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Syria’s President Assad and military advisors surveying front lines of the country’s eight year-long conflict (Photo: Twitter/Al-Masdar News)

Sputnik News – Al-Masdar News

By Doug Bandow
The American Conservative

Yesterday, Israel carried out an unprovoked Christmas Day attack against Syria. According to reports citing the Russian Ministry of Defense, six Israeli F16 fighters violated neighboring Lebanese airspace and while passing over Sidon, fired 16 laser-guided GBU-39 bombs towards targets in and around the capital city of Damascus, 14 of which were intercepted by Syrian air defense systems. 

US Defense Secretary James Mattis announced his resignation on Thursday, apparently over a disagreement with President Trump over the announced withdrawal of US troops from both Syria and Afghanistan.
These strategic announcements by the US came as a shock to even the most ardent anti-interventionists who had all but resigned themselves to the accept an indefinite US military presence in both those overseas locations.

Another episode of fabricated journalism exposed. When will media en masse address this growing problem within their own ranks?

The ancient city of Palmyra in Syria is regarded as the “Pearl of the Desert” with its Temples and ancient sites having stood for thousands of years. Much of that legacy was looted or destroyed when it became a prime target of ISIS in recent years.

According to a new report by the Kuwaiti Al-Rai newspaper, Syrian Armed Forces have adopted a new policy of response to further acts of aggression by Israel.

Steven Sahiounie
21st Century Wire
Civilians in Syria are dying, and being maimed by the actions of the US military, and their allied partners. Despite mounting evidence of international war crimes, the western media has adopted a near unanimous policy of silence.

A new report reveals what many astute readers have known for a long time: that Washington’s fabled ‘War on Terror’ has in fact had the reverse effect: the number of global jihadists has actually quadrupled since the canard was launched under the Bush Administration in late 2001.