanes have struck targets near the international airport in the Syrian capital, Damascus, Syrian media says. The reports said...
Al Jazeera: Free Syrian Army decimated by desertions
Weapons used by the Free Syrian Army are seen at the Seif El Dawla neighbourhood of Syria’s south west city of Aleppo August 23, 2012. Reuters Al Jazeera reports:...
Syrian army breaks 2 year ISIL siege of airbase in Aleppo
Free at last: One of the 300+ soldiers inside Kuweires military airbase after the Syrian army lifted the IS siege. RT reports: Elite Syrian army units have broken the...
Opinion: US not interested in defeating ISIS
An ISIS propaganda point in Mosul, Iraq. RT interviews Sharmine Narwani, a commentator and analyst of Middle East geopolitics: RT: There are more than 60 countries in the coalition...
Video: Hezbollah soldier confronts ISIS militants
A Hezbollah soldier lectures ISIS militants during a truce about how their actions are benefiting Israel.
UN watchdog: ISIS using mustard gas in Iraq and Syria
Photo Getty The Globe and Mail reports: Chemical weapons experts have determined that mustard gas was used during fighting in Syria in August, according to a report by an...
The hidden origins of the Syrian civil war
Still from the video below, allegedly from the early days of the Syrian uprising and showing unarmed riot police being shot at, and hit, from gunfire from the protesters’...
Breaking: Syrian army routs ISIS, reopens road to Aleppo
Trucks loaded with supplies move to Aleppo in the past hour after the highway linking it to Hama was cleared from ISIS control. Syrian republic reports: The SAA has...
On targeting hospitals in Syria
A truck bomb explodes at the National Hospital in Jisr al-Shughur, Syria, after a daytime attack by anti-government rebels on May 10 2015. . The Wall Will Fall, a...
Russia, Syrian “patriotic” opposition agree on joint action against ISIS, Nusra front
Opposition fighters at the frontline on the outskirts of Kfar Lata, a ghost village in the Idlib province countryside of Syria, in October 2013. Photo AP. Sputnik International reports:...
Ukraine: Right Sector threatens military force to stop elections in Mariupol
Right Sector in Mariupol: “Here to defend Ukraine, not elections”. Photo Jerome Sessini. On October 25, Bloomberg Business reported: Local elections in Ukraine’s port city of Mariupol, a key...
Ukraine: “Automaidan” activists picket Poroshenko’s residence
Automaidan activists on their way to Poroshenko’s residence yesterday. 24Today reports: On Sunday, November 1, the activists of “Automaidan” came under the walls of the house of the president...
Syria: “Moderate rebels” put women in cages to protect themselves from airstrikes (updated w/ video)
Al Masdar News reports: In order to deter the Syrian and Russian Air Forces inside the East Ghouta (collection of farms) region of rural Damascus, the U.S. backed moderate...
Ukraine: Protests in Dnipropetrovsk after arrest of party leader
Today’s UKROP demonstration in Dnipropetrovsk (above) was held under heavy security presence (below). Gazeta reports: The candidate for mayor of Dnipropetrovsk, member of the UKROP party Boris Filatov announced...
