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More than half a million people in rebel-held suburbs to the east of Damascus are facing imminent starvation, after the Syrian army broke through rebel lines last week, separating people from the agricultural land that was the area’s breadbasket. The people of East Ghouta have survived a three-year siege thanks to produce grown in fields […]

In Syria, George Haswani sees himself as a patriot. In the West, he is a wanted man. Mr. Haswani acts as a middleman between Islamic State and the Syrian government, the terror group’s largest customer, Western security officials allege. Islamic State controls much of Syria’s energy infrastructure and sells stolen oil and natural gas at […]

The Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad has negotiated multimillion-dollar oil deals with the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), new documents retrieved from a U.S. raid against the radical Islamists’ oil chief have revealed. A U.S. special forces raid on ISIS’s oil minister—known by his nom de guerre Abu Sayyaf—in May 2015 saw the extraction of […]

Editor’s Note: While there is some debate of what exact mission the Russian Air Force (RuAF) actually accomplished in Syria, Sputnik News has released a video depicting some of the major milestones achieved during combat operations, as well as providing justification for the RuAF’s departure. While air bases and regional naval facilities remain in operation, […]

There may be a tentative cease-fire at present, but let’s not get carried away. The war in Syria is going nowhere fast. It staggers along, with daily violations and a rising body count — another vicious “problem from hell.” Estimates vary, but some observers now put the death toll in Syria at nearly 500,000 and […]

This video (warning, graphic) was just released a couple of days ago, after ISIS completed an offensive campaign in Yemen where they retook the states (wilayat) of Aden and Abyan, now referring to it as one state. The Houthis (a.k.a. Ansar Allah) in the region are a coalition of Shia Islamic forces—anti-U.S. and anti-Sunni. Despite the usual principle of “the enemy of […]

I always think of the linguists we worked with in-theater. Soldiers who had earlier been refugees from Iran and Pakistan and later became Canadians were risking their lives beside mine.

A new video has emerged showing the so-called New Syrian Army in action, kitted out with American weapons and equipment.  The train and equip program is a funded and run under the auspices of the CIA but the actual military training which the New Syrian Army receives is conducted by US Special Operations personnel.  The New […]

Rather than trying to oust regimes that don’t “conform” to Western ideals, such as the Assad regime, we should be looking at alternative solutions.

Task Force Orange is the JSOC element charged with intelligence collection and operational preparation of the environment for future operations.

Efforts to find a viable partner force to help America combat first the Assad regime, and later ISIS, have been underway for several years now. Unfortunately, most of those efforts have focused around the so-called Free Syrian Army. America jumped in the Syrian Civil War way too late in the game. By the time the […]

In remarks on Monday, Feb 17, Secretary of State John Kerry criticized Russia’s continued support for the Assad regime.  In Jakarta, just before flying to Abu Dhabi, UAE, he said, “They’re, in fact, enabling Assad to double down, which is creating an enormous problem.” US policy has been, for some time now, to push for […]