Al Jazeera has got access to Russian military instructors on the ground in the Central African Republic (CAR). Russia dispatched its advisers in the country upon request from CAR President Faustin-Archange Touadéra and with approval from the United Nations. Western ...
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Turkey Attacks Own Proxies In Syria, Netanyahu Names Himself Defense Minister
From November 18 to November 20, the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) carried out a military operation against their own proxies in the region of Afrin. The TAF attacked and partially disarmed a group of about 200 members of the al-Sharqiyah ...
Read More »November 14, 2018: Turkish-PKK Conflict Escalates Amid Fresh PKK Attacks
The People’s Defense Forces (HPG), a military wing of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), claimed that it had attacked 6 military bases in the southern Turkish provinces of Hakkari and Sirnak on November 9 and November 10. The HPG stated ...
Read More »Decoding the hypersonic Putin on a day of remembrance
Sitting alongside French President Macron during the 100th anniversary to commemorate the end of World War I, Putin and Trump stole the show in Paris by Pepe Escobar (cross-posted with The Asia Times by special agreement with the author) The Elysee ...
Read More »Syrians Carry Assad on Their Shoulders, Thanking Him for Liberation – Video
Residents of the Syrian province of Suwayda, grateful for their liberation from the captivity of Daesh* terrorists, lifted Syrian President Bashar Assad onto their shoulders during an official reception. President Bashar Assad met with the liberated Syrians and their families ...
Read More »The Meaning of a Multipolar World
by Eric Zuesse for Ooduarere.com Right now, we live in a monopolar world. Here is how U.S. President Barack Obama proudly, even imperially, described it when delivering the Commencement address to America’s future generals, at West Point Military Academy, on 28 ...
Read More »Saudi plan to assassinate General Soleimani, NY Times reveals
Press TV reports: Saudi Major General Ahmed al-Assiri, who has allegedly been fired over the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, took part at a meeting in Riyadh in 2017 that involved plans to assassinate the kingdom’s “determined enemy,” Iran’s Major General Qassem ...
Read More »November 12, 2018: Clashes Erupt Between Militants And Syrian Army In Idlib De-Escalation Zone
On November 10th, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) announced that its special forces attacked a position of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in the Turkman mount in Northern Lattakia. The terrorist group claimed that 10 Syrian soldiers were killed. Earlier on ...
Read More »S-300 in Syria – a preliminary assessment
[This article was written for the Unz Review] We now know a little more about which version of the S-300 family the Russians have delivered to the Syrians: the Russians have converted a number of S-300PM and S-300P2 systems to the ...
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