by George Ades After the “chilling” of relations between Russia and Turkey following the downing of the Russian jet over Syria, Turkey suffered the effects of an economic embargo...

by Andrew Korybko The failed coup attempt against Erdogan provoked a flurry of excited polemics in the alternative informational space, leading to the emergence of two competing hypotheses. The...

from The Saker When I first heard that a coup was in progress in Turkey my first thought was that it was the USA’s way to punish Erdogan for...

by Prof. Michael Chossudovsky, for Global Research Almost 2 years ago, August 8, 2014, Obama launched a bombing campaign against Syria and Iraq, in defiance of international law. The...

by Michael Nevradakis, via 99GetSmart In May, likely for the first time in the post-war history of the Western world, a national parliament willingly ceded what remained of its...

by F. William Engdahl, NEO Only eighteen months ago prospects for a major southern Europe natural gas pipeline from Russian gas fields across the Black Sea, into Turkey and...

by Eric Zuesse The great investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, in two previous articles in the London Review of Books («Whose Sarin?» and «The Red Line and the Rat Line») has reported that the...

The Western MSM are all a flutter: Russia are pulling out of Syria (sort of). They can't quite decide if it's a victory, or a defeat. They don't know...

A boy greets a Syrian Army soldier in Aleppo. Eva Bartlett writes in Sott.net: In April 2014 I first visited Syria, going to Homs and Latakia, in addition to...

by Vanessa Beeley, for 21st Century Wire “The UN World Food Program (WFP) aids for the restricted Syrian civilians in Deir Ezzor city have landed mostly in ISIS controlled...

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...

by Eric Zuesse Syria’s President, Bashar al-Assad, issued on February 17th, a decree: …granting a general amnesty for military deserters inside and outside the country and the crimes included...

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...

A Turkish army tank at the border with Syria. Press TV reports: Saudi Arabia and Turkey appear to be backpedaling on rhetoric to launch ground operations inside Syria, with officials sayingthey would...

  RT reports: In an angry tirade starting with “Ey America!” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Washington of causing the bloodbath in Syria by not recognizing the Kurdish...

Turkish army tanks at the Turkish-Syrian border in September 2014. Photo Reuters. Sputnik International reports: Erdogan Toprak, member of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) who has served as the MP for Istanbul’s...

by William Blum, at the Anti-Empire Report Questions to ask President Obama the next time (also the last time) you’re invited to one of his press conferences: Which is most...

by Eric Zuesse There can be little doubt now: America’s decades-long catastrophic failures to make significant progress in eliminating even a single one of the numerous jihadist groups around...

from Seemorerocks It’s an old habit that is difficult to throw off. I have been accustomed, during my life (or at least for the last quarter-centrury) to rely on...

Still from the video below. RT reports: Islamic State terrorists in Syria received all necessary materials to produce deadly sarin gas via Turkey, Turkish MP Eren Erdem has told...