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PatriceLumumba · Beiträge: 15

Die Beweise sind klar und aus zuverlässigen Quellen:
(meist in Form von Original-Video-Zeugenaussagen hier:
http://syrienkrieg.wordpress.com/ )

1. Dieser Krieg gegen Syrien war schon lange geplant:

1.a die USA haben diesen Krieg (als Serie gegen viel arabische Länder und ehemaligen sowjetischen Partnerländer schon vor vielen Jahren geplant laut Bericht des ehem. US-Präsidentschaftskandidaten und 4-Sterne Generals Wesley Clark direkt aus dem Büro des US-Verteidigungsministeriums.

b. Ebenso die klare Aussage des ehemaligen französichen Außenministers Alexandre Dumas, der bei einem Besuch in London von UK-Regierungsleute ca. 2 Jahre vor den "Aufständen" in Syrien bzw. "arabischen Frühlingen" hörte, dass England Terroristen nach Syrien schicken will um einen Umsturz zu erreichen.
Es gab keine nur friedlichen Demonstrationen

sondern US-amerikanische, französische und englische Geheimdienstleute sowie Bewaffnete waren von Anfang an dabei, es wurden englischen und französiche Geheimdienstleute festgenommen und (!)
die USA haben wie in südamerika death-squads Todesschwadronen eingesetzt um durch Scharfschützen friedliche Demonstranten, Zivilisten, Kinder umzubringen, um Hass gegen den angeblichen Täter Assad und zum Aufstand zu schüren. Über ebenfalls erschossene Polizisten und Soldaten wurde fast nciht berichtet.

3.
Ein deutliche Mherheit der Syrer unterstützt den gewählten Assad und hat für die neue Verfassung mit freien Parteien abgestimmt. Sogar eine Umfrage der arabischen Diktatoren-Liga ergab ca. 55% Assad-Unterstützung - Videos von riesigen Pro-Assad-Demonstrationen und Kundgebungen in allen wichtigen Städten Syriens beweisen diese Mehrheiten ebenfalls.

4.
Interviews mit Assad und auch seiner Frau zeigen deutlich, dass "brutal" das krasse Gegenteil der Persönlichkeit von Assad ist.

5.
Die Islamischen Terrorbanden von Al Qaida & Co. wurden laut Hillary Clinton durch die USA gegründet und systematisch aufgebaut. Und sie wurden auch nach ihrem Einsatz gegen die kommunisische Regierung in Afghanistan bis Ende der 90er Jahre, weiter eingesetzt im Bürger- und NATO-Krieg gegen Jugoslawien (Bosnien und Kosovo), im Irak (Shia-Aufstand), Tschetchenien, Jemen, Sudan, Libyen und jetzt Syrien und in Mali

6. Massive Medienlügen in allen Massenmedien der NATO-Länder produzieren ein völlig falsches Bild in den Medien
In der nachfolgenden Webseite sind einige in Form von Videos dokumentiert - es gibt aber unzählige.

Hier die Beweisen zu dem oben Genannten u.v.a.m. :

http://08oo.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/syrien-ein-verdeckter-stellvertreter-guerrilla-krieg-der-usanatosaudis/

PatriceLumumba · Beiträge: 15

Da hat keiner was dazu zu sagen ???

Obwohl "unsere" Medien mehr oder weniger das glatte Gegenteil berichten?

Ein Schweigen wie bei der Juden-/Kommunistenverfolgung - und das kann ähnlich Folgen bringen m.E.

PatriceLumumba

Über zwei entführte Israelis regt sich die Presse wochenlang auch, aber das Abschlachten von 100.000den in Syrien - das interessiert niemanden.

In was für einer Welt leben wir nur ??

Meinen Prognose: Bei der (zuhause noch friedlichen) Welt der Lügen wird es nicht bleiben. Auch wir werden wieder in große Krieg hineingezogen - vielleicht schon wegen der Ukraine. Sie tun alles um das möglich zu machen.

Bei www.enk894.wix.com/us-wars gibt es bei "Ukraine" Genaueres zur Konfliktschürung dort.

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

A curious silence in the U.S.-led battle against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is coming from Israel, which has advocated the overthrow of Iran’s ally in Syria, President Bashar al-Assad, but has had little to say about the brutal Islamists seeking to oust Assad.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40152.htm

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

The camp came under siege by regime forces, leaving at least 200 people dead from starvation.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2015/01/yarmouk-camp-victim-water-wars-syria-201514102955303689.html

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

Reports by UN observers in the Golan submitted to 15 members of Security Council detail regular contact between IDF officers and armed Syrian opposition figures at the border.

http://www.haaretz.com/mobile/.premium-1.630359?v=4AC46632C7C0D296D80E936AFCEA3D59

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

Israel’s claims of an imminent threat of Hizballah attack are not credible. More likely it wants to subdue the Lebanese militia so that it has a free hand to manipulate the Syrian battlefield to its advantage

http://www.jonathan-cook.net/2015-01-22/the-strategy-behind-israels-attack-on-iran-and-hizballah/

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

Der Amerikanischer Chris Cramer der Arbeitet http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Employee-of-Israeli-defense-firm-Elbit-subsidiary-mysteriously-dies-in-Saudi-Arabia-389628 bei der Israelische Rüstung Firma Elbit http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbit_Systems wurde von zwei Wochen in Saudi Arabien getöten .Von einiger tagen wurde Öffentlische gemacht , zwei Wochen nach seinen ermördung , die Offizielle Version sprecht dass er Selbst mörd getan hat , seine Familie und Freunden sprecht von einer Ermördung .Das Frage ist , was Cramer der bei einer israelische Firma in Saudi Arabien gemacht hat wenn Offiziell keinen beziehung zwischen Israel und Saudi Arabien gibt ...
Es gibt die Vermutung das er TOW missile http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/BGM-71_TOW an einer Private Saudis Firma verkauft hat , nicht an der Arabien Staat , die Theories die Einziege Waffen in Saudi Arabien kaufen darf . Es gibt der Verdacht das diesen TOW missile nach Syrien später gebracht werden .

http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/jimmy-johnson/death-arms-salesman-saudi-arabia-casts-suspicions-israeli-company-elbit

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

Islamist Militants on Israel's Doorstep: The War Next Door

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItykyRdBTHE

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

Wesley Clark http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Clark
: "Our Friends and Allies Funded ISIS to Destroy Hezbollah"

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41038.htm

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

Caught Between ISIS And Assad, A Palestinian Refugee Camp Is Starving To Death

The Islamic State militant group moved into Yarmouk, a refugee camp for Palestinians on the outskirts of the Syrian capital city of Damascus, last week. Since then, hundreds of the group's fighters have been battling rival armed groups for control of the camp. IS militants currently appear to hold most of Yarmouk, resisting bombardments by the Syrian army as well as attacks from militias.

The fighting has reduced Yarmouk into a ghost town, with its civilians trapped inside by constant sniper fire and bombardments. Video footage purportedly from Yarmouk residents, collected by Reuters and other media outlets this week, showed the streets near-deserted and bombed to pieces.

But while the utter devastation portrayed in recent images of the camp may come as a shock to many, Yarmouk's descent into ruin actually started years ago. The latest round of fighting brings an already disastrous humanitarian situation in the refugee camp one step closer to full collapse.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/09/syria-yarmouk-isis_n_7029632.html

13 Palestinian fighters killed as Syria regime battles IS in Damascus

Thirteen Palestinian fighters were killed in Yarmouk refugee camp on Saturday as fighting ensued between the Syrian regime and IS in the battle to defend Damascus, local reporters said.

PLO envoy to Syria Ahmed Majdalani announced Saturday that the current situation in Yarmouk was out of the hands of the Palestinian leadership, and that the Syrian regime has officially engaged in a battle to defend Damascus against the Islamic state group.

The 13 reported dead by local news site Yarmouk Camp News were the first reported dead from the new stage of fighting, but among many to be killed since IS took over the camp on April 1.

http://www.maannews.com/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=760419

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

Militants from the Islamic State group have lost ground to Palestinian fighters in Syria's Yarmouk camp, Palestinian officials and a resident said on Tuesday.

UN officials in Syria said, meanwhile, they were discussing ways of getting humanitarian aid into the camp and helping residents who have fled Yarmouk.

IS fighters have retreated from much of the territory they seized in the camp in southern Damascus, a resident calling himself Samer told AFP.

http://www.maannews.com/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=760475

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

My missing family in Syria: Naming and shaming in Yarmouk

Members of my family in Syria’s Yarmouk went missing many months ago. We have no idea who is dead and who is alive. Unlike my other uncle and his children in Libya, who fled the NATO war and turned up alive but hiding in some desert a few months later, my uncle’s family in Syria disappeared completely as if ingested by a black hole, to a whole different dimension.

I chose the “black hole” analogy, as opposed to the one used by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon - "the deepest circle of hell" - which he recently uttered in reference to the plight of Palestinians in Yarmouk following the advances made by the notorious Islamic State (IS) militias in early April. If there is any justice in the hereafter, no Palestinian refugee - even those who failed to pray five times a day or go to church every Sunday - deserves to be in any “circle of hell”, deep or shallow. The suffering they have endured in this world since the founding of Israel atop their towns and villages in Palestine some 66 years ago is enough to redeem their collective sins, past and present.

http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/my-missing-family-syria-naming-and-shaming-yarmouk-936480330

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

Israel Exposes World’s First (Alleged) Facebook Espionage Ring, Claims Golan Druze Spied for Syria

This is a slightly expanded version of a report that ran in Middle East Eye this past Monday. I am seeking to translate this piece into both Arabic and Hebrew. If you can help, please be in touch:

In 2012, Israel released the longest-serving Arab security prisoner, Sedki al-Maket, from prison. He had served 27 years on charges of planning a terror attack. Al Maket, age 48, is a resident of Majdal Shams, the major town in Israeli-occupied Golan.

On gaining his freedom, he turned to fighting Israel’s 45-year Occupation of the Golan. Al Maket is an ardent supporter of the Assad regime and views Syria as his homeland. As such, he embraces Assad’s ally, Hezbollah and those supporting liberation of Israeli-occupied territory in Lebanon, the Golan or Palestine.

Since his release, he has not engaged in violence or armed struggle. He has made speeches, written articles in the Arab press, posted to social media, and blessed armed struggle without participating in it. In addition, the security services claim al Maket scouted IDF activities in the Golan, especially army aid offered to the Syrian Islamist rebels associated with al Nusra.

http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2015/04/09/israel-exposes-worlds-first-alleged-facebook-espionage-ring-claims-golan-druze-spied-for-syria/

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

Key lawmakers have moved to slash funding of a secret CIA operation to train and arm rebels in Syria, a move that U.S. officials said reflects rising skepticism of the effectiveness of the agency program and the Obama administration’s strategy in the Middle East.

The House Intelligence Committee recently voted unanimously to cut as much as 20 percent of the classified funds flowing into a CIA program that U.S. officials said has become one the agency’s largest covert operations, with a budget approaching $1 billion a year.

“There is a great deal of concern on a very bipartisan basis with our strategy in Syria,” said Rep. Adam B. Schiff (Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the intelligence panel. He declined to comment on specific provisions of the committee’s bill but cited growing pessimism that the United States will be in a position “to help shape the aftermath” of Syria’s civil war.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/lawmakers-move-to-curb-1-billion-cia-program-to-train-syrian-rebels/2015/06/12/b0f45a9e-1114-11e5-adec-e82f8395c032_story.html

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

Five militants, including two from Hezbollah, were reportedly killed near Israel-Syria border; six reportedly wounded in unrelated strike in Lebanon.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.668447

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

Planlose Außenpolitik der USA?: Bereits seit Monaten fliegt die US-Luftwaffe Angriffe auf Stellungen des Islamischen Staates in Syrien und ermöglichte es somit v.a. kurdischen Kämpfern am Boden, Städte gegen Angriffe des IS zu verteidigen und Gebiete zu erobern. Seit dem Anschlag auf ein Jugendcamp zum Wiederaufbau Kobanes in Suruç am 20. Juli 2015 beteiligt sich auch die Türkei an Angriffen auf syrisches Territorium, die jedoch überwiegend PKK-nahen Kämpfern gelten.

http://politik-im-spiegel.de/syrien-wie-luftabwehr-und-vlkerrecht-ausgehebelt-wurden/

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

The Islamic Jihad group in the Gaza Strip has denied Israeli reports claiming that the group took responsibility for rocket fire from Syria into northern Israel Thursday, a spokesperson said.

The Israel army said that rockets fired into northern Israel earlier in the day were fired from Syria by the Islamic Jihad group and held the Syrian government responsible for the attacks.

Islamic Jihad Spokesman Daoud Shibah in response told Ma'an: "We categorically deny that Islamic Jihad took responsibility for the rockets fired into the Galilee."

He added that such reports are "malignant" attempts to divert attention from Israeli crimes against prisoners and hunger striker Muhammad Allan.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=767163

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

As Britain's politicians return to parliamentary duty on September 7 after summer recess, they will face ever-present questions surrounding the UK's role in combating the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

In July, British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon announced that UK air strikes against ISIL fighters in Iraq - endorsed by parliament last year - would continue until 2017.

But fresh from the general election victory in May, the Conservative government of Prime Minister David Cameron has made no secret of its wish to extend its military sorties into Syria - putting it on a potential collision course with parliament, and raising questions about the limits of Britain's global ambitions.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2015/08/emboldened-uk-government-eyes-isil-strikes-syria-150813084948910.html

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

Former CIA chief and retired general David Petraeus said Tuesday that the US should consider luring individual fighters away from al Nusra Front, al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria, to help in the fight against the Islamic State group.

http://www.france24.com/en/20150902-us-lure-opportunistic-fighters-qaeda-nusra-syria-petraeus

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

In his book, “The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire”, Julian Assange claims that United States had called Saudi Arabia and Egypt to promote sectarian conflict in Syria by destabilizing its government.

http://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/world/us-saudi-planned-to-stir-up-sectarian-conflict-in-syria-wikileaks-903/

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

Over recent months the situation in the Mediterranean has served as a dramatic reminder of what the leaders of Europe have tried hard to forget. The Syrian crisis has reached Europe. Although a lot of talk has been made over numbers and percentages of refugees that every country may or may not accept, let’s not forget that behind those numbers and the showy emotionalism of the politicians hides the ugly side of world politics.

The plans to overthrow the “annoying” regimes in the Middle East began at the time when the war hawks of Washington and their European allies prepared the first Iraqi war.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/17/the-dirty-politics-behind-the-syrian-conflict/

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

Netanyahu says he and Putin agreed on ways to avoid conflict between their forces in Syria. For years Israel has had a free hand to attack arms transfers to Hezbollah.

http://news.yahoo.com/russia-syria-did-putin-just-clip-israels-wings-145309020.html

Rebels see tougher war with Russians in Syria, evoke Afghanistan

Rebels who have inflicted big losses on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad say Russia's intervention in support of its ally will only lead to an escalation of the war and may encourage the rebels' Gulf Arab backers to pour in more military aid.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/09/21/uk-mideast-crisis-syria-rebels-insight-idUKKCN0RL0ED20150921

US-trained Division 30 Rebels 'Betrayed US
Hands Weapons Over to al-Qaeda's Affiliate in Syria'

Pentagon-trained rebels in Syria are reported to have betrayed their American backers and handed their weapons over to al-Qaeda in Syria immediately after re-entering the country.

Fighters with Division 30, the “moderate” rebel division favoured by the United States, surrendered to the al-Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra, a raft of sources claimed on Monday night.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42928.htm

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

BRITISH Special Forces are mounting hit and run raids against Islamic State deep inside eastern Syria dressed as insurgent fighters, the Sunday Express can reveal.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/595439/SAS-ISIS-fighter-Jihadis

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

Divided over the fate of President Bashar al-Assad, Arab countries have kept silent over Russian airstrikes in Syria - apart from Cairo, which openly supports Moscow's campaign, experts say.

"The Arab world has lacked regional leadership for years from within the region, and in that void, the US and Russia have been engaging," said HA Hellyer, Middle East policy expert at the Washington-based Brookings Center.

"There are some signs that some wish to change that from within the region, but the first example of leadership is being shown in the multilateral Arab intervention into the Yemen [conflict] - and it is not a promising example at all," he said, referring to a Saudi-led coalition against Shiite rebels thought to be backed by Iran, a regional heavyweight.

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/analysis-divided-over-assad-arab-states-remain-silent-over-russian-airstrikes-933045586

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

.......Sly reported a very different story in March, however, after the dissolution of Harakat Hazm, the main CIA-supported “moderate rebel group” remaining in the north, following its complete defeat by al-Nusra Front. The victorious al-Nusra announced publicly, according to Sly’s report, that it had seized the TOW anti-tank missiles the CIA had supplied to Harakat Hazm when it occupied the groups headquarters near Aleppo. Moreover, the Saudis reportedly had ownership of TOW missiles, and they and the Qataris had already been funneling arms to al-Nusra Front, as Vice-President Joe Biden revealed in October 2014.

It is astonishing that at this late date, anyone in the media could still be seriously suggesting that the CIA somehow managed to turn the “moderate” Syrian rebels into a powerful offensive force threatening the Assad regime in the north. Since the Idlib victory, it is generally understood that the primary threat to drive the Assad regime from power comes from al-Nusra Front and the forces allied with it, and not from the Islamic State - and certainly not the mythical “moderate rebels”.

It is easy to understand why the Obama administration is not interested in talking about the role of al-Nusra in the present Syrian political-military situation. According to Sly’s source, the covert operation to provide the TOW missiles to the Army of Conquest was aimed at putting “sufficient pressure on Assad’s forces to persuade him to compromise but not so much that his government would precipitously collapse and leave a dangerous power vacuum”.

The Obama administration strategy on Syria assumed a degree of control that is so obviously unrealistic that it was inherently risky to the point of recklessness. That is why no one in the administration or the news media is discussing the reality that the Russian offensive is targeting the biggest jihadist threat to the Assad regime.

http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/obama-won-t-admit-real-targets-russian-airstrikes-386489294

Ahrar al-Sham’s apocalyptic vision for Syria and beyond

Apparently, Ahrar al-Sham al-Islamiyya (the Islamic Movement of the Free Men of Syria), one of the largest rebel groups in Syria, is going through a moderate ideological transformation.

At least that’s what one would think from the recent spate of PR, suggesting Washington should ally with the group.

Ahrar plays a lead role alongside al-Qaeda’s Syrian arm, Jabhut al-Nusra, in the wider rebel coalition, Jaish al Fatah (the Army of Conquest).

The Army of Conquest, which includes “moderate” rebels, receives weapons, funding and logistical support from US-led coalition allies, especially Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey.

In April, US commanders at the operations room in southern Turkey green-lighted coordination between Islamist factions and “moderate” vetted rebel groups. Then in July, the US agreed to Turkish demands to create a de facto “safe zone” in northwest Syria along the border, supported by US air cover – a move that if implemented would empower Ahrar and al-Nusra.

http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/ahrar-al-sham-s-apocalyptic-vision-syria-and-beyond-455405201

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

U.S. President Barack Obama’s plan to directly arm rebels fighting
inside Syria is raising concern from Congress and intelligence
officials over whether it provides enough safeguards to prevent the
weapons falling into the wrong hands.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Oct-21/319636-obama
s-plan-to-arm-rebels-gives-rise-to-new-worries.ashx

At least 35,000 displaced from Aleppo as Russian bombing continues

Tens of thousands of people have been displaced from southwestern
Aleppo since last week, the UN Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said. The organisation said that it could
confirm that 35,000 people had been displaced so far.

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/35000-people-displaced-aleppo-russi
a-air-strikes-continue-unabated-976256390

VIDEO: Unbelievably clear drone footage of Damascus devastation

Clear drone footage showing the ongoing Syrian army offensive against a rebel stronghold in Damascus.

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/video-clear-drone-footage-jobar-damascus-1322280871

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

An Iranian news site close to the country's elite Revolutionary Guard military force has acknowledged the deaths of at least 200 of its fighters in Syria, as fighting on the ground continues to intensify.

Farsi-language news website Tabnak, which was founded by a former Revolutionary Guard chief and is considered to be close to the group, said on Tuesday that 200 fighters from the Fatemiyoun Brigade have been killed so far fighting in Syria.

The Fatemiyoun Brigade is a force composed of Afghan refugees living in Iran, who are reportedly paid $500 a month and promised residency papers in return for fighting alongside Syrian government forces.

Iranian officials have so far declined to mention casualty figures arising from their participation in Syria’s civil war, which has seen regional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia give their backing to opposing sides.

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/200-iran-backed-fighters-killed-syria-war-iranian-report-1567448953

Russia and Iran diverging on Syria

After nearly a month of conducting daily air strikes, Russia is beginning to reveal its political calculations and strategic intent in Syria.

The Russian outreach to the Free Syrian Army (FSA), whilst dismissed as disingenuous by the West, is in fact a reflection of Russia’s desired outcome.

Fearful of getting embroiled too deeply into the Syrian quagmire, Russia is all too aware that it needs Washington’s - and by extension the Gulf States’ - help to steer the conflict toward an endgame.

Meanwhile, lacking Russia’s diplomatic reach, Iran is mostly focused on the battle on the ground, not only to shore up the position of the embattled Syrian government, but equally importantly to protect its Lebanese ally Hezbollah from the fallout of the conflict.

Unlike Russia, the Islamic Republic cannot afford to see elements of the armed Syrian opposition gain even minimal influence in Damascus as part of a final peace settlement.

http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/russia-and-iran-diverging-syria-30321057

Ashton Carter: U.S. to Begin 'Direct Action on the Ground' in Iraq, Syria

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Tuesday that the U.S. will begin "direct action on the ground" against ISIS forces in Iraq and Syria, aiming to intensify pressure on the militants as progress against them remains elusive.

"We won't hold back from supporting capable partners in opportunistic attacks against ISIL, or conducting such missions directly whether by strikes from the air or direct action on the ground," Carter said in testimony before the Senate Armed Services committee, using an alternative name for the militant group.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sec-carter-direct-u-s-action-ground-iraq-syria-n452131

US ground ops in Syria ‘illegal’, may lead to ‘unpredictable’ consequences

The consequences of potential US ground operations in Syria would be unpredictable, the head of Russia’s parliamentary committee on foreign affairs told RT. He added that claims Russian airstrikes have targeted civilians are part of ongoing information war.

https://www.rt.com/news/319907-us-syria-unpredictable-consequences/

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

Just as Russia escalates its military involvement in Syria and meets with the IDF central command in Moscow to coördinate both sides’ operational activity there, Israel attacked Hezbollah targets there over the past few days. Though Israeli security sources told Haaretz that they were not involved and refused to comment to the Jerusalem Post, my own confidential Israeli source confirms the attack.

http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2015/11/01/israel-attacked-hezbollah-targets-in-syria-censor-prohibited-israeli-reporting/

Interview: Gilbert Achcar on the Russian military operation in Syria

Ilya Budraitskis: It has been several days since the start of the Russian military operation in Syria and the goals and strategy of this operation are still unclear. The explanation coming from Russian officials is unclear. On one hand they put an anti-ISIS agenda as the main reason of the operation, and on the other they present it, like Putin did at the UN, as an aid to the legitimate government of Assad. What do you think is the real goal of this operation?

http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/interview-gilbert-achcar-on-russian-military-operation-in-syria/

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

IDF Gen. (Res.) Amos Gilad revealed in a public talk reported by Israeli media that PM Netanyahu and Russia’s Putin made a secret deal permitting the Russian air force to use Israeli airspace during its attacks on Syrian rebel targets:

Russian war planes sometimes cross into Israeli airspace. As a result of excellent security coördination, which began with a Putin-Netanyahu meeting which established the sector boundaries, the IDF and Russian military agreed to security arrangements which provided, in the event of an incident, both would know what to do and how to prevent an escalation.

In return, Putin has assured Israel that it will not interfere in IAF attacks on Hezbollah targets inside Syria. Specifically, weapons convoys ferrying Iranian hardware to Lebanon via Syria.
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2015/11/28/israel-permits-russian-overflight-of-israeli-airspace/

The real reason for Turkey's shoot-down of the Russian jet

The data supports Putin's assertion that the shoot-down was prepared in advance due to Russian bombing of Turkey-linked rebels in Syria
http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/real-turkeys-shoot-down-russian-jet-1615790737

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

Throughout the Syrian conflict, the regime and its supporters have tried to portray opposition to the revolution as synonymous with opposition to Israel. The aims of this propaganda campaign are to attract support, undermine the uprising, and stymie widespread revulsion in the region at the Syrian regime's brutality and the direct military support it is receiving from its foreign allies (primarily Iran, Russia, and Lebanon's Hezbollah).

Such efforts suffered a blow when Hamas - the Palestinian component of the so-called "axis of resistance," comprising Hezbollah, Damascus and Tehran - publicly endorsed the revolution, saluting "the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform".

http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/russia-israel-and-syria-inconvenient-truth-1997898988

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

“I believe that the progressive supporters of the war have confused a ‘just cause’ with a ‘just war.’ There are unjust causes, such as the attempt of the United States to establish its power in Vietnam, or to dominate Panama or Grenada, or to subvert the government of Nicaragua. And a cause may be just–getting North Korea to withdraw from South Korea, getting Saddam Hussein to withdraw from Kuwait, or ending terrorism–but it does not follow that going to war on behalf of that cause, with the inevitable mayhem that follows, is just.”

Howard Zinn

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/08/putin-adopts-netanyahus-twisted-logic/

Howard Zinn, A Just Cause, Not a Just War
http://www.progressive.org/news/2007/07/5084/just-cause-not-just-war

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Der Grund für dieses Verhalten des US-Militärkommandos sei gewesen, dass sämtliche Analysen des US-Militärgeheimdienstes DIA zu dem Schluss gekommen sind, der Sturz Assads würde zur Folge haben, dass Syrien anschließend von Al Kaida und ähnlichen von der Türkei, Saudi Arabien, Katar, Britanien und der CIA unterstützten salafistischen Terrorbanden beherrscht würde.
http://politik-im-spiegel.de/zu-hershs-artikel-military-to-military/#more-38402

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In this episode of UpFront, Mehdi Hasan speaks to the renowned American academic Noam Chomsky about his public spat with the Turkish president, the war against ISIL and Russia's annexation of Crimea.

We also look at the ramifications of the Saudi Arabia-Iran feud, and debate the state of Egypt five years after the Arab Spring.
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/upfront/2016/01/noam-chomsky-war-isil-160122112145301.html

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...........You'd need to start with a persuasive review of what hasn't worked over the past 14-plus years. American actions against terrorism -- the Islamic State being just the latest flavor -- have flopped on a remarkable scale, yet remain remarkably attractive to our present crew of candidates. (Bernie Sanders might be the only exception, though he supports forming yet another coalition to defeat ISIS.)......
...Since the June 2014 start of Operation Inherent Resolve against the Islamic State, the U.S. and its coalition partners have flown 9,041 sorties, 5,959 in Iraq and 3,082 in Syria. More are launched every day. The U.S. claims it has killed between 10,000 and 25,000 Islamic State fighters, quite a spread, but still, if accurate (which is doubtful), at best only a couple of bad guys per bombing run. Not particularly efficient on the face of it, but -- as Obama administration officials often emphasize -- this is a “long war.” The CIA estimates that the Islamic State had perhaps 20,000 to 30,000 fighters under arms in 2014. So somewhere between a third of them and all of them should now be gone. Evidently not, since recent estimates of Islamic State militants remain in that 20,000 to 30,000 range as 2016 begins....
......Hard as it is to persuade a constantly re-terrorized American public of the actual situation we face, there have been only 38 Americans killed in the U.S. by Islamic terrorists, lone wolves, or whacked-out individuals professing allegiance to Islamic extremism, or ISIS, or al-Qaeda, since 9/11. Argue about the number if you want. In fact, double or triple it and it still adds up to a tragic but undeniable drop in the bucket. To gain some perspective, pick your favorite comparison: number of Americans killed since 9/11 by guns (more than 400,000) or by drunk drivers in 2012 alone (more than 10,000)..........
............As for the Islamic State itself, it can’t survive, never mind fight, without funds. So candidate, it’s time to man/woman up, and go after the real sources of funding.

As long as the U.S. insists on flying air attack sorties (and your candidate may unfortunately need to do so to cover his/her right flank), direct them far more intensely than at present against one of ISIS's main sources of cash: oil exports. Blow up trucks moving oil. Blow up wellheads in ISIS-dominated areas. Finding targets is not hard. The Russians released reconnaissance photos showing what they claimed were 12,000 trucks loaded with smuggled oil, backed up near the Turkish border.

But remind your candidate that this would not be an expansion of the air war or a shifting from one bombing campaign to a new one. It would be a short-term move, with a defined end point of shutting down the flow of oil. It would only be one part of a far larger effort to shut down ISIS’s sources of funds.

Next, use whatever diplomatic and economic pressure is available to make it clear to whomever in Turkey that it’s time to stop facilitating the flow of that ISIS oil onto the black market. Then wield that same diplomatic and economic pressure to force buyers to stop purchasing it. Some reports suggest that Israel, cut off from most Arab sources of oil, has become a major buyer of ISIS’s supplies. If so, step on some allied toes. C'mon, someone is buying all that black-market black gold.

The same should go for Turkey’s behavior toward ISIS. That would extend from its determination to fight Kurdish forces fighting ISIS to the way it’s allowed jihadis to enter Syria through its territory to the way it's funneled arms to various extreme Islamic groups in that country. Engage Turkey's fellow NATO members. Let them do some of the heavy lifting. They have a dog in this fight, too.

And speaking of stepping on allied toes, make it clear to the Saudis and other Sunni Persian Gulf states that they must stop sending money to ISIS. Yes, we’re told that this flow of “donations” comes from private citizens, not the Saudi government or those of its neighbors. Even so, they should be capable of exerting pressure to close the valve. Forget a “no-fly zone” over northern Syria -- another fruitless “solution” to the problem of the Islamic State that various presidential candidates are now plugging -- and use the international banking system to create a no-flow zone.

You may not be able to stop every buck from reaching ISIS, but most of it will do in a situation where every dollar counts......

Der Author , Peter Van Buren, a TomDispatch regular, blew the whistle on State Department waste and mismanagement during the Iraqi reconstruction in We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People. A TomDispatch regular, he writes about current events at We Meant Well. His latest book is Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the #99Percent.

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176091/tomgram%3A_peter_van_buren%2C_how_to_resolve_the_isis_crisis/#more

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Turkish involvement in the Syrian war has been heavily dominated by Islamist fighters, but the conflict has also drawn in an unlikely quarter — Turkish nationalists. The far-right Nationalist Action Party (MHP) and its youth branch, the Idealist Hearths, have recently come into the spotlight with high-profile losses on the Syrian battlefield. The MHP is the main body of Turkey’s ultranationalist movement, also known as the Gray Wolves, whose hall of fame includes failed papal assassin Mehmet Ali Agca. The Alperen Hearths, the youth branch of the smaller Great Union Party, which represents the ultranationalist movement’s Islamist-leaning wing, are also visibly interested in the Syrian war.

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/02/turkey-syria-grey-wolves-emerge-as-jihadists.html#

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the Syrian army and its allies dealt a strategic blow to Ankara when they cut the land route between Aleppo and the Bab al-Salameh border crossing with Turkey in the Turkish province of Kilis. Keeping this route to Aleppo open had been of vital importance for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu who, keen to topple the Damascus regime since 2011, have used every means at their disposal short of sending troops to Syria.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/02/turkey-syria-erdogan-eagerness-for-military-intervention.html#

Will US, Russia be able to turn 'words on paper' into action in Syria?
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/02/us-russia-syria-aid-fighting.html#

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Iraqi militias who once fought ISIS with U.S. help are now working with Russian and Iranian forces to crush American-backed rebels in the strategic Syrian city of Aleppo, two defense officials have told The Daily Beast.

At least three Shia militias involved in successful battles against ISIS in Iraq—the Badr Brigade, Kata’ib Hezbollah, and the League of the Righteous—have acknowledged taking casualties in fighting in south and southeast Aleppo province. U.S. defense officials confirmed to The Daily Beast that they believe “at least one” unit of the Badr Brigade is fighting in southern Aleppo alongside other Iraqi militia groups. Those groups are backed by Russian airpower and Iranian troops—and all of whom are bolstering President Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian Arab Army.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/12/exclusive-u-s-allies-now-fighting-cia-backed-rebels.html

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Israel voiced doubt Sunday that an international ceasefire plan for Syria would work, with one senior official suggesting a sectarian partition of the country might be preferable.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2016/Feb-14/337170-israel-pessimistic-on-syria-ceasefire-eyes-sectarian-partition.ashx

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In an unusually candid interview with Al Jazeera Feb. 23, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu admitted to aiding anti-Assad groups in Syria, claiming that Turkey had done more than most Arab countries in this respect.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/03/turkey-davutoglu-does-not-trust-arabs.html#

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In a surprise move that he said he hoped would bolster Syria peace talks, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he would start to withdraw most Russian military forces from Syria starting March 15. The decision to partly withdraw from Syria, which Putin said he discussed during a phone call with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad March 14, is likely to put pressure on the Assad regime to negotiate more seriously at UN-hosted peace talks with the opposition, which resumed in Geneva on March 14. The decision follows remarks from Syria’s foreign minister over the weekend that any talk of Assad’s future was a “red line” at the Geneva talks.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/03/assad-putin-syria-geneva-talks-withdraw-troops.html#

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The "spymaster" of a key moderate Syrian rebel group has accused the CIA of failing to act on reams of detailed intelligence his network has been supplying the US on Isil since 2013 - including GPS coordinates of its leaders and headquarters.

The Free Syrian Army’s spy chief insisted proper use of the intelligence his agents provided from within Isil’s ranks, and often at grave risk to their life, could have critically damaged the jihadist group on several occasions.

Speaking to Le Monde in Turkey, “M”, as the French newspaper dubbed the man for security reasons, said: “From the moment Daesh (the Arab acronym for Isil) had 20 members to when it had 20,000, we have shown everything to the Americans. When we asked them what they did with this information, they always gave evasive answers, saying it was up to their decision-makers”.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/12195131/Syrian-moderate-rebel-spymaster-slams-CIA-for-ignoring-detailed-intel-on-Isil-since-2013.html

Russia breaks official silence to honor soldier killed in Syria

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday honored a Russian soldier killed in Russia's military operation in Syria, breaking four months of official silence about his death.

By paying tribute to 27-year-old Fyodor Zhuravlyov, Putin tacitly raised the death toll for Russian servicemen in the five-month Syria operation to five. Russian officials previously only acknowledged four deaths.

Putin this week ordered the withdrawal of the bulk of Russia's forces from Syria, saying they had successfully fulfilled most of their objectives. Air force pilots were welcomed back at bases in Russia to brass bands and congratulatory speeches.

The Kremlin has been able to present the mission in Syria as a success in part because Russian military casualties were low. But questions linger about whether the casualty numbers are accurate, and about other costs of the campaign.

At a ceremony in the Kremlin to award medals to servicemen returning from Syria, Putin paid tribute to those who died, and mentioned the names of their widows, who had been invited to the ceremony.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-russia-death-idUKKCN0WJ200

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King Abdullah of Jordan accused Turkey of exporting terrorists to Europe at a top level meeting with senior US politicians in January, the MEE can reveal.

The king said Europe’s biggest refugee crisis was not an accident, and neither was the presence of terrorists among them: “The fact that terrorists are going to Europe is part of Turkish policy and Turkey keeps on getting a slap on the hand, but they are let off the hook.”

Asked by one of the congressmen present whether the Islamic State group was exporting oil to Turkey, Abdullah replied: ”Absolutely.”

Abdullah made his remarks during a wide-ranging debriefing to Congress on 11 January, the day a meeting with the US president, Barack Obama, was cancelled.

The White House was forced to deny that Obama snubbed one of America’s closest allies in the Middle East, attributing the cancellation to "scheduling conflicts", although Obama and Abdullah met briefly at St Andrews Airforce base a day later.

Present at the meeting in Congress were the chairmen and members of the Senate Intelligence, Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees, including Senators John McCain and Bob Corker, and Senators Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid, the Senate Majority and Minority leaders respectively.

According to a detailed account of the meeting seen by MEE, the king went on to explain what he thought was the motivation of Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Abdullah said that Erdogan believed in a “radical Islamic solution to the region".
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jordans-king-accuses-turkey-sending-terrorists-europe-1687591648

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A lot of speculation has arisen over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting in Moscow April 21 with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The last time the two leaders met was Nov. 30. Since then, both have accumulated enough issues to discuss in person, while recent regional developments added the flavor of urgency to the talks.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/04/russia-israel-putin-netanyahu-visit-intrigue.html#

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Israel's concerns have increased over Syria's civil war because of the growing influence wielded by Iran and its proxies in their northerly neighbour, according to a several former diplomats who spoke to Middle East Eye.

Throughout the five bloody years of Syria’s civil war, in which more than 250,000 people have been killed, Israel has claimed to have had no clear strategy other than to remain neutral.

However, with regional foe Iran playing a crucial role in protecting their ally President Bashar al-Assad, Israel has become increasingly concerned about what lies beyond its northern border, which has prompted a more considered approach to the conflict, according to a senior former diplomat.

“The Israeli security establishment believes that the main threat Israel is facing in Syria is in fact Iran and its local proxies like Hezbollah," said Tzvi Magen, a former diplomat and now a senior researcher at Israel’s Institute for National Security.

“Israel is mostly concerned with the growing strength of the Iranian axis."
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/analysis-why-israel-may-be-dragged-syria-s-civil-war-1336390078

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Turkey’s inability to produce a realistic strategy toward Syria and to coordinate its policy with its allies is coming home to roost, leaving it facing multiple dilemmas that are unlikely to be resolved soon. Ankara’s war with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and its related effort to prevent Kurds from gaining ground in northern Syria remains Turkey’s main problems.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/05/turkey-syria-kurds-face-multiple-dilemmas.html

Israeli Deputy Minister Admits He Visited Syria

Deputy Minister Ayoub Kara, a member of the Likud faction, admitted on Saturday he visited in Syria since the beginning of the civil war there.

Kara, the deputy regional cooperation minister, was asked about his experience in Syria at a cultural event in Be'er Sheva. He said that the situation is "very hard, a very serious situation, you can't even imagine… It's a whole other world. When you crossover from Israel to Lebanon or Syria, you see the difference."
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.721938

Can US, Turkey keep up appearances in Syria?

A terrorist group linked to the Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for suicide bombings in Tartus and Jableh in Syria on May 23 that killed more than 150 civilians and wounded more than 200 others. Maxim Suchkov points out that the attack in Tartus occurred deep inside government-controlled territory. Russia maintains a naval base in Tartus and an air base and reconnaissance center in Khmeimim in the Latakia region. The suicide attacks, Suchkov suggests, could be a catalyst for a Russian “first strike” strategy against terrorist and aligned Salafi groups
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/05/turkey-syria-isis-sur-russia-kurds-terror-pkk-ypg.html#

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Iran hosted the defense ministers of Russia and Syria at its own Defense Ministry. The stated aim was to exchange views and discuss the “war on terror.” This time, unlike previous such gatherings, it was Iran and not Russia that formed the political axis of the discussions. During the talks in Tehran, the three defense ministers confirmed their respective governments’ determination to “continue military operations until terrorism is rooted out,” especially in Syria.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/06/iran-russia-syria-defense-ministers-tehran-meeting.html

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It’s a long shot and certainly not altruistic, but the effort by Russia and the United States to develop a viable plan for Syria might just work in everyone’s favor.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/09/us-russia-agreement-syria-political-will.html

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Buried deep inside Saturday’s New York Times was a grudging acknowledgement that the US-armed “moderate” rebels in Syria are using their US firepower to back an Al Qaeda offensive, reports Robert Parry.

A curious aspect of the Syrian conflict – a rebellion sponsored largely by the United States and its Gulf state allies – is the disappearance in much of the American mainstream news media of references to the prominent role played by Al Qaeda in seeking to overthrow the secular Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad.

There’s much said in the U.S. press about ISIS, the former “Al Qaeda in Iraq” which splintered off several years ago, but Al Qaeda’s central role in commanding Syria’s “moderate” rebels in Aleppo and elsewhere is the almost unspoken reality of the Syrian war.Even in the U.S. presidential debates, the arguing between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton has been almost exclusively about ISIS, not Al Qaeda.
Though Al Qaeda got the ball rolling on America’s revenge wars in the Middle East 15 years ago by killing several thousand Americans and others in the 9/11 attacks, the terrorist group has faded into the background of U.S. attention, most likely because it messes up the preferred “good guy/bad guy” narrative regarding the Syrian war.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=79572

Turkish-backed gangs release joint declaration on Aleppo attack
http://anfenglish.com/news/turkish-backed-gangs-release-joint-declaration-on-aleppo-attack

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As experts on Russia and Turkey are wondering just how receptive US President-elect Donald Trump will be to their agendas in the Middle East, Moscow and Ankara have been involved in a series of talks over Syria.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/11/russia-view-turkey-role-syria.html

Battle of Aleppo: Tens of civilians killed in Syrian air strikes, say reports

The WHO has declared all hospitals in eastern Aleppo out of service after days of heavy air strikes
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/breaking-syrian-bombardment-kills-27-civilians-aleppo-monitor-902102039

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More than 1,000 combatants sent from Iran to fight in support of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria have been killed during the conflict, the head of Iran's veterans' affairs office said on Tuesday.

"The number of martyrs from our country defending the shrines has now passed 1,000," Tasnim news agency quoted Mohammad Ali Shahidi Mahalati, the head of Iran's Foundation of Martyrs' and Veterans' Affairs, as saying.

Iran has sent military advisers, as well as volunteer fighters recruited from Afghanistan and Pakistan, to work with Assad's forces. They are known in Iran as "defenders of the shrines" in reference to Shiite holy sites in Syria.

Shahidi did not specify the nationalities of those killed. Shia Iran is a staunch supporter of Assad and provides both financial and military support for his government.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/more-1000-combatants-iran-killed-syria-says-official-728745534

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Fehim Tastekin reports that many Syrians blame Turkey, once a close ally of Damascus, for the war, which has claimed the lives of more than 400,000 people, according to United Nations and independent estimates.

Tastekin, a columnist for Al-Monitor’s Turkey Pulse, reports from Damascus that “being a Turk in Syria is a bit difficult nowadays. No one will harass, insult or attack you, for sure, but everyone has a few words to say about Ankara’s transition from friend to foe.”
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/01/syria-deep-anger-turkey-war-iraq-abadi.html

Russia tells Assad there is no military solution in Syria

Russia has told Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that there is no "military solution" to the country's conflict, despite pro-government forces claiming victory over rebels in eastern Aleppo, according to a key Russian adviser to the United Nations' Syria envoy.

In an exclusive interview with Middle East Eye, Professor Vitaly Naumkin, the president of the Moscow-based Institute of Oriental Studies, said that Russia would continue to press Assad to accept a coalition government that would include members of the opposition. He did not specify which "opposition" groups he was referring to.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-no-military-solution-syria-russia-tells-assad-370256417

There is more than one truth to tell in the heartbreaking story of Aleppo

Our political masters are in league with the Syrian rebels, and for the same reason as the rebels kidnap their victims – money
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/aleppo-falls-to-syrian-regime-bashar-al-assad-rebels-uk-government-more-than-one-story-robert-fisk-a7471576.html

Congress authorizes Trump to arm Syrian rebels with anti-aircraft missiles
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/12/defense-ndaa-congress-manpads-syria.html

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Syria faces public health catastrophes that will linger for decades due to toxic rubble dust, oil fire pollution and the US-led coalition's use of depleted uranium weapons on Islamic State targets, campaigners have warned.

The US last week admitted it had fired armour-piercing DU ammunition in its war against IS, and had hit not only military targets but also un-armoured civilian targets such as oil trucks, and despite promising otherwise.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/depleted-uranium-syria-iraq-1886394918

US Terror-Bombed Syria with Toxic Depleted Uranium(DU) Weapons

America uses banned depleted uranium (DU) weapons in all its wars, ongoing since first developed during the Vietnam era.

The 1925 Geneva Protocol and succeeding Geneva Weapons Conventions prohibited use of chemical and biological agents in any form as weapons of war.

Although no Geneva Convention or other treaty specifically bans radioactive uranium weapons, including DU ones, they’re illegal de facto and de jure under the 1907 Hague Convention, prohibiting use of any “poison or poisoned weapons.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46499.htm