Pentagon spokesperson Peter Cook answers questions from reporters. In a departure from its previous assessments, the US Defense Department has acknowledged that Russia’s air campaign was concentrated on the Daesh (ISIS/ISIL) terrorist group in Syria. Russia gave the US advance notice before launching airstrikes on Daesh positions in the Syrian city of Raqqah, the group’s de facto capital, Pentagon... 

An oil field in northern Syria, which fell to militants during the country’s insurgency crisis. The United States military has ramped up its offensives against the Daesh (ISIS/ISIL) terrorist group in Syria, taking out scores of militant trucks during an aerial raid in the Arab country’s east, according to the New York Times. The US daily said Monday that American warplanes for the first time... 

Muslim terrorists opened fire in multiple Paris locations on Friday evening, resulting in several casualties. Explosions were also heard nearby. Over 150 people have been killed, according to French authorities. Attacks occurred in at least seven locations, including the Les Halles shopping mall, the Louvre, the football stadium, and the Bataclan concert hall, where hostages were taken. Two explosions... 

The Iranian news agency Sahar claims Syrian General Mohammad Issa has warned the French his country will target the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle if it approaches the Syrian coast. On November 5 French President Francois Hollande said the aircraft carrier would be sent to Syria. “The deployment of the battle group formed around the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle was decided to participate... 

On Sunday France announced it had bombed an oil supply center held by ISIS near Deir Ezzor in Syria. “We intervened in Syria… yesterday evening with a strike on an oil supply center near Deir Ezzor on the border between Iraq and Syria,” French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Monday. The Syrian Army, backed up Russian airstrikes, have made significant progress taking back the Deir... 

The new blood-chilling video showing the execution of children by ISIS Islamists has shocked the whole world. It is assumed that the children on the video were captives of the Islamic State terrorist organization. According to mirror.co.uk, the video was obtained from the rebel army that fight against Islamists in Yemen. In the video, one can see children bound and forced to lie face down as they... 

Russia has deployed missile defense systems to Syria to protect its military forces and equipment stationed in the Arab country, the head of the Russian air force says. Referring to the potential threats against Russian military forces and equipment in Syria, Colonel General Viktor Bondarev said fighter jets could be hijacked in countries neighboring Syria and used to attack the Russian forces. “We... 

On Tuesday November 3rd, U.S. Defense Department spokesperson Laura Seal told The Daily Beast that twelve F-15C air-to-air combat planes are being sent to the Incirlik Turkey Air Base for deployment in Syria against Russia’s Su-30 air-to-air combat planes. Neither the F-15C nor the Su-30 can destroy ground-targets, only air-targets — enemy planes. In other words: U.S. President Barack Obama is... 

Obama’s decision to send Special Forces into Syria is being widely viewed as a US military escalation in the country. The troop dispatch also signals that the US trying to forestall Russian successes in wiping out Washington’s regime-change assets in Syria. In short, the US Special Forces are being used as “human shields” to curb Russian air strikes against anti-government mercenaries, many... 

German government officials have compelled a small town with just 102 people to take in approximately 750 migrants from Syria and other countries, The New York Times wrote Saturday. Sumte, a small town at the western fringe of the former East Germany, was informed earlier this month by its municipal government that it had been assigned to accept over a thousand of the asylum seekers that have poured... 

US officials have confirmed today that special forces soldiers will be deployed on the ground in Syria, despite the fact that Obama promised he wouldn’t deploys ‘boots on the ground’. A senior administration official told the BBC that there will be “fewer than 50” forces deployed in the region to “train, advise and assist” vetted opposition forces. According to the official, this does... 

Earlier this month as illegal and largely Muslim migrants continued to surge into Europe from Syria, Iraq, Eritrea and Afghanistan, a German political scientist, Jürgen W. Falter, warned his country faces disaster. Falter said during an interview with the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung newspaper that statements by Chancellor Angela Merkel sound “like an invitation to the entire world that unlimited... 

Islamic State terrorists have gained access to the production of chemical weapons, the head of the department for non-proliferation and arms control of the Russian Foreign Ministry Mikhail Ulyanov said, Pravda.Ru reports with reference to TASS. “By all accounts, the Islamic State group has gained access to technologies for the production of chemical weapons,” the official said. Ulyanov... 

The consequences of potential US ground operations in Syria would be unpredictable, the head of Russia’s parliamentary committee on foreign affairs told RT. He added that claims Russian airstrikes have targeted civilians are part of ongoing information war. “If there …[is] any evidence …[it] should be presented and Russia is definitely open to making further investigations,” Chairman... 

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says a lot of weird things, but he got one issue right on Monday, Russian airstrikes against ISIL in Syria are a good thing. When asked about his vision of US foreign policy, Trump said that he’d make the US military so big and strong that no one would “mess with [the United States].” “If Russia wants to go into Syria and bomb...