July 5, 2015
Footage shows teenagers shooting dead 25 Syrian soldiers in front of relatively sparse crowd of men and some children.
The executions in the Palmyra amphitheater were first reported on May 27 [Al Jazeera] (more…)
July 4, 2015
Syrian army and Hezbollah resistance fighters launched a wide-scale offensive on Saturday on several fronts in the southern Qalamoun city of Zabadani, where militants are holed up, amid artillery and aerial cover. (more…)
July 04, 2015
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attacked the UN Human Rights Council following a resolution accepting a UNHRC report, which presented evidence of war crimes committed by both Israel and Hamas in the summer of 2014. (more…)
By Tony Cartalucci on June 26, 2015
Unbeknownst to the general public, their elected politicians do not create the policy that binds their national destiny domestically or within the arena of geopolitics. (more…)
By Eric Draitser on June 24, 2015
When Saudi Arabia launched its war against Yemen in March 2015, it presumed that a short, quick, and clean air war would be enough to degrade the alliance of Houthi forces and those loyal to former President Saleh, thereby giving the Saudi-backed government of former President Hadi the necessary space to regain control of the country. (more…)
By Rania Khalek June 16, 2015
During his 2014 address to the UN General Assembly, Benjamin Netanyahu declared that “fighting militant Islam is indivisible.”The Israeli prime minister’s crude attempts to conflate ISIS with Hamas should not be allowed to conceal an important truth: Israel aids the forces of “militant Islam” when it is considered opportune to do so. (more…)
Local Editor on June 19, 2015
Syrian Arab Army Terrorist organizations continue to suffer more losses as the army goes on with its crackdown, foiling their infiltrating attempts and pushing terrorists back in strategic areas in the southern region and leaving many of them killed in areas across the country, state-run SANA news agency reported. (more…)
By Tony Cartalucci on June 15, 2015
Since ancient times an army required significant logistical support to carry out any kind of sustained military campaign. In ancient Rome, an extensive network of roads was constructed to facilitate not only trade, but to allow Roman legions to move quickly to where they were needed, and for the supplies needed to sustain military operations to follow them in turn. (more…)