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Iran rejects 'ridiculous' Israeli claim on downing Iranian drone
Post Date: 2018-02-10 23:41:22 by Tatarewicz
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PressTv Iran has rejected as "ridiculous" claims by the Israeli regime that it had intercepted an Iranian drone launched from Syria, stressing the Islamic Republic's military advisory presence in the Arab country is at the request of Syria’s "constitutional and legitimate" government. "Claims about the flight of an Iranian drone … are too ridiculous to be addressed because the Islamic Republic of Iran has advisory presence in Syria at the request of the country's legitimate and constitutional government," Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Saturday. "The government and army of Syria as an independent country ...
Syria Downs Israeli F-16 Attacking Its Homs Airbase
Post Date: 2018-02-10 09:05:44 by Ada
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The downing may have resulted from a well-laid Syrian army trap Israel has confirmed the loss. The two pilots ejected over northern Israel, one of them is severely wounded, CNN: Both pilots aboard the Israeli jet are safe, the Israeli army said, although one pilot was severely injured as a result of an emergency evacuation from the plane. The downing of the F-16 may have resulted from a well-laid trap. Earlier in the day an Iranian-made drone crossed over into Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Israel shot down the drone, but also predictably launched attacks against targets just to the west of Damascus, deep in Syrian territory. Once the Israeli bomber group reached their target they ...
Syria shoots down Israeli F-16 jet, pilots eject
Post Date: 2018-02-10 05:57:12 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... The Syrian military has hit at least one Israeli F-16 warplane that attacked positions inside Syrian territory, with its two pilots ejecting out. Syrian state TV cited a Syrian military official as saying that Syrian aerial defense had responded to Israeli “aggression” against an army base in central Syria. The official said more than one Israeli aircraft had been hit. At least one Israeli F-16 was hit it, going down in flames and smoke. The Israeli military confirmed that the warplane had gone down in northern Israel, and that the two pilots had been transferred to hospital. This file photo shows a Syrian aerial defense system firing a missile. The Israeli ...
Syria urges UN to condemn US 'massacre' in Dayr al-Zawr
Post Date: 2018-02-09 05:13:11 by Tatarewicz
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Damascus has strongly denounced as a “war crime” a deadly strike carried out by the US-led military coalition against pro-government forces in Syria's eastern Dayr al-Zawr province, saying US presence in the country is "illegitimate." The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned the strike in two separate letters sent to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and the rotating president of the UN Security Council on Thursday, saying the air raid was “a crime against humanity.” It further lambasted Washington for using “the excuse of fighting terrorism to set up illegitimate bases on Syrian territory.” The US military said late ...
If There’s a War in Korea, Blame Trump
Post Date: 2018-02-08 08:42:31 by Ada
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Brainwashed Americans believe that Kim Jong-un is responsible for the confrontation between Pyongyang and Washington, but nothing could be further from the truth. The real problem is not Kim’s nuclear weapons but Washington’s 65 year-long military occupation that continues to reinforce a political solution that was arbitrarily imposed on a sovereign nation in order to split the country in two, install a puppet regime in the south, establish a permanent military presence to defend US commercial interests, and maintain control of a strategically-located territory that is a critical part of Washington’s plan to encircle Russia and China to remain the dominant global power ...
US Warplanes Bomb Pro-Govt Forces in Eastern Syria
Post Date: 2018-02-08 08:04:28 by Ada
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US Forces Claim Strike Was 'In Self-Defense' US coalition forces have issued a statement on Wednesday confirming a series of US airstrikes against Syrian pro-government forces along the Euphrates River. The statement insisted that the attacks were in “self-defense.” The statement was very light on details, but accused pro-Syrian forces of attacking the “headquarters” of the Syrian Defense Forces, where US troops were stationed. No casualties apparently happened, but this was enough to launch a series of airstrikes against nearby forces. It’s not clear who the US forces attacked, or what casualties, if any, were inflicted. Iranian forces are known to be ...
Syrian Air Defense Units Intercept Israeli Missiles in Damascus
Post Date: 2018-02-07 06:12:13 by Tatarewicz
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fna.ir/a3vpte ... TEHRAN (FNA)- The Syrian Army air defense units on Wednesday morning confronted another Israeli air missile attack on a military position in Damascus province. The General Command of the Syrian Army said in a statement said that warplanes of the Israeli enemy on 3:42 am on Wednesday fired several missiles from inside the Lebanese territories on one of our military positions in Damascus Countryside, and the air defense intercepted the missiles and destroyed most of them, SANA reported. The statement added that the outrageous aggression comes in framework of the desperate and repeated attempts to raise the morale of the terrorist organizations which are collapsing in all ...
The War That Never Ends (For the U.S. Military High Command)
Post Date: 2018-02-05 06:29:43 by Ada
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And It’s Not the War on Terror Vietnam: it’s always there. Looming in the past, informing American futures. A 50-year-old war, once labeled the longest in our history, is still alive and well and still being refought by one group of Americans: the military high command. And almost half a century later, they’re still losing it and blaming others for doing so. Of course, the U.S. military and Washington policymakers lost the war in Vietnam in the previous century and perhaps it’s well that they did. The United States really had no business intervening in that anti-colonial civil war in the first place, supporting a South Vietnamese government of questionable ...
Current Syria summary
Post Date: 2018-02-04 06:12:09 by Tatarewicz
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ERDOGHAN AGONISTES; THE REIGN OF THE DYSFUNCTIONAL TYRANT; ASSAD PROTAGONISTES WAITS ON THE FENCE Erdoghan has ordered the arrest of over 300 Turks because they had the temerity to question his campaign against the Kurds of Northern Syria and their chief benefactor, the United States. Railing against a group of medical doctors who were summarily arrested four evenings ago by his thugs, Erdoghan blasted their treason. They are now lounging in jail awaiting indictments. Trump, who probably doesn’t know where Turkey is, much less what is going on, supposedly called Erdoghan to urge him to be “cautious”. That Erdoghan has threatened to move his military campaign to the town ...
Syria: Russian missiles strike area of Su-25 downing, killing at least 30 terrorists
Post Date: 2018-02-04 01:13:38 by Tatarewicz
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PressTv Russian airstrikes hit a militant-held targets, on Saturday, in the area of Idlib province where a Russian Su-25 aircraft had crashed earlier in the day, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense. The Defence Ministry added that according to radio intercepts, more than 30 terrorists were killed in the strikes. A Russian Su-25 jet crashed in Idlib province in north-western Syria on Saturday, the Russian Defence Ministry confirmed, adding that it was probably shot down by an air-defense weapon. The pilot ejected but was killed by militants on the ground, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. Poster Comment:[Fleecing Rabbi] Fleecing Rabbi> John Francis Scully5 hours ago ...
Where do Yemeni missiles come from?
Post Date: 2018-02-01 04:14:46 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... Saudi Arabia’s brutal military aggression against Yemen has taken quite a few drastic turns ever since its beginning in March 2015. The deadly war has seen Saudis use illegal weapons such as cluster bombs over populated areas without any raised eyebrows in the West. The war has also seen the Riyadh regime’s allies such as the US and the UK ramp up their arms deals with the monarchy despite international outcry. All of this, however, has been overshadowed by one question the answer to which has so far defied observers: How did Yemen’s Ansarullah fighters lay their hands on ballistic missiles? How did the militiamen acquire the know-how to maintain, launch and even ...
Syria, Turkey, Russia positions
Post Date: 2018-01-30 08:12:40 by Tatarewicz
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syrpers... Canthama I know some Syrpers follow the Syrian Arab Army FB page (which does not represent the SAA directly but it is made of ex SAA and current ones, meaning they do have intel that many do not have and they do represent the overall opinion of the SAA officers and soldiers www.facebook.com/syrianmilitary ). Having said that, I do respect their opinions, always balanced, to the point and no political BS. Their view below is crispy and tells the pulse of the Syrian Military regarding Afrin and all land occupied by the SDF. strongly recommend to read it, they measured very well their words used below, but it is crystal clear. “A long post regarding the situation in Afrin, ...
Tillerson Lays the Ground for Endless War in Syria
Post Date: 2018-01-30 06:27:30 by Ada
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Washington still thinks it's calling the shots—and we'll fight forever to prove it. Speaking at the Hoover Institute, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson laid out the Trump administration’s vision for “a stable, unified, and independent Syria, free of terrorist threats and free of weapons of mass destruction.” Such a vision sounds a lot like what previous administrations said about Iraq and Afghanistan, which should be cause for worry. Afghanistan has become America’s longest running war and we still have troops in Iraq more than a decade after what some war supporters said would be a “cakewalk.” Moreover, a long-term U.S. military presence in both ...
Official: Kurds Want Negotiations with Damascus
Post Date: 2018-01-25 05:14:35 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Kurdish official said that the Kurds are now seeking negotiations with Damascus as they resist against Turkey's attacks. "Turkey has deepened the crisis in Syria and supported terrorism financially. When it failed in its policies, it sent its army to launch attack against Afrin," Fouzeh Yousef, the head of the executive board of democratic federalism in Northern Syria, was quoted as saying by the Arabic-language al-Akhbar newspaper on Wednesday. He stressed that the Kurds will stand against Turkey's attacks and occupation of Afrin, noting, "The Syrian Kurds want negotiations with the Syrian government but consider federalism as a better ...
Trump’s National Defense Strategy Has the Pentagon Popping Champagne
Post Date: 2018-01-24 18:02:28 by hondo68
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Along with the entire the military-industrial complex. Here’s what we can say about the Trump administration’s just-released National Defense Strategy: it’s not a strategy and its subject is not defense. Bearing the imprimatur of Pentagon chief James Mattis, the NDS—at least the unclassified summary that we citizens are permitted to see—is in essence a brief for increasing the size of the U.S. military budget. Implicit in the document is this proposition: more spending will make the armed forces of the United States “stronger” and the United States “safer.” Simply put, the NDS is all about funneling more bucks to the Pentagon. Remarkably, the ...
The Insanity of a ‘Limited’ Attack on North Korea
Post Date: 2018-01-23 13:32:40 by bush_is_a_moonie
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Luke O’Brien bats down the crazy notion of giving North Korea a “bloody nose”: The allure of a punitive strike on North Korea is its seeming simplicity. North Korea continues its missile testing, or opts to detonate another nuclear device in a test shaft, and the United States fires a few missiles and fixes the problem. But this conclusion comes from a series of bad assumptions. We assume that the North Korean regime can detect with any realistic degree of confidence that a limited strike is in fact limited [bold mine-DL]. We assume that North Korea will only analyze the costs and benefits of retaliating based on the merits of a fleeting crisis. And we assume that Kim Jong ...
Syrian Army Utilizing Modern Electronic System to Deactivate US-Made TOW Missile
Post Date: 2018-01-22 23:02:20 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- The Syrian Army is vastly operating modern anti-missile defense System that can deactivate the US-made anti-tank TOW missiles used by the terrorists in the battlefields, a Russian media outlet reported on Monday. The Arabic-language website of RT reported that the army is vastly using Mirage-2 Electronic Defense System to deactivate the US-manufactured TOW anti-tank missiles. The Arabic RT further said that the System that is mounted on the army tanks, armored and light vehicles is capable of deactivating TOW missiles. The Mirage-2 System is equipped with more noise breaks in comparison with the older version of Mirage-1. Military sources conformed earlier this month ...
Turkey vs. USA? Ministry of Defense orders Russian military to leave Afrin, Syria
Post Date: 2018-01-21 07:31:58 by Tatarewicz
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- RIA - translated by Inessa Sinchougova The Russian command in Syria has taken measures to ensure the security of servicemen in Afrin, where Turkey is conducting an operation against the Kurds, the Defense Ministry said. The military department stressed that "to prevent possible provocations, to exclude the threat to life and health of Russian servicemen," the operational group of the Center for reconciliation of warring parties and military police was relocated from Afrin to Tel Adjar. The Center for Reconciliation continues to monitor the situation in the de-escalation zone of Tel-Rifat in order to promptly provide assistance to the civilian population leaving the combat ...
Breaking - Tillerson Unveils 'New' US Syria Plan: 'Assad Must Go!' (Kerry clone)
Post Date: 2018-01-17 18:07:16 by hondo68
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Confirming that the US military presence inside Syria had little to do with fighting ISIS, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson unveiled in detail today the real US strategy for Syria: overthrow of the Assad government. In a speech at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and introduced by President George W. Bush's Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, Secretary Tillerson vowed that the United States military would continue to occupy Syrian territory until three conditions are met:First: ISIS must be destroyed. This condition is made all the more problematic by the well-reported fact that it is the United States government that at every turn seems to pull ISIS chestnuts out of the ...
Special Ops at War
Post Date: 2018-01-13 07:37:42 by Ada
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From Afghanistan to Somalia, Special Ops Achieves Less with More At around 11 o’clock that night, four Lockheed MC-130 Combat Talons, turboprop Special Operations aircraft, were flying through a moonless sky from Pakistani into Afghan airspace. On board were 199 Army Rangers with orders to seize an airstrip. One hundred miles to the northeast, Chinook and Black Hawk helicopters cruised through the darkness toward Kandahar, carrying Army Delta Force operators and yet more Rangers, heading for a second site. It was October 19, 2001. The war in Afghanistan had just begun and U.S. Special Operations forces (SOF) were the tip of the American spear. Those Rangers parachuted into and ...
US Preparing To Attack Pakistan?
Post Date: 2018-01-13 07:28:23 by Ada
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Henry Kissinger rightly noted that it’s often more dangerous being an ally of the United States than its enemy. The latest victim of this sad truism is Pakistan, a loyal ally of the US since the dawn of our era. President Donald Trump’s visceral hatred of Muslims (never mind what kind, or why, or where) erupted this week as he ordered some $900 million in US aid to Pakistan to be abruptly cut off. Trump accused Pakistan of lying and deceiving the US and providing a safe haven to Afghan resistance forces of Taliban (`terrorists’ in US speak) battling American occupation forces. Frustrated and outwitted in Afghanistan, US imperial generals, Pentagon bureaucrats and ...
The People in Charge of the US Military
Post Date: 2018-01-05 07:48:03 by Ada
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Fifty-seven years ago this month President Dwight D. Eisenhower presented this warning in his farewell address: “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.” That warning has largely fallen on deaf ears. The United States government has in the decades since been participating, both directly and via third parties, in overt and covert military actions across the world, with very little of the violence even arguably justified as necessary to defend America. Yet, no matter the lack of defensive justification, companies and individuals in the military-industrial complex ...
US Intelligence Reportedly Gives Israel Green Light To Assassinate Iran's Top General
Post Date: 2018-01-02 08:36:12 by Ada
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According to reports circulating widely in Israeli media today, the United States has quietly given Israel the green light to assassinate Iran's top military officer, Iranian Revolutionary Guards al-Quds Force commander Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani. The leader of Iran's most elite force also coordinates military activity between the Islamic Republic and Syria, Iraq, Hezbollah, and Hamas - a position he's filled since 1998 - and as Quds Force commander reports directly to the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, and oversees Iran's covert operations in foreign countries. Iran's Revolutionary Guards have vowed to crack harshly down on protests currently gripping multiple ...
Mattis: ‘The War Is Not Over’ in Iraq and Syria
Post Date: 2017-12-30 04:22:03 by Ada
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Defense Secretary Talks of Fighting 'ISIS 2.0' Declarations of victory over ISIS by both Iraq and Syria, along with Russia, are not having an impact on US military policy in the region, according to Defense Secretary James Mattis, who insisted on Friday that “the war is not over.” Defense Secretary James Mattis Which isn’t to say that the US is determined to keep fighting a war against ISIS, as such, but rather that there’s definitely going to be a war against somebody in those countries. Mattis in particular has been keen to talk up the idea of an “ISIS 2.0” emerging in areas ISIS has been expelled from. Mattis’ comments are very interesting ...
War Without a Rationale
Post Date: 2017-12-28 07:14:29 by Ada
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The myth of the Afghan safe haven just won't die. Forward Operating Base Torkham, in Nangahar Province, Afghanistan (army.mil) While you are here…For the last 15 years, our magazine has endeavored to be your refuge from the nasty partisan politics and Washington echo chamber with thoughtful, smart conservatism, fresh and challenging writing, and authors who, above all, bravely hew to our most basic tenets: Ideas over ideology, principles over party. Please consider a tax-deductible, year-end contribution so that TAC can make an even bigger difference in 2018! In 2001, after the 9/11 attacks, the United States invaded Afghanistan and quickly smashed the Taliban government. It ...
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