by Eric Zuesse As has been recently reported, many experts on international relations are saying that the danger of a nuclear war between NATO and Russia is greater now than it...

Inside Aleppo. Photo Don McCullin. Russia Insider reports: […] Haytham, 9 and sister Lena, 6  climb the high embankment between two half ruined high-rise buildings, their small hands maneuvering...

Syrian Army soldiers loyal to President Bashar al-Assad take aim at rebels during a battle in Aleppo’s al-Liramun neighbourhood. Photo AFP/Getty Images Peter Oborne writes in The Spectator: I...

Press TV reports: Syrian forces broke the siege of two major towns in the northern province of Aleppo on Wednesday after pushing back foreign-backed militants in a successful military operation....

A displaced Syrian girl holds her national as she stands in a bus in Damascus to return to her home in Qadam after a truce deal was reached between...

by Mark Taliano One of the unstated goals of imperial warfare is to make hapless civilians pay a price for having the temerity to be born in a targeted...

A man examines a weapon seized from Islamic State militants in Kobani, Syria [in September 2015]. Photo Yasin Akgul / AFP/Getty Images Iran’s Fars News reports:   TEHRAN (FNA)-...

The deceased Zahran Alloush at his funeral yesterday. Paul Antonopoulos writes in Al Masdar News, via Sott.net: With news breaking yesterday that Zahran Alloush, the leader of Jaysh al-Islam,...

President Bashar al-Assad stands with soldiers of the Syrian army. Reuters reports: BEIRUT (Reuters) – Two thousand Syrian Islamist fighters are expected to be evacuated soon from besieged, rebel-held...

Still from video below. Syria – Aleppo South – Shia militia from Iraq celebrate progress against terrorist groups of al-Nusra and ISIS-22 December 2015. The Shi’a militias from Iraq...

The President of Syria Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma paid a surprise visit to the Christian Church of Our Lady of Damascus in the Syrian capital yesterday. Global...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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-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”...

The Free Syrian Army in Kafranbel sends a Christmas message to the Pope in 2012. The New Yorker reports: The pretense that the so-called Syrian opposition-in-exile speaks for those...

From craigmurray.co.uk Cameron is in serious trouble at Westminster after overreaching himself by the claim that there are 70,000 “moderate rebels” willing to take up the ground war with...

by Kit Today David Cameron made his case, such as it is, for Britain extending their air-strikes from Iraq into Syria. British bombing will make Britain “safer” he says....