by Jimmie Moglia for Ooduarere via The Saker Blog Scratching the surface of things is akin to scratching a lottery ticket. The results are routinely disappointing, sometimes unexpected, sometimes exceptional. I recently attended an online conference, held by an Italian ...

Government forces are developing their advance in the southern part of the Idlib de-escalation zone. The Syrian military has deployed a new batch of reinforcements, including battle tanks from the 4th Armoured Division, to the frontline. According to pro-government sources, these ...

The crew of the Airbus A321 airplane that made an emergency landing in the Moscow region earlier on Thursday acted in a magnificent manner, according to the US-based aviation safety expert Todd Curtis. “It looks like the crew reacted in ...

Over the past weekend, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and the Tiger Forces have continued their advance on positions of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and its allies in northwestern Hama and southern Idlib. By August 12, government forces had liberated the ...

On August 10, Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated the Night Wolves biker group on the 10th anniversary of a bike show held in Crimea. Putin arrived at the venue of the event riding a Ural motorcycle. He was accompanied by ...

Two Turkish service members were injured on August 9, when Kurdish forces attacked their base in the town of Kimar;Fresh photos confirming militants’ losses in northern Hama appeared online;A fighting between the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and militants is ongoing ...

For the second time in the last 48 hours, the Houthis attacked Abha International Airport in Saudi Arabia’s southern region. A spokesman for the Yemeni group, Brig. Gen. Yahya Sari, said that two Qasef-2K suicide unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) struck the ...

By Pepe Escobar : with permission and crossposted with Strategic Culture Readers from myriad latitudes have been asking me about Hong Kong. They know it’s one of my previous homes. I developed a complex, multi-faceted relationship with Hong Kong ever since ...