The CIA has been one of the world’s biggest illegal drug trafficking organizations in the world for decades, a leading American analyst has warned. The Central Intelligence Agency has involved itself in drug trafficking since the spy agency was formed in 1947, journalist and political analyst Stephen Lendman claims. 60% Of Soldiers Killed In Afghanistan…
A dozen of Amnesty International activists arrested in Turkey may be imprisoned for 15 years, the DHA news agency reported. ANKARA (Sputnik) — Turkish prosecutor’s office requests an imprisonment of 15 years for the activists of Amnesty International human rights organization, who have been arrested in Turkey in July, local media reported Sunday. As many as 11 Amnesty International activists, eight of whom…
Syria has yet again written to the UN demanding that the world body take immediate action against the US-led bombing campaign, which is killing civilians and devastating the country’s infrastructure. The Syrian Foreign and Expatriates Ministry denounced repeated US attacks on civilians and the country’s infrastructure in two letters addressed to the UN chief and…
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?
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…
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…
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…
The Ankara Public Prosecutor’s Office issued detention warrants for 43 current or former members of the prime minister’s office and several banks within its investigation into the activity of the movement, named after US-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen in the country. ANKARA (Sputnik) — Six among the number are acting government officials, while the other 37 were…
The dueling continues over Syria, where the US position of not just responding to actual attacks on US and its proxy forces, but to “threats” alone, has finally elicited a military response from Russia. The US position is of course an outrageous one, but not only for being inside another country in violation of a…
Oliver Stone probably didn’t know that he was attacking the Neoconservative hawks, warmongers, and ethnic cleansers in Washington when he told Stephen Colbert that “Israel had far more involvement in the US election than Russia.”[1] Christian Zionism Is A Monumental Lie And Illegal Racket
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…
BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:00 A.M.) – It was a long night for the jihadist rebels in northern Syria on Wednesday, as the Russian Air Force launched a flurry of airstrikes across the Idlib and Aleppo governorates. Russian air battalions took off from the Hmaymim Airfields in southwest Latakia on Wednesday night, making their way to the…
Evidence suggests a false flag chemical weapons attack on the Syrian people was initiated by Syrian rebels with the help of the United States in order to justify Thursday night’s U.S. Military attack on a Syrian base. pResident Trump approved the bombing of the Syrian military base controlled by Bashir al-Assad supposedly to destroy the…
TEHRAN (FNA)- Commander of Asa’eb al-Haq Movement affiliated to the Iraqi popular forces of Hashd al-Shaabi said that the US forces have carried out a rapid heliborne operation and evacuated two commanders of ISIS terrorists from Western Mosul in Northern Iraq. Javad al-Talaybawi said that the US forces carried out the heliborne operation in one…
