Category Archives: MIDDLE EAST

First Mosul then Raqqa. How Washington targets civilians

White phosphorus causes terrifying effects: contacting a human skin, it burns it to the bone, and if a person inhales the gas released during the burning, he would start choking and literally burn from the inside. It also ignites high temperature fires that are difficult to extinguish. First Mosul then Raqqa. How Washington targets civilians Yesterday, a monitoring group Raqqa is

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Financial Times: America Cannot Hide the Economic Causes of the Airstrike

FT argues in the video it is the establishment of the control over the area is the reason for the U.S. to enter the battle. On the eve the coalition led by the United States struck a blow at the Syrian pro-government forces near the At-Tanf area. “US special forces are training allied Syrian rebels to fight the jihadi group

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Sophie Mangal: Another U.S. Attempt to Undermine Negotiations on Syria

Amnesty’s findings were in fact fabricated. They have nothing in common with the information inside Syria what could confirm tortures and murders. It looks like designing the latest generation of horror computer games or films. Another U.S. Attempt to Undermine Negotiations on Syria On the eve of another round of Geneva VI talks, large western news agencies BBC and the AP

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Sophie Mangal: ESCALATION IN SYRIA: Erdogan I – The Phantom Menace of NATO

ESCALATION IN SYRIA: Erdogan I – The Phantom Menace of NATO   Deputy Spokesperson of the U.S. Department of State, Mark Toner, during a regular briefing on April 25 said that the U.S. expresses serious concern over Turkey’s aggression in Syria and Iraq. It should be mentioned that in the morning, April 25 the Turkish Air Force struck the positions of

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Safe zones in Syria: Astana’s key to political settlement – by Sophie Mangal

Not so long ago the U.S. put up an initiative to create “no-fly zones” and “safe zones” in Syria while Turkey offered to set up refugee zones along the Syrian-Turkish border. However, there were concerns that Washington and Ankara may support the Syrian opposition under the pretext of a humanitarian operation.

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INVESTIGATION: Route of Bulgarian Weapon Deliveries to Syrian Islamists Exposed- by Sophie Mangal

The fact of Bulgarian weapons deliveries to terrorists is confirmed by the FSA deputy commander Col. Malik al-Kurdi. In an interview to the Trud newspaper, he claimed that “an HQ has been set up in Turkey and Jordan to ensure cooperation between the special services of 15 states. We warned the U.S. and the EU that the weapons delivered in

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S. MANGAL: US-led Coalition Airstrike On Assad’s Forces in Syria Was Not Accidental

So, what’s the true reason of such aggressive actions of the US-led international coalition this time? A number of Syrian military analysts believe that the U.S. Air Force main task was to hamper Syrian pro-government forces and to slow down their further advance towards Deir ez-Zor rather than to ‘protect’ U.S. ‘partners’. Their actions are motivated by the fact that

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Sophie Mangal: ESCALATION IN SYRIA: Erdogan I – The Phantom Menace of NATO

Deputy Spokesperson of the U.S. Department of State, Mark Toner, during a regular briefing on April 25 said that the U.S. expresses serious concern over Turkey’s aggression in Syria and Iraq. It should be mentioned that in the morning, April 25 the Turkish Air Force struck the positions of Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in the Karachok mountain region in

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Al-Tabqa: More than 20 IS Fighters were Killed in Combat – Sophie Mangal

…24 ISIS fighters were liquidated in combat with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) near the city of Al-Tabqa to the north of the country this day. …The U.S. participation in the operation for the liberation of Al-Tabqa, U.S. SOF, never-ceasing air strikes and constant losses of life among civilians cause huge protests of the official Damascus, which has repeatedly stressed

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