“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…
President Putin & President Erdogan. Kremlin comments on Putin-Erdogan dialogue concerning Iraqi Kurdistan. MOSCOW, September 29. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan the independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan noting that Moscow’s position is well-known, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday. He refused to go into details…
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…
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…
The Syrian Republican Guard has repelled another [U.S. Israeli] ISIS offensive in Deir Ezzor. The fighting took place near the Deir Ezzor Airbase, the Tamin Brigade base and in the cemetery area. Earlier this month, [U.S. Israeli] ISIS allegedly transferred its self-proclaimed capital from Raqqah to Deir Ezzor amid the continued US-backed advance on Raqqah. If…
There are growing signs that what looks like a big Syrian government offensive in Aleppo is in the works. The Syrian army has been broadcasting messages to the trapped Jihadis in eastern Aleppo via loudspeakers all day giving them just 24 hours to lay down their arms. There are also reports of more elite Syrian…
TEHRAN (FNA)- With the United States refusing to change its self-defeating policy toward the war on Syria, Russia has intensified its airstrikes against terrorist groups in eastern Aleppo. Taken aback by Moscow’s actions, US officials have slammed the move and called are for a no-fly zone over the city. This is confusing, as Russia has…
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jafari underlined the importance of the ongoing battle to retake the strategic northern city of Mosul from the [U.S. Israeli Proxy Army] ISIS terrorist group, saying that the country is defending the entire world against terrorists. “We are not only doing this to defend ourselves; we are doing this…
As reported on Saturday, a September 11 widow was the first American to take advantage of the recently passed Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism (JASTA), aka the “Sept.11” bill courtesy of Congress which for the first time in Obama’s tenure overrode his veto, by suing the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia Dumps United States…
‘The Russian warships fired three Caliber missiles at the foreign officers’ coordination operations room in Dar Ezza region, killing 30 Israeli and western officers’. The US military along with its allies created the Field Operations Room in the Aleppo region, which was filled with intelligence services’ staff. Members of the US, British, Israeli, Turkish, Saudi…
According to the IMF 2011, Iraq is projected to grow faster than China in the next two years. Now, let me repeat that, because when I read it I said, okay, are you sure because we always think of China as being the juggernaut? But no, indeed, Iraq is projected to grow faster than China.…
Russia’s long-range bombers Tu-22M3 and frontline bombers Su-34 have destroyed five large armament depots, three command posts and militants’ training camps in Syria used by terrorists for operations in Aleppo, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday. “The air strike has destroyed five large depots with armament, ammunition, fuel and lubricants, militants’ training camps in…
Is the genie finally out of the bottle? A myriad of seemingly unrelated events and loose ends are converging in a manner that points in the direction of a huge win for Russian diplomacy in the Middle East, and we only need to connect the dots to see this scenario unfolding. What dots, one might…
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said on Sunday that he was told the Orlando, Fla., nightclub shooting suspect pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). “What I’ve heard from the Department of Homeland Security this morning is that, according to local police, he made a pledge of allegiance to ISIL,” [ISIS Is…
On Sunday the 25th of October, Republican U.S. Presidential aspirant Donald Trump was interviewed on CNN’s “State of the Union” show, and was asked about Iraq. He said, “I told you very early on, if we’re going to leave, take the oil.” He then repeated this theme again, in this CNN interview: “And I said,…
