Syria
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White Helmets co-founder & ex-British MI6 officer Le Mesurier found dead in Istanbul – reports
James Le Mesurier, the man behind support and training for the controversial White Helmets ‘Syrian civil defense’ group, has been found dead in Istanbul, Turkey, according to reports. Continue reading
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Syria News Links 11 November 2019
11 November 2019 • 13:10 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Military Situation In Syria On November 11, 2019 (Map Update) US attempt to establish control of Syria’s oil facilities illegal Continue reading
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Syria, War Propaganda and the “White Helmets”
The Western public’s perceptions of the war in Syria are based on an unprecedented campaign of war propaganda. Why? Because the imperial war against Syria consists of Supreme International War Crimes. Continue reading
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Syria News Links 8-10 November 2019
10 November 2019 • 13:20 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Kurdish Rebels Assassinate Commander Of Turkish-Backed Group In Northern Aleppo (Video) Large Blast Rocks Turkish-Occupied Areas In Northern Raqqa, Casualties Reported (Video) Continue reading
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Pentagon Claims US Authority to Shoot Any Syrian Govt Official Who Tries to Take Control of Syrian Oil
Pentagon officials asserted Thursday U.S. military authority over Syrian oil fields because U.S. forces are acting under the goal of “protecting Americans from terrorist activity” and would be within their rights to shoot a representative of the Syrian government who attempted to retake control over that country’s national resource. Continue reading
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Former British Ambassador to Syria: UK complicit in Trump’s Syria Oil Grab
The cat is out of the bag. The UK is potentially complicit in a war crime. With typical insouciance the U.S. military dropped this bombshell by tweet and apparently without realizing the implications for U.S. partners: Continue reading
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Syria News Links 6-7 November 2019
7 November 2019 • 15:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Today’s Links 7 November 2019 http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2019/11/todays-links_7.html Former British Ambassador to Syria: UK complicit in Trump’s Syria Oil Grab https://www.mintpressnews.com/peter-ford-former-british-ambassador-syria-uk-complicit-trumps-syria-oil-grab/262693/ Continue reading
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US congressional panel outlines next phase of dirty war on Syria: Occupy oil fields and block reconstruction
A DC foreign-policy apparatchik who oversaw Congress’ Syria Study Group proclaimed that the US military “owned” one-third of Syrian territory, including its “economic powerhouse,” then outlined a sadistic strategy for preventing reconstruction of the “rubble.” Continue reading
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Syria News Links 5-6 November 2029
6 November 2019 • 14:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back US ‘pullout’ from Syria looking more like permanent occupation with 800 troops reportedly tasked to ‘protect’ oil https://on.rt.com/a4sz Trump Approves ‘Expanded’ Military Mission To ‘Secure’ Syrian… Continue reading
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U.S., UK, & France, certainly committed an international war crime against Syria on 14 April 2018
It is now clear that on 14 April 2018, the three Governments of U.S., UK, and France, fired over a hundred missiles against Syria, on no more ‘justification’ than staged videos that had been done by those regimes’ own proxy boots-on-the-ground fighters in Syria, who are trying to overthrow Syria’s existing, non-sectarian Government and replace… Continue reading
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Syria News Links 4 November 2019
4 November 2019 • 17:15 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Syrian War Report – November 4, 2019: ‘Withdrawing’ US Troops Setting Up New Military Bases Erdogan Terrorists on Terror Frenzy in Tal Abiad and Aleppo City Continue reading
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Syria News Links 2-3 November 2019
4 November 2019 • 23:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back US: not by oil alone… Turkish-backed Forces Shelled US Military Column In Northern Syria: Russian Military Apparent US Mercenaries Spotted In Syria’s Rumeilan Oil Field Area… Continue reading
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US Needs To Occupy Syria Because Of Kurds Or Iran Or Chemical Weapons Or Oil Or Whatever
President Trump reiterated to the press today that the United States is maintaining its military presence in Syria not to patrol the nation’s border with Turkey, but to control its oil fields. Continue reading
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Syria News Links 2 November 2019
2 November 2019 • 12:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back The Militarization of Everything https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/11/02/the-militarization-of-everything/ Russia Isn’t Getting the Recognition It Deserves on Syria https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/11/02/russia-isnt-getting-recognition-deserves-syria/ Continue reading
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Syria News Links 31 October – 1 November 2019
1 November 2019 • 15:25 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Dozens Of U.S.-led Coalition Trucks Arrive In Large Airstrip In Eastern Aleppo (Video) Turkish, Russian Forces Conduct First Joint Patrol In Northeast Syria (Photos) Continue reading
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Syria News Links 29-31 October 2019
31 October 2019 • 17:20 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Today’s links 31 October 2019 http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2019/10/todays-links_31.html Tasmin: US Occupies Syrian Oil Fields https://hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com/2019/10/31/tasmin-us-occupies-syrian-oil-fields/ Continue reading
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Military conflict between Russia and the US looms large in Deir Ez Zor
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper explained in a press conference Tuesday, that a new U.S. force will be stationed in eastern Syria to protect the oil fields. Barbara Starr, CNN’s Pentagon reporter, pressed Esper on whether the US military mission there will be to prevent the Russian or the Syrian government forces from accessing the… Continue reading
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Media Silent as Nobel Prize Winning OPCW Found “Fixing” its Own Findings on Syria
Judging by the minimal impact of the news, there will likely be few consequences for those who suppressed information and misled the world, nor for those who called for war on the basis of it, their assertions proving, once again, disastrously wrong. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Reveals OPCW Falsified Reports to Blame Syrian Government Instead of Western Backed-Jihadis!
The revelations – studiously ignored by the mainstream media – shed a light on the tangled web weaved by the complicit media and the West’s shameless hypocrisy, involving the OPCW, Wikileaks and Julian Assange’s illegal detention. Continue reading
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OPCW Whistleblower Panel on the Douma attack of April 2018
Today WikiLeaks publishes a statement made by a panel that listened to testimony and reviewed evidence from a whistleblower from the OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) last week. To accompany this statement, Wikileaks is also publishing a previously leaked engineering assessment of the alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria on April 7th… Continue reading
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