US-UK-France Bomb First Ask Questions Later: A Timeline of Events in Syria

The evidence — or lack thereof — of chemical weapons use by Syria is eerily similar to the events that led to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, which was justified using baseless humanitarian accusations that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.

Steven Sahiounie
بواسطة Steven Sahiounie
A Syrian soldier films the damage of the Syrian Scientific Research Center in Barzeh which was attacked by U.S., British and French military strikes to punish President Bashar Assad for an alleged chemical attack, near Damascus, Syria, April 14, 2018. (AP/Hassan Ammar)

BEIRUT -- The U.S., the U.K. and France fired over 100 cruise missiles at mostly empty Syrian military storage facilities as well as a research facility on Saturday morning local time. The attacks took place the night before investigators from the OPCW were scheduled to begin investigating the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack in the

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US-Backed Militants Block Syrian Forces From Crossing Euphrates River

In trying to forbid Syria’s military from crossing the river, the YPG is effectively trying to claim the entire region for themselves.

Jason Ditz
بواسطة Jason Ditz
A view of the city of Deir ez-Zor, Syria, Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. (AP Photo)

The Euphrates River remains not only a vital lifeline across much of eastern Syria but also an important boundary area, which has become increasingly more important throughout the Syrian War. Early in the war, Turkey warned they would not let any Kurds cross to the west of the Euphrates, and that this amounted to a “red

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US And Russia Converge On ISIS In Dangerous Showdown

U.S.-backed Syrian rebels are fighting in dangerously close proximity to Syrian forces and their allies, including Russia, in what experts warn is a tinderbox waiting to erupt.

Darius Shahtahmasebi
بواسطة Darius Shahtahmasebi
Syrian troops and pro-government gunmen standing on pickup trucks with heavy machine-guns mounted on them, in the eastern city of Deir el-Zour, Syria, Monday, Sept 4, 2017. Syrian government troops and allied forces reached the eastern city of Deir el-Zour Tuesday, breaching a nearly 3-year ISIS siege on government-held areas of the contested city near the Iraqi border. (SANA via AP)

One wouldn’t know it by reading establishment media headlines, but the Russian air force and the U.S. air force are about to come head to head in Syria in a battle that has been brewing for some months now. Only the Independent, a U.K.-based media outlet, aptly phrased the looming encounter for what it was in an article titled: “US troops and

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Lawyers And Doctors For Human Rights: New NGO Masking Old Geopolitical Goals?

Some countries — driven by their vested interests in Syrian regime change and by their investments in the terrorist-linked “opposition” forces — are simply unwilling to let Syria be. With Israel and Western states on the warpath, reports of “atrocities” are once again in the vanguard.

Whitney Webb
بواسطة Whitney Webb
A screenshot of the cover-page of "Voices from the Dark: Torture and Sexual Violence against Women in Syrian Government’s Detention Centres" by LDHR. The report, which relies solely on anonymous testimony from 8 women, is littered with dramatic stock imagery, and contains no photographic evidence.

On Tuesday, the top story on Middle East Eye was particularly attention-grabbing. Under its sensational title, “‘Raped below a picture of Assad’: Women describe abuse at hands of Syrian forces,” the article focused on a recently released report from a hitherto-unknown, Turkey-based NGO called Lawyers and Doctors for Human Rights (LDHR). The

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US Coalition Shoots Down Syrian Jet Targeting ISIS Covoy

The aircraft was brought down in the southern Raqqa countryside while it was engaging a fleeing ISIS convoy.

ZeroHedge.com
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The fin and rear fuselage of a Syrian Airfore Su-22M, The same type of aircraft shot down by US forces while engaging ISIS targets fleeing Raqqa , Syria. (Photo: A.V.)

The US-led, so-called anti-terrorist coalition has reportedly shot down a Syrian government forces aircraft. Reuters reports the Syrian Arab Army announced that the aircraft was brought down in the southern Raqqa countryside, while it was engaging a fleeing ISIS convoy. The pilot remains

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Russia Warns US Artillery Positioned to Attack Syrian Government Forces

Russia has warned that the U.S.’ recent deployment of an artillery rocket system will be used to cut off Syrian government forces from their allies in Iraq. The U.S. has attacked government soldiers on several occasions in the past near the base where the system is deployed.

Whitney Webb
بواسطة Whitney Webb
US Marines fire a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) launcher at Camp Pendleton, California, the same system recently to Southern Syria. (Photo: Seth Maggard/USMC)

On Thursday, the U.S. military deployed mobile artillery rocket launchers at the Al-Tanf military base in Syria, where the U.S. trains the forces of the loose anti-Assad, anti-Daesh (ISIS) coalition known as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) rocket launchers had previously been deployed in Jordan

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