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Analysis: Dutch referendum a storm warning for Ukraine
Campaigners for the “No” vote in the Dutch referendum on Ukraine’s Association Agreement with the EU in a street of...
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...
Lebanon Being Forced to Collapse
by Andre Vltchek Lebanon cannot stand on its feet anymore. It is overwhelmed, frightened and broke. It stands on...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Videos: Syrian army and allies recapturing Palmyra from ISIS
Palmyra Citadel under control of the SAA + allies today (25/03/2016) (MGreen)
Reporting (or Not) the Ties Between US-Armed Syrian Rebels and Al Qaeda's Affiliate
by Gareth Porter, FAIR A crucial problem in news media coverage of the Syrian civil war has been how...
Syria: The Guardian View on…Things they Just Made Up
The Western MSM are all a flutter: Russia are pulling out of Syria (sort of). They can't quite decide...
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...
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...
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”,...
Good Old American Dollars Funding Nazi Forces of the Ukrainian Government
by Zak Novak, Novorossia Readers may remember when, with a defense authorization bill in debate last June, two congressmen...
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...
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...
VIDEO(s): Ceasefire in Syria
A Russian soldier stands guard at at humanitarian aid distribution point in Syria. Footage released on Thursday shows officers...
Facebook Bans DONi Donbass News Agency site
by Vaska Facebook censored a popular, accredited and officially supported DONi Donbass International News Agency main Facebook site on...
Continuing CIF censorship in the service of propaganda
by Vaska Peter Schmidt, an old-time Guardian reader and CIF commentator, has sent us this glimpse of the continuing...
UN Hypocrisy as WFP Drops Food for Daesh
by Vanessa Beeley, for 21st Century Wire “The UN World Food Program (WFP) aids for the restricted Syrian civilians...