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Turkey threatens to invade Syria amid tensions with Washington By Barış Demir
On December 12, at the Turkish Defense Industry Summit, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to launch a new military operation east of the Euphrates River in northern Syria in coming days, targeting the Kurdish nationalist groups. 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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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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Syria’s Civil War Is Almost Over… And Assad Has Won By Patrick Cockburn
Isis is confronting an array of enemies approaching Raqqa, but these are divided, with competing agendas and ambitions. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), whose main fighting force is the Syrian Kurdish Popular Mobilisation Units (YPG), backed by the devastating firepower of the US-led air coalition, are now getting close to Raqqa and are likely to… Continue reading
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Syria – Preparing For The Big Move On Idlib By Moon of Alabama
One objective of the Syrian Arab Army move east of Aleppo city was to block the invading Turkish forces from reaching further south. This had been achieved as of last week. The main objective though was to reach the pumping stations at the Euphrates which supply Aleppo city with drinking water. This aim was achieved… Continue reading
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Turkey Crosses into Syria: Unipolar Conspiracy or Multipolar Coordination? By Andrew Korybko
turkey-syria-akp-buffer-zone-map2 It’s very fashionable nowadays for people to criticize the Kremlin for incompetency, and its recent history of controversial decisions coupled with the suspected liberal fifth-and-six-column infiltration of key national institutions gives plenty of ground for this, but sometimes people jump the gun, such as when accusing Russia of being ‘duped’ by Turkey. Continue reading
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Iraq crisis threatens to ignite regional war By Bill Van Auken
After overrunning Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city with a population of roughly 2 million, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), a Sunni militia that is an offshoot of Al Qaeda, has continued its offensive, taking Tikrit, the hometown of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, and a number of other towns in the Tigris… Continue reading
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Kurds in Syria: ‘We don’t want to draw new borders’, says Democratic Union Party
Salih Muslim shares the presidency of the Democratic Union Party (Partiya Yekitîya Demokrat, PYD) with Asya Abdullah. The PYD is a sister party of the Kurdistan Workers Party PKK and shares the same ideological background as its leader Abdullah Öcalan. The party is the ruling force in the Kurdish areas of Syria and took over… Continue reading
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US-Backed Death Squads Massacre Hundreds of Syrian Kurds By Stephen Lendman
Western leaders are silent. The mainstream media ignore what demands headlines. Cold-blooded murder doesn’t matter. It’s too insignificant to report. Managed news misinformation substitutes. Continue reading
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On the Road to Damascus: An Eyewitness Report By Antonio C. S. Rosa
I participated, May 1-11, 2013 in the Mussalaha International Peace Delegation to Lebanon-Syria alongside fellow TRANSCEND member Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire, from Ireland, and 15 others from eight countries. Keenly aware of my responsibility, especially to my newly made Syrian and Lebanese friends left behind, I shall try to report, describe, make sense of… Continue reading
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‘US opened Pandora’s box in Iraq, regional sectarian violence almost impossible to stop now’
“Everyone in Iraq must be terrified that the situation in Syria is spilling over into Iraq” Bambery said as Tuesday’s attacks in the country kill over 40, a day after over 70 people were murdered, escalating fears of all-out sectarian war between minority Sunnis and majority Shiites. Continue reading
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Video: Turkish Objectives in Syria
Baris Karaagac: Turkish leadership dreams of a new Ottoman empire and looks to control the Kurds Continue reading
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Syria the Bleeding and Spreading Wound (II) By Najmuddin A. SHAIKH
Syria as my last article showed is bleeding but its neighbours too are badly affected. As Lakdar Brahimi, while in Beirut canvassing support for his proposal for an Eid Festival ceasefire in Syria warned «This crisis cannot remain confined within Syrian territory»… «Either it is solved, or it gets worse… and sets [the region] ablaze». Continue reading
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Aleppo betrayed by attacks that are foreign to its nature By Charles Glass
Last week’s suicide bombings that killed at least 28 people in Aleppo are drawing Syria’s second city into a conflict that it had struggled to avoid for the past year. President Bashar Al Assad blamed Al Qaeda terrorists, while the Syrian opposition accused the regime. American officials, despite Washington’s hostility to Mr Al Assad and… Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: December 3, 2011
3 December 2011 — Stop NATO Anti-NATO Protests Spread Across Pakistan U.S. NATO Envoy: Missile Shield ‘Whether Russia Likes It Or Not’ ThalesRaytheon Awarded NATO Interceptor Missile Upgrade Contract NATO Deploys Armored Vehicles Against Kosovo Serbs Genocide Of The Serbian People: Russia To Send Observers To Kosovo Historic Summit: Community Of Latin American, Caribbean States Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: September 14, 2011
14 September 2011 — Stop NATO Africa’s Shame: NATO-Serving Uncle Toms Canadian Firms, NATO Allies Reap Fruit Of Libyan Bombardment South Africa To Host African Union Meeting On Libya U.S. Envoy Not Pleased With Brazil, India, South Africa On UNSC U.S. Missiles, Hundreds More Troops Slated For Romania Poland: U.S. Air Force In Exercise As Continue reading
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Media Lens: Children Of Darkness – Killing ‘Them’ – Part 1
As we have noted before, journalists are highly evolved intellectual herd animals. They possess sophisticated sense organs capable of detecting minute changes in the propaganda environment. Continue reading
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