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Syrian Air Defense Ready to Destroy Turkish Warplanes If They Attack Afrin – Deputy FM
By , January 18, 2018
Syria’s Air Defense Forces are ready to react to any Turkish hostile action in Afrin and the Damascus government will consider the Turkish military operation there as an act of aggression, deputy foreign minister Faisal Meqdad told reporters on January 18, according to the state-run news agency SANA.
Breaking – Tillerson Unveils ‘New’ US Syria Plan: ‘Assad Must Go!’
By , January 18, 2018
In a speech at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and introduced by President George W. Bush’s Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, Secretary Tillerson vowed that the United States military would continue to occupy Syrian territory until three conditions are met.
U.S. Creates Kurdish/Terrorist “Border Force” in Syria to Define Borders of Kurdistan
By , January 18, 2018
For those that hoped Trump would bring a more sensible approach to the Western-induced Syrian crisis, it is almost for certain that those hopes have been officially dashed with the revelation of the Trump administration’s new policy regarding the SDF, Kurds, a new border force, and the logical partitioning plan that is obviously moving forward.
US to Set Up 30,000-strong “Border Force” in Syria
By , January 18, 2018
In a provocative step that immediately fuelled tensions with Turkey and Russia, the US announced last weekend the establishment of a 30,000-strong Border Security Force (BSF) in enclaves of Syria under the control of the American proxies fighting to topple the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad. The BSF will be dominated by fighters from Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), alongside elements from various Islamist militias.
Watch as ISIS and Al-Nusra Smuggle Money into Syria Using Vehicles with Red Cross Logos
By , January 18, 2018
A video has been uploaded of huge amounts of cash that was smuggled into Syria for ISIS and the Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Nusra Front using Red Cross logos on the boxes the money was stored in.
Syria’s Kurdish Led SDF: “Border Force” or “Terror Army”?
By , January 18, 2018
The US announced that it will train a 30,000-strong “border force” of the Kurdish-led SDF in Northern Syria in a controversial move that was immediately slammed by Turkey as the creation of a “terror army”. President Erdogan has long been opposed to the establishment of a de-facto Kurdish statelet along his country’s southern border, and the US strategy is playing right into his greatest fears.
