Turkey controls the Bosphorus Strait, the link between the Black Sea to ultimately the Mediterranean and Syria. The control maintained by Turkey on this waterway is powerful leverage in its relationship with Russia. In theory, if you don’t have leverage to stop someone, you are better off being their partner. For example, when Trump sent military force […]
This may well be a totally fabricated story intended to garner sympathy for the 'brave work' of the noble White Helmets. Of course, VT readers are well aware that this is a load of nonsense and the White Helmets are scum who work hand in hand with the assorted mercenary headchoppers polluting Syria.
While Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was "taken aback" when he arrived on the job to see how much money the State Department was spending on housing and schooling for the families of diplomats living overseas" according to Bloomberg, the decision to cut as many as 2,300 employees may cause the US to loose diplomatic capabilities on multiple fronts.
Last weekend, the 5th Assault Corps and the National Defense Forces, supported by the Russian air power, began an operation against ISIS in the eastern Homs countryside. By Monday, government forces have retook the villages of Jibab Hamad, Tadmuria, Jabbab Hamad Rajm Al-Qasr, Rajm Dergam, Al-Rajm al-A’ali, Al-Rajm al-Madraji, the Al-Ay’lam hill and the Turks hill.
Jim W. Dean - Uri gives us an analysis of how the young, unknown Emmanuel Macron, with a new party, came out of the blue to win the first round in the French elections.
Is President Trump playing hardball with Russia and China to thwart the effects of the growing BRICS banking system and the expanding Shanghai Silk-Road AIIB trade pact?
Neocon-American-Zionist Imperialism (NAZI) has killed 1.3 billion people, half of them Muslim, since 1950. Have a look at the men behind the curtain who did this.
