Despite recent pledges by the Trump Administration to drawdown forces in the Middle East, specifically with cuts in Iraq and Afghanistan, officials in Washington do not appear to be extending such pre-election pledges for its running contingent still illegally occupying parts of northeastern Syria.
Israel has been relentlessly shelling and bombing all over the Middle East this week, savagely hitting Lebanon, Gaza and Syria.
As independent journalist Robert Inlakesh reports, you would never know it from the media silence:
According to reports, US helicopters attacked a Syrian army checkpoint in the village of Tal Dahab, near the city of Qamishli in northeastern Syria on Monday.
According to a report from Syrian state agency SANA, the US military has killed one Syrian Army soldier and injured two others.
In EP 336 of the SUNDAY WIRE show, host Patrick Henningsen is joined by global affairs analyst Mohammad Marandi from the University of Tehran, to discuss the recent developments in Beirut, Lebanon in the aftermath of the tragic explosion which destroyed the city’s port area and resulted in many dead and injured, as well as 300,000 made homeless due to ancillary damages.
The past week, the media and political punitry machine in Washington have elevated a new front-runner for Joe Biden’s Vice Presidential pick. If this is indeed a top pick, what image will the partisan media paint about this person? Will it be a truthful depiction?
GOLAN HEIGHTS – Israeli fighter jets and attack helicopters struck military targets in southern Syria belonging to the Syrian army Monday night, hours after thwarting an infiltration attempt from Syria by suspected militants trying to plant explosives, the Israeli military said.
In a rare statement acknowledging strikes in neighboring Syria, the army said the targets included “observation posts and intelligence collection systems, anti-aircraft artillery facilities and command and control systems” in Syrian army bases.
This latest joint move by Damascus and Moscow is a public relations coup, but it is also sure to draw the ire of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Middle East Monitor reports…
A new video has sent shockwaves across the Middle East which shot on Thursday aboard a Mahan Airways flight 1152 from Tehran to Beirut, showing passengers panicking as oxygen masks fell from the cabin ceiling. It is believed that a US F-15 fighter jet buzzed the Iranian passenger jet over Syrian airspace, causing the plane a plunge that left several injured.
