(ANTIWAR.COM) — Three years into the 2015 Saudi-led invasion of Yemen, untold thousands are dead. Northern Yemen has been through the worst cholera outbreak in human history, and civilians continue to die in bunches from Saudi airstrikes against the region. To call Yemen war-torn is really putting it mildly. Yemen is in a disastrous state, with a […]
(MEMO) — Some 2,100 Iranian soldiers have been killed in Syria and Iraq over the past seven years, the first official statistic on military losses in the conflict has revealed, according to the New Khalij. The figure was announced at a tree planting ceremony in Tehran yesterday, in which a seeding tree was sowed for each soldier who […]
(MEE) — Russia and Syria are responsible for the “heart-breaking human suffering” in the Syrian rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta, US President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Sunday. The two leaders discussed the “appalling humanitarian situation in Eastern Ghouta” during a phone call Sunday detailed by May’s Downing Street office. “They agreed it was […]
(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) — This week, 25 people were slaughtered in yet another mass killing, and half of those deaths were women and children. But you won’t see these murders broadcast relentlessly on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, nor discussed at length in social media threads. That’s because the U.S. military committed them in their crusade against the Islamic State’s “last […]
(ANTIWAR.COM) — After a week and a half of strikes softening up the area, and killing large numbers of civilian bystanders, Syrian ground troops launched an offensive on Wednesday into the rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta. Eastern Ghouta, a suburb of the capital city of Damascus, is the last substantial rebel-held territory in the area, which has been […]
(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) — As Americans debate domestic gun control following the mass shooting at a Florida high school last week, funding for military arms has evaded public scrutiny. The United States Department of Defense recently released its summary of the 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS) with little fanfare. The first thing to note is how little media coverage the NDS […]
(ZHE) — In the aftermath of Robert Mueller’s indictment against 13 Russian “operatives” for meddling with the US presidential election, President Trump has been under fire for lashing out at everyone… except Russia. So, in response, Bloomberg reports that the Trump administration is weighing citing the deaths of more than 200 Russian fighters – or rather mercenaries – in […]
(MEMO) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has called on the United States not to “play with fire” in Syria. “I once again call on our American colleagues to avoid playing with fire and measure their steps proceeding not from immediate needs of today’s political environment, but rather from long-term interests of the Syrian people and of […]
(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) — On February 16, 2018, Bloomberg’s Eli Lake published an article entitled “Don’t Be Fooled: Russia Attacked U.S. Troops in Syria.” For context, the U.S.-led coalition conducted air and artillery strikes against what was believed to be pro-government forces in Syria on February 7, 2018, in response to an “unprovoked attack” launched by these pro-regime forces. Not long after, reports began emerging that significant […]
(MEE) — Syrian government forces are to enter the northern Kurdish enclave Afrin “within hours” to help repel a Turkish offensive, Syrian state media said on Monday, after a deal was struck between the Assad government and Kurdish authorities. “Popular forces will enter Afrin within hours,” Ikhbariya said, citing its own correspondent. The state news agency SANA […]
