Syria
After Mosul, now Raqqa – Donald Trump’s America
Russia Says the US Didn't So Much Liberate Raqqa as Wipe It Off the Face of the Earth
Mon, Oct 23, 2017
What the US-led coalition...
Izvestia: Syrian Kurds to hold parliamentary elections in early 2018
The Federation of Northern Syria, also known as Western Kurdistan, plans to hold local elections by the end of this year, and a parliamentary...
Trump’s Scary Nuclear Doctrine
Pleasing Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and terrifying almost everybody else, President Trump is threatening nuclear war against North Korea and, by implication, war with...
US Now Admits Syrian “Rebels” Have Used Chemical Weapons
by Tyler Durden
Oct 22, 2017
From the first moment chemical weapons were used on the Syrian battlefield, the American public was led to believe that...
Debka’s version on US-Russian understanding
Kurds win Syrian oil under secret US-Russian deal – prize for Raqqa
US-backed Syrian Kurdish militias reported Sunday, Oct. 22, the capture of Syria’s biggest...
The danger of Nuclear War and the Political Paralysis of Europe,...
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos (*)
Never since the Cuban Missile Crisis has there been such an unstable situation in the global political system, including the system...
Putin Is Filling the Middle East Power Vacuum
By Henry Meyer and Donna Abu-Nasr
3/10/2017
The Israelis and Turks, the Egyptians and Jordanians -- they’re all beating a path to the Kremlin in the...
Echoes of Iraq-WMD Fraud in Syria
Just as the West ignored signs in 2002-03 that anti-government Iraqis were fabricating WMD claims, evidence is being brushed aside that Syrian jihadists have...
Damascus demands ‘immediate & unconditional’ pullout of Turkish troops from northwest...
Syria demands an immediate pullout of Turkish troops, whose deployment to Idlib province amounts to “flagrant aggression,” the Syrian Foreign Ministry said as quoted...
Israel’s Role in the Cataclysm to Come
By Phil Butler
Finally, the skeleton is out of the Arab Spring closet via an article in Foreign Policy written by Jonathan Spyer. Israel has...