UN’s Ban Ki-Moon Condemns Western ‘Assad Must Go’ Demand
Children in Syria Sputnik International reports: The Western demand that Syria’s Assad must step down is irresponsible and has resulted in millions of refugees, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said....
Breaking: ISIS claims downing Russian passenger plane in Sinai (updated)
F1ea1337 on Twitter: Islamic State in Sinai (Wilayah Sinai) officially claim responsibility for shooting down Russian plane [screen capture above]. China Xinhua News reports: Breaking: #IS claims responsibility for...
Video: Iraqi Sunnis escape ISIS-held areas
Still from video below. Iraqi blogger Haidar Sumeri writes in Baiji District Recaptured by Iraq’s Forces in Rapid Offensive: […] upon hearing that Iraqi forces had recaptured Baiji, a...
PBS documentary: Inside Assad’s Syria
A street in the suburbs of Damascus. Photo Valery Sharifulin/TASS For weeks, the world’s eyes have been fixed on the tens of thousands of refugees fleeing war-torn Syria for...
DPR: Out-of-control Ukrainian volunteer battalions deploy near disengagement line
The Azov battalion held an homage in Mariupol to their war dead, on the eve of Ukrainian local elections which were cancelled in the region for alleged irregularities in...
The Christian ghetto of ISIS
Christians in the Homs region, their heads shaved by ISIS to distinguish them from Muslims, listen to the new Islamist rules they will be forced to live under. Photo...
Assange: ‘Strategic depopulation’ of Syria behind EU refugee crisis?
Refugees in Slovenia after crossing from Croatia, October 26 2015. RT reports: The flooding of Europe by countless waves of refugees may be the result of the “strategic depopulation”...
Free Syrian Army: “We didn’t turn down the offer” of Russian military support
Free Syrian Army soldiers in the Syrian border town of Azaz, north of Aleppo. Photo AP/Turkpix Al Arabiya reports: The Western-backed Free Syrian Army said on Monday it had...
Iraq authorizes Russia to target ISIS convoys coming from Syria
Photo Reuters State-run Turkish press agency Anadolu Agency reports: The Iraqi government authorized Russia to target Daesh [ISIS] convoys coming from Syria, a senior Iraqi official said. The authorization...
Grand Mufti of Syria: 800,000 refugees returned after start of Russian air strikes
Refugees preparing for their return journey to Syria from the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan on October 1 2015. Photo UNHCR Lenta reports: In Syria, over 800,000 refugees returned...
Turkish MPs: Turkey provided chemical weapons for Syrian terrorist attack
Victims of the Gouta chemical attack in Syria. Photo AFP. Turkey’s daily Zaman reports: Two deputies from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) have claimed that the government is...
VIDEO: Chomsky on electing the president of an empire
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., Abby Martin interviews world-renowned philosopher and linguist Professor Noam Chomsky Prof. Chomsky comments on the presidential primary “extravaganza,” the movement...
Video: Free Syrian Army general’s 2013 ultimatum to “international community”
Still from video below. Excerpt from an interview with Free Syrian Army general Abd Al-Baset Tawila on the Al-Jazeera network in June 10, 2013: […] I give the international...
Video: US air-dropped ammunition and supplies to ISIS in Baiji refinery
Still from the video below. On October 16 the Iraqi army and their allied Shiite militias announced they had fully retaken the oil refinery at Baiji from Islamic State...
Ukrainian media forbidden to show images of Poroshenko and Putin shaking hands
Poroshenko and Putin at the Minsk talks in August 2014. Poroshenko forbids Ukrainian TV channels to show him shaking hands with Putin. The scandal broke in Kiev after TV...
Jimmy Carter provided Russia with maps for increased accuracy in ISIS strikes
Smoke rising after air strikes carried out by the Russian air force on an Islamic State base in Idlib province, Syria Photo: REUTERS/Ministry of Defence of Russia The Washington...
Syria: Islamist factions fight each other in Idlib, Syrian army advances
Al-Nusra Front fighters stand among destroyed buildings near the front line in Yarmuk Photo: AFP/Getty Al Masdar News reports: The conglomerate Islamist factions in northern Syria “Jaysh Al-Fateh” (Army of...
