Trump Attacks Syria: A Gambit And A War Crime
There are contradictory opinions about who on last Tuesday April 4th used chemical weapons, which killed more than 80 civilians including children in the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhun in…
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US Threatens More Strikes After Cruise Missiles Hit Syria
The day after US warships rained some 60 Tomahawk missiles on a Syrian government airbase, US officials made it clear that this unilateral and criminal attack against an oppressed former…
The Civilized World Strikes Again
It is apparent given the timelines and the lack of time given to verifying the validity of accusations concerning the gas attack in Homs, Syria, that plans had already been…
And The Winner Is Raytheon
The attack on Syria is a violation of the U.S. Constitution, International Law, and the Geneva Convention. Why did President Trump make this disastrous decision? We may never know why.…
American Unlimited Imperialism:Syria
Historically, this latest eruption of American militarism at the start of the 21st Century is akin to that of America opening the 20th Century by means of the U.S.-instigated Spanish-American…
Empire’s Aggression On Syria
With the pounding of 59 Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles on Shayrat airbase in Syria the Empire has widened its aggression in the strategically crucial country. The sounds of destruction…
US Launches Cruise Missile Attack Against Syrian Government
Between 8 and 9 p.m., US Eastern Time Thursday, two US warships in the Mediterranean fired a barrage of 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a Syrian air base at…
Trump, Syria, And Chemical Weapons: What We Know, What We Don’t, And The Dangers Ahead
Let's start with what we don't know. Experts remain uncertain what chemical(s) were involved in the horrific chemical attack, almost certainly from the air, on the village of Khan Sheikhun…
Trump Administration’s Reversal of Obama Era Policy in Syria
The editor-in-chief of Lebanon’s prestigious al-Akhbar newspaper, Ibrahim al-Amin, has revealed in his recent editorial [1] that Tulsi Gabbard, the United States Representative for Hawaii whose trip to Syria…
The Much-Maligned Views Of Rania Khalek On Syria
When journalist Rania Khalek's lecture was cancelled on February 27, the group that invited her, Students for Justice in Palestine – University of North Carolina (SJP-UNC) issued a statement saying…
How the Conflict in Syria Benefits Washington’s Allies
In the wake of Arab Spring uprisings in March 2011, protests began in Syria against the government of Bashar al-Assad. In the following months, violence between demonstrators and security forces…
Parallels Between Syrian Civil War And Soviet-Afghan Jihad
If we were to draw parallels between the Soviet-Afghan jihad of the ‘80s and the Syrian civil war of today, the Western powers used the training camps located in the…
Issues At Stake In Syria’s Peace Talks
Syria’s peace-talks are about settling a horrific six-year-long war, but this is more of an international war that’s being waged on the battlefields of Syria, than it is a…
Life And Death Struggle For The Children Of Syria
The Story of One Child's Struggle to Survive: On 2/17/2017 ten year old Ghina Wadi, who has spent the past seven months often in unbearable pain, which for the first…
The Three-Way Tug Of War That’s Pulling Syria Apart
Last month, the Islamic State recaptured Palmyra from where it was evicted by the Syrian army only in March; and this week, the Islamic State has launched a fierce assault…
The State Of The State Of Syria
Significant developments took place regarding Syria in December 2016. The partial cease-fire brokered, or rather, brokered and imposed, by Russia and Turkey, with Iran’s concurrence, on President Basher al Assad…
NATO’s Playbook Of Proxy Wars In The Middle East
Since the times of the Soviet-Afghan jihad, during the eighties, it has been the fail-safe game plan of the master strategists at NATO to raise money from the oil-rich emirates…
Putin Orders Expansion Of Russia’s Naval Base In Tartus, Syria
Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday (Dec. 23) ordered the expansion of the Russian naval base in the Syrian port city of Tartus, according to the Russian media. The expansion of…
Syrian Civil War Is The Reenactment Of Soviet-Afghan Jihad
George Santayana presciently said that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. The only difference between the Afghan jihad back in the ‘80s, that spawned…
Russia, Iran And Turkey Issue Joint Declaration On Syrian Settlement
After meeting in Moscow on Tuesday, top officials of the Russian, Iranian and Turkish governments issued a joint eight-point statement of principles calling for the extension of a ceasefire throughout…
Will Proxy Politics Bring Death For Madaya Siblings Manal And Mohammed-Kamal?
Outside of Madaya, Syria: It was this past July that ten year old Ghina and six year old Nagham, old sisters of four year old Manal and three year old…
Turkey, Russia, Iran Sign Deal On Syria After Shooting Of Russian Ambassador To Turkey
Yesterday, top Russian, Turkish, and Iranian officials met in Moscow and signed a declaration they billed as ending the US-instigated war in Syria. Coming after Russian-backed Syrian army units captured…
IS Re-Occupies Palmyra
The National Museum, Damascus: It’s a god-awful situation today in Palmyra. How much of our priceless cultural heritage will be destroyed during the expanding re-occupation by Islamic State (IS)?…
As Syria Suffers …. A Message From A Kashmiri Student To The World
Long before the conflict began, many Syrians complained about high unemployment, widespread corruption, a lack of political freedom, and a state repression under President Bashar al-Assad. Pro-democracy protests erupted…
Navigating War: Has The War In Syria Also Destroyed Journalism?
When a veteran war reporter like Robert Fisk constructs his argument regarding the siege of Aleppo based on 'watching' video footage, then one can truly comprehend the near impossibility of…
Battle For Aleppo Ends With Beseiged City In Syrian Government Control
The Syrian government is reportedly in control of eastern Aleppo, according to news reports on Tuesday afternoon, with a deal having been reached to evacuate civilians and opposition fighters. Damascus…
How ‘Moderate Rebels’ Are Supported By Islamic State In Syria
During the last couple of months, two very similar military campaigns have simultaneously been going on in Syria and Iraq, while the Syrian offensive with Russian air support against the…
Why Turkey Is Seeking Close Cooperation With Russia In Syria?
The sudden thaw in Turkey’s relations with Russia and latent hostility towards America is partly due to the fact that Erdogan holds the US-based preacher, Fethullah Gulen, responsible for the…
Syrian War Threatens To Escalate As Turkey Accuses Damascus Of Attacking Its Troops
Turkey’s Prime Minister and armed forces both accused the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad Thursday of conducting an airstrike on Turkish troops in the vicinity of al-Bab in the country’s…
Uprooted From Syria, Stranded In Gaza
Nassar al-Adeeni has vivid memories of how an uprising began in Syria more than five years ago. At least 15 children were captured and tortured in Deraa, the city where…
Inside The Invisible Government: War, Propaganda, Clinton And Trump
The American journalist, Edward Bernays, is often described as the man who invented modern propaganda. The nephew of Sigmund Freud, the pioneer of psycho-analysis, it was Bernays who coined the…
Domestic U.S. Politics Of War With Russia
First, the context in which the issue of war against Russia is being raised: Syria’s government is allied with Russia’s government, and ‘The West’ is trying to overthrow Syria’s…
Obama Administration Split On “Plan B” For Syria Intervention
The Obama administration’s National Security Council has discussed proposals for a “Plan B” in Syria, involving a major escalation of the five-year-old US intervention aimed at toppling the government of…
Turkish Bombing In Syria Threatens Wider War
The threat of the US military intervention in Iraq and Syria erupting into a far wider war has increased sharply in the wake of a series of Turkish air…
US-Led Sanctions Targeting Syria Risk Adjudication As War Crimes
Beirut: As many of us would agree, the continuing conflict in Syria has created a devastating humanitarian crisis: the magnitude of humanitarian needs is overwhelming in all parts of the…
The Many ‘Truths’ On Syria: How Our Rivalry Has Destroyed A Country
"The United States has the power to decree the death of nations," wrote Stephen Kinzer in the Boston Globe. Kinzer's article was entitled: "The media are misleading the public on…
Debunking “El Comercio” On Syria
The most prestigious newspaper in Peru is no more than another mouthpiece for power. But this shouldn´t surprise anyone familiar with mainstream media and its propagandistic role in our society.…
Political Defamation Campaign Targets Rescue Workers In Syria
“Attacking hospitals and medical workers is a non-negotiable red line. As such, it must be set out – in clear and simple terms – in all military manuals, rules of…
No-Fly Zone Madness: Catastrophe And Conflict In Aleppo
Tuesday’s House of Commons debate in Britain was filled with the hollow anguish of impotence, fresh with statements about Russian war criminality tossed about like freshly made blinis. Ever easy…
Hillary Clinton Wants To Do This Again — Now To Syria
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (and President Obama — and some NATO partners) did it previously to Libya, and here was the result (as discussed by the retired British career diplomat…
The Day After the Fall Of Aleppo Will International Humanitarian Law Still Be Relevant?
Aleppo University Faculty of Law, Aleppo, Syria: Contrary to most recent media reports, and frankly to this observer’s surprise, forces defending both rebel controlled East Aleppo as well as…
The New York Times Suddenly Embraces International Law To Condemn Russia
As the Syrian Arab Army dug in for a fight against the self-declared Islamic State on September 17, they were struck by an air raid that killed 62 soldiers and…
Honoring Aylan Kurdi By Ending The War In Syria
"A photograph, no matter how emotionally wrenching, can only do so much," wrote Paul Slovic and Nicole Smith Dahmen in QZ.com. The photograph referenced in their comment was that of three-year-old Aylan…
Security Council Meets After US Coalition Strike Syrian Forces
The Syrian crisis has now moved into a serious zone where the next developments will bring the opposite groups, which were recently involved in a ceasefire deal, to a direct…
Can The Growing Number Of Government-Rebel Reconciliation Agreements End The Bloodshed In Syria?
Al-Moaddamiyeh, Damascus Countryside: September 8, 2016 was a long hot tense day at the border-crossing at al-Moaddamiyeh, at town roughly ten kilometers southwest of Damascus. Approximately 135 Syrian soldiers and 35…
U.S. Caves To Russia On Syria — Won’t Continue Protecting Al Qaeda
On Friday, September 9th, America’s Secretary of State John Kerry, and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, came to an agreement on Syria, for the second time. (The previous agreement…
Syria: Potential Fuse For Greater Conflagration
As the world is now well aware, Syria has been consumed by violence for years now. What people are less aware of, however, is why it has been raging for…
Biden Meets With Erdogan, Backs Turkish Invasion Of Syria
Under the pretext of “strengthening Turkey’s security by clearing terrorist groups from the border and maintaining Syria’s territorial integrity,” the Turkish army launched a major escalation of the war in…
Turkey Shells ISIS And Kurdish Forces In Syria
Following last week’s threats by Washington to attack Syrian government war planes bombing US-backed Kurdish forces in the northern Syrian town of Hasakeh, Turkey has launched artillery barrages against both…
U.S. Invades Syria, And Warns Russia
On Monday, August 22nd, the United States government — which demands the overthrow of the internationally-recognized-as-legal government of Syria — officially announced that America’s military forces in Syria will continue…
The Boy In The Ambulance Offers Glimpse Of ‘Profound Horrors’ In Syria
Laying bare the horrors of Syria's ongoing civil war, heartbreaking footage of a young boy rescued from the rubble following an airstrike in Aleppo has gone viral. Much as last…
Growing Disquiet In Washington Over Russian-Iranian Actions In Syria
Russian bombers used an air base in the northwest of Iran for a second day Wednesday to attack targets inside Syria described by Moscow as arms depots and command centers…
As Our Cultural Heritage In Syria Hemorrhages, Villagers Work To Restore It
Qalamoun Mountains, Syria: Reports continue nearly daily of yet more damage to our archeological treasures Syria. A few examples include the recent ISIS destruction at Tal Ajaja, one of Syria's most…
Why Intervention Is Worse Than Dictatorship
Let me take this opportunity to make it clear that I am in no way sympathetic towards the unrepresentative Middle Eastern dictators in general and Bashar al-Assad in particular, but…
US Military Prepares New Offensives In Syria And Iraq
Even as tensions are rising with Russia in Eastern Europe and China in Asia, the United States has launched a new war in Libya and is preparing a major military…
Washington Escalates Covert Backing For Al Qaeda Militias In Aleppo
US-backed militias fighting against the Syrian government of Bashar al Assad have broken through the Russian and Syrian government encirclement of their positions inside the war-ravaged northern Syrian city of…
Team Clinton Focuses On The Demise Of Hezbollah
Tel Hara, on the Golan Plain, Syria: The likely next American President, Hilary Clinton is fielding an array of foreign policy advisers, a few being sort of table scraps from…
U.S. Gov’t. Refused U.S. Entry To Jihadist It Employs For Overthrowing Assad
A four-minute video that was posted to youtube on April 29th documents that the U.S. government has been lying about an organization, the White Helmets, the U.S. government hires to assist Syria’s…
Russian Helicopter Shot Down In Syria As Battle Rages Over Aleppo
Five Russian servicemen were killed Monday when US-backed Islamist opposition militias shot down a helicopter in northwestern Syria's Idlib province. The downing of the helicopter took place as fighting raged…
America’s Recent Achievements In The Middle East
Here are before-and-after pictures, at https://twitter.com/MAL0mt/status/701077438525263873/photo/1, of what the U.S. government has achieved, in the Middle East: What’s especially interesting there, is that in all of these missions, except for Iraq, the…
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