How Russia responds to Israel’s attacks on Iranian targets inside Syria could make all the difference as to whether the region boils over into full-scale war or continues to simmer at its current, already dangerous, level. In an official statement last week, the special envoy of the president of Russia to Syria, Alexander Lavrentiev, indicated that Moscow was rapidly losing patience with Israel... 

Israeli missiles reportedly targeted Syria again on Monday. Usually carried out under the pretense of “targeting Iranian/Iranian-backed militias,” Israel’s strikes violate Syria’s sovereignty and breach international law. Israel’s military chief of staff boasted earlier about hitting over 500 targets in just 2020 alone. Bearing in mind that Syria’s air defenses do intercept... 

Antifa member Daniel Alan Baker has been arrested by the FBI for plotting to murder Trump supporters and police on Inauguration Day. According to Justice Department documents, Baker had trained in Syria in 2017 with the YPG, and in 2020 participated in the CHAZ insurrection in Seattle — and was once even featured on VICE. From The Tallahassee Democrat: Daniel Alan Baker, 33, was arrested Friday... 

In late 2019, US President Donald Trump candidly admitted that Washington had “left troops behind” in Syria “only for the oil”. Damascus has blasted Trump for pillaging the Arab Republic’s resources, but President Bashar al-Assad also praised him for openly admitting the real reason US forces continue to occupy part of his country. A convoy of 20 tankers laden with oil pumped from wells... 

Several military bases in central and southern Syria have been targeted by air attacks that Damascus has blamed on Israel, Syrian state media have reported. Videos on social media show massive explosions illuminating the night. Israel targeted several locations in Salamiyah and Saburah just before 1am on Wednesday, the Syrian army said, adding that its air defenses shot down “a large number” of... 

For more than 400,000 Germany’s immigrants, Jan. 1 is marked as their birthday in the Central Register of Foreign Nationals, with the majority of this group coming from Syria, Turkey, and Afghanistan, according to data obtained by the immigration restrictionist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. According to the data from the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), a quarter of the 416,420... 

Rahm Emanuel, up until recently the mayor of Chicago and before that a top advisor to the president in the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama White Houses and still earlier a volunteer in the Israeli Army, famously once commented that a good crisis should never be allowed to go to waste. He meant, of course, that a crisis can be exploited to provide cover for other shenanigans involving politicians. It... 

What a messed up planet we live on. How mentally messed up these fake “chosen people” are! Instead of being concerned with the Coronavirus pandemic and treating the sick, no, they are concerned with bombing other people. How come they are the ONLY country in the world engaged in bombing others and concerned more with bombs rather than the pandemic? These people are literally mentally ill... 

As the migrant crisis at the border of Greece deepens, it has become e that the vast majority of the so-called “refugees” that want to cross the border are not Syrians but are individuals from a broad range of nations in the Middle East and Africa. The regime leader of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, decided to open the border to Europe after claiming that EU wasn’t supporting Turkey’s military... 

After a little bit of digging, it turns out that it’s Russia’s fault for the immigration crisis in Greece now and yes this time we mean it, we’re not being sarcastic like in the case of Trump being a Russian agent, hacker, whatever. No this is real! Let us explore the never-discussed Russian role in the Muslim migrant crisis of the European Union. Well for starters, you need to know... 

The Syrian Army has allegedly lost over 2,500 troops as well as dozens of tanks and armored vehicles in numerous Turkish strikes, but this is “just the beginning,” as Turkey hasn’t yet shown its “true strength,” Erdogan warned. “We are just beginning to show our true strength to those who see our sensitivity as [the unwillingness] to shed blood, to hurt or [make someone] suffer, or as... 

Turkey has shot down two Syrian warplanes in Idlib as part of its offensive in the area. The Syrian Army destroyed several Turkish drones on the same day Turkey’s UAVs penetrated Syria’s airspace well beyond Idlib. Turkish fighter jets intercepted two Syrian warplanes over Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib and shot them down, the state-run SANA news outlet reported, adding that both planes’... 

The number of asylum applications filed in the European Union rose by 13 percent in 2019, marking the first increase since 2015. Over 714,000 applications were filed during 2019, up from roughly 635,000 the previous year, according to figures released by the European Asylum Support Office (EASO). “There were five times as many applications for asylum than detections at the external border, the... 

Footage from Syria purports to show a US armored personnel carrier pushing a Russian military jeep off the road; relations between Moscow and Washington remain tense. A video, posted on social media on Wednesday, shows what appears to be a Russian military convoy moving alongside an American one. At one point, a Russian Tigr heavy jeep tries to overtake an Oshkosh M-ATV armored vehicle with a US flag... 

The day before, the Turkish Defence Ministry announced that the country’s forces had struck 115 Syrian government targets, destroying 101 of them. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday commented on the recent escalation in northern Syria, vowing that the Syrian government “would pay a heavy price” for its actions. “Yesterday, the Syrian government received a mighty...