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...
The Bizarre Explanation For Why The U.S. Has Avoided Bombing ISIS Oil Wells
by Michael Snyder from The Economic Collapse Why hasn’t the U.S. bombed the oil wells that ISIS controls into oblivion by now? Would you believe that it is because...
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...
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...
Media Rundown: Mainstream Narrative Fractures Under Tension
by Kit The mandated, acceptable opinions that we’re all currently being told we should hold are becoming more and confused, contradictory and insane. As a writer, one hates to...
Six points to remember about the true origins of the Syria crisis as Europe obediently lines up for war with Russia.
...feel free to send these to anyone who asks you "but do you think we should just let ISIS keep beheading people?"
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...
VIDEO: A real speech, from a real Benn
Parliament has just made a decision that this time bombing the Middle East will fix everything, partially on the back of a speech from Hilary Benn. This, in our...
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...
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
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...
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...
A View from the U.S.
by Heather Cottin The US has come so far on its McKindarist-Brzezinski scheme of world domination, that we are now into the EuroAsian gambit for late imperialism on the...
New Yorker: Syrian opposition groups stop pretending
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...
