Syrian Christian refugees in Europe begin to return home
The damaged St Sarkis Church in Sadad, Syria. Photo CNS. The Catholic Herald reports: Hundreds of Christian families are returning to Sadad, Syria, more than two years after their...
Syria: UNESCO unanimously approves Russian resolution on Palmyra restoration
Russian sappers work on demining Palmyria after its capture from ISIS. Photo Russian Ministry of Defense. RT reports: A Russia-drafted resolution on the role of UNESCO in restoring the...
VIDEO: Ukraine’s nationalists clash with police in Odessa
Still from the video below, showing a far-right protester pepper-spraying the police. Dozens of far-right activists clashed with police outside the House of Trade Unions in Odessa on Sunday,...
Syria: Nearly 2,000 civilians return to Palmyra after Russian demining
A Russian sapper working on the demining of Palmyra, with the town’s medieval Citadel in the background. Al Masdar reports: The Syrian government has transported as many as 2,000...
Video: Syrians cheer up the liberation of Palmyra
A picture showing the Temple of Bel before it was destroyed by Isis in September 2015 in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. The structure dated back to 32AD....
Videos: Syrian army and allies recapturing Palmyra from ISIS
Palmyra Citadel under control of the SAA + allies today (25/03/2016) (MGreen)
The Saker: Putin withdrawing from Syria because he won
An Antonov transport plane at the Russian Khmeimim base in Syria’s Latakia province. The Saker analyses the Russian military pullout from Syria: […] It is way too early right...
US-backed Syrian rebels attacked & looted by Al-Qaeda affiliate
On March 11 anti-Assad demonstration were held in rebel-held Idlib in Syria, initially mixing flags both of the so called Free Syrian Army moderate rebels and of the terrorist...
Analysis: Russians pack their troubles into their grocery baskets – Putin gains, Medvedev loses, US war aim fails
Russian fighter jets fly over Moscow. Photo Alexander Vilf/Sputnik John Helmer, “the longest continuously serving foreign correspondent in Russia”, writes from Moscow in his blog Dances with Bears: It...
Syria Dispatch: Most Syrians Support Assad, Reject Phony Foreign 'Revolution'
A boy greets a Syrian Army soldier in Aleppo. Eva Bartlett writes in Sott.net: In April 2014 I first visited Syria, going to Homs and Latakia, in addition to...
Reports: Anti-ISIS revolt in Raqqa, terrorists deserting their Syrian capital
Alleged photo of a Syrian flag being flown in ISIS-help Raqqa on Sunday. Bas News reports: RAQQA — Residents of Raqqa, the heart of the Islamic State (IS), are...
VIDEO(s): Ceasefire in Syria
A Russian soldier stands guard at at humanitarian aid distribution point in Syria. Footage released on Thursday shows officers from the Russian Ceasefire Coordination Centre in Syria overseeing negotiations...
Syria: Ceasefire sparks infighting between anti-Assad militants (w/ VIDEO)
A suburb of Damascus turned into a no-man’s land Fresh clashes have erupted in Syria between secular rebels and Al CIAda-linked extremists. It’s the latest spate of infighting among...
Russian analyst: Why the Syrian ceasefire makes sense
Syrian children are seen in a destroyed car in center of Aleppo, Feb. 18, 2015. Photo: Halil Fidan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Sputnik International reports: […] In his analysis, published in the...
Reuters: How the West misread Putin over Syria
Reuters reports: Last July, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad seemed to be losing his battle against rebel forces. Speaking to supporters in Damascus, he acknowledged his army’s heavy losses. Western...
Ukrainian radicals trash Russian banks on anniversay of Maidan (w/ VIDEO)
RT reports Ukrainian radicals wrecked the offices of Russian companies Sberbank and Alfa-Bank in Kiev as they marked the second anniversary of the bloody Euromaidan riots, which left around...
BuzzFeed: U.S. in proxy war with itself in Syria
BuzzFeed News reports: ISTANBUL — American proxies are now at war with each other in Syria. Officials with Syrian rebel battalions that receive covert backing from one arm of...
Syrian army captures Aleppo Thermal Plant, encircles ISIS (w/ VIDEO)
Screen grab from the video below Al Masdar News reports: The Syrian Arab Army’s elite ‘Tiger Forces’ – backed by the National Defense Forces (NDF) – imposed full control...
Boston Globe columnist: Syrian war coverage one of most shameful episodes in US press history
Children line a street of Kessab, in the Syrian province of Lattakia, following the expulsion of militants from the village by the current Russian-backed advance of the Syrian army...
Analysis: Hillary Clinton and the Syrian bloodbath
Hillary Clinton speaks to the press following the Friends of Syria conference in Tunis, February 2012. Photograph: Jason Reed/AFP/Getty Images Jeffrey Sachs writes in The Huffington Post: […] Clinton...
