The document indicates that “Far from being an army of irrational, bloodthirsty fanatics, IS [Isis] is a deeply calculating political organization with an extremely complex, well-planned infrastructure behind it.” Lt Gen Graeme Lamb, former head of UK special forces, said the playbook carried a warning for current military strategy. A leaked internal Islamic State manual […]
Obama To Turkey: Seal Off The Border To Syria, Turkey To Obama: Handle Mexico First
December 1, 2015 by
President Barack Obama wants Turkey to close its 60-mile-long border with Syria to end the influx of new Islamic State fighters pouring into Syria and Iraq. If Turkey acquiesces to Obama’s demands, no entry points will remain between the two countries. The entire border is 550 miles long, The Wall Street Journal reports. But a […]
Iran Buys Jets From UK To Fly Spy Commandos To Syria In Violation Of Nuke Deal
November 8, 2015 by
If you were Tehran, you’d have a lot of incentives these days to simply ignore the terms of the “landmark” P5+1 nuclear deal on the way to cementing your regional influence. For starters, preserving the Assad government in Syria takes precedence over almost all other concerns so it’s really immaterial whether the Iranian ground incursion […]
Refugee crisis: thousands arrive in Germany amid calls for action in Syria
November 8, 2015 by
Migrants are brought through the central station in Munich to the registration area. Refugees arrive at Munich main station Photograph: Andreas Gebert/EPA A policeman hits people during a protest at the Lesvos Port Photograph: Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP/Getty Images The situation has become increasingly explosive on Lesvos, Greece, one of the islands on the frontline of […]
White House Press Sec Squirms Defending OBAMA’s Flip Flop On Sending Troops To Syria [VIDEO]
November 1, 2015 by
NBC News White House correspondent Kristen Welker grilled White House press secretary Josh Earnest for the Obama administration’s change in position on sending U.S. troops to fight on the ground in Syria. During Fridays daily briefing Welker brought up Barack Obama’s Sept. 10, 2013, “I will not put American boots on the ground in Syria. […]
Obama sends ‘less than 50’ TROOPS to Syria
October 30, 2015 by
President Obama has authorized sending “less than 50” special military personnel to work in Syria with “local opposition” forces to “train, advise and assist” them in their fight against the Islamic State, a White House spokesman confirmed on Friday. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the troops would not serve in combat roles, but admitted […]
Obama’s New “Normalization”: Cubans Are Helping Russia Attack U.S. Backed Rebels in Syria
October 15, 2015 by
If you’ve been paying attention, you know by now Russian President Vladimir Putin has moved Russian troops, tanks and air power into Syria and is actively bombing U.S. backed rebels who are opposing Dictator Bashar al-Assad. This situation has been developing over the past few weeks, but what’s new is the revelation Cuba is helping […]
Obama: Give me a few more years in Syria
October 12, 2015 by
The argument represents a rapid evolution in rhetoric for Obama, who insisted that the 2011 withdrawal of military forces from Iraq, just eight years after the U.S. toppled Saddam Hussein’s regime, would allow the U.S. to move “forward from a position of strength” as a “partner with an Iraq that contributes to regional security and […]
Russia, Syria Launch First Joint Assault Against US-Backed Rebels, Not ISIS
October 7, 2015 by
Russia and Syria carried out what appeared to be the first major coordinated assaults on Syrian insurgents on Wednesday, targeting rebels in the west rather than Islamic State militants, a monitor said. The combined assault hit towns close to the main north-south highway that runs through major cities in the mainly government-held west of Syria, […]
US stands by helplessly as Russia bombs the stuffing out of our rebel allies in Syria
October 3, 2015 by
CIA backed rebels in Syria are pleading for anti-aircraft weapons to shoot down Russian bombers who have been pounding them mercilessly for 3 days. U.S.-backed rebels in Syria appealed to the Obama administration Friday for antiaircraft missiles to defend their positions against relentless Russian airstrikes that have so far mostly targeted the moderate opposition to […]
Russia says Islamic State group not the only target in Syria
October 1, 2015 by
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian jets carried out a second day of strikes in Syria Thursday, and some activists claimed that the targets included rebels backed by the United States as concerns grew about a conflict that has now drawn in warplanes from the world’s two most powerful militaries. Russian President Vladimir Putin denied reports that […]
Carter: Russian Airstrikes ‘Pouring Gas on Fire’ in Syria
September 30, 2015 by
Smoke rises after airstrikes by military jets in Talbiseh, a city in western Syria’s Homs province, where Russia launched airstrikes for the first time, Sept. 30, 2015. The image was made from video provided by Homs Media Center and authenticated by AP. U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter says Russian airstrikes in Syria hit areas […]
Russians tell US to remove warplanes from Syria, senior official says
September 30, 2015 by
Russian officials have demanded that American warplanes exit Syrian airspace immediately, a senior U.S. official told Fox News early Wednesday. The official told Fox News that Russian diplomats sent an official demarche ordering U.S. planes out of Syria, adding that Russian fighter jets were now flying over Syrian territory. U.S. military sources told Fox News […]
China To Join Russian Military In Syria While Iraq Strikes Intel Deal With Moscow, Tehran
September 29, 2015 by
Last Thursday, we asked if China was set to join Russia and Iran in support of the Assad regime in Syria. Our interest was piqued when the pro-Assad Al-Masdar (citing an unnamed SAA “senior officer”), said Chinese “personnel and aerial assets” are set to arrive within weeks. To the uninitiated, this may seem to have […]
Obama will be forced to play Putin’s game in Syria
September 29, 2015 by
Russian president Vladimir Putin met with Barack Obama yesterday at the U.N. for 90 minutes, and in that hour and a half, Russia became the dominant power in the Middle East. For years, President Obama had insisted that Iran would not be invited to negotiations to achieve a political solution in Syria – until yesterday, […]
4 out of 5 refugees claiming asylum in Europe not from Syria
September 21, 2015 by
EU governments, especially Germany, France, and the U.K., have been claiming that other countries must take in more refugees because they’re mostly coming from war-torn Syria. But statistics released by the EU show exactly the opposite. Of 213,000 refugees who applied for asylum in April, May, and June, only 44,000 were fleeing the violence in […]
The horrific results of Obama’s failure in Syria
September 5, 2015 by
One little boy in a red T-shirt, lying face down, drowned, on a Turkish beach, is a tragedy. More than 200,000 dead in Syria, 4 million fleeing refugees and 7.6 million displaced from their homes are statistics. But they represent a collective failure of massive proportions. For four years, the Obama administration has engaged in […]
First US volunteer dies while fighting ISIS alongside Kurdish militia during artillery exchange in Syria
June 10, 2015 by
His mother said: ‘He decided this was God’s will and God wanted him to go’ He is believed to be the fourth Western volunteer to die fighting for YPG against jihadi group ISIS, including Briton Konstantinos Scurfield A volunteer fighter has become the first American to be killed while serving with the Kurdish YPG in […]
Confirmed: Weapons Were Moving Through Benghazi to Syria
May 18, 2015 by
When former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testifeid in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in January 2013, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul asked if weapons were being trafficked from Libya, through Benghazi and to Turkey. Paul: Is the U.S. involved with any procuring of weapons, transfer of weapons, buying, selling, anyhow transferring weapons to […]