Putin has essentially called the West's bluff on battling ISIS, and moved to protect Assad's comparatively mild and secular regime from the gambit of Western-sponsored terrorism that is being used to shock the region into submission
On Wednesday evening, we suggested that Vladimir Putin's explicit promise to go ahead with airstrikes against terrorist targets in Syria with or without the help of the US effectively marks the end of Washington's years-old effort to destabilize
A tall rectangular building juts out of a mountainside on a Norwegian island just 800 miles from the North Pole. Narrow and sharply edged, the facility cuts an intimidating figure against the barren Arctic background. But the gray building holds the
Exclusive: The neocons' obsession with "regime change" in Syria is driving another one of Official Washington's "group thinks" toward rejecting Russia's offer to help stabilize the war-torn country and stem the destabilizing flood of re
US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power told CNN that Russian support for the Syrian government is "not a winning strategy." Meanwhile, the US strategy of fighting ISIS has yet to produce tangible results. What's going on?
Earlier today, US Central Command Gen. Lloyd Austin III seemed to suggest that US SpecOps were fighting alongside YPG in Syria. As we noted when the news hit, if true that won't go over well with Turkey's Erdogan, Washington's brand new coaliti
The Syrian military has recently started using new types of air and ground weapons supplied by Russia, a Syrian military source told Reuters on Thursday, underlining growing Russian support to Damascus that is alarming the United States.
As Assad noted, the United States government and NATO have funded and trained the Syrian rebels who ended up becoming ISIS. The rebels have been attempting to take over the Syrian government, not to set the people of Syria
US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power told CNN that Russian support for the Syrian government is "not a winning strategy." Meanwhile, the US strategy of fighting ISIS has yet to produce tangible results. What's going on?
No, I'm not kidding. I can solve the immigration and refugee crises without more wars, without rounding people up like animals, and while boosting the GDP. It's not hard. All you have to do is stop thinking inside the same old status quo.
James Paul Author of Syria Unmasked) on the Syrian refugee situation - Christoper Waid (Founder and CEO of Think Penguin) and Jay Kalafus on network security (PUBLISHER RECOMMENDED - TPM Chip, They/Them/Those a'com'n
Russia has positioned about a half dozen tanks at an airfield at the center of a military buildup in Syria, two U.S. officials said on Monday, adding that the intentions of Moscow's latest deployment of heavy military equipment were unclear.
Exclusive: The U.S. State Department is trying to block Russian supplies going to Syria's embattled government despite the risk that collapsing the regime would create a vacuum filled by the Islamic State or Al Qaeda, another nightmare dreamt up by
Exclusive: The U.S. State Department is trying to block Russian supplies going to Syria's embattled government despite the risk that collapsing the regime would create a vacuum filled by the Islamic State or Al Qaeda, another nightmare dreamt up by