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Category: Syria

Trump announces U.S. military strikes in Syria

Syria

Trump tweets ‘Get ready Russia, missiles will be coming nice and new and ‘smart’!’ warning Russia against threats to attack US over Syria

Middle East, Syria

Europe air traffic control issues alert over ‘possible air strikes on Syria within 72 hours’

Middle East, Syria

Syria poison gas attack kills at least 40, activists and medics say

Syria

U.S. and Russia Reach Agreement for Cease-Fire in Syria

Time (HAMBURG, Germany) — U.S. officials say the United States and Russia have reached an agreement for a cease-fire...
Syria

US responds to Russian threat after shoot-down of Syrian jet

Fox News U.S. pilots operating over Syria won’t hesitate to defend themselves from Russian threats, a Pentagon spokesperson said...
Syria

Is Trump Enlisting in the War Party?

Pat Buchanan By firing off five dozen Tomahawk missiles at a military airfield, our “America First” president may have...
Syria

US Special Forces obliterate ISIS fighters assaulting base

The Daily Caller U.S. special forces obliterated an entire Islamic State attack team assaulting a base Saturday in southern Syria,,...
Syria

EX-CIA Names McCain, McMaster, Brennan as Masterminds of Syrian False Flag

The Common Sense Show This is the story of the day. The following represents the recent and public revelations...
Syria

Trump Pushes Back Against Neo-Con Plan to Invade Syria

Paul Joseph Watson The Trump administration is currently locked in a heated debate over whether to launch a full...
Syria

Russia and Iran pledge to hit back against further Syria strikes as they blast US for ‘crossing red lines’

The Sun The command centre for the two countries and allied groups released a joint statement today saying they...
Syria

‘They’re terrified that peace was going to break out’ – Ron Paul on US Syria strike

Prison Planet “A victory of neo-conservatives” – that’s how Ron Paul, a former member of the US House of...
Syria

Despite U.S. missile barrage, Syria continues airstrikes against rebels

The Washington Post BEIRUT — Residents of the Syrian town devastated by a chemical weapons attack earlier this week said...
Syria

VIDEO: U.S. Destroyers Fire 59 Tomahawks on Syrian Airfield in Retaliation for Chemical Attack

  USNI Two U.S. guided-missile destroyers fired 59 Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles in a series of strikes on a Syrian...
Syria

US launches missiles into Syria in response to chemical weapons attack

Fox News The United States launched dozens of cruise missiles at a Syrian airfield early Friday in response to...
Syria

U.S. launches cruise missile strike on Syria after chemical weapons attack

USA Today WASHINGTON — President Trump ordered a cruise missile strike against Syria early Friday local time in retaliation for...
Syria

Syria chemical attack death toll now at 72; new strikes hit

AP BEIRUT — The death toll from a suspected chemical attack on a northern Syrian town rose to 72...
Syria

Russian and American troops are within ‘hand-grenade range’ of each other in Syria as they overlap while fighting ISIS, warn US commanders

Daily Mail Russian and US troops are working with Kurdish YPG fighters to combat ISIS A defense expert warns...
Syria

Stars and Stripes in Syria: Convoy of US vehicles roll through war-torn country as 500 US special forces troops join battle against ISIS on the ground

Daily Mail The United States has deployed a column of armored personnel carriers to the northern Syrian city of Manbij to...
Syria

Obama’s Operation Five O’Clock Charlie: US Coalition Spared ISIS Oil Production Facilities in Syria

Prison Planet The US-led international coalition did not bomb oil production facilities captured by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL)...
ISIS, Syria

Turkey and Russia ‘broker ceasefire deal for all of Syria’

AFP Turkey and Russia have agreed a ceasefire plan for all of Syria that should come into force this...
Syria

Islamic State retakes parts of Syria’s historic Palmyra

USA Today Syrian activists say the Islamic State re-entered the historic city of Palmyra in central Syria on Saturday, pushing...
Syria

Special Forces being micromanaged to death in fight against ISIS

Washington Times The secretive teams of Green Berets guiding rebels in northeast Syria have expressed frustration with the amount...
Syria, US Army

Russian flotilla now off Syrian coast

Yahoo News Moscow (AFP) – A flotilla of Russian warships is now in the eastern Mediterranean off the Syrian...
Russia, Syria

Do you want to glow in the dark?

Market Ticker One final set of thoughts before you go out to vote today. There’s one major issue that...
Hillary, Syria

Russian, US jets had near miss over Syria: US officials

AFP Aboard a US military aircraft (AFP) – A Russian fighter flew dangerously close to a US warplane over...
Syria

Hillary’s Syria policy could trigger WWIII

The Guardian Many in national security circles consider the risk of a confrontation with Russia to be severe: ‘I...
Hillary, Syria

Russia Is Deploying The Largest Naval Force Since The Cold War For Syria: NATO Diplomat

Zero Hedge Just moments ago we reported that in the latest escalation involving Syria, the Russian aircraft carrier Kuznetsov...
NATO, Russia, Syria, US military

US and Russia could ‘start Third World War over Syria conflict’, says Turkey

London Independent The US and Russia could drive the world into a global war if the conflict in Syria is not resolved, Turkey has warned.  Tensions have...
Russia, Syria, United States

Obama To Decide Friday On Military Action In Syria

Zero Hedge Two weeks ago when the US broke off bilateral relations with Russia over the ongoing Syrian proxy...
Syria

Gorbachev warns of ‘dangerous point’ as US-Russia ties sour

AFP Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned on Monday that the world has reached a “dangerous point” as tensions...
Russia, Syria, United States

Russian options against a US attack on Syria

Unz.com The tensions between Russia and the USA have reached an unprecedented level. I fully agree with the participants...
Russia, Syria

Iranian News Agency: US Deploying Forces in 7 Bases in Northern Syria

Fars News Agency Based on information obtained by FNA from media outlets and field sources, the 7 bases in...
Syria

Syrian Army Claims It Shot Down Israeli Warplane, Drone; Israel Denies

Zero Hedge Just hours after the hard-fought Syrian ceasefire deal went into effect after sunset on Monday – a...
Israel, Syria

German police arrest three Syrian men ‘sent to Europe by Isis to carry out terror attacks’ as part of Paris attacks network

London Independent German police have arrested three Syrian men suspected of being deployed by Isis to carry out new terror attacks...
Germany, ISIS, Syria

Gary Johnson the Fake Libertarian: ‘What is Aleppo?’

Infowars In an excruciatingly embarrassing exchange with MSNBC anchors, Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson asked “What is Aleppo?” when...
2016 Presidential Race, Gary Johnson, Syria

Syria: Warplanes dropped chlorine bombs in Aleppo

AP BEIRUT — Syrian activists and rescue workers in the rebel-held part of the contested city of Aleppo said...
Syria

ISIS cells in the Golan could use chemical weapons

Jerusalem Post The security echelon in Israel has estimated that the Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade, an Islamist organization that identifies...
ISIS, Israel, Syria

Obama And Vladimir Putin ‘Negotiating Around The Clock’ To TEAM UP And Take Down ISIS In Syria

Daily Mail President Barack Obama says U.S. and Russian negotiators are working ‘around the clock’ to try to strike...
ISIS, Obama, Putin, Russia, Syria

10,000th Syrian reaches US this week in resettlement program

AP AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The U.S. will reach its target this week of taking in 10,000 Syrian war...
Muslim Refugees, Syria, US Government

Pentagon issues implicit threat to shoot down Syrian warplanes

Washington Examiner The Pentagon issued a terse warning Friday that the U.S. would act to defend its troops after...
Pentagon, Syria

Julian Assange: Hacked Emails Include Info On Hillary’s Arming of Jihadists, Including ISIS, in Syria

Gateway Pundit Secretary of State Hillary Clinton knew that the US was sending arms from Libya to Syria back...
Hillary, ISIS, Syria, Wikileaks

Syrian asylum-seeker kills pregnant woman with machete in Germany

NY Post BERLIN — A Syrian asylum-seeker killed a pregnant woman with a machete and wounded two others Sunday...
Germany, Muslim Refugees, Syria

REFUGEES SECRETLY FLOODING INTO THESE STATES

WND Despite more reports in recent weeks about Muslim “refugees” raping and attacking people in the U.S. and Europe,...
ISIS, Syria

Vladimir Putin to send Russia’s largest warship to Syria to destroy ISIS once and for all

The Sun VLADIMIR Putin is to send Russia’s largest battleship to Syria in a bid to crush ISIS once...
ISIS, Putin, Syria

U.S. coalition says expects tough fight against IS near Turkish border

Reuters The U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State in Syria and Iraq said on Wednesday it was tightening the noose...
ISIS, Syria, Turkey

First on CNN: Four US military advisers wounded in Syria

CNN Four U.S. military advisers were lightly wounded earlier this month in northern Syria by attackers who were believed...
ISIS, Syria, US military

U.S. Special Forces Engaged in Front Line Combat in Syria

AFP Fatisah (Syria) (AFP) – US forces on the ground in northern Syria are helping a major offensive against...
ISIS, SOF, Syria

U.S. Warns ISIS Capital: Get Out Now

The Daily Beast The American military is warning residents of ISIS’s Syrian capital to leave the city—suggesting that an...
ISIS, Syria, US military

ISIS Has Declared a State of Emergency Amid Suspicions of an Imminent Attack

Yahoo News United States officials monitoring social media accounts and news reports say that the Islamic State appears to...
ISIS, Syria

Seymour Hersh Says Hillary Approved Sending Libya’s Sarin To Syrian Rebels

Zero Hedge The great investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, in two previous articles in the London Review of Books (“Whose...
Hillary, Seymour Hersh, Syria

Russia’s T-90 Tank Withstands US Missile Attack in Syria

Sputnik Russia’s T-90 battle tank ‘Vladimir’ has become a celebrity of the blogosphere after it survived getting hit by...
Russia, Syria

U.S. plots with United Nations to expand Syrian refugees from 10,000 to 200,000

Washington Examiner In a move around the standard refugee settlement process in America, the United Nations and the administration...
Migrants, Syria

UNREAL: Russia FIRES on Israel…

Allen West Back in August 2011, I was part of a Congressional delegation weeklong visit to Israel. One of...
Israel, Russia, Syria

ISIS suspect reveals plans to open up route from Syria to U.S. through Mexico

Fox News One of the American men accused in Minnesota of trying to join the Islamic State group wanted...
ISIS, Syria, The Border

B-52s Make Precision Strikes Against ISIS in Iraq, Syria

Newsmax B-52 bombers are now being used in Iraq and Syria to conduct precision strikes against the Islamic State, Agence...
Iraq, ISIS, Syria, US Air Force

US arms shipment to Syrian rebels detailed

By Jane’s Documents released by the US government’s Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) website have provided an indication of the...
Syria

U.S. ‘surge operation’ to clear 10,000 Syrian refugees in just 3 months, 600 interviewed A DAY

By The Washington Examiner The administration has established a “surge operation” in Jordan to process 10,000 Syrian refugees and...
ISIS, Islam, Migrants, Syria

The Islamic State’s Scorched-Earth Strategy

By Foreign Policy SINJAR and KIRKUK, Iraq — From the moment Islamic State fighters surged into the Iraqi city...
Iraq, ISIS, Syria

Terrorizing the Terrorists

By Ray Starmann It’s a good time to be in ISIS. While they’re cleaning up the debris and bagging...
Europe, Iraq, ISIS, Obama, Syria

Syrian army reaches outskirts of Islamic State-held town of Palmyra

By The Orange Country Register DAMASCUS, Syria – Syrian government forces backed by Russian airstrikes advanced swiftly in central...
ISIS, Middle East, Syria

Ten Million More Refugees Headed to Europe

By Breitbart.com Gerd Müller said only 10 per cent of Syrian and Iraqi migrants have reached Europe so far...
Germany, Merkel, Migrants, Syria

Operation Inherent Insanity – Obama’s Syrian Refugee Plan

By Ray Starmann ISIS has been busy in the last 24 hours. They diverted two Air France planes over...
France, Germany, ISIS, Obama, Ray Starmann, Syria

Insult to injury – Russia given the green light by Baghdad to hit ISIS in Iraq

By John O’Hara The Iraqi government in Baghdad has given Russia permission to attack ISIS targets in Iraq. This...
Iraq, ISIS, Russia, Syria

After one year, US led air campaign against ISIS a dismal failure

By Carly Jacobsen As suspected by a myriad of military analysts, Operation Inherent Resolve, the desultory US air campaign...
Iraq, ISIS, Syria

Russia continues aggression against US pilots as US signs ‘memo of understanding’

By John O’Hara The Russian government has failed to explain why its pilots are conducting aggressive maneuvers in dangerous...
Pentagon, Russia, Syria, US Air Force

Syrians claim Russia has destroyed 40% of ISIS’ infrastructure in one week

By Morris Schaffer The Russians continued their campaign of deception by ushering out the Syrian Ambassador to Russia who...
ISIS, Russia, Syria

Controlled chaos over Syria

By Carly Jacobsen Trying to put order to chaos over Syria, the Russians and Israelis have established a hotline...
Israel, Russia, Syria

Russia says 456 out of 669 sorties against ISIS

By Ray Starmann Russia announced today that they have destroyed 456 ISIS targets in Syria. As the Times of...
ISIS, Ray Starmann, Russia, Syria

The German Migrant Crisis – Update

By Morris Schaffer and US Defense Watch As mentioned yesterday, US Defense Watch is monitoring the growing migrant crisis...
Germany, Merkel, Migrants, NATO, Syria

“The enemy of my enemy is my friend” – Is Syria the Afghanistan of the 21st Century for Russia?

By Ray Starmann As the Wall Street Journal reported earlier today: MOSCOW—Artillery shells hit the grounds of the Russian...
ISIS, Ray Starmann, Russia, Syria

Is Germany heading toward massive civil strife?

By Morris Schaffer Events in Germany seem to be spiraling out of control. The influx of migrants from the...
Germany, Iraq, Merkel, Migrants, Syria

Russian maskirovka vs. US duck and cover

By Ray Starmann Having conducted two weeks of a continuous around the clock air campaign over Syria, Russia continues...
ISIS, Pentagon, Putin, Russia, Syria

Bring back the Powell Doctrine

By Ray Starmann The results of the Iraq War, the War in Afghanistan and the failed and half-hearted air...
Desert Storm, Iraq, ISIS, Ray Starmann, Syria

What Strategy? When art mirrors the situation on the ground in the Middle East

By Ray Starmann The brief clip from the show “Homeland” below shows an intelligence strategy meeting in DC where...
Iraq, ISIS, Syria
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