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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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
Iraq Rebuffs Washington, Rejecting US Ground Troops
by Vaska Baghdad has not asked — and does not need — United States ground troops to assist it...
Russia Warns Obama Of “Unpredictable Consequences”
by Tyler Durden for ZeroHedge, October 28, 2015 On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told the Senate Armed Services...
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...