U.S. Forces in northeastern Syria continue to secure oil fields not only from the self-declared Islamic State of Iraq and Syria but also from the Syrian government and Russian forces. Currently, U.S. Soldiers with M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles continue to perform important tasks of defense duties at oil fields. The soldiers are in Syria to support the Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) mission, […]
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Media Silence Marks Ongoing OPCW Cover-Up Of Syria Chemical Weapons Scandal By Alan Macleod, Mintpress News. November 7, 2020 Media Silence Marks Ongoing OPCW Cover-Up Of Syria Chemical Weapons Scandal2020-11-072020-11-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/opcw-2_edited-e1604769134159.jpg200px200px Above photo: Headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, OPCW, in The Hague, Netherlands. Peter Dejong | AP. “Clearly the U.S. and its allies do not want transparency and open debate about the […]
Translated from French Note: The reports below outline negotiations now ongoing for a variety of things: Release of US military being held as prisoners of war by Syria, number unknown estimated at around 24, none of their families have been notified US withdrawal from al Tanf in Southern Syria, as part of a prisoner deal but also because the US is under attack by terrorists that […]
The Trump administration has not made good on its promises to draw down US troop numbers in Syria, and instead has sent dozens of convoys of military equipment and supplies into the war-torn country via Iraq while smuggling out hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of stolen Syrian oil. US forces acting in concert with majority-Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia have reinforced their positions in […]
Israel occupied about 1,200 square km of Syria’s Golan Heights in 1967 after launching a surprise air attack against Damascus’s Egyptian allies and sparking the Six-Day War in June of that year. In 1981, Tel Aviv formally annexed the territory. The UN condemned that decision as “null and void and without international legal effect.” The 120 member-strong Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has issued a political declaration whose […]
Ex-OPCW Chief Jose Bustani Reads Syria Testimony Blocked At UN By Aaron Maté, The Grayzone. October 7, 2020 Ex-OPCW Chief Jose Bustani Reads Syria Testimony Blocked At UN2020-10-072020-10-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/jose-bustani-opcw-syria-un-e1602083249152.jpg200px200px At the UN Security Council, the US, UK, France and allies have blocked the testimony of Jose Bustani, the OPCW’s first Director General, on the chemical watchdog’s Syria cover-up scandal. The Grayzone has obtained Bustani’s prepared statement and […]
A coalition of human rights groups have filed a criminal complaint against Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons henchmen for their alleged role in two attacks against civilians in 2013 and 2017 that reportedly killed almost 900 people. Researchers for the groups say they’ve collected enough evidence to identify those responsible for the attacks and that it’s time for officials to act. The three groups—the Justice Initiative, the […]
How Russia’s five-year long involvement in Syria war changed balance of power in Mid East & beyond …from Sputnik News, Moscow [ Editor’s Note: VT has had to do most of our work at long distance due to budgetary and time constraints, plus the physical wear and tear of road trips, which can include having to get through Homeland Security when coming back. The Stew Webb […]
Over the past year-and-a-half, Iraq’s pro-government paramilitary forces have accused Israel of targeting them in air raids on multiple occasions. Tel Aviv has accused ‘Iranian-backed’ militias of using Iraq to ship weapons to Syria, but has declined to comment on whether or not it has carried out any operations inside Iraqi territory. A Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) militia unit was bombed by unidentified aircraft west of […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/0e/1080169593_0:295:2761:1849_1200x675_80_0_0_46bbf3582a9b84794b135e68fb22af14.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202010031080654530-erdogan-threatens-to-launch-new-operation-in-north-syria-if-kurdish-units-remain/ ANKARA (Sputnik) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that Ankara was ready to launch another military operation to clear northern Syria from Kurdish militia. “When we destroyed the terrorist corridor that was being built along our borders, we showed that our Syrian brothers were not alone. The terrorist zones that still exist in Syria must either […]
Moscow has condemned the alleged use of “foreign mercenaries and terrorists” in the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh, calling them a threat to the entire region that must “immediately” be withdrawn. “Militants of illegal armed groups, in particular from Syria and Libya” have been transported to the conflict zone “in order to directly participate in the hostilities,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107919/62/1079196215_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_3d2ddede157d7be0a67693b05495a423.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202009301080623781-us-targets-3-persons-13-entities-in-new-syria-sanctions/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The United States has targeted three people and 13 entities, including the Syrian Tourism Ministry, in new round of Syria-related sanctions, the US Department of the Treasury announced in a release on Wednesday. “Today, as part of the US government’s continued effort to achieve a peaceful, political resolution of the Syrian conflict, the Department of the […]
Hundreds of thousands of euros may have been supplied through a secret network benefiting al-Qaida-linked extremists in northwestern Syria. Source link
On 18 September, the US Central Command announced that it had taken a series of measures aimed at ensuring the safety and security of US-led coalition forces in north-eastern Syria. Mark Sleboda, a US military veteran and international affairs and security analyst, has explained who the major addressees of the Pentagon’s move are. “The United States has deployed Sentinel radar, increased the frequency of US fighter […]
UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) – A former lead investigator from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Ian Henderson, said the final report of the Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) into the alleged use of toxic chemicals in an attack in Douma, Syria, in 2018, may not reflect what happened on the ground. Henderson was speaking at an informal meeting of the UN Security Council, organised by […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107894/20/1078942006_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_a4aca59445b47fe5dffd93549a2b1b68.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202009281080602416-militants-plotting-provocations-with-poisonous-substances-in-syria-russian-military-says/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Terrorists plan to organise provocations with poisonous substances in settlements in the Syrian provinces of Idlib and Aleppo, Rear Adm Alexander Grinkevich, deputy head of the Russian Centre for Reconciliation of Warring Parties in Syria, said at a briefing. Idlib remains one of the four de-escalation zones established in Syria in 2017 that is not under […]
According to the hacktivist collective, the files provide, for the first time, “a detailed map” on the British intelligence services’ clandestine operations in Syria to fund, arm and provide a sanitized, publicly acceptable media voice to an array of opposition militants and jihadists seeking to topple the Assad government. Anonymous, the international hacking group behind the 2018 publication of documents detailing the UK government’s Integrity Initiative […]
by Gordon Duff, VT Sr. Editor, …with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow, …and the Institute of Oriental Studies (1816) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa. [ Editor’s Note: The Balkanization of Syria might have seemed to have met its peak after the US coalition defeat, precipitated by the Russian intervention just thirty […]
A US envoy’s rare visit to Syria’s mostly Kurdish-held al-Hasakah region and his promise that Turkey won’t interfere in NE Syria indicates that Washington is pushing ahead with the plan of unifying various Kurdish regional groups with the aim of dividing Syria and Iraq, Turkish security expert Abdullah Agar has said. On 21 September, US Special Representative Ambassador James Jeffrey travelled to northeast Syria and held […]
Northeastern Syria, home to the vast majority of the country’s oil, is also where most US troops in the country are concentrated. Damascus has repeatedly accused US forces and their Kurdish allies of stealing the nation’s oil, with intelligence confirming the shipment of tens of millions of dollars of black gold out of the country every month. A convoy of 35 tanker trucks from the Jazira […]
The Syria Boondoggle By Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.). Antiwar.com. September 23, 2020 The Syria Boondoggle2020-09-232020-09-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/syria1-e1600894275269.jpg200px200px Above photo: From ABC. Who’s Ready to Die in Vain? Mark my words: an American soldier will soon die for next to nothing in Syria. Here’s a mission that takes all the absurdity of America’s post-9/11 wars of choice to their logical conclusion. As such, this muddled and aimless operation […]
The Syrian Bar Association decided to file a lawsuit against US President Donald Trump, after he admitted his intention to assassinate Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. In a special statement to Al-Watan, the head of the Lawyers Syndicate, Al-Firas Faris, explained that the feasibility of filing the lawsuit and its usefulness from the national, legal and media aspects will be studied, and what benefit will be achieved, […]
…from SouthFront.org The US military has reinforced its troops, supposedly mostly withdrawn from Syria, with a new batch of military equipment, this time M2A2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles. In an official comment released on September 18, the US-led coalition said that mechanized infantry assets, including Bradley IFVs, were positioned to Syria in order to “ensure the enduring defeat of ISIS”, “ensure the protection of Coalition forces” […]
The U.S. Department of Defense is deploying a small number of U.S. troops with M2A2 Bradley Fighting Vehicles to North-East Syria, according to U.S. Central Command. U.S. Army Soldiers and M2A2 Bradley fighting vehicles have arrived in northeastern Syria Sep 18, 2020. The Army sent six Bradley vehicles, around 100 troops to North-East Syria to give troops fighter protection in the ongoing mission to defeat Islamic State, […]
The Senior Editor Syrian’s are starving, their wheat crop this year was burned by US Army Rangers on illegal orders. Their drinking water supplies were cut off by Turkey and, in Damascus, over and over, Israeli missile attacks on the local water purification and pumping system, deemed a military target by Israel. The real damage is done by the Caesar Act, which keeps Syria from buying […]
A panel of United Nations war crimes investigators has called on Turkey to rein in allied militants in northern Syria, who may have committed a range of war crimes against civilians, including hostage-taking, rape and torture. In a report covering the first half of the current year and published on Tuesday, the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria said militants of the so-called Syrian National Army, also […]
Israel continues to violate Syria’s sovereignty, invoking the large military presence of Iranian forces and proxy militias in Syrian territory as an excuse, especially under the rule of the regime’s president “Bashar Al-Assad”. It is worth noting that Israeli strikes started to escalate greatly since 2018, as Israel vowed to block Iran’s entrenchment in Syria and force it out of the region. According to Syrian Observatory […]
Steven Sahiounie is a journalist and political commentator A high level Russian delegation met recently with President Assad in Damascus. In an effort to further understand the importance and implications of the meeting, Steven Sahiounie at MidEastDiscourse reached out to Andrey Ontikov, a Special Correspondent at Izvestia daily newspaper, in Moscow and a political commentator specializing in the Middle East. Steven Sahiounie (SS): Recently, the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, and […]
Trump and Baghdadi in Syria By Nauman Sadiq for VT Islamabad In an editorial [1] last week, Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, lambasted Donald Trump for canceling a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018 due to rain, and accused him of disparagingly mentioning military veterans as “losers” and “suckers.” Some wow reporting from @JeffreyGoldberg —> Trump called dead Marines buried at Belleau […]
Syria’s air defenses thwarted an Israeli attack on Aleppo city early Friday morning, as multiple missiles were intercepted before reaching their targets, Syrian state-run television reported. The strikes occurred around 1:30am local time on Friday, the Syrian Arab News Agency reported, citing a military source who noted the country’s air defenses had repelled “most of the enemy missiles.” The source pinned the attack on Israel, however […]
A plan for the Syria provinces Bassam Abu Sharif for VT Damascus (English and Arabic) It is clear that Washington, Tel Aviv and Riyadh are working to drain Syria in all fields: militarily, socially and economically, and Washington has been plundering the natural resources of Syria for some time and is now escalating to burn crops as part of the starvation war, which Trump launched with […]
Washington has maintained its deployment of troops in the Arab Republic despite having no legal grounds for it as per international law. The US has been ignoring criticism from Damascus and Moscow, which condemned both the illegal deployment and the White House’s “stealing” of the country’s resources. The Department of State came to the defence of the country’s strategy in Syria, naming Washington’s key priorities in […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107958/05/1079580548_0:0:3076:1731_1200x675_80_0_0_781dbdc1765a89d895d28999c60a1104.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202009041080370141-militants-shell-settlements-in-syrias-idlib-latakia-aleppo-russian-military-says/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham* terrorist group shelled settlements in the Syrian provinces of Idlib, Latakia, and Aleppo, the deputy head of the Russian Defence Ministry’s Centre for Syrian Reconciliation, Rear Admiral Alexander Grinkevich, said on Friday. “We have registered 12 attacks on the Kafer Hanni settlement in Aleppo province, Skira, Kinsibba, Ikko, Qastal in Latakia province, […]