Syria
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Russia's top diplomat comments on chemical weapons use and provocations in Syria
Russian military in Syria have repeatedly warned of an impending serious provocation aimed at blaming Damascus for the use of chemical weapons, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at Monday’s press conference. Continue reading
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Douma Chemical Attack: Another Link in the Chain of Staged Provocations By Peter KORZUN
It’s the same old song and dance. Last year, the Syrian government was blamed for a sarin gas attack on Khan Sheikhun that prompted a US cruise missile strike on a Syrian air base. The American president’s approval ratings went up as a result. This time, the alleged attack occurred right after the Russia-Turkey-Iran summit… Continue reading
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Red Crescent Found No Trace of Chemical Weapons in Syria’s Douma – Doctor
Syrian medical specialists have found no trace of chemical weapons having been used in Eastern Ghouta, a member of the Red Crescent, who worked for the last seven years at the central hospital of Douma in Eastern Ghouta, told journalists. Continue reading
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The Truth About the Chemical Weapons Attack in Syria
9 April 2018 — TheSaker Continue reading
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Syria – Timelines Of ‘Gas Attacks’ Follow A Similar Scheme (Updated)
An alleged new ‘chemical incident’ in Syria reminds of a similar series of events we saw last year. We are told to believe that each time the U.S. pulls back from the war on Syria the Syrian government is responding with a ‘chemical attack’ that pulls the U.S. back in. Continue reading
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US Isn’t Leaving Syria—but Media Lost It When Possibility Was Raised By Gregory Shupak
The White House made clear that Trump’s talk of pulling out of Syria was just talk (Independent, 4/4/18)–but not before numerous media figures expressed alarm that the illegal occupation might end. Continue reading
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Mass Deception and the Prelude to World War? By Colin Todhunter
Sold under the notion of a spontaneous democratic uprising against a tyrannical political leader, Syria is little more than an illegal war for capital, empire and energy. The West and its allies have been instrumental in organising the war as elaborated by Tim Anderson in his book ‘The Dirty War on Syria’. Continue reading
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40 tons of chemical weapons left by militants found in Syria – Russian MoD
More than 40 tons of chemical weapons were abandoned by retreating militants in the war-ravaged country, the ministry said on Wednesday. “The Syrian Foreign Ministry pointed out that more than 40 tons of poisonous substances were found on the territories, liberated from terrorists,” Igor Kirillov, the commander of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Forces,… Continue reading
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Realities On-the-ground in East Ghouta, Syria: We’ve Seen This All Before By Mark Taliano
None of these false flag “Assad gasses his own people” operations have withstood the scrutiny of independent investigations. They have all been perpetrated by the West and its proxies, most notably the White Helmets, al Qaeda auxiliaries, as fake pretexts for more war. Continue reading
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Media Erase US Role in Syria’s Misery, Call for US to Inflict More Misery By Gregory Shupak
7 March 2018 — FAIR Simon Tisdall argues in the Guardian (2/10/18) that “the West let down Syria”—not by fueling a murderous civil war, but by failing to ensure that its chosen side prevailed in that war. In the Guardian (2/10/18), Simon Tisdall described the US and its Western partners as “hovering passively on the sidelines in Syria,”… Continue reading
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US Destabilization Plan for Iran and the Middle East, and the Need to Strengthen the Resistance By Farhad Shahabi
The use of force, in total disregard for the UN Charter, international law, and international agreements, is today, more than ever before, the main characteristic of Washington’s policy decisions. Consequently, the world is experiencing a decisive shift to militarization rather than, and in negation of, regional and international diplomacy, in US approach to policy. Now,… Continue reading
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Syria’s New Srebrenica in the Making By Stephen Karganovic
Does the comical gullibility of the Western public have any bounds? Disregarding all the previous false alarms and thoroughly debunked psyop false flag operations designed to pin genocidal misconduct on the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Asad in order to produce a rationale for full scale intervention in Syria, the Western propaganda machine is now… Continue reading
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US military, Trump administration claim unlimited powers to wage war in Syria
The Trump administration has asserted the power to expand the US war in Syria and effectively annex and occupy significant portions of the country without even the pretense of international authorization, congressional sanction or public debate. The New York Times reported the position, laid out in letters to Senator Tim Kaine from the Pentagon and… Continue reading
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Cost of UK air and drone strikes in Iraq and Syria reach £1.75 billion By Chris Cole
Analysis of figures released in response to Freedom of Information requests by Drone Wars UK indicate that the UK has spent £1.75bn on armed air missions against ISIS in Iraq and Syria since August 2014. It should be noted that the overall cost of UK military operations in Iraq and Syria will be much higher. Continue reading
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Painting an Israeli Attack on Syria as Israeli ‘Retaliation’ By Gregory Shupak
Israel claimed that it intercepted an Iranian drone in Israeli airspace on Saturday, February 10; Iran denied that it had a drone there. Israel then bombed a Syrian airbase, saying it was the command-and-control center from which Iran had launched the drone. The Syrian government shot down an Israeli jet that had bombed the base,… Continue reading
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Syrian War Spirals in Trump's Dangerous New Phase
As top US officials speak openly of targeting Iran and Assad now that ISIS is defeated, reporter Ben Norton and Syrian analyst Ehsani discuss the escalating Syrian war on multiple fronts Continue reading
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US-Turkey Clash in Northern Syria. Turkey’s “Operation Olive Branch”: Selected Articles
23 January 2018 — Global Research Ankara is militarizing the Afrin district of Syria with operation code-named “Olive Branch” to establish a “safe zone” along the Turkish-Syrian border. The district is controlled by US-backed People’s Protection Units (YPG) which are allegedly the target of the Turkish forces in the region. Will this invasion mount up the existential crisis in… Continue reading
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Trump Keeps US in Syria and Sets Off New War
Just days after the announcement of a U.S.-backed Kurdish “border force” and an indefinite U.S. military presence in Syria, Turkey is shelling Kurdish areas and threatening a ground assault. We speak to Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton about what the Trump administration’s renewed commitment to both regime change and confronting Iran means for Syria. Continue reading
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The Pentagon’s New Syria War Plan: Selected Articles
18 January 2018 — Global Research Syrian Air Defense Ready to Destroy Turkish Warplanes If They Attack Afrin – Deputy FM By South Front, January 18, 2018 Syria’s Air Defense Forces are ready to react to any Turkish hostile action in Afrin and the Damascus government will consider the Turkish military operation there as an act… Continue reading
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The Pentagon’s New Syria War Plan: Selected Articles
18 January 2018 — Global Research Syrian Air Defense Ready to Destroy Turkish Warplanes If They Attack Afrin – Deputy FM By South Front, January 18, 2018 Syria’s Air Defense Forces are ready to react to any Turkish hostile action in Afrin and the Damascus government will consider the Turkish military operation there as an act… Continue reading
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