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(ANTIMEDIA) — Following the inevitable collapse of ISIS’ caliphate in Iraq and Syria, ISIS will morph into an insurgency that will resemble “al-Qaeda on steroids,” the senior-most anti-terrorism official in Iraqi Kurdistan has said, Reuters reports.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is interrupted by a Code Pink protester during a demonstration by the Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC), July 23, 2015, near the White House in Washington.

Andre Vltchek
RT Op-Edge

(COMMONDREAMS) — A new investigation shows that President Donald Trump’s bombing campaign against ISIS (the Islamic State) over several months has already led to nearly as many civilian deaths as those overseen by the Obama White House over several years.

By M K Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline | July 18, 2017 The United States’ regional strategies in the Middle East face multiple challenges and it needs strong nerves and robust realism not to overreact. Importantly, the temptation to display ‘muscular’ diplomacy must be curbed. Thus, the decision by the Trump administration on Monday to certify […]

The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) continues to make gains against multiple terrorist groups on several fronts including in east Hama where the SAA seek to drive the Salafist group out of a Governorate that has seen fierce fighting ever since 2011.
The SAA also continues to make gains in Deir ez-Zor Governorate which is quickly becoming the last refuge of ISIS fighters fleeing from advancing anti-terrorist troops in Raqqa.

When Russian and Syrian forces were bombarding ‘rebel’-held East Aleppo last year, newspapers and television screens were full of anguished reporting about the plight of civilians killed, injured, trapped, traumatised or desperately fleeing. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, both Official Enemies, were denounced and demonised, in accordance with the usual propaganda script.

The Ancient Greeks knew: “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.” No less a figure than the late Zbigniew Brzezinski and the CIA made use of this saying by recruiting the Muslim Brotherhood to fight a proxy war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, which led to the withdrawal of the Soviets from the Hindu Kush. Since then, the CIA used the mercenaries to fight more proxy wars in the Balkans, Chechnya, and Azerbaijan.

'Operation Columbia Crest', military 'Jeopardy!' and Smith's suicide + this day in history w/TWA Flight 800 and our song of the day by Liam Gallagher on your Morning Monarchy for July 17, 2017.

Anyone casting their mind back to the Western media’s reporting of the battle to liberate eastern Aleppo from the Al-Qaeda led Jihadis in the second half of last year will remember the vivid reporting of supposed Russian and Syrian government atrocities the Western media and Western governments engaged in during the battle.
Thus the Russians and the Syrians were accused of terror bombings of civilians, of deliberately bombing hospitals, with the Syrians specifically accused of ‘barrel-bombing’ ie. of dropping inaccurate improvised home made bombs to kill civilians.