Syria
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US War Crimes: Selected Articles
19 November 2017 — Global Research President Trump Accelerates Drone Strikes in Somalia By Zero Hedge, November 19, 2017 U.S. Africa Command has conducted fourteen airstrikes since August bringing the year’s total to eighteen. The increased tempo of airstrikes started in September between the Kismayo and Mogadisu region. Continue reading
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Pentagon Trained Syria’s Al Qaeda “Rebels” in the Use of Chemical Weapons
Trump’s decision to strike a Syrian airbase in retaliation for Assad’s alleged use of chemical weapons against his own people confirms that the “False Flag” Chemical Weapons attack scenario first formulated under Obama is still “on the table”. Our analysis (including a large body of Global Research investigative reports) confirms unequivocally that Trump is lying,… Continue reading
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How Ukraine Turned into An Arms Dealer – Supplying Weapons to Al Qaeda and ISIS-Daesh By Sophie Mangal
The U.S. DOD, through U.S. SOCOM, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, as well as Picatinny Arsenal, American military research, and manufacturing facility located in Dover, New Jersey, acquired arms in some Eastern European countries including Ukraine for their further sending to Syria. The procurement volume has already exceeded $700 billion. Continue reading
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The lawfulness of the drone strike against Sally Jones
As a researcher whose work for the last three and a bit years has been on the lawfulness of drone strikes, the question of whether this strike was lawful or not immediately came to mind. Jones was viewed as a member of ISIS and generally the media has uncritically reported her death, implying an assumption… Continue reading
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Despite Syrian Government’s Attempts to Unify Country US-backed Kurdish SDF Persist with Land Theft By Sarah Abed
The West claims that the Kurds are one of the most moral and dignified forces in the Middle East fighting against Daesh. But if their focus is on defeating Daesh, as they claim, why are they committing genocide against Syrians in the process? Taking this into consideration, it is hard to justify the West’s persistent… Continue reading
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Syria: Kurdish SDF and ISIS-Daesh, An Unholy Alliance Consecrated by the U.S. By Sarah Abed
After six years of death and destruction which resulted from a carefully calculated and executed invasion and staged war against the sovereign country of Syria, a sense of normalcy is returning to most parts of the country. Many civilians have returned to their homes in government-held areas, and are living as normal a life as… Continue reading
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Lest we forget: yesterday alone, 44 airstrikes were conducted by US-led coalition military forces
29 September 2017 — Drone Wars Airwars is a collaborative, not-for-personal-profit project tracking and archiving the international air war against so-called Islamic State and other groups in Iraq, Syria and Libya. As nine Coalition nations are bombing in Syria alone – along with the air forces of Russia, Iran, Israel and the Assad regime –… Continue reading
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The ‘Exoneration’ and ‘Near-Victory’ of Assad in the Syrian War: Selected Articles
30 September 2017 — Global Research Breaking Video: ISIS Fighter Admits that ISIS Is Forbidden to Attack Kurdish Forces in Deir Ezzor By Andrew Illingworth, September 29, 2017 A video has just been released on social media showing the interview of an ISIS fighter from Deir Ezzor who admits that the terrorist group’s forces in the region… Continue reading
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Kurdistan Referendum: “Ethnic Cleansing” or Total Independence? Selected Articles
26 September 2017 — Global Research The Myth of the Kurds in Syria YPG’s Moral Excellence By Stephen Gowans, September 26, 2017 Kurdish forces are not only “retaking” Christian and Muslim Arab towns in Syria, but are doing the same in the Nineveh province of Iraq—areas “which were never Kurdish in the first place. Kurds now regard… Continue reading
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Bombshell Report Catches Pentagon Falsifying Paperwork For Weapons Transfers To Syrian Rebels by Tyler Durden
A new bombshell joint report issued by two international weapons monitoring groups Tuesday confirms that the Pentagon continues to ship record breaking amounts of weaponry into Syria and that the Department of Defense is scrubbing its own paper trail. On Tuesday the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network… Continue reading
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Syria Summary – A New Clash Looms in Syria’s East By Moon of Alabama
14 September 2017 — Moon of Alabama When the Islamic State siege on Deir Ezzor was broken by the Syrian Arab Army we asked: Will the SAA cross the Euphrates at Deir Ezzor to retake the valuable oilfields east of it? Or will it stay south of the river and leave those oil fields to… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Preferred Conclusions – The BBC, Syria And Venezuela
In 2013, it was remarkable to see the BBC reporting claims from Syria on a daily basis in a way that almost always blamed the Syrian government, and President Assad personally, for horrendous war crimes. But as the New York Times reported last month, the picture was rather less black and white. The US was… Continue reading
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New FoI figures on UK air and drone strikes in Iraq and Syria By Chris Cole
New figures released to Drone Wars UK in response to Freedom of Information requests shows a dramatic increase in the number of RAF operations in Syria in the first six months of 2017. According to the figures, UK armed air missions in Syria rose by 480% in the first half of 2017 compared with the… Continue reading
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Towards Syria’s Revival? Selected Articles
20 August 2017 — Global Research In Syria, we have heard of significant progress following the ceasefire agreement with the warring parties. Syrian refugees successively returned to their abandoned homes to renew their economic activities. Damascus held its first modern trade fair after several years dating back to 1954. The Syrian Army was able to recover… Continue reading
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Syria: Body Count Comeback
One of the hoariest methods of modern war propaganda remains the official body count. Government or military officials decisively touting large numbers of enemies killed has long been a surefire way to get credulous or friendly press coverage, despite the fact that the figures cited are routinely presented with no evidence to back them up… Continue reading
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Media Mourn End of CIA Killing Syrians and Strengthening Al Qaeda
The US government has finally announced an end to its years-long program to arm and train Syrian rebels. The initiative, one of the CIA’s largest covert operations, with billions of dollars of funding, fueled mass killing in Syria and significantly prolonged the country’s horrific war. Widely respected experts have also acknowledged that it greatly strengthened… Continue reading
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US War in Syria Far From Over: Selected Articles
17 JUly 2017 — Global Research US War in Syria Far From Over By Stephen Lendman, July 17, 2017 Ceasefire in southern Syria was short-lived, discussed in a previous article. On Sunday, Netanyahu said he opposes the Russian/US brokered deal, claiming it “perpetuat(es)” Iranian and Hezbollah presence in the country near Israel’s border. Continue reading
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Selected Articles: Trump Plays Nuclear ‘Chicken’ with Putin Over Syria
28 June 2017 — Global Research Hersh: Trump Ignored Intel Before Bombing Syria By Seymour M. Hersh and The Real News Network, June 28, 2017 In this article is the full transcript of the interview with Seymour Hersh on his report about the western allegations on Syria. Continue reading
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Military Escalations in Syria. Mistakes and Catastrophe? Towards a More Pronounced Conflagration? By Dr. Binoy Kampmark
23 June 2017 — Global Research To become enmeshed in a war of incalculable variables; to be at bloody bruised loggerheads – this is the Syrian nightmare, where there are more punters than odds. Savagely, Syria as a state is being ravaged and mauled to the point of non-recognition. It is now a mere terrain for… Continue reading
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Media: Syria the Latest Case of US ‘Stumbling’ Into War?
One of the most common tropes in US media is that the US military always goes to war reluctantly—and, if there are negative consequences, like civilian deaths, it’s simply a matter of bumbling around without much plan or purpose. Continue reading
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