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Jun 13, 2014, Press TV The US government is ‘urgently’ considering air assaults on Iraq and Syria in an attempt to flush out the al-Qaeda-linked Takfiri militants operating in the two countries, a US official says. The unnamed official, quoted by the Guardian, said on Friday that the White House …
Read More »Syrian Army Liberates Armenian Town of Kessab after Two Months of Occupation
Jun 15, 2014, NSNBC The Syrian Arab Army regained full control over the town of Kessab in northwestern Syria near the Turkish border on Sunday. The town was recaptured after systematic, step by step tactical operations to flush out the thousands of Jabhat al-Nusrah militants which swarmed across the Turkish …
Read More »ISIS Unveiled: The Identity of The Insurgency in Syria and Iraq
Jun 15, 2014, NSNBC The ISIS/ISIL offensive of June 2014 in Iraq and any political or military responses to it cannot be understood without first “unveiling ISIS”. ISIS/ISIL brigades seized Iraq’s northern city of Mosul and most of western Iraq within days. Iraqi military withdrew from Iraq’s second-largest city after …
Read More »Election in Syria: Unity & Sovereignty vs U.S.-coordinated Division & Domination
Please join us on Wednesday, June 18th for a meeting reporting on a historic event Election in Syria: Unity & Sovereignty vs U.S.-coordinated Division & Domination Hear from 5 U.S. activists and journalists who were observers of the Syrian election – Judy Bello, Joe Iosbaker, Paul Larudee, Jane Stillwater, …
Read More »NATO’s Terror Hordes in Iraq a Pretext for Syria Invasion
Jun 13, 2014, New Eastern Outlook All roads lead to Baghdad and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is following them all, north from Syria and Turkey to south. Reading Western headlines, two fact-deficient narratives have begun gaining traction. The first is that this constitutes a “failure” of …
Read More »Refuting President Obama’s Lies, Omissions and Distortions
Jun 7, 2014, James Petras, Global Research On May 2014 President Obama delivered the commencement address to the graduates of United States Military Academy at West Point. Beyond the easy banter and eulogy to past and present war heroes, Obama outlined a vision of past military successes and present policies, …
Read More »ISIL photos show road being cut through Iraq-Syria border
Jun 11, 2014, Press TV Takfiri militants in Iraq have released pictures of militants bulldozing a barrier between the Iraqi-Syrian border, symbolizing their goal of uniting forces in the two countries. The al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) posted the pictures online on Wednesday following their advance …
Read More »Battle to Establish Islamic State Across Iraq and Syria
Jun 9, 2014, the Independent Islamic fundamentalists have opened new fronts in their battle to establish an Islamic state across Iraq and Syria as they launch attacks in cities which were previously under the control of the Baghdad government. A multi-pronged assault across central and northern Iraq in the past …
Read More »Hundreds killed as ISIL insurgents gain ground in east Syria
Jun 10, 2014, Reuters A six-week offensive by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) against rival Islamists in eastern Syria has killed 600 fighters and driven 130,000 people from their homes, a monitoring group said on Tuesday. ISIL, which is battling to control a huge area of …
Read More »Syrian president announces general amnesty
Jun 9, 2014, Press TV Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has issued a decree granting a ‘general amnesty’ for crimes committed during the Syria crisis which erupted in 2011. Syrian TV said on Monday that al-Assad’s decree covers all crimes committed to date. Syria’s justice minister has said that the …
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