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?
Every further new high in the price of Bitcoin [misnomer coin] brings ever more claims that it is destined to become the preeminent safe haven investment of the modern age — the new gold. Comparing Gold’s Price To Bitcoin Is Patently Ridiculous: Spreadsheet Bit-digit Would Need To Be Backed By $450,000.00 Each But there’s no getting around the…
America is using ISIS in three ways: to attack its enemies in the Middle East, to serve as a pretext for U.S. military intervention abroad, and at home to foment a manufactured domestic threat, used to justify the unprecedented expansion of invasive domestic surveillance. Much like Al Qaeda, the Islamic State (ISIS) is made-in-the-USA, an…
When the definitive history of the conflict in Syria is written, the role of the United States in funding, training, and arming rebel groups in clear violation of international law will by necessity comprise a major chapter. Washington’s announcement that the CIA has canceled its [Deep State] program to support “moderate rebels” [aka ISIS] in Syria — estimated…
ICC – The International Criminal Court’s decision to refer the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and aides to court on charges of genocide. The Relationship Between Obama And ISIS: The Evidence! Iraqi Doctors Call Queen (sic) Elizabeth’s Depleted Uranium Use “Genocide”.
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 decision of US President Donald Trump to end CIA’s arm-and-train program for the moderate [aka ISIS] Syrian opposition signals that ousting Syria’s President Bashar Assad is no longer a priority for Washington, the private intelligence firm Soufan Group said in a report on Thursday. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — On Wednesday, The Washington Post newspaper reported, citing…
It started two weeks ago, when Turkey warned publicly it was preparing for military intervention in Syria, while accusing the US of creating a “terrorist army” (it wasn’t referring to[U.S. Israeli backed] ISIS, but U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish militia YPG) [that have broken away from the dominant pro Assad Kurdish forces]. Turkey Warns U.S. Of Creating ISIS…
The Syrian government congratulated Iraq on the full liberation of the city of Mosul from Daesh terrorist group, the Syrian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Monday. BEIRUT (Sputnik) — On Sunday, the anti-terrorist unit of the Iraqi armed forces raised a national flag on the banks of the Tigris River in the historical part of the city of Mosul. The same…
Speaking in an interview with France 24, in which Turkish president Recep Erdogan lashed out at Germany for not allowing him to address the Turkish community there and preventing him from bringing his bodyguards to the upcoming G20 meeting in Hamburg, Erdogan warned that Turkey is ready to intervene militarily in north Syria to repel…
