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,...

A still from a Russian Ministry of Defense video showing airstrikes against ISIS oil trucks in Syria. Moon of Alabama writes: […] I have found no video of U.S....

Following the ISIS outrages in Beirut and Paris, John Pilger updates this prescient essay on the root causes of terrorism and what we can do about it. Part of...

by Kit Cast your mind back to 2013, I know it’s been a while, but try. It was a different time. Miley Cyrus was riding a wrecking ball and...

Friday prayers in Saudi Arabia. Photo Fahad Shadeed/Reuters/Corbis Al Arabiya reports:   A meeting has been scheduled in Saudi Arabia to bring together moderate Syrian opposition groups, in an...

An image purporting to show an anti-ISIS protest in Manbij, Aleppo. (Facebook/Manbij News Press) Lebanon’s Now. reports: BEIRUT – Residents of Syria’s northern Manbij have held an unprecedented set...

RT reports: French President François Hollande is to call for the US to review its strategy in fighting terrorist group Islamic State, arguing that Europe cannot wait for America’s...

Stéphane Charbonnier, aka Charb, director of Charlie Hebdo, assassinated in the terrorist attack of January 2015. Life News reports: Patrick Pelloux [pictured below  speaking to Life News], a journalist...

As part of our challenging the narrative of the “new 9/11” series Thierry Meyssan, of Voltairenet.org, suggests the French public have paid the price for their government’s dangerous politics....

Assad and his wife Asma meet with relatives of Syrians killed in the war in early 2015. The President of Syria Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to Italian TV...

Russian bombers over Syria today. Reuters reports: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday the West had to drop its demands about the political exit of Syrian President...

Still from the video below. Depraved disciple of Mad John McCain just took crazy to a whole new level. If Mad John McCain is the most disgusting man in...

Al Arabiya News reports: […] “Today a decision was taken according to which Russian warplanes are now flying on a so-called ‘free hunt’ against tanker trucks carrying oil products...