The latest incident brings to mind shades of The Terminal, a 2004 Hollywood comedy-drama by Steven Spielberg about an Eastern European man who ends up stranded at JFK Airport’s terminal in New York after being denied entry into the US and his defunct native country. Only in this edition, the ‘stateless’ man’s home was the Islamic State of Syria and Sham (ISIS).
As multiple actors compete for land and leverage in northeastern Syria, the risk of country-on-country war looms ever closer.
Syrian War Report – November 4, 2019: ‘Withdrawing’ US Troops Setting Up New Military Bases The Syrian Army and Turkish-led forces are strengthening their positions on a contact line in
Just three weeks ago, the western pro-war neoliberal and neocon politicians and their respective mainstream media outlets were all up in arms, shrieking in unison with cries of betrayal after US President Donald Trump announced he would be pulling US troops out of Syria.
At the time, most people believed he was serious, even the skeptics and critics. The Neoliberal wing of his opposition castigated Trump for “abandoning the Kurds,” and the Neoconservatives railed against him for “giving ISIS a lifeline” and “caving to Putin and Assad.”
Throughout history, America’s CIA has always viewed religious institutions and movements around the world as an access point – in order to insert US influence, and to divide and destabilize regions along geopolitical lines.
Syrian War Report – October 28, 2019: US Forces Kill al-Baghdadi In Ovenight Raid On Idlib Province U.S. Special Operations forces eliminated ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi during a
Syrian War Report – October 17, 2019: Syrian Army Entering Kobani And Raqqa On October 16, units of the Syrian Army entered the city of Raqqah for the first time
Normally, 21WIRE would not disseminate news releases coming from ‘Amaq’ which is said to be ISIS’s in-house news agency, but we’re sharing this report via South Front to illustrate an important point that maybe the US-backed Kurdish-led ‘SDF Forces’ were always unsustainable, in that, without an indefinite US occupying force propping them up, they are unable to fulfill their primary obligations of their mission, namely to secure ISIS prisoners held in detention.
https://southfront.org/turkish-operation-peace-spring-in-northeastern-s… Turkey officially announced that it had launched a military operation in northeastern Syria. Over the past years, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other representatives of the country’s leadership
Yemen War Report – October 2, 2019: Houthis Deliver Devastating Blow To Saudi Arabi In late September, Yemen’s Houthis carried out a large-scale operation against Saudi-led forces on the border
