Turkish MP: Chemical agent sarin smuggled from Turkey to ISIS (w/video)

Still from the video below. RT reports: Islamic State terrorists in Syria received all necessary materials to produce deadly sarin gas via Turkey, Turkish MP Eren Erdem has told...

RT parody VIDEO: How Kremlin propaganda works

RT: How Kremlin propaganda works, or Simonyan, a bear and some gopher juice (With English subtitles)

Ukraine: Brawl in parliament, PM Yatsenyuk manhandled (w/video)

Gazeta reports: The Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk was grabbed by the testicles during the annual government report to the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada. The meeting was...

Putin: 5,000 FSA militants fighting alongside Syrian army

Free Syrian Army fighters. Photo Reuters. RFERL reports on its “Tracking Islamic State” live blog: […] 11:57 Here’s a translation of the full quote from Putin regarding his claim...

Largest “moderate” group in Syria calls for “an Islamic state” in country, Sharia law imposed in Northern Aleppo

Ahrar Al-Sham militants in Syria. Al Masdar News reports: The largest Islamist rebel faction operating in Syria – Harakat Ahrar Al-Sham – has issued a statement [pictured below left]...

Mock executions, the West’s new moral high ground in Syria

US liberal media outlet Mic and Western MSM in general are now promoting a mock execution by “moderate rebels” in Syria, as depicted on a recently released video, as...

Syria: FSA and Al Nusra militants bussed out of Homs city

Still from the video below Al Masdar News reports: Moments ago inside the provincial capital of the Homs Governorate, 14 buses provided by the Syrian government reportedly arrived at...

Syria: Turkish-backed Islamists attack US-backed militants

Syrian landscape. Al Masdar News reports: Two years ago, U.S. Senator John McCain illegally entered Syria to meet with the Islamist rebel command of the Free Syrian Army (FSA)...

Iraq wants review or annulment of security agreement with US

A Russian attack helicopter at the service of the Iraqi army. RT reports: “The Iraqi parliament’s Security and Defense Committee has called for a review and cancellation of the...

Video: Protests in Kiev as US VP Biden visits

Still from the video below. Protesters rallied in front of Ukraine’s Parliament, the Verkhovna Rada [as US VP Joe Biden was addressing it] in Kiev, Tuesday, to demand the...

US, Saudis consider partnering with Al-Qaeda ally

The ultimate Orwellism? Screenshot of the title of Foreign Policy’s report quoted below. Sputnik International reports: The world’s major powers plan to convene in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for...

VIDEO: GoPro footage from tanks in Syria’s war zone

 

Ukraine’s SBU, neonazis accused of trading stolen Dutch paintings

A detail from Jacob Waben’s “Women’s World” (1622), one of the paintings stolen from the Westfries Museum. Holland’s Times reports: Members of the Ukrainian secret service SBU played a...

VIDEO: Chinese TV report from the Syrian frontline

  A Syrian soldier in a position overlooking a valley in the Latakia province of Syria. Photo Alexander Kots/AFP. China’s 24-hour English language television channel CCTV reports from Syria....

Breaking: Airstrike on Syrian army positions fighting ISIS (4 updates)

A US coalition airstrike in Syria on December 4. Photo Reuters. [Title changed to account for new reports mentioned at bottom of post] Al Masdar News reports: For the...

Germany: Era of ignoring Saudi terror sponsorship over

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (right) and former King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. Photo Axel Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images Press TV reports: Germany says it will no more ‘look the other way’...

Analysing a crude “anti-Assad regime” propaganda video

The video below landed on my Facebook feed as part of a sharing campaign by teary-eyed souls lamenting the fate of Syria’s children being shelled in schools by the...

France: On second thoughts, Assad does not have to go

  The president of France François Hollande visits on December 4 the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle stationed in the eastern Mediterranean. Press TV reports: French Foreign Minister...

Baghdad: Any foreign forces deployment in Iraq a “hostile act”

Volunteers of Shia led Hashed Al-Sha’abi vow to defend Iraq, at the Imam Hussain shrine on Arbaeen today. RT reports: Iraq has not requested that any country send ground...

Video: Homs schoolgirls thank Syrian soldiers

Undated and unlocated photo from Syria. Technically this is a propaganda video, but the feelings expressed by the civilians are likely genuine. It relates to the Al-Masdar December 2...