Khaled Iskef
21st Century Wire
Turkish-backed factions under various names continue violating international laws and customs north Syria, especially in the region east of the Euphrates, and in Afrin and the Aleppo countryside.
All available reports confirm a rise in the number of civilian victims of the militant factions acting under the gaze of the Turkish military, a member of NATO.
We’re told that The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is supposed to be an unbias and ‘neutral’ international body, with no political or state affiliations that might compromise or influence the findings of its supposedly objective mission.
If this report is accurate, then this should reinforce calls for the United States to leave Syria instead of insisting on meddling in a conflict which the US and its allies had conceived and actively stoked since 2011.
According to a recent report (see in section below), a US strategic high altitude B-52H bomber flew dangerously close to Russia’s Hmeimim air base in Latakia, Syria.
The following is a brief analysis to help you read through the headlines and help see what the real underlying US foreign policy agenda is in Syria.
When Trump says “Take the Oil!” in Syria, what does he really mean? Does the US really need this oil? Not really. So what was all the major media fanfare about then?
Despite grand announcements by US President Donald Trump of “bringing our troops home from Syria,” relatively very little has been done by the US, including positions maintained around the embattled northern city of Ras Al Ayn (Kobane).
Trump’s initial announcement was on Oct 7th, and to much fanfare – only the grand withdrawal never happened.
The latest incident brings to mind shades of The Terminal, a 2004 Hollywood comedy-drama by Steven Spielberg about an Eastern European man who ends up stranded at JFK Airport’s terminal in New York after being denied entry into the US and his defunct native country. Only in this edition, the ‘stateless’ man’s home was the Islamic State of Syria and Sham (ISIS).
Residential building destroyed after Israeli state-sponsored terrorist attack on Damascus (Source: SABC News)
Once again, Israel breaks international law and baits a new regional shooting war by striking at a civilian neighborhood in Syria’s capital of Damascus.
The IDF apparently launched a set of medium-range missiles in an attempt to kill a Palestinian national it believed was staying in the location which was being targeted.
James Le Mesurier, 48, founder of the controversial ‘search and rescue’ group the White Helmets, was confirmed dead on Monday, with further details of the incident as yet unknown. According to reports, the former British military intelligence officer, mercenary and entrepreneur was found dead on street below his apartment in Istanbul’s Beyoğlu district at roughly 4.30am.
It should be clear to anyone who has followed this story over recent weeks, that the US has no legal standing whatsoever in Syria, not that it ever had. However, recent watershed events on the ground have forced Washington to show its hand, and now the world can see that it is operating under a fraudulent ‘Anti-ISIS’ mandate.
