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US Army Suffers Casualties in ISIL's Offensive in Northeastern Syria
Post Date: 2018-09-16 20:39:05 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- A number of US soldiers were killed and wounded after ISIL targeted their column in Hasaka city on Sunday, a Lebanese media outlet reported. The Arabic-language al-Manar News Network reported that a number of US army soldiers were killed or wounded in an ISIL attack on their convoy in Hasaka city in Northeastern Syria. It further said that the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has put its gunmen on alert after the ISIL attack, adding that an increasing number of SDF militants are defecting the Washington-backed group. Elsewhere, the news network said that people in the village of al-Tayaneh in Zebyan region in Hasaka demonstrated against the SDF's brutal ...
Israel Launches Fresh Missile Attack on Damascus Int'l Airport
Post Date: 2018-09-16 05:14:46 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- The Israeli military fired several missiles at Damascus International Airport on Saturday night, Syrian state news agency reported on Sunday, adding that the country's air defense units countered the attack. SANA reported that the Israeli fighter jets targeted several missiles at Damascus international airport last night. It further said that the air defense units intercepted the Israeli missiles and managed to destroy them. In the meantime, al-Moraseloun news website quoted a field source as saying that the air defense units fired four missiles at the Israel missiles that were flying towards Damascus international airport. Another field source said that parts of the ...
Syrian military downs Israeli missiles fired at Damascus airport
Post Date: 2018-09-15 20:11:45 by Tatarewicz
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Presstv.... Syrian military has announced that its missile defense system successfully intercepted and downed Israeli missiles fired at an airport in the capital Damascus. The official SANA agency said late Saturday that the military had thwarted an "Israeli aggression," adding that a number of “enemy missiles” fired at the Damascus International Airport had been dismantled. “Our air defense systems thwarted an Israeli missile aggression,” a military source told the agency, after reports said several explosions had been heard near the airport. An Israeli military spokeswoman would not comment on the report by SANA. “We don’t comment on foreign ...
The Bluffer’s Guide to Bombing Syria
Post Date: 2018-09-15 16:35:49 by hondo68
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Peter Ford, former British Ambassador to Syria, with a rather useful media guide, aptly described as, “The Dirty Dozen: 12 lies they tell you to anaesthetise you for the upcoming bombing of Syria.” IMAGE: Jingoist war propaganda image courtesy of the UK Mirror newspaper. The propaganda mills of the British and American governments – spokespersons, media, think tanks – are working overtime churning out ‘talking points’ to justify the upcoming large scale bombing of Syria on the pretext of use of prohibited weapons. Here is a guide from a former insider to the top dozen of these lies. 1. There are more babies than jihadis in Idlib. As it happens this gem of ...
Nato troops forced to risk dilapidated tunnel to get out of Afghanistan
Post Date: 2018-09-14 18:09:02 by BTP Holdings
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Nato troops forced to risk dilapidated tunnel to get out of Afghanistan A wave of anti-Nato protests in Pakistan is forcing Western forces to rely on a dilapidated Soviet-built road tunnel that cuts through the Hindu Kush as the main artery for the exit from Afghanistan, reports Rob Crilly By Rob Crilly, Salang 6:59PM GMT 01 Dec 2013 The route twists one way then the next, snaking higher into the Hindu Kush. The stout trucks and tankers shift down gears as they negotiate each switchback, swinging into the middle of the road to keep from losing momentum. That is until they stop altogether and the main northern lifeline from Kabul becomes nothing but a long, thin lorry park. The ...
Marines hold eight days of drills with militants in southern Syria
Post Date: 2018-09-14 05:49:18 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... US marines have held eight days of unprecedented military exercises with US-backed militants in southern Syria in an attempt to send a “strong message” to Iran and Russia, a senior military official said. Colonel Sean Ryan, a US military spokesman, described the drills as “a show of force,” saying that the Pentagon had notified Russia through “deconfliction” channels to prevent “miscommunication or escalate tension”. “The exercise was conducted to reinforce our capabilities and ensure we are ready to respond to any threat to our forces within our area of operations,’” he noted. The eight days of drills ended this week at ...
Huge Casualties Reported as Taliban Escalates Attacks Across North Afghanistan
Post Date: 2018-09-11 17:35:51 by Ada
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Afghan security chiefs defy parliament, refuse to brief them on situation A large number of attacks over the weekend in Afghanistan has only grown worse as of Monday, with reports of districts falling in several parts of the country’s north, and the Afghan military suffering “huge casualties” in the fighting. After heavy fighting in Baghlan, the Taliban is now moving into Jawzjan and Sar-e Pul, leading provincial officials to warn that a collapse is imminent without reinforcements, and substantial territory could fall to the Taliban very soon. All of this has the Afghan parliament standing up and taking notice, but their ability to get any information out of the security ...
Moscow Has Upped the Ante in Syria - MEMORANDUM FOR: The President
Post Date: 2018-09-10 15:23:58 by hondo68
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MEMORANDUM FOR: The PresidentFROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for SanitySUBJECT: Moscow Has Upped the Ante in SyriaMr. President:We are concerned that you may not have been adequately briefed on the upsurge of hostilities in northwestern Syria, where Syrian armed forces with Russian support have launched a full-out campaign to take back the al-Nusra/al-Qaeda/ISIS-infested province of Idlib. The Syrians will almost certainly succeed, as they did in late 2016 in Aleppo. As in Aleppo, it will mean unspeakable carnage, unless someone finally tells the insurgents theirs is a lost cause.That someone is you. The Israelis, Saudis, and others who want unrest to endure are egging on the ...
BREAKING: LIBERATION OF SYRIA"S IDLIB HAS BEGUN
Post Date: 2018-09-10 00:50:47 by Tatarewicz
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Midnight, GMT+3, September 9th – The liberation of Idlib from US backed terrorists, has now begun. With weeks of preparation, on the tactical, strategic, infowar, and diplomatic fronts, the Russian and Syrian air forces launched their first sorties tonight, with bombers and assault planes attacking terrorist held positions between Hama and Idlib. So far there have been over 70 airstrikes recorded above several jihadist sites in northwest Syria in just the last several hours alone. Previously the Syrian government confirmed that Russian and Syrian air forces successfully launched over 100 airstrikes since yesterday, softening up peripheral targets and making impossible the possibility ...
Terrorists' Chemical Weapons Expert Escapes from Northwestern Syria to Turkey
Post Date: 2018-09-09 22:04:37 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- A notorious commander and expert of Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) terrorist group's chemical warfare has left Idlib province for Turkey as the terrorist group and pro-militant White Helmets are preparing to stage a fake chemical attack in the province, a media outlet reported on Sunday. The Arabic-language al-Mayadeen TV Channel quoted a well-informed source as disclosing that one of the commanders of Tahrir al-Sham that supervises chemical-armed missiles has escaped Jisr al-Shughour to Turkey. It went on to say that the commander has left the terrorist group's missile unit for Turkey, but said the missiles are still ...
Putin: Militants in Idlib Planning Fake Chemical Attacks
Post Date: 2018-09-08 06:00:03 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Russian President Vladimir Putin stated during a tripartite summit in Tehran, on Friday that terrorists in the Syrian province of Idlib are preparing provocations involving chemical weapons in a bid to set the stage for a Western attack on the Damascus government. "The remaining groups of extremists (in Syria) are currently concentrated in the de-escalation zone in the province of Idlib. Terrorists are making attempts to disrupt the ceasefire, moreover, they are carrying out and preparing various kinds of provocations, including using chemical weapons," the Russian leader stressed at the tripartite summit of Iran, Russia and Turkey on Syria on Friday. Russia's ...
Russian, Syrian Warplanes Start Pounding Terrorists' Positions in Idlib, Hama
Post Date: 2018-09-05 02:29:37 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... TEHRAN (FNA)- The Russian and Syrian fighter jets carried out massive bombing raids on terrorists' positions in Northwestern Hama and Western Idlib on Tuesday, inflicting major losses on the terrorists. The Arabic-language Moraseloun news website reported that the fighter jets conducted a heavy bombing on terrorists' positions in a large region stretching from Southern Idlib to the al-Ghaab Plain in an introduction to the upcoming ground assault. In the meantime, the warplanes stuck terrorists' strongholds in Jisr al-Shughour, Jabal al-Zawiyeh, Marowaj, al-Shaqar, Harash Basnaqoul, Anab, al-Janoudiyeh, Qani, al-Sarmaniyeh and Zeizoun, inflicting major casualties on ...
Russia dismisses President Trump’s warning about offensive in Syria’s Idlib
Post Date: 2018-09-04 21:38:36 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... Russia has strongly dismissed US President Donald Trump’s warning to Syria not to carry out a full-scale offensive against terrorists in the militant-held province of Idlib, stressing that the northwestern region is a “nest of terrorism.” “Just to speak out with some warnings, without taking into account the very dangerous, negative potential for the whole situation in Syria, is probably not a full, comprehensive approach,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at a press conference in the capital Moscow on Tuesday. His comments came a day after Trump warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and his close allies Russia and Iran, not to “recklessly ...
Attacking militant-held Idlib ‘humanitarian mistake’ for Iran, Russia, Trump claims
Post Date: 2018-09-04 21:20:16 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... US President Donald Trump has claimed that attacking militant-held Idlib would be a “humanitarian mistake” for Tehran and Moscow. “The Russians and Iranians would be making a grave humanitarian mistake to take part in this potential human tragedy. Hundreds of thousands of people could be killed. Don’t let that happen!” claimed the US president in a tweet on Monday. His tweet followed the latest visit to Damascus by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to meet Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and other top officials from the war-ravaged country. Trump’s comment follows similar remarks by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and US ambassador ...
Russia says militants in Syria’s Idlib province need ‘liquidating’
Post Date: 2018-09-03 21:45:59 by Tatarewicz
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The statement followed reports that Syrian regime forces were preparing a "phased" offensive in the heavily-populated northwestern province of Idlib and surrounding areas, the last big opposition and rebel enclave. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has described militants in the opposition and rebel-held Syrian enclave of Idlib as a “festering abscess” that needed to be liquidated. His comments were followed by reports from a source late Wednesday that the Syrian regime was poised for a major offensive in the country’s northwestern province. The Kremlin on Thursday also called Idlib a hotbed of “terrorists” and said not tackling the problem was ...
THE CHALLENGE OF IDLIB;
Post Date: 2018-09-03 21:08:26 by Tatarewicz
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Syrpers... These are wild and wooly days in Syria. The Russian Navy is poised to give ground support to the Syrian Army with the missile cruiser, the Ustinov. (Not named after British actor, Peter Ustinov). The Russian Air Force is ready to provide air cover out of the now sprawling Humaymeem Air Base which used to be Latakia’s International Airport. Near Slinfeh, my wife’s home town, are hundreds of committed fighters from Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran. Their presence has resulted in the closure of one of my favorite Syrian restaurants just west of the town, Qahwat Al-Dhay’ah Al-Mansiyya (The Forgotten Village Cafe). If the French, British and Americans engineer a false flag ...
US Says Has Already Drafted List of Targets to Hit in Threatened Syria Strike
Post Date: 2018-09-02 18:03:06 by Ada
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Imagine if Syria or Iran announced they had "drafted a list of targets to hit" in the US The US military and intelligence have already compiled a list of preliminary targets they would strike in response to another chemical-weapons incident in Syria, CNN reported, citing US administration officials. The military are ready to “respond very quickly” if US President Donald Trump decides to launch another strike against the Syrian government, one such official told CNN, adding that no decision to “take action” has yet been made. However, intelligence experts have already “assembled” targeting data of what they described as “chemical weapons ...
White Helmets Change Plan for False-Flag Chemical Attack in Idlib
Post Date: 2018-09-01 03:33:28 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- The pro-militant White Helmets have changed their planned scene for an imminent false-flag chemical attack in Idlib province, media reports informed on Friday. The Arabic-language al-Mayadeen news channel quoted informed sources as saying on Friday that 64 members of White Helmets, including 11 women, have been moves from Jisr al-Shughour to Idlib city. According to the report, the White Helmets changed their plan for staging false-flag chemical attack in Jisr al-Shughour after al-Mayadeen disclosed their plot. The new place for the false-flag operations will be Idlib city or Ma'arat al-No'eman, al-Mayadeen reported. A Russian media outlet said on Wednesday that a ...
Bin Salman's Advisors Propose Shifting War from Yemen to Lebanon
Post Date: 2018-08-27 07:19:56 by Tatarewicz
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fna.ir/bod3vy Mon Aug 27, 2018 2:49 Bin Salman's Advisors Propose Shifting War from Yemen to Lebanon Bin Salman's Advisors Propose Shifting War from Yemen to Lebanon TEHRAN (FNA)- A Lebanese newspaper said Saudi officials and advisors and deputies of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman have in a recent meeting asked him to replace the war on Yemen with a proxy war in Lebanon. A secret diplomatic cable sent to influential parties in Lebanon disclosed the contents of a recent meeting in Riyadh, headed by bin Salman and attended by Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubair and Intelligence Chief Khaled al-Hamidan, the Arabic-language al-Akhbar reported on Monday. During the meeting, the recent ...
The Wrong Stuff
Post Date: 2018-08-26 12:39:05 by X-15
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A regular feature of the news, going back decades, is how the military is struggling to meet its enlistment goals. One reason for this is the Left’s antiwar past, which is a big part of their origin myth. The geezers in the cult still carry on about how they protested the war in college. There’s also the fact that the Left needs to believe the tide is turning their way and the people are rushing to their banner. That means the sort of white men who join the service are in decline. The result is regular stories about the lack of recruits. The thing is though, volunteer armies don’t have a great history. In the French Revolution, there were lots of people ready to fight for ...
Russia: US plans new Syria strike with false flag attack
Post Date: 2018-08-25 08:07:33 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... The Russian Defense Ministry says the US, Britain and France are preparing to conduct a fresh aerial assault against Syria under the pretext of the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Damascus government. The ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said on Saturday that a group of militants, who were trained by a private British military company to work with poisonous materials, had already arrived in Syria's northwestern Idlib Province. "To carry out the alleged 'chemical attack' in the city of Jisr al-Shughur in the province of Idlib, militants from the Tahrir al-Sham group had delivered 8 tankers with chlorine… to a village a few ...
Don’t Let Erik Prince Anywhere Near The War In Afghanistan
Post Date: 2018-08-23 06:25:42 by Ada
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With more than $700 billion spent (and at least $15.5 billion outright wasted) on America’s long war in Afghanistan, it’s easy to understand why President Donald Trump might pursue unusual options to finally bring the 17-year-old conflict to a close. Allowing Erik Prince to take over the war effort should not be one of them. NBC News reported on Friday that Prince, founder of notorious private security company Blackwater and brother of current Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, is once again pushing to effectively privatize the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan. Prince’s plan to take over the Forever War isn’t new. In July 2017, the New York Times reported that ...
Trump considering plan to privatize Afghanistan war: Report
Post Date: 2018-08-21 00:21:07 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... US President Donald Trump is reportedly showing renewed interest in a proposal by Blackwater founder Erik Prince to privatize the US war in Afghanistan, amid Trump's growing frustration about the US military strategy in the war-torn country. The idea envisions replacing troops with so-called private military contractors, or mercenaries, who would work for a special US envoy for the war who would report directly to the president, according to NBC News. Prince's idea, which first surfaced last year during Trump’s Afghanistan strategy review, has raised ethical and security concerns among US military officials, key lawmakers in Congress and members of Trump's ...
Scholars: UN, Security Council Fully Responsible for Saudi-Led Aggression on Yemen
Post Date: 2018-08-20 05:59:39 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Yemeni scholars and religious figures strongly denounced a recent deadly airstrike by Saudi warplanes on a bus carrying schoolchildren in the country’s Northwestern province of Sa’ada, criticizing the silence and inaction of world bodies vis-à-vis the Saudi-led coalition's crimes against Yemenis. The scholars, in a statement released on Sunday, held the United Nations and the UN Security Council responsible for the atrocities of the Saudi-led military alliance against the Yemeni nation, presstv reported. The statement called on all freedom-loving people worldwide, Muslim leaders and clerics in particular, to raise their voices and fulfill their ...
US cuts Syria 'stabilization' fund, vows to continue anti-Damascus bid
Post Date: 2018-08-19 01:33:34 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... The US has reportedly cut its $230 million funding for the so-called Syria stabilization projects, citing increased contributions from the Saudi regime and other coalition allies, but vowed to remain active in its anti-Damascus bid in the terror-ravaged country. The US State Department said it had notified Congress on Friday that it would not spend the fund set aside for Syria programs by former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in February and would instead shift that money to other areas, AP reported, noting that the fund had been on hold and under review since Tillerson was fired in March by President Donald Trump. According to the report, State Department spokeswoman ...
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