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...

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...

A Syrian soldier in the Syrian city of Deir Ezzor on December 12, 2014. © AFP   Interview in Damascus, December 2013

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...

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”...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

Still from the video below. Interviews with ISIL members captured by the YPG (People’s Defense Units, the armed forces of the government of Rojava, the Syrian Kurdistan), that have...

Bill Purkayastha A few days ago, I had a sudden realisation. The West, I understood, had changed tack after Russia’s intervention in Syria. All these days  – circa  2012...

Juan Cole, Informed Comment, November 25, 2015 The Turkish government decision to down a Russian jet operating in the north of the Syrian province of Latakia is breathtaking in...

Syrian soldiers reunite with their families today in Tartus. Today, soldiers from the Kuweires airbase got a heroes’ welcome in Tartus, Aleppo, following the base’s recapture on November 10...

by Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org The West owes Russia a hell of a lot; but what it owes Russia first is a deep apology, and a welcome...

Photo allegedly showing a French jihadist in Syria sporting a FAMAS assault rifle, the  service rifle of the French military. Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.org appears on TeleSur (Nov. 18,...