Syria
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Turkey faces quagmire in Syria By M.K. Bhadrakumar
The three-year old Russian-Turkish tango in Syria has been incisive, exciting and provocative, but the inability of the two partners to trust each other or surrender to the care and needs of the other has deprived the relationship of the energies to work symbiotically. Continue reading
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Syria – Army Cuts Off Khan Shaykhun – Russia Bombs Turkish Reinforcement
Today the Syrian army gained fire control over the M5 highway north of Khan Shaykhun. Continue reading
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Opposition or Terrorists: Who is Syria and Russia Bombing in Idlib? By Tony Cartalucci
Scott Lucas – a professor at the University of Birmingham UK – would decry with the rest of the Western media – resumed joint military operations carried out by Syria and Russia in and around the northwestern governorate of Idlib. Continue reading
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Syria News Links 29 July – 2 August 2019
2 August 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Opinion: Why Kamala Harris Is Unfit to Be President https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/08/01/opinion-why-kamala-harris-is-unfit-to-be-president/ Faux Humanitarian Irwin Cotler, the White Helmets, and the Whitewashing of an Appalling Agenda https://www.mintpressnews.com/irwin-cotler-white-helmets-israel-whitewashing/261073/ Continue reading
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Does the U.S. army really intend to leave Syria? By Adel Karim
Last December, the U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the Pentagon started the process of withdrawing its troops from Syria. Even then, many people were quite skeptical about the words of the American president while a number of political analysts and experts noted that the Americans are unlikely to pull out their troops from Syria,… Continue reading
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Channel 4’s “Inside Idlib” – The Last Gasp of a Dying Campaign By Kit Knightly
Channel 4 just announced a new addition to their on-going “Inside Idlib” report: a 10-minute video which – they claim – is evidence of the Russian and Syrian governments committing a war crime. Continue reading
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Syria News Links 12 July 2019
12 July 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Eyewitness interviews show there was no chemical attack in Syria’s Douma Restoration of ancient Palmyra bas-reliefs begins in Syria’s Damascus https://tass.com/society/1068298 Continue reading
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Syria News Links 6 July 2019
6 July 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day Suspending Chris Williamson: The Fury And The Fakery https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/suspending-chris-williamson-the-fury-and-the-fakery/ Iran Threatens Seizure of UK Oil Tanker if Iranian Oil Tanker Not Released http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ActivistPost/~3/ebOPvtBDCAE/iran-threatens-seizure-of-uk-oil-tanker-if-iranian-oil-tanker-not-released.html Continue reading
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Debunking the rumors about Russia caving in to Israel
This Spring saw a sudden increase in the volume of articles in the so-called “alternative media and blogosphere” about Putin “selling out” Syria or Iran to the Israelis and their US patrons, or both. What was particularly interesting about this campaign is that it was not triggered by any kind of event or statement by… Continue reading
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Israeli attack on Syria is a message for Russia BY M.K. Bhadrakumar
Although G20 summit in Osaka achieved nothing and there were no breakthrough decisions, a pleasant feeling had appeared momentarily that in the disjointed world situation, all the participants in the event at least reconfirmed their commitment to continue efforts to improve the global trade system, including work to reform the WTO. The G20 summits are generally convergent occasions and Osaka was… Continue reading
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The need for radically reformed governance at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) by Tim Hayward
It was recently revealed that the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) had suppressed evidence about an alleged chemical attack in 2018. This scandal was downplayed in the mainstream media, but its implications are serious. The OPCW had already been losing the confidence of a number of states, including those of the Non-Aligned Movement as… Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 19-24 June 2019
24 June 2019 — The New Dark Age The Economic Entrails at the Heart of the ‘Deal of the Century’ https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/06/25/economic-entrails-at-heart-of-deal-century/ As Conflict With Iran Escalates, Path To Peace Can Be Found https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/06/as-conflict-with-iran-escalates-path-to-peace-can-be-found/ Continue reading
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Dissenting paper on Douma attack exposes ‘compromised reporting & analysis’ by OPCW – MIT professor
The OPCW failed to include evidence on the Douma “chemical attack” that contradicts the West’s favored narrative in its final report, so the resulting document is inherently compromised, an MIT professor said. Continue reading
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Turkey begins to openly combat Syrian troops
The Defense Ministry of Turkey officially confirmed on June 16, 2019 that Turkish artillery was involved in shelling Syrian governmental army positions near Tell Bazam in the “de-escalation zone” in the northwest of the Idlib province. This was allegedly “made in agreement with the Russian side as response to accurate data indicating from where two… Continue reading
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Syria and War Propaganda: Robert Stuart vs the BBC
It’s a David vs Goliath story. A former local newspaper reporter, Robert Stuart, is taking on the British Broadcasting Corporation. Stuart believes that a sensational video story about an alleged atrocity in Syria “was largely, if not entirely, staged.” The BBC would like it all to just go away. But like David, Stuart will not… Continue reading
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US Propaganda Blitz Ahead of Idlib’s Liberation
A concerted effort is being made to once again flood Western headlines with now familiar and long-since discredited war propaganda as Syrian forces and their Russian and Iranian allies move in on Idlib in northern Syria to liberate it from US-backed terrorists. Continue reading
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4 TONS OF C-4 U.S. MANUFACTURED FOUND IN DER’AH AND STORED BY ISIS!!! SAA GRINDS NUSRA IN BOTH HAMA AND IDLIB by Ziad Fadel
Don’t you just love hypocrisy? Don’t you love it when Evangelicals like Mike Pompeo and Mike Pence pontificate about Christianity and their ideological love for all things Zionist? Isn’t it just beautiful when Syrian security services come upon 4 tons of C-4 all manufactured in the United States? On June 1, 2019, that’s exactly what… Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 11 June 2019
11 June 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day Americans Pay Price for Criminal Wars From Mass Shootings at Home https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/06/11/americans-pay-price-for-criminal-wars-from-mass-shootings-at-home/ Syria: Western Media Glorification Of Syrian Jihadist Is A Sign That The War Is Far From Its End https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/06/11/syria-western-media-glorification-of-syrian-jihadist-is-a-sign-that-the-war-is-far-from-its-end/ Continue reading
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