The following article, by Vanessa Beeley, was originally published at MintPress News on June 7, 2019: n the 12th of May, 2019, Jaish Al Izza — an armed affiliate of Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (HTS) — an Al Qaeda rebrand that controls the majority of Idlib province and Northern Hama — targeted …

The following article, by Vanessa Beeley, was originally published at MintPress News on June 8, 2019: Recent storylines from the Western press on the “Idlib” narrative, particularly the extraordinary spate of “on-the-ground” reports from Sky News reporter Alex Crawford, have failed to paint an accurate picture of the reality faced by Syrian …

The following article, by Whitney Webb, was originally published at MintPress News on June 3, 2019: In early May, MSNBC news host Rachel Maddow — known as one of the top promoters of the new Cold War and Russiagate in American media — emphatically endorsed regime change in Venezuela after she claimed that …

The following article, by Steven Sahiounie, was orignially published at InfoRos on June 4, 2019: The U.S. military attacked three Syrian oil tankers, destroying all and killing four of their drivers.  The tankers were carrying Syrian oil, pumped from Syrian oil wells, and driving on Syrian territory.  The U.S. justified the attack and …

by Susan Dirgham and Rick Sterling It’s a David vs Goliath story. A former local newspaper reporter, Robert Stuart, is taking on the British Broadcasting Corporation. Stuart believes that a sensational video story about an alleged atrocity in Syria “was largely, if not entirely, staged.”  The BBC would like it …

The following article by Finian Cunningham was originally published at Sputnik: The campaign is on for Syrian national forces to retake the last-remaining redoubt of militants in northwest Idlib. That might explain why the New York Times was prompted to publish a 5,000-word article based on flimsy anti-Syrian propaganda. It …

Ambassador Bashar al-Ja’afari, May 17, to Security Council: Statement of Ambassador Bashar al-Ja’afar on May 17 to the UN Security Council’s meeting on the situation in the Middle East, specifically in Idlib: Mr. President, I would like to start by congratulating you and your friendly country, Indonesia, on your successful …

The following document is an assessment produced by the engineering sub-team of the OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) Fact-Finding Mission charged with investigating the alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria in April 2018. Previously, this engineering report was excluded from the published OPCW final report of the …

With the family of martyr,  22 year old Majed Monif Qiddeeseh , in Mhardeh. This is his mother. (Photo: Vanessa Beeley.) The following video and article were originally published by Vanessa Beeley on Facebook: A MOTHER OPENS HER HEART AFTER HER YOUNGEST SON WAS MARTYRED BY A NUSRA FRONT ROCKET …

Below is the second part of the wide-ranging interview with journalist Sharmine Narwani, conducted by Patrick Lawrence for Salon. The first part of the interview is available here, and the full text of this part is available at the Salon website: https://www.salon.com/2019/04/28/sharmine-narwani-on-the-end-of-the-syrian-war-and-the-post-imperial-middle-east/Journalist Sharmine Narwani with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif.In …