Al Qaeda

Syrian Army Vows Revenge for 20 Soldiers Killed in Jihadist Attack

The last week has seen a new trend developing in northern Syria, whereby terrorist commando units are infiltrating deep into government-held Syrian territory in order to mount deadly raids taking out military positions and killing Syrian and allied personnel.
This development coincides with the recent announcement by al Nusra rebrand, Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) that it has now unified all militant groups in Idlib under one unified command and control structure.

The 24 Mentality: The CIA, Torture and the ‘Ticking Bomb’ Scenario

Just as politicians start to believe their own speeches, intelligence agencies start to believe their own propaganda. Nowhere is this clearer than in the CIA's black stite torture program initiated in the wake of 9/11. Recently declassified documents detailing current CIA director Gina Haspel's role in the torture program show that the Agency adopted the '24 mentality' whereby they excused their crimes via claiming to stop imminent terrorist plots.

FLASHPOINT LATAKIA: Israel’s ‘Psychotic’ War Games Continue Over Syria

On Monday night, just hours after the presidents of Russia and Turkey agreed to de-escalate the situation in Syria’s Idlib province, Israel launched another round of airstrikes on Syria – this time on the city of Latakia – resulting in the accidental downing of a Russian Il-20 military plane, shot down by Syrian Air Defen