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Imprisoned Al Qaeda Fighters Freed by U.S. Allies to Rejoin Fight Against Assad
by Eric Zuesse Some of the world’s top Al Qaeda operatives were freed from a Lebanese prison on Tuesday December 1st, to rejoin the U.S.-led war against Syria’s Bashar...
Spokesman: Yemeni army ready to invade Saudi border cities
A Houthi militia fighter in Yemen. Al Masdar News reports: The Yemeni army spokesman General Sharaf Loqman told Al-Manar website that the preliminary operations have ended and that the...
WaPo: Iraqis think US in cahoots with ISIS
Photos have been posted to ISIS-affiliated Twitter accounts allegedly showing ISIS fighters using U.S.-made TOW anti-tank missiles. The Washington Post reports: BAIJI, Iraq — On the front lines of...
Video: 100s of Sunni tribe fighters arrive in Aleppo to aid Syrian army
Still from the video below. A huge contingent of Sunni fighters from the al-Bakara tribe have decided to join the SAA. The convoy arrived in Aleppo a few days...
Video: Russian military reveals details of ISIS-Turkey oil smuggling
An image released today by the Russian MoD allegedly showing 3,000 tankers and light trucks parked in Silopi, Turkey, near the borders with Iraq and Syria. Russia’s Deputy Defense...
Iraq militias: “We will chase and fight any US force deployed in Iraq”
Shi’ite fighters launch a rocket during clashes with Islamic State militants on the outskirts of al-Alam March 8, 2015. Photo Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters PressTV reports: Iraq has rejected the need...
Some questions for DemocracyNow!
by Vaska What’s going on at DemocracyNow! for Amy Goodman to be interviewing a Saudi crown prince on the subject of combatting Daesh? A Saudi crown prince born in...
Just Ideas Will Triumph or Disaster Will Triumph
by Fidel Castro Ruz, 1 September 2014 Translated by Joshua Tartakovsky The world hasn’t had a respite from war in recent years, particularly since the European Economic Community, under...
Air Attacks and Cameron
by Bryan Hemming What a strange idea removing Bashar Assad will solve all Syria’s problems is. Pray what will become of all the Syrians fighting against his removal? And...
Video: A Syrian soldier speaks
A Syrian soldier in the Syrian city of Deir Ezzor on December 12, 2014. © AFP Interview in Damascus, December 2013
Ukraine: Odessa judges forced to resign on May 2 case
The Odessa Malinowski court judges writing their resignations (video below). The Times of Odessa reports: Three judges of the Malinowski court in charge of the May 2 case were forced...
US Congressman: ‘Either Erdogan shouldn’t be in NATO or we shouldn’t’
via Russia Insider WASHINGTON – Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats, on Saturday issued the following statement concerning Turkey’s...
Erdogan: “I will leave office” if proven Turkey bought oil from terrorists
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Photo Burhan Ozbilici/AP RT reports Russia has received additional intelligence confirming that oil from deposits controlled by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) goes through...
Report: Syrian government, armed groups discuss political deal in Homs
Syrian army forces stand at the entrance of the old city of Homs, Syria, May 2014. Photo: EPA/STR Al-Masdar News reports: Sources close to Al-Masdar News have revealed an...
Al-Qaeda declares war on ISIS in rural Damascus, infighting in FSA at Dumayr
Al-Nusra supporters in Syria. Al Masdar News reports: Earlier today in the Qalamoun Mountains that are situated between the Syrian and Lebanese borders, the Syrian Al-Qaeda group “Jabhat Al-Nusra”...
Russian Bombing
by Bryan Hemming “At least 18 people killed in Russian airstrike on town in Syria – reports”reads a headline in this morning’s Guardian. According to the corporate media when...
Analysis: Russian airstrikes stop NATO’s terrorist convoys in their tracks
Oil trucks destroyed by Russian airstrikes in Syria. Sott.net writes: For years, NATO has granted impunity to convoys packed with supplies bound for ISIS and Al Qaeda. Russian airstrikes...
Video: Syrian civilians in Douma demand militants accept ceasefire with army
Still from the video below. Demonstration in the city of Douma [whose suburbs were taken over by the Free Syrian Army in 2012] demanding the acceptance of the ceasefire...
Turkey’s Downing of a Russian Jet was an Act of Madness
by Dave Lindorff, from Counter Punch In considering the terrifying but also sadly predictable news of a Russian fighter jet being downed by two Turkish fighters, let’s start with...
