Tag: Syria

...from SouthFront Syrian government forces are struggling to retake the city of al-Qaryatayn from ISIS sleeper cells and their supporters. The army has retaken Jabal...

...from SouthFront The main obstacle faced by anti-terrorist forces “….in Syria is not the military capabilities of terrorists, but rather the support of the….” United...

Nauman Sadiq for Veterans Today The Russian Defense Ministry has claimed that one of its airstrikes in Syria has critically injured Abu Mohammad al-Jolani,...

...from SouthFront Syrian government forces have liberated the villages of Aksh, Jaberiyah, Wadhihi and Nashimi and divided the ISIS-held pocket in eastern Salamiyah into two...

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman has just announced that “Assad has emerged victorious in the battle,” which is another way of saying that the Israelis are getting their butts kicked in Syria by Russia, Iran, Hezbollah, and indeed the Assad government.

...from SouthFront Government forces are securing the Deir Ezzor-Palmyra highway in central Syria after a major part of ISIS attacks in in the area has...

Jim W. Dean - NEO's Alexander Orlov has pulled together the best recap that we have seen of the complex behind-the-scenes hands involved in the major rebound of an ISIS that was deemed to be broken and on its last legs two weeks ago.

Jim W. Dean - It's been quite a two years for Russia in Syria, and one month longer since VT's last trip there, where we gave and received briefings on the soon to be changing situation. It was a memorable trip, with our having meetings at a higher lever than before.

“What we have seen under Mr. Trump is not an 'America first' foreign policy, but an 'Israel first' foreign policy. The fact of the matter is that there are 600,000 Israelis living in 230 illegal settlements in the West Bank."

Russia says stopping the violence and reducing humanitarian suffering is necessary to give the Syrians a chance to talk out how they want to live.

Jim W. Dean - I chose this title and the subject matter to get onto the table that it might be time to take a new look at our using the term "New Cold War", because it is anything but that.

The Syrian government, with the help of Russia and Iran, continues to obliterate ISIS in the region, and they intend to complete the job before the year is over.

...from SouthFront The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allies have liberated Rasm Naqa, Rasm Arnab, Jafiah, Rasm Rik, Ghuzaylah, Haba, Um Sous and Um...

Jim W. Dean - We now see a tank bridge over the Euphrates with riverbed supports, so the current does not affect it, and Tupolev bombers delivering cruise missile attacks in Idlib and Deir-Ezzor at the same time.

Western media sources reported that Russia is about to establish a new military base in Deir Ezzur that will be the Russian forces' largest base in the war-hit country after Humeimim airbase in Lattakia.

Russia obviously needs to challenge the Israeli regime, otherwise the regime itself will undermine everything Russian forces have ever done in the region.

Jim W. Dean - Standard current US geopolitical propaganda psyops focuses on framing anyone being able to defend themselves from American domination and aggression as a threat, so they can be subjected to financial sanctions and military action.

We can say with certainty that Benjamin Netanyahu was lying when he said that Iran was spreading its tyrannical and terrorist wings over Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. And this is not the first that he has lied.

Ann Coulter and Donald Trump are drawing their political weltanschauung from the same ideological well, and that well has poisoned much of the Middle East and America.

Jim W. Dean - This was good but expected news from Astana, where all three guarantors are aboard the deconfliction arrangement not only by agreeing to it, but also manning checkpoints to layout and enforce the borders between the designated jihadis and "opposition" groups.

Jim W. Dean - The SAA struggles logistically with too many key tasks that all need to be done right away, like clearing ISIS from Deir Ezzor, widening the airport perimeter, and getting its forces west of the Euphrates to keep the Kurds from taking the oil fields there.

Israeli officials are trying to come up with crazy excuse in order to incite another war.

...from SouthFront Pro-government forces have liberated the al-Hadalat refugee camp from US-backed militant groups near the Syrian-Jordanian border. The Hadalat refugee camp had been an...

Israel obviously is scared to death to flesh out a political attack on Russia, therefore they have asked the United States to do the dirty work.

The US and its allies have urged two militant groups fighting the government in southeastern Syria to retreat into Jordan in the face of army advances, Reuters has quoted militant sources as saying.

Lavrov - "Terrorists must be obliterated, none should be allowed to escape."

By AVI ISSACHAROFF  How will Moscow respond to the alleged Israeli attack Thursday on a facility in northwestern Syria where the regime of Syrian President...

TEHRAN (FNA)- In the lead-up to ceasefire talks in Kazakhstan, UN Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura has said it’s time for the foreign-backed terrorist...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Military helicopters of the US-led coalition carried out another heliborne operation in Southeastern Deir Ezzur, carrying 20 senior ISIL commanders on board,...

Jim W. Dean - Iraq could find itself between a rock and a hard place on this Kurdish referendum provocation. If it is not a real call for secession, then the goal may be as a show of political force to renegotiate keeping a bigger share of their oil revenues.

Lavrov: “We don’t have any information about anyone preparing an attack on Israel."

The Pentagon announced Wednesday that it would start taking into account temporarily deployed military units when reporting troop numbers in Afghanistan, with updated numbers for Iraq and Syria to follow.

Recently developed Russian weaponry is being tried and tested in Syria, where Moscow has embarked on a devastating military campaign against anti-Assad rebel groups.

Russia has sent two refurbished submarines to the Syria coast, capable on launching cruise missiles on opposition areas in the country.

US officers are reorganizing terrorists in the Syria's shared borders with Iraq and Jordan after the terrorist group's recent defeats, an expert on Arab world development said on Wednesday.

Russian and Syrian military experts have established “a unified integrated air defense system” on Syrian territory amid the ongoing Damascus-Moscow cooperation against the terrorist groups operating in the Arab state.

It was a Mossad agent who said that Netanyahu is full of “shit.”

On August 23, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allies closed the second pocket in the province of Homs liberating the Dahik mount, the al-Minshare mount and the villages of Harif, al-Asfuriah, Rud al-Wahesh, and Qatqat.

America had no legal or constitutional right to be involved in any of them!

"Neo-conservative Zionist Americans plotted the war on Syria...to utterly change the face of the Middle East, redraw the map of the Middle East, and help Israel survive and expand.”  

On August 18, during a regular briefing, the Spokesperson for the U.S. State Department Heather Nauert stated that the United States doesn’t intend to extend its stay in Syria after the Islamic State is defeated.

...from SouthFront The Syrian-Iranian-Russian alliance has achieved a large progress in its operations against ISIS in the province of Homs. On August 20, the Syrian Arab...

The Lebanese people have no desire to let ISIS (Israeli Secret Intelligence Service) continue the long history of Zionist incursions into their country.

Netanyahu and Putin have kept in close contact in recent years, with the Israeli leader visiting Moscow four times in the last 16 months.

State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert on Friday explained the US is focused narrowly on the defeat of the Islamic State (IS) in Syria and does not plan to remain in the country afterward.