CHUCK ROSS Former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s lobbying work for the Turkish government involved payments to several former FBI officials and a retired admiral who served in a top intelligence role for the joint chiefs of staff. Flynn’s consulting firm, Flynn Intel Group, also paid a behavior analysis firm operated by two former FBI […]
Iran wants to increase its defense tech cooperation with Russia, including the joint development of more anti-missile defense systems and fighter aircraft, Emad Abshenass of Iran Press told Sputnik. Iran’s Homegrown Bavar Ground-to-Air Missile System Still Lags Behind S-300 On Thursday, Iranian army commander Major General Ataollah Salehi told Tasnim News that Iran has produced […]
Two key players in the region actively fighting against the jihadists, Russia and Iran, have not been invited to the gathering because, according to US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, "they’re not part of the global coalition."
Editor’s note: Ali was dragged out of line, where he was accompanied by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Shultz mind you, to be “leaned on” because he met with congress. This was not the FBI who knows better but DHS, who have always operated outside the law anyway. The “bite in the a%” is going to be […]
Republicans hold two of three congressional districts ruled newly invalid and were found to have been partly drawn with discriminatory intent. Federal judges found more problems in Texas’ voting rights laws, ruling that Republicans racially gerrymandered some congressional districts to weaken the growing electoral power of minorities. The ruling late Friday by a three-judge panel […]
The most outstanding feature of Islam is its history; if you study Islamic history, you would come to realize that Islam did not spread by force alone, it was the superior moral appeal of its peerless ethics that won the hearts and minds of medieval masses
Mahmoud Abbas hosts Jordan’s King Abdullah (left) in Ramallah, November 2011. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90) Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas spoke Saturday with Jordan’s King Abdullah II to brief him a day after his first conversation with US President Donald Trump, saying that the US leader has a commitment to an “authentic” peace process. Abbas’s conversation with […]
Putin must complete the job: he must tell “King Bibi” to abide by moral principles. He must tell “King Bibi” that the age of carrots is over and the age of sticks is here.
Any foreign forces, including those from the US, that enter Syria without invitation are invaders, Syrian President Bashar Assad told Chinese media in an interview, noting that no one had given the US troops currently in Manbij permission to be there. “Any foreign troops coming to Syria without our invitation or consultation or permission, they […]
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Jim W. Dean - Putin and Erdogan do their dirty dance in Moscow, trumpeting their cooperation on Syria despite Erdogan already having violated the Tripartite's published pledge to respect Syria's sovereign integrity.
…from SouthFront The constantly-changing make-up of the Russian group of forces in Syria has become a veritable kaleidoscope of the country’s contemporary military capabilities, which are evidently taking turns being tested, depending on the operational requirements, on their usefulness in the current reality of a multipolar world embroiled in a global hybrid war. The bright-red […]
Jim W. Dean - The Syrian ceasefire and the intra-Jihadi fighting in Idlib have given the SAA time to clear some if its flank pressure, but Deir-Ezzor is at the end of the line, due to the logistics problems.