Syria: “Moderate rebels” put women in cages to protect themselves from airstrikes (updated w/ video)
Al Masdar News reports: In order to deter the Syrian and Russian Air Forces inside the East Ghouta (collection of farms) region of rural Damascus, the U.S. backed moderate...
UN’s Ban Ki-Moon Condemns Western ‘Assad Must Go’ Demand
Children in Syria Sputnik International reports: The Western demand that Syria’s Assad must step down is irresponsible and has resulted in millions of refugees, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said....
Russia Warns Obama Of “Unpredictable Consequences”
by Tyler Durden for ZeroHedge, October 28, 2015 On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the US would no longer hesitate to engage in...
Benghazi: Hillary Clinton and C.I.A. Crimes
by David Pear, originally published in OpEdNews, October 27, 2015 Hillary Clinton has been pilloried by her critics for not providing adequate security for the U.S. consulate in Benghazi...
PBS documentary: Inside Assad’s Syria
A street in the suburbs of Damascus. Photo Valery Sharifulin/TASS For weeks, the world’s eyes have been fixed on the tens of thousands of refugees fleeing war-torn Syria for...
The Christian ghetto of ISIS
Christians in the Homs region, their heads shaved by ISIS to distinguish them from Muslims, listen to the new Islamist rules they will be forced to live under. Photo...
Institutional Incoherence: The Atlantic Council’s Desperate Scaremongering
via Kremlin Stooge Ooo, see the fire is sweeping My very street today; Burns like a red-coal carpet: Mad bull, lost its way Oh, children; it’s just a shot...
Assange: ‘Strategic depopulation’ of Syria behind EU refugee crisis?
Refugees in Slovenia after crossing from Croatia, October 26 2015. RT reports: The flooding of Europe by countless waves of refugees may be the result of the “strategic depopulation”...
Free Syrian Army: “We didn’t turn down the offer” of Russian military support
Free Syrian Army soldiers in the Syrian border town of Azaz, north of Aleppo. Photo AP/Turkpix Al Arabiya reports: The Western-backed Free Syrian Army said on Monday it had...
Iraq authorizes Russia to target ISIS convoys coming from Syria
Photo Reuters State-run Turkish press agency Anadolu Agency reports: The Iraqi government authorized Russia to target Daesh [ISIS] convoys coming from Syria, a senior Iraqi official said. The authorization...
Grand Mufti of Syria: 800,000 refugees returned after start of Russian air strikes
Refugees preparing for their return journey to Syria from the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan on October 1 2015. Photo UNHCR Lenta reports: In Syria, over 800,000 refugees returned...
Turkish MPs: Turkey provided chemical weapons for Syrian terrorist attack
Victims of the Gouta chemical attack in Syria. Photo AFP. Turkey’s daily Zaman reports: Two deputies from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) have claimed that the government is...
Video: Free Syrian Army general’s 2013 ultimatum to “international community”
Still from video below. Excerpt from an interview with Free Syrian Army general Abd Al-Baset Tawila on the Al-Jazeera network in June 10, 2013: […] I give the international...
Jimmy Carter provided Russia with maps for increased accuracy in ISIS strikes
Smoke rising after air strikes carried out by the Russian air force on an Islamic State base in Idlib province, Syria Photo: REUTERS/Ministry of Defence of Russia The Washington...
Guardian censors facts BTL
The recent Frankie Boyle article in the Guardian contained his usual mix of dark humour and on-point political satire. However, most people who follow the Syrian situation closely know...
Syria: Islamist factions fight each other in Idlib, Syrian army advances
Al-Nusra Front fighters stand among destroyed buildings near the front line in Yarmuk Photo: AFP/Getty Al Masdar News reports: The conglomerate Islamist factions in northern Syria “Jaysh Al-Fateh” (Army of...
US: Assad does not have to leave “tomorrow or the next day”
“They stayed truthful to their promises”: A billboard in Syria showing Assad flanked by Putin and Hezbollah’s Nasrallah. RT reports: Syrian President Bashar Assad “does not have to leave...
As Russia Bombs ISIS, US Bombs Syrian Civilian Power Stations
by Brandon Turbeville at Activist Post In yet another telling episode, the United States has again demonstrated its true position in regards to ISIS and the Russian bombing of...
