Stephen K. Bannon joined other Republican grandees such as Sen. [Talmud] Tom Cotton at a packed event in Washington. The optics were almost too perfect. Minutes before Bannon, the [fired] former White House chief strategist, was due to speak in the highlight time slot at the Hudson Institute’s security summit on Monday, all went dark. 10…
“We should finally acknowledge that no one but President Assad’s armed forces and Sunni Kurdish militias are truly fighting the Islamic State and other terrorist organizations in Syria,” Putin told the U.N. General Assembly. Read Putin’s U.N. General Assembly speech. Putin urges global community to pitch in to demine Syria and provide humanitarian aid “I would like once…
Iraq is gaining the edge over Saudi Arabia in the world’s fastest-growing oil consumer amid an intensifying race among producers to retain their most-prized markets. Iraq was the top crude supplier to India for a third month in May, shipping 1 million barrels a day, according to shipping data compiled by Bloomberg. Iraqi supplies accounted…
Iraq, Iran, and Turkey are taking a unified stance against Kurdistan’s oil sector after the region elected to seek independence from Baghdad in a referendum in September, according to a new report by Rudaw. “In the case of northern Iraq; Iran, Iraq and Turkey will form a tripartite mechanism and will decide on shutting down the…
Sad day for Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman. In his view, the Israelis should have liquidated Assad by now. Syria should have been overtaken by ISIS and other [deep state financed] terrorist cells. Instead, Assad is still rising from the ashes and challenging two of the most powerful and diabolical forces in the world: the…
Shortly after the US-led coalition threatened to strike any Syrian Arab Army units if they crossed the Euphrates River, Syrian and Hezbollah troops were marching across imported Russian pontoon bridges to reach the river’s eastern bank. By Friday, Sept. 15 they were able to establish a bridgehead there. Throughout the three-day operation, the Syrians and…
A very senior Israeli intelligence delegation, a week ago, visited Washington. Then, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu broke into President Putin’s summer holiday to meet him in Sochi, where, according to a senior Israeli government official (as cited in the Jerusalem Post), Netanyahu threatened to bomb the Assad Presidential Palace in Damascus, and to disrupt and nullify…
The currently stateless [Sunni] Kurds sit astride the Iraq-Syria border on land blessed/cursed with oil, other resources, and geopolitical significance. Is it any wonder that mega-corporations and their client states are looking to use the [Sunni] Kurds, stoke conflict, and exploit the situation?
The Syrian Air Force struck and destroyed the positions of Jabhat Fatah al Sham terror group (formerly known as al-Nusra Front) in Lebanon on the border with Syria, local media reported Thursday. BEIRUT (Sputnik) — According to the Al Mayadeen broadcaster, Syrian aviation attacked the terrorists’ sites near the settlements of Flita and Aarsal on the border between Lebanon and Syria.…
The Iranian parliament adopted a bill Tuesday aimed at countering “US adventurous and terrorist measures in the region,” local media reported. TEHRAN (Sputnik) — According to the Tasnim News Agency, the members of the parliament voted in favor of the bill unanimously. The news agency maintains that, following the voting session, Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani said, “The approval of the motion…
