Speaking to NBC News’ Richard Engel, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accepted Iran’s responsibility for shooting down a passenger plane over Tehran, but defended his country’s refusal to hand over the aircraft’s black box.
Russian fighters intercepted Israeli aircraft, trying to trick the Syrian S-300. Avia Pro: A little more than a day ago, Israeli F-16s tried to strike at the outskirts of the Syrian capital, firing at least 10 Delilah cruise missiles on the territory of Syria. Nevertheless, as it turned out, at least two Israeli combat aircraft […]
Pallas’s odd orbit sends it crashing through the asteroid belt, colliding with other objects along the way
The U.S. occupation of Afghanistan has been a failure for everyone except the drug lords.
Jeanne Calment made history when she died at the age of 122 in 1997, but a new investigation claims her daughter actually assumed her identity in 1934
Torrential downpours helped quash powerful blazes that had gripped New South Wales
Southfront with VT: The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has deployed TOS-1A thermobaric rocket launchers on the frontlines of Aleppo governorate. Each is capable of 100 percent vaporization of an enemy installation up to 1/2 kilometer square per launcher salvo. This includes underground installations, armor and all human life. There is no reason to bury the […]
In Turkey, it is by now a good tradition to threaten Syria with a war every time when luckless Idlib rebels suffer another military defeat from the Syrian Army. This week was no exception. Recept Tayip Erdogan spearheaded the choir of threats on February 12 by repeating that the Syrians should withdraw from all the […]
AT A CASINO in the small coastal town of North Bend, Oregon, dozens of law enforcement officers and corporate security personnel gathered for a two-day training on how to wage propaganda battles against protesters. The November 2018 event was organized by the National Sheriffs’ Association, one of the country’s largest law enforcement organizations, and hosted by […]
ISTANBUL: The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office launched an investigation into Burhan Kuzu, a former parliamentarian from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), on Friday, over interference in the judicial process to secure the release of Iranian drug lord Naci Zindashti. Kuzu, the former chair of Turkey’s parliamentary constitutional committee, is a highly trusted […]
The probability of an outbreak of war as a result of deterioration and escalation is not low and also depends on Israel—that is the implication of the annual intelligence assessment of the Military Intelligence Directorate (MID). Nevertheless, the MID’s recommendation to the government is to increase IDF attacks against Iranian forces in Syria, in […]
By Matthew Ehret for VT Canada Of all the things the CIA is good at, insecurely threatening people who may potentially wish to work with Russia and China is at the top of the list. This insecure passive aggressiveness shined with blinding intensity on February 8 during an annual National Governors’ Association event which […]
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy VERSIONE ORIGINALE IN ITALIANO «Several thousand ISIS fighters have left Idlib in Syria through the northern border and have ended up in Libya. That is something that we in the region but also our European friends will have to address in 2020» Jordan’s King Abd Allah II […]
Sources inside Syria just watched Russia’s most advanced bomber deploy to Syria, possibly armed with nuclear tipped hypersonic missiles. more when information comes available
Details of the Great Victory of the US military convoy supported by warplanes over Syrian villagers in Khirabat Amu, the Syrian province of al-Hasakah, continue appearing online. Southfront and VT: On February 12, the US military convoy was blocked by angry locals in the village of Khirabat Amu and found itself in the center of […]