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Syria: M5 highway secured, time for truce By M.K. Bhadrakumar
The de-escalation talks between Moscow and Ankara over the Russian-backed offensive by the Syrian government forces in the northwestern province of Idlib didn’t help defuse tensions. Continue reading
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U.S. & NATO Rush To Add Fuel To Fire Of Idlib Conflict
The Washington-led establishment are attempting to seize the opportunity and push Turkey further into the Idlib tensions, and encourage it to carry out agressive actions in the region. Continue reading
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Syria Imposes the Astana Deal by Force, as Turkish-Russian Tensions Rise
Since 2012 the M5 Damascus-Aleppo had been under the control of jihadist forces. The Syrian Army has now liberated the M5 Damascus-Aleppo road and over 140 cities, villages and strategic hills. Turkey and the Uzbeks, Uighurs and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly al-Nusra) failed to protect their fortified positions, abandoning them and retreating towards the area… Continue reading
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Syria – Turkey Invades Idleb But Its Bluff Will Be Called
Since last week’s post on the Syrian Idleb campaign the Syrian army has made significant progress. Continue reading
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Why Turkey won’t hitch Syrian wagon with US By M.K. Bhadrakumar
The remark by President Recep Erdogan on Friday that Turkey might militarily intervene in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province fuelled speculation that tensions between Ankara and Moscow have reached a point of no return. Continue reading
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VIDEO of fake chemical attack in Syria already complete, White Helmets co-produced footage – Moscow
The White Helmets have shot a new fake video of ‘Assad’s chemical attack’ in Syria’s Idlib, the Russian MoD has said. The movie, co-produced by the notorious White Helmets, is expected to be released shortly on social media. Continue reading
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Moscow pips Pompeo at the Syrian post
The capture of the town of Maarat al-Numan in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib bordering Turkey on Wednesday by the government forces must be counted as the first ‘new facts on the ground’ since the murder of Qassem Soleimani twenty-five days ago. The salience is that the military operation against the al-Qaeda affiliates went ahead… Continue reading
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Syria Launches New Idlib Campaign – UN Battle Over Control Of Aid For Syrians
The Syrian army campaign to liberate the terrorist held Idleb governorate was restarted yesterday. The campaign had been halted at the end of August after ceasefire negotiations between Turkey and Russia. Since then nearly a thousand people have died on all sides around Idleb during skirmishes, artillery attacks by rebels on Aleppo city and Syrian… Continue reading
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How The BBC’s Quentin Sommerville Created Fairytales Of Underground Hospitals In Syria
In August 2013 the BBC produced a fake video headlined “Saving Syria’s Children” about an alleged chemical weapon attack in Syria which it claimed was caused by the Syrian government. Robert Stuart has since pressed the BBC to admit the obvious fabrication of these scenes. Continue reading
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West’s “Humanitarian” Claims Struggle as Syrian War Nears Endgame By Tony Cartalucci
Headlines emanating from the West regarding Syria’s ongoing war have a common theme – allegations of Syria and Russia’s “ruthless barrage” of the northern region of Idlib. So often – however – has the US and its allies falsely invoked “humanitarian concern” that these headlines fall on informed and discerning ears who not only reject it, but have cemented… Continue reading
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Syrian ‘Rebels’ Feel Left Behind – Burn ‘Traitor’ Erdogan’s Picture
Since 2011 the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used Syrian ‘rebels’ and Islamist Jihadis as proxy forces against the Syrian government. These forces are now mostly confined to Idlib governorate next to the Turkish border. The Syrian army recently made progress against the Jihadis. Turkey did not come to their help. That their resistance is… Continue reading
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Another Syrian Victory – and West’s Telling Silence
The liberation of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib Province by the Syrian army and its Russian ally marks another important victory towards ending the eight-year war in Syria. Continue reading
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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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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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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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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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Explaining Russia’s Position on Idlib
Over the past five years my work in the information space has been consciously aimed at explaining why the Russian military does and doesn’t do certain things, whether it be in relation to Ukraine, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Venezuela, etc, and why demanding that Putin bombs everything in sight is exactly what the CIA wants so-called… Continue reading
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