21st July, 2017
According to the Washington Post, President Trump has terminated all CIA programmes providing support to jihadists in Syria.
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Washington has terminated all support for jihadists
Posted by seumasach on July 21, 2017
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US and France abandon regime change in Syria
Posted by seumasach on July 16, 2017
Alexander Mercouris
16th July, 2017
Summit of US and French Presidents provides final confirmation that the West’s regime change war in Syria has failed and is being abandoned.
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The New Silk Road will go through Syria
Posted by seumasach on July 15, 2017
Pepe Escobar
13th July, 2017
Amid the proverbial doom and gloom pervading all things Syria, the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune sometimes yield, well, good fortune.
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France’s Macron says Assad removal no longer necessary
Posted by seumasach on June 24, 2017
A refreshing does of realism from Europe since, of course, the removal of Assad is no longer within the West’s powers anyway.
21st June, 2017
French President Emmanuel Macron said his country no longer deems the removal of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as a precondition for resolving the conflict in the Arab country.
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Britain could join US in Syria air strikes against Assad without parliamentary approval, Boris Johnson says
Posted by seumasach on April 19, 2017
Still revelling in the glory of having been informed in advance of Trump’s airstrikes on Syria, the British leadership, characteristically, is placing it’s most fervent hopes on further military action against the man who stands between stability and the descent of Syria into the kind of chaos we engendered in Libya. I don’t know- they are simply incorrigible! We must hope that Trump turns out to be a disappointment to them for all his bluff and bluster.
Independent
18th April, 2017
Boris Johnson has said Britain could join US air strikes against the “monster” Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, despite a previous vote against intervention.
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Corbyn speaks out on Trump’s overnight blitz
Posted by seumasach on April 7, 2017
7th April, 2017
This is the full statement published by Jeremy Corbyn in response to US air strikes on a Syrian air base in the early hours of this morning.
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Women, children refugees in Europe ‘starting to go missing’
Posted by seumasach on February 2, 2017
1st February, 2017
At least 1,500 human trafficking cases have been registered in Syria in the past year, according to the country’s Interior Ministry. Refugees who arrive in Europe are far from safe and they too fall victims to trafficking. Sputnik spoke about this with reporter Poppy Damon from The International Women’s Initiative in an interview.
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Lavrov warns West will have to pay dearly for stoking revolutions in Middle East
Posted by seumasach on January 30, 2017
25th January, 2017
MOSCOW, January 25. /TASS/. The West will have to pay dearly for violent regime change and the instigation of revolutions in the Middle East that have plunged the region into chaos, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday.
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Liberation of Aleppo represents US’s most serious setback in 15 years
Posted by seumasach on December 22, 2016
Tim Anderson
21st December, 2016
In late 2016, at the cost of many young lives, Syrian forces took back the eastern part of the city of Aleppo, occupied by NATO and Saudi backed terrorists for more than four years.
The liberation of Aleppo, Syria’s second city and an ancient marvel, represents the most serious setback for the 15-year long Washington-led aggression on the entire region. An effective re-colonization of the region has stretched from Afghanistan to Libya, under a range of false pretexts. Invasions and proxy wars have been backed by economic sanctions and wild propaganda.
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Peace in Syria – it’s the last thing the US wants
Posted by seumasach on December 14, 2016
Neil Clark
12th December, 2016
Last week US President Obama waived military aid restrictions for “foreign forces” and others in Syria. When hopes were raised for an end to the Syrian conflict following the recapture of most of eastern Aleppo, the US is pouring more petrol on the fire.
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What would an ‘America First’ foreign policy look like?
Posted by seumasach on December 3, 2016
Justin Raimundo
23rd November, 2016
As Donald Trump takes the reins and we all prepare for the next four years, the need to translate rhetoric into reality comes to the fore. Trump spent the campaign repeating a phrase that horrified the elites – especially the foreign policy Establishment – even adopting it as his official campaign theme: “America first.”
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