Nov 29, 2014, Press TV [VIDEO AT ORIGINAL LINK] Damascus says US-led airstrikes have failed to slow the advance of the ISIL terrorist group in Syria and Iraq, calling for pressure on Turkey to tighten its border controls. “All the indications say that [ISIL] today, after two months of coalition airstrikes, is not weaker,” Syrian…
Nov 28, 2014, Tony Cartalucci Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) published a video report of immense implications - possibly the first national broadcaster in the West to admit that the so-called “Islamic State” (ISIS) is supplied not by “black market oil” or “hostage ransoms” but billions of dollars worth of supplies carried into Syria…
Nov 27, 2014, Al Akhbar Russia asserted Wednesday it would continue to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in his war on “terrorism,” reaffirming, however, Moscow’s unwavering disapproval of coercive violence being used to solve the Syrian conflict. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held talks with Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem in…
Nov 26, 2014, Al Akhbar At a desert base, Gulf state Qatar, with the help of the United States, has been covertly training the so-called “moderate” Syria rebels to fight the Syrian army and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group as well as other extremist groups for over a year, sources claimed…
Nov 22, 2014, Global Research -Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya In 2011, as the entire world watched the Arab Spring in amazement, the US and its allies, predominantly working under the banner of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), militarily overran the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. The peaceful civilian protesters they claimed to…
Nov 23, 2014, Eretz Zen The Syrian Army has been making advances in Syria’s northeastern province of al-Hasakeh, while gaining control of areas that have been withheld by various militants for a long time, most recently the Islamic State (IS, aka ISIL or ISIS). The latest advances enable the Syrian Army to get closer to…
Nov 23, 2014, Eretz Zen The Telegraph’s Ruth Sherlock visits the Syrian town of Izraa, home one of the world’s oldest Christian communities, which is increasingly under threat by ongoing fighting in the region. Home to one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, the Syrian agricultural town of Izraa has stood the comings…
Nov 19, 2014, Fars News “I acknowledge that I have made a mistake in the past as I imagined that the western and Arab countries as well as Turkey wanted to help Syria and its people,” Turkish news website Ulusal quoted Khatib as saying on his account on a social network. He wrote that the…
Nov 11, 2014, Strategic Culture Foundation A war is being fought for control over Western Kurdistan and the northern areas of Syria, including three de facto Kurdish enclaves there. The fighting in Western Kurdistan is a means to an end and not a goal in itself. The objectives of gaining control over Syrian Kurdistan and…
Nov 20, 2014, New Eastern Outlook A torrent of “foiled” terror plots have recently undulated headlines across the Western World. In Rochester New York, the FBI netted a man they claimed was plotting a shooting spree targeting US service members. In Australia, over 800 security agents swooped in on 15 ISIS suspects whom the Australian government…