The Daily Star | 12 Feb 2016 MUNICH, Germany: Moscow warned Thursday that any move by Gulf nations to send in troops to support the rebels in Syria would risk a “new world war.” It also said that it had made a “quite specific” cease-fire proposal for Syria as foreign ministers gathered in Munich, hoping…
VT | 11 Feb 2016 US A10s bomb Aleppo, Blame Russia https://www.rt.com/news/332109-russian-jets-isis-warlords/video/ Moscow says some opposition groups in the Syrian city of Aleppo are breaking ranks with militants and cooperating with the government. In Dara’a Province, several groups have agreed to lay down their arms, Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov told reporters in Moscow on…
Robert Fisk | 6 Feb 2016 After losing up to 60,000 soldiers in five years of fighting, the Syrian army has suddenly scored its greatest victory of the war – smashing its way through Jabhat al-Nusra and the other rebel forces around Aleppo and effectively sealing its fate as Russia provided air strike operations outside…
Moon of Alabama | 7 Feb 2016 According to this report from Middle East Eye U.S. Secretary of State blamed the opposition for the continuing bombing in Syria: US Secretary of State John Kerry told Syrian aid workers, hours after the Geneva peace talks fell apart, that the country should expect another three months of…
RT | 30 Jan 2016 US Central Command (CENTCOM) has confirmed that four airstrikes in Syria and Iraq last year “likely” resulted in five dead and eight injured civilians. However, the official figures fall far short of claims made by independent observers. According to CENTCOM, a “preponderance of evidence” suggests that civilian casualties occurred in…
Global Research | 26 Jan 2016 The following is the text of a complaint filed with the BBC. Submitted via BBC Complaints webform Dear Sir / Madam Syrian government ‘to let aid into besieged Madaya’ – BBC News, 7 January 2016 As evidenced by the copy below [1], at 50 seconds in the original version of the above…
American Herald Tribune | 25 Jan 2016 As is often the case, you have to read between the lines to parse the truth about Syria –or indeed many other issues –as reported in the Western mainstream media. With a discerning eye the truth can be found. But that’s why it is played down, sanitized, half-told…
AntiWar.com | 21 January 2016 The Kurdish dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are reporting today that US troops have taken over control of the Rmeilan airfield in northeastern Syria’s Hasakeh Province, the first US military base inside Syria. The SDF reported that the Kurdish YPG, their largest faction, previously controlled the base and handed sole control over…
Stephen Lendman | 12 Jan 2016 Evidence keeps mounting on how Turkey directly aids ISIS, complicit with Washington, other NATO countries and regional partners. Foreign support lets terrorist groups in Syria, Iraq and Libya thrive. Without it they’d become a spent force, unable to operate effectively on their own – what media scoundrels never explain,…
21st Century Wire | 11 January 2016 This last month has seen a tidal wave of western propaganda regarding the “Siege of Madaya” in Syria. Some of the mainstream media efforts have centered around the use of old or fake photo images of starving children and residents in the small Syrian town of Madaya.The object…