Sputnik – June 27, 2018 With two Israeli missile having struck targets near a Syrian airport on Tuesday, Rick Sterling, an investigative journalist and member of the Syria Solidarity Movement, told Sputnik that the likelihood of Israel backing down from its attacks are pretty slim. As Sputnik previously reported, the Israeli Air Force was attempting […]
https://southfront.org/syrian-war-report-june-27-2018-militants-defense… The Syrian Arab Army (SAA), backed up by the Tiger Forces and the National Defense Forces, have liberated the town of Busra al-Harir, the village of Malihat al-Atash and
Russian President Vladimir Putin and US National Security Adviser John Bolton met Wednesday in a preparatory meeting regarding a long-awaited and anticipated summit with President Donald Trump. That summit has been looking more and more likely to happen since the first known reports in The Wall Street Journal on 2 June, and today’s meeting appeared by all accounts to be very positive.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won his second consecutive term as leader of Turkey, but the first one under “a new system” where Erdogan will be president and executive of the country.
The head of Turkey’s High Electoral Board (YSK) said that Erdogan had secured more than 50 percent of the votes needed for the victory.
In the parliamentary election, Erdogan’s AK Party placed first with over 45 percent. The pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) also entered the parliament after passing the 10 percent threshold.
(MEMO) — Syria’s permanent representative to the UN Bashar al-Jaafari has accused the United States of training “terrorists” in sites that it occupies in his country, near Jordan’s border, the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) has reported. The Syrian diplomat said during a Security Council meeting that in the past eight years his country has suffered from a […]
This past May, the United States Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, announced the government’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy at US border crossings. It was a matter of weeks before the new policy began yielding tragic outcomes. Those attempting to unlawfully cross into the US were subject to federal criminal prosecution, while their children were taken away by federal authorities, which placed them in cage-like facilities.
As promised, back to SyriaFirst up, Robert Fisk from the Independent: This moment will go down in history: the US has given up on the overthrow of Assad in Syria
By Whitney Webb | Mint Press News | June 26, 2018 Last Sunday, June 17, local Syrian media reported that the U.S. coalition had bombed Syrian Arab Army installments in the town of Al-Hariri. The bombing killed dozens of Syrian Arab Army (SAA) soldiers as well as 22 fighters from the Iraqi paramilitary group known […]
Both President Trump and former President Obama are commonly said in America’s ‘news’ media to be or to have been “ceding Syria to Russia” or “ceding Syria to Russia and Iran,” or similar allegations. They imply that ‘we’ own (or have some right to control) Syria.
