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U.S. Marines load ammunition and weapons seized in a raid on Mogadishu, Somalia’s, Bakara Market December 2006. A Marine stands holding a M60 machine gun, left, pointing it at a crowd of Somali civilians standing at the right. (Photo/Expert Infantry via Flickr)
In October 1993, during the Battle of Mogadishu (the Black Hawk Down incident), 18 US soldiers were killed and 73 wounded, with a pair of Black Hawk helicopters shot down. The US responded by ceasing military operations, and within a few months had withdrawn all troops from Somalia. Today, they are headed back.

Wikileaks has just posted an unclassified email to Hillary Clinton from her foreign policy advisor, Jake Sullivan. The email is dated February 2012, with heading “See last item – AQ is on our side in Syria”.
AQ meaning Al Qaeda.

“[al-Quada] is on our side in Syria”–email from policy advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (Feb 2012)

(ANTIMEDIA) Who benefits from a military strike on the Syrian government? Certainly not the ideals that Donald J.

By M K Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline | April 9, 2017 The reverberations of the US missile attack in Syria on Thursday are inexorably felt in the geopolitical arena. A series of developments through the weekend signals that the Syrian conflict is entering a new phase. The most consequential development was a phone conversation Sunday […]

As an edgy comedian, Bill Maher prides himself on his “politically incorrect” religion-bashing, but his excessive attacks on Islam more aptly reflect a “politically correct” bigotry, as JP Sottile explains. By JP Sottile Bill Maher thinks he knows exactly why…Read more →

In the last six years or more Syria’s struggle has been an existential struggle. Its history and its culture have been threatened by external powers and their proxies who have tried to tear apart the Syrian State at all levels.

Al-Manar | April 7, 2017 The United States has launched on Friday morning dozens of Tomahawk cruise missiles at an airbase in Syria in response to this week’s alleged chemical attack that it has blamed on the Syrian government, the pentagon announced. The US military launched about 60 Tomahawk missiles against several targets on al-Shayrat […]

America’s unprovoked act of aggression against Syria is a war crime. It represents a personal policy about-face from Donald Trump who campaigned on a pledge to stay out of the Middle East.

Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 28, 2017. (Jim Lo Scalzo/AP)
Does President Donald Trump assume his administration can just launch a surprise, unilateral military attack against Syria?
“I’m not saying I’m doing anything one way or another, but I’m certainly not going to be telling you.” —President Donald Trump.

This frame grab from video provided on Tuesday April 4, 2017, by the Syrian anti-government group, the Edlib Media Center, shows victims of a suspected chemical attack, in the town of Khan Sheikhoun, northern Idlib province, Syria. (Edlib Media Center, via AP)