Multiple news outlets reported that a Russian military helicopter crashed in northeast Syria. Syrian media on Feb. 28, reported that a Russian helicopter crashed in the countryside of the town of Tel Tamr, north of Syria’s Hasakah, two kilometers from the former dairy farm that Russian forces use as their base. Also stated that one pilot killed, three persons injured in a helicopter crash. – ADVERTISEMENT […]
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Images have started to show up on social media showing the wreckage of a Russian modern guided missile system that was found in Syria. Pictures have emerged on social media of the 9M133FM-3 Kornet long-range missile wreckage found in Al Ghab valley, Syria on last week. The 9M133FM-3 is a man-portable anti-tank guided missile with a 10km range. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – The […]
The Russian Navy had deployed its latest patrol vessel Dmitry Rogachev to the naval base at Tartus on the north Syrian coast. The Project 22160 patrol ship Dmitry Rogachev was filmed heading cruising down the Bosphorus. The video was posted on social media by Bosphorus-based naval observer Cavit Ege Tulça. The Russian Black Sea Fleet has confirmed that the Dmitry Rogachev patrol vessel passed through Bosporus and […]
The U.S. Marine Corps has reported that its Specialists conducted a detailed examination of Russian-made AT-4B Spigot anti-tank missile systems, which were recently obtained by partner forces in southern Syria. The United States Central Command has announced that Specialists with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force – Crisis Response – Central Command, conducted a detailed examination of four AT-4B Spigot anti-tank guided missile systems and 9M111M […]
U.S. Army M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle deployment to northeast Syria has helped to lower tensions and prevent new conflicts in the region. The U.S. military has sent M2A2 Bradley fighting vehicles to eastern Syria in September to help protect the hundreds of American troops stationed there following series of tense encounters with Russian forces. Tensions with Russian troops in the Central Command (CENTCOM) area of […]
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, […]
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, […]
…from SouthFront.org The Israeli Air Force conducted a second round of missiles strikes on Syria in less than a week. Late on September 2, Israeli warplanes launched missiles at the T4 airport in the province of Homs. According to Syria’s state media, the strikes were conducted from the direction of the US-controlled zone of al-Tanf on the Syrian-Iraqi border. Syrian pro-government sources claimed that a large […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202009021080351871-syria-intercepts-israeli-strike-on-central-air-base—state-media/ According to Syrian state media, several missiles fired at the T-4 air base were intercepted on Wednesday. According to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), Syrian air defenses over the city of Homs engaged a barrage of “rockets” allegedly fired by an Israeli aircraft at the T4 air base. The report notes the missiles came from the direction of […]
…from Southfront [ Editor’s Note: The next round of major fighting in Syria could see the victor being the one with the best drone defences to defend against the Turkish combat drones that were so effective. The Syrian advance not only ground to a halt but suffered major losses due to the effectiveness of the Turkish drones which entered the battle at a critical time and […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/1e/1080319024_0:0:1281:721_1200x675_80_0_0_81bdf6ad37818760e51ccbdda384e123.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008301080319064-syrias-assad-confirms-new-cabinet-lineup/ DUBAI (Sputnik) – Syrian President Bashar Assad issued a decree on Sunday that will see Hussein Arnous head a new national government, the presidency said. The cabinet is made up of 29 ministers, including two women who are in charge of culture and social affairs and labour. The ministers of oil and electricity have been replaced after a blast […]
Guardian: Mohammed bin Salman, now Saudi Arabia’s crown prince and de facto ruler, allegedly enraged the US with his switch of Syria policy. Photograph: Alexei Nikolsky/Tass In the summer of 2015 Mohammed bin Salman, then Saudi defence minister and third in line to the throne, turned his country’s foreign policy on its head and gave a covert green light for Russia’s intervention in Syria, according to a lawsuit […]
VT Damascus BREAKING: 4 US soldiers injured after they attempt to enter #Russia’s held area in #Syria which the US is illegally occupying— Russia runs them off the area — USA Govt reports 4 soldiers were injured. pic.twitter.com/6oOIiIOU2w — AS-Source News / MILITARY〽️ (@ASBMilitary) August 26, 2020 Under the above heading, Ivan Abakumov wrote in “Vzglyad” about the clash that took place in Syria between a […]
Syria: What Actually Happened In Collision Between US And Russian Forces By Morgan Artyukhina, Sputnik News. August 28, 2020 Syria: What Actually Happened In Collision Between US And Russian Forces2020-08-282020-08-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/syria.png200px200px Above photo: Sputnik. An official from the US National Security Council acknowledged on Wednesday that a day prior there had been a vehicle collision between Russian and American forces in eastern Syria. On Tuesday, four US service […]
Nearly two dozen Saudi troops enter US base in northeastern Syria: Report …from PressTV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: The US continues its strategy of making Syria pay for the US deployment by stealing its oil, which is now at the point of openly drilling more wells. As for bringing the Saudis in, that seems to be purely symbolic, after their poor fighting skills were revealed in […]
Lebanon: Inconvenient Truths About Syria, Iran, Hezbollah And The Shia ‘Street’ By Danny Sjursen, AntiWar.com. August 27, 2020 Lebanon: Inconvenient Truths About Syria, Iran, Hezbollah And The Shia ‘Street’2020-08-272020-08-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/lebanon-e1597540616777.jpg200px200px This is the fourth segment in the author’s backstory series – “Lebanon: Bellwether, Battleground, and Bastard Child” – in the wake of the August 4, 2020 Beirut port explosion. Check out parts one, two, and three, plus stay tuned for upcoming segments […]
…from SouthFront.org Four US service members were slightly injured during a standoff with the Russian Military Police near the border-town of Al-Malikiyah in the Syrian province of al-Hasakah. According to reports, the US troops received “mild injures” after their MaxxPro MRAP vehicle collided with a Russian vehicle. US officials quoted by media said there was no exchange of fire during the standoff, which took place earlier […]
Might Belarus Become The Next Syria? August 26, 2020 Might Belarus Become The Next Syria?2020-08-262020-08-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/lukashenko-on-helicopter-arriving-with-weapon-in-hand.-his-15-year-old-son-arrived-with-him.-from-rt.png200px200px Above photo: Lukashenko on a helicopter and arriving with an assault weapon in hand with his 15-year-old son, Nikolay. From Russia Today. Okay, I admit it, the title is rather hyperbolic 🙂 But here is what I am trying to say: there are signs that Russia is intervening in the Belarusian […]
An official from the US National Security Council acknowledged on Wednesday that a day prior there had been a vehicle collision between Russian and American forces in eastern Syria. On Tuesday, four US servicemembers were reported injured with concussion-like symptoms in an incident involving Russian forces. However, White House National Security Council spokesperson John Ullyot said on Wednesday that the injuries were the fault of the […]
Russian BTR-82A wheeled armoured personnel carrier has rammed U.S. MaxxPro Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle driven by Green Berets during patrolling in northeastern Syria. In a video shared on social media on 26 August, Russian military vehicles are seen nudging and harassment U.S. armoured vehicles that were trying to overtake them. The incident in question occurred on the morning of August 24, when Russian military convoy […]
US Sanctions Are Starving Syria By Aaron Maté , The Grayzone Project. August 25, 2020 US Sanctions Are Starving Syria2020-08-252020-08-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/stopusmurderinsyria-e1598365202191.jpg200px200px Leading Syria scholar Joshua Landis on how crippling US sanctions are devastating Syria’s people and hindering post-war reconstruction. In a new article for Foreign Affairs, scholar Joshua Landis and former Obama administration official Steve Simon write that US sanctions on Syria “further immiserate the Syrian people, blocks […]
Despite Daesh losing its territory in the Middle East around two years ago, over 10,000 of the group’s fighters remain active “in small cells” between the countries of Syria and Iraq, according to new statements from Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Office Vladimir Voronkov. Speaking before the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Monday, Voronkov detailed that not only are there more than 10,000 Daesh […]
How local Arab uprising in Northeast Syria may wipe US forces & their SDF proxies out of the region …from Sputnik News, Moscow [ Editor’s Note: RT leads off this article stating that US personnel are being attacked by people inside Syria, when it is really a counter-attacking operation to prevent that part of Syria from permanent occupation by the US or its chosen proxies. The […]
Gas pipeline explosion causes ‘total blackout’ in Syria – state media — RT World News icon bookmark-bicon bookmarkicon cameraicon checkicon chevron downicon chevron lefticon chevron righticon chevron upicon closeicon v-compressicon downloadicon editicon v-expandicon fbicon fileicon filtericon flag ruicon full chevron downicon full chevron lefticon full chevron righticon full chevron upicon gpicon insicon mailicon moveicon-musicicon mutedicon nomutedicon okicon v-pauseicon v-playicon searchicon shareicon sign inicon sign upicon stepbackicon […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008241080257465-explosion-in-arab-gas-pipeline-leads-to-blackout-in-syria-electricity-minister-says/ An explosion in the Arab gas pipeline between the Al-Dameer area and Adra in the Damascus countryside has led to a total blackout in Syria, the minister of electricity said, according to SANA news agency. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source link
…by Press TV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: Despite the organized assassinations of the NE Syrian tribal sheikhs by outside actors, the tribes are united in not being robbed of their land and resources. The US continues to squander any legitimacy it might have pretended to have earlier at one point in the Syrian war. Trump is fully onboard the proxy terror war, and to the disgrace […]
VT: The report below is an intercept from Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service, translated by Arabic. There is no editing or alterations. This is “Eyes Only/Q” Russian intelligence was given this report last night. The question, we know Trump is compromised, seemingly by Russia but we believe, something we are considered “the experts on worldwide” by an international criminal conspiracy that also either controls or hinders the […]
…by Press TV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: Despite the organized assassinations of the NE Syrian tribal sheikhs by outside actors the tribes are united in not being robbed of their lands and resources. The US continues to squander any legitimately it might have pretended to have earlier at one point in the Syrian war. Even under Trump he is fully onboard the proxy terror war, and […]
VT: The report below is an intercept from Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service, translated by Arabic. There is no editing or alterations. This is “Eyes Only/Q” Russian intelligence was given this report last night. The question, we know Trump is compromised, seemingly by Russia but we believe, something we are considered “the experts on worldwide” by an international criminal conspiracy that also either controls or hinders the […]
…from PressTV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: This investigation took fifteen years and cost a billion dollars, a fact that should launch an investigation into the crime of milking this investigation as a cash cow. The question arises, what is the point of having any UN investigation, when this case shows it does not have the capacity to do one in any reasonable amount of time? This […]
…from SouthFront.org For the first time in about a year, Syrian pro-government forces and the US-led coalition found itself engaged in what seems to be direct clashes near the village of Tal al-Dhahab in northeastern Syria. Syrian sources said that on August 17 an AH-64 Apache attack helicopter struck a checkpoint of the Syrian Army in the province of al-Hasakah after the Syrian Army and pro-government […]
On Aug. 18, an unmanned U.S. observation aircraft was shot down over Northern Syria, according to local media reports. A MQ-9 Reaper, a $15 million unmanned aerial combat vehicle, has been shot down over the opposition-held province of Idlib, north-western Syria. Initially, the militants passed it off as a downed Russian Orlan-10 drone, but the photo showed the wreckage of MQ-9. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – […]
A senior Russian military adviser with the rank of major general has been killed in an attack in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province, the Defense Ministry has confirmed. Two more Russian servicemen were injured in the incident. A Russian military column was struck by a blast on Tuesday while en route from the Deir ez-Zor area, where the military had carried out humanitarian operations. A roadside […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008181080207189-russian-general-killed-two-troops-injured-in-roadside-blast-in-syria/ The incident was said to have taken place in Deir ez-Zor province, northeastern Syria. A Russian major-general was killed and two troops were injured in Syria Tuesday after vehicles they were traveling in were hit by an improvised explosive device. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source link
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon based in the Hague has found one of the four members of the Iran-backed militia and political party Hezbollah guilty of the 2005 car bomb assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 21 others. The verdict was delayed by two weeks due to the catastrophic explosion on August 4 in Beirut that killed nearly 200 and injured more than 6,000. […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107760/73/1077607362_0:0:3071:1729_1200x675_80_0_0_3bccf75082f280a5f8e67613e757b463.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008061080079950-us-military-base-in-northeastern-syria-comes-under-missile-fire–reports/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – An illegal US military in the northeastern Syrian province of Al-Hasakah has come under missile fire, Syrian media reported. According to Al-Watan newspaper, the base in the town of Ash Shaddadi was shelled by unknown militants. Within the past several months, the illegal US military bases in the provinces of Al-Hasakah and Deir ez-Zor have been […]
Syria has been contemplating the possibility of building its own “little” Hagia Sophia amid Turkey’s decision to convert the former museum into a mosque. The Syrian Hagia Sophia is planned to be built in Al-Suqaylabiyah in Hama province. The commander of the al-Suqaylabiyah National Defence Committee, Nabeel Abdallah, said that the idea of building the church primarily symbolises the life of Syrian Christians, and added that […]
The Syrian government has accused the US of “stealing” the country’s oil reserves, which Washington claimed to be protecting from terrorists. American lawmakers admitted that a deal has been signed with Kurdish rebels. When President Donald Trump pulled US troops out of Syria last October, it was not the full withdrawal promised in his anti-interventionist campaign speeches. Instead, a contingent was left behind in areas of […]
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Mediterranean Versione originale in Italiano It’s a video of the horrors. It lasts for a few seconds but it is enough to shock the hardened consciences for hours. It is evidence that the complaint, filed by the UN by Russia in December 2018 against the White Helmets self-styled “rescuers” for the illegal organ trafficking managed in Syria, was founded. […]
MOSCOW, JULY 30— Journalists from Russia, Syria and India became the winners of Khaled Alkhateb Memorial Awards 2020 — the annual international awards recognizing excellence in warzone reporting. The Awards were launched by the TV news network in honor of RT Arabic journalist Khaled Alkhateb, who died while reporting from Syria in 2017. “The award recognizes the work of war correspondents who travel to conflict zones […]
…from SouthFront The Middle East is rapidly moving towards a new round of confrontation between the US-Israeli bloc and Iranian-led Shiite forces. On July 26, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) deployed M109 Doher howitzers near the separation line with Lebanon. The deployment of howitzers became the latest in a series of broad measures employed by the IDF near Lebanon recently. Earlier, the 13th “Gideon” Infantry Battalion […]
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The accident took place in al-Hasakah, an oil-rich region in northeastern Syria contested by the Syrian government, US-sponsored Kurdish forces, Turkey-backed militants and Daesh (ISIS)* remnants. The Syrian Arab News Agency has obtained footage of the scene of the accident where a Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve servicemember died on Tuesday. The footage shows a US MRAP truck, laying upside down in a field […]
Several U.S. Army Soldiers were injured in an overturned armored vehicle accident in northeastern Syria. According to local sources, M-ATV Special Forces Vehicle driven by Green Berets is overturned during patrolling in northeastern Syria. The source did not specify how many Soldiers were hurt. The result of armored vehicle accident was seen in a short video that began circulating on social media on 21 July. The […]
…from SouthFront Late on July 20, the Israeli Air Force carried out a new wave of airstrikes on the southern countryside of the Syrian capital of Damascus. According to Syria’s state-run news agency SANA, Israeli warplanes launched missiles from the airspace over the Golan Heights at 21.48 local time. It claimed that a large portion of the missiles were shot down by the Syrian Air Defense […]
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New reports out of the Middle East allege that the use of the US’ sword-carrying Hellfire R9-X “ninja bomb” has increased in recent weeks, and that it was most recently used in a Monday attack on alleged terrorists in northern Syria. The Jerusalem Post reported on Tuesday that an R9-X missile struck a small, white truck the day prior and killed several individuals near Azaz, Syria. […]
…from SouthFront Early on July 20, positions of the Syrian Army came under shelling by militants in the villages of Furu, Bahsa and Beit Hassno in the southern part of the Idlib de-escalation zone. In response, government forces struck positions of Hayat Tahrir al-Sam near Kansafra and surrounding areas. Local tensions increased just a few days after a key infrastructure object of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in […]
The Turkish aerostat-borne surveillance system was spotted in the Idlib region in Syria. Idlib falls within a de-escalation zone forged under an agreement between Turkey and Russia. The area has been the subject of multiple cease-fire understandings, which have frequently been violated by the Assad regime and its allies. Local social media also were posted a large number of photos showing the spy blimp-like aerostat looks […]
…from SouthFront Early on July 16, unidentified warplanes conducted at least 3 airstrikes on the Turkish-occupied town of al-Bab in the Syrian province of Aleppo. The strikes destroyed a large building in the town center and led to multiple casualties. Pro-Turkish sources claim that there were civilian casualties only and that the United States or Russia were behind the strikes. A few hours later, the Turkish […]
by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor, …and PressTV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: The US is pushing targeted UN countries into forming defensive agreements because the countries know they can be picked off one by one. In strengthening ties with Syria, Iran is simply borrowing a page from America’s WWI slogan, “It’s better to fight them over there”, regardless of the lack of historical evidence that Germany […]
A self-declare aid worker in Syria reporting on live updates from the war-torn country and operating under the auspices of a militant jihadist group was detained last month amid rising repression of dissident elements. The jihadist organisation that still occupies Idlib and other parts of north-western Syria declared that a British-born man who runs an online organisation will stand trial. BBC cited a statement of Hayat […]
by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor, …with PressTV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: Syria held the line on having only one crossing where aid comes in, so that will be much easier to monitor Turkey and the jihadis smuggling combat supplies under UN cover. It will be in the Kurdish region where supplies are needed the most, as Turkish militant proxies have been looting the villages and […]
…from SouthFront On July 14th and 15th, Syrian Army artillery units and warplanes of the Russian Aerospace Forces conducted extensive strikes on positions of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the Turkistan Islamic Party and other radical groups in northern Lattakia and southern Idlib. The main strikes hit fortified positions, weapon depots and gatherings of fighters and equipment near Kbana, Sifouhn, al-Muzarra, Ain al-Aruz, Kansafra, Kafr Uwayd, Mawzrah and […]
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Several Russian soldiers were wounded Tuesday in a car bombing in northeastern Syria, according to Bild’s foreign policy editor Julian Röpcke. “Massive car bomb attack on Russian vehicles within a joint Turkish-Russian patrol on the M4 highway in Idlib,” Röpcke said. At the same time, some sources reported that at least 3 Russian soldiers wounded as per initial reports. Also, journalist Middle East and conflict areas […]
The UN Security Council has finally reached a compromise, agreeing to keep one checkpoint in militant-controlled Idlib open for aid deliveries from Turkey. After vetoing two initial drafts, Russia and China abstained from voting. Seeking to limit the number of border crossings outside of Syrian government control, Russia vetoed two Western resolutions and had two counter-proposals fail over the past week. A deal was finally reached Saturday night to […]
UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) – The UN Security Council (UNSC) has adopted a resolution to extend the work of one Syria-Turkey cross-border point for one year in order to ensure humanitarian aid deliveries to Syria, German Ambassador to the United Nations Christoph Heusgen has announced. On Friday, the UN mandates for the Bab al-Hawa and Bab al-Salam crossings from Turkey expired. Belgium and Germany initially insisted that […]
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Nahed is VT Damascus Bureau Chief. She is a member of the American Institute for Middle East Strategic Studies (USA) and serves as Assistant Director of Arab-American and Muslim Congress (Detroit, USA). She has a Diploma in English Literature from Damascus University (1987). She’s also been a reporter for Turkish newspaper Aydinlik, Special Coordinator for Arab-Armenian International Law Assembly, Correspondent for Qatari News Agency, Al Ayam […]
…from SouthFront Iran will help to strengthen Syrian air defense capabilities as part of a wider military security agreement between the two countries, Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Baqeri said on July 8. The statement was made after the signing of a new military cooperation agreement in Damascus. The agreement provides for the expansion of military and […]
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…from SouthFront Chaos is spreading through the Turkish-occupied part of northern Syria. Late on July 7, a car bomb explosion rocked the town of Tell Abyad killing at least seven people. Pro-Turkish sources immediately accused the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) of plotting this attack. However, such claims seem quite shaky given the ongoing armed confrontations between various Turkish-backed groups all vying for control over limited […]
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A UN resolution adopted in January envisaged a reduction of border crossings under a program of cross-border humanitarian aid to Syria, from four to two, as the Assad government regained control over the country’s territory and made possible aid delivery from inside Syria. The US ambassador to the United Nations, Kelly Craft, asserted that a failure to extend a cross-border aid program in Syria will result […]
…from SouthFront The Syrian Army and the National Defense Forces have put their forces on high alert in response to the new round of aggressive actions by the Turkish Army and its proxies in northeastern Syria. Several convoys of government forces, including several T-62M battle tanks and a number of trucks equipped with heavy machine guns, deployed to the countryside of Ayn Issa after intense Turkish […]