We must be touched with the feeling of their distress, loss, grief and anguish, because war-party Washington is forcing many civilians in Raqqa to pay an unacceptable price.
In the UK, parliament may still be in summer recess, but government ministers aren’t resting. Defense Minister Michael Fallon jetted to Oman August 28 to cement a number of military agreements with the Sultanate’s leaders. The inking represents a continuation of a longstanding and rarely examined “special relationship” between the two countries.
…from SouthFront Pro-government forces, led by the Syrian Republican Guard, have the strategic al-Bishri Mountain as well as the al-Birshri triangle from ISIS and deployed in only about 37 km from the city of Deir Ezzor besieged by ISIS terrorists. Some sources even speculate that government troops advanced 5-10 km further, but this still has […]
Jim W. Dean - The Kurds are playing with fire with their resolution ploy. The deck is stacked against them as they cannot export their oil through countries around them that deem them a threat.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov “As you know, it takes two to tango, but it seems to me that our [US] partners keep performing individual breakdance.”
The United States will allow Iranian military elements and Iranian-backed militias operating in Syria to take up positions within eight kilometers of Israel’s Golan border region according to a report released yesterday by the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat news agency.
The costs of the deadly storm in Texas and the Gulf of Mexico continued to mount on Thursday, with some analysts estimating losses that approach US$100bn. Harvey has killed more than 30 people and destroyed thousands of homes. Many firms in the region, a major transport hub that is a home to the oil and gas industry, don't know when they will resume normal operations.
Russia Today: Not only were the US-backed ‘moderate’ militants in southern Syria never meant to fight ISIS, but their commanders actually traded US-made weapons and ammunition to terrorists, a rebel defector claimed in an interview with Rossiya-24. Asaad As-Salem says he defected from the US-backed Maghawir al-Thawra group stationed at the At-Tanf base in southern […]
Pakistan’s National Assembly (Lower house of parliament) has unanimously passed a resolution on August 30, this year, calling on the government to consider suspending supply lines to the US-led NATO mission in Afghanistan in response to the recent US accusations that the country is harbouring militant groups.
A general view of a heavy water plant in Arak, 320 kms south of Tehran © Atta Kenare / AFP The UN watchdog monitoring Iran’s nuclear activities confirmed that the country is fully in compliance with its 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers, even as Donald Trump, who labelled it “the worst deal ever,” threatens […]
The Ten Commandments should have been written down in Ancient Egyptian language, but that was not the case. So where is the missing link?
Russia and the United States were locked in a fresh diplomatic slugging match on Friday after Washington ordered the closure of Moscow's San Francisco consulate and two other facilities.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released a report on Thursday reconfirming that Iran remains committed to the 2015 nuclear deal with the world powers.
On the eve of the BRICS summit, which is to be held in Xiamen, China, on September 4-5, President Vladimir Putin wrote an article "BRICS - Towards New Horizons of Strategic Partnership." In the article, the Russian president presented Russia's approaches to cooperation within the authoritative association and set out his vision for further interaction.
Defense Secretary James Mattis broke with his boss Wednesday, saying diplomatic efforts to resolve a simmering crisis on the Korean Peninsula are still viable.
This conversation is heard in dashcam footage from July 2016, which shows a police officer in Georgia, in the United States, standing outside a vehicle during a DUI traffic stop.
Diana, Princess of Wales died 20 years ago today in Paris in what it would be a gross understatement to say were very suspicious circumstances.
“The modern intellectual is, for the most part, a lecher and a fool. His theories are propounded for everyone but himself."
Jim W. Dean - The US troop numbers juggling game finally gets exposed. Trump obviously ordered an earlier increase and told his Pentagon chief to hide the numbers until he was ready to announce a new Afghanistan policy.
The Pentagon announced Wednesday that it would start taking into account temporarily deployed military units when reporting troop numbers in Afghanistan, with updated numbers for Iraq and Syria to follow.
