Category: Middle East

While the Impeachment Nonsense Continues…US Sending 3,000 Troops to Saudi Arabia to ‘Deter’ Iran

Randolph Jason

While the Impeachment Nonsense Continues…US Sending 3,000 Troops to Saudi Arabia to ‘Deter’ Iran by Jason Ditz for Anti-War GNN Note – Nothing like a nonissue such as Schiffty Schiff and imposters are presenting that suck all the oxygen out of the room as troops are mobilized for war. ****** Troops will stay as long as they are able US intentions to send around 3,000 ground troops to Saudi Arabia’s oil producing area were reported back in October, but it was only on Tuesday that the Trump Administration sent letters to…

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Turkey Begins Deporting Captured Islamic State Terrorists to U.S., Germany, France

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Turkey Begins Deporting Captured Islamic State Terrorists to U.S., Germany, France by SIMON KENT for Breitbart Turkey is following through on its promise to repatriate captured Islamic State terrorists, signalling Monday that NATO allies France, Germany, Denmark, and the U.S. will be the first on the receiving end of returned jihadists. Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu warned last week Ankara would begin to send back Islamic State militants to their home countries even if their citizenships have been revoked, as Breitbart News reported. Turkey’s warning came despite the unwillingness of Europe states…

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Russia Is Helping to Restore Syria’s Synagogues Demolished by the US/Israel-Backed FSA

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Russia Is Helping to Restore Syria’s Synagogues Demolished by the US/Israel-Backed FSA by Zvi Bar’el for Check Point Asia Putin reveals Russia is helping out the Syrian Jews On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin parted with an important secret. At a press conference with his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban in Budapest, he said that Russia maintains a close relationship with Syria’s Jewish community, and is even helping to restore its synagogues. Putin did not go into detail regarding the identity of the community members receiving assistance, how much money the Russian government is…

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Russia Partners with Hungary to Aid Syrian Christians

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Russia Partners with Hungary to Aid Syrian Christians by THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D for Breitbart Russia and Hungary have agreed to jointly rebuild a monastery in Syria, along with financing a large bakery to provide bread for a whole city, Hungarian foreign minister Peter Szijjarto told public radio on Sunday. Making reference to a recent visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin to Budapest, Mr. Szijjarto said that Hungary has sought to build cooperation with Russia to protect Christian communities, which he described as “a very serious, tense, international and political” issue. Both…

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Hungary Shows the Way to Help Threatened Christians, Yazidis of Syria, Iraq

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Hungary Shows the Way to Help Threatened Christians, Yazidis of Syria, Iraq by Martin Sieff for Strategic-Culture It is ludicrous and shameful that President Donald Trump should face an onslaught of hysterical hatred for taking even the most cautious and tiniest of steps to try and scale back the metastasized US military presence across the Middle East. Meanwhile the appalling, abominable chaos and suffering inflicted on the region by the holier-than-thou “righteous” military interventions unleashed by Trump’s two predecessors George W. Bush and Barack Obama continue to pour suffering, persecution,…

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“We Have Hours Left”: Turkish Ceasefire On Edge Of Collapse As Erdogan Gives Kurds Hours To Flee Territory

Randolph Jason

“We Have Hours Left”: Turkish Ceasefire On Edge Of Collapse As Erdogan Gives Kurds Hours To Flee Territory from ZeroHedge .. as last week’s ceasefire – which has just over 24 hours to go – now appears in jeopardy. On Monday, Turkey gave Kurdish fighters until Tuesday night to leave a narrow strip of territory in northeastern Syria or face becoming targets, setting aside its demand for the militia to withdraw from a much larger “safe zone.” “We have hours left,” Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told a forum organized…

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Mike Pence Announces Turkey Ceasefire in Syria

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Mike Pence Announces Turkey Ceasefire in Syria by Charles Spiering for Breitbart Vice President Mike Pence announced at a press conference Thursday that the United States and Turkey had reached a 120-hour ceasefire agreement in Syria. Pence announced the news after meeting for more than five hours in Turkey with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Turkish authorities. He also announced that Turkey would pause its military invasion to allow the withdrawal of YPG forces from the safe zone. The safe zone includes a 20-mile-wide area south of the Turkish border…

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Erdogan Holding 50 US Tactical Nukes ‘Hostage’ As Trump Authorizes Sanctions

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Erdogan Holding 50 US Tactical Nukes ‘Hostage’ As Trump Authorizes Sanctions from ZeroHedge Amid all the media and pundit outrage since Turkey’s President Erdogan launched his so-called ‘Operation Peace Spring’ into northeast Syria last week, vowing to wipe out Syrian Kurdish forces who’ve long held the border areas, what’s been largely missing is acknowledgement of the uncomfortable fact that NATO ally Turkey has long hosted a major portion of America’s nuclear Cold War-era arsenal stored across Europe. And as Erdogan threatens to “open the doors and send 3.6 million migrants” to Europe while under increased…

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Russia Urges Syrian Kurds to Ally with Assad

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Russia Urges Syrian Kurds to Ally with Assad by Ben Kew for Breitbart Russia will urge Kurdish leaders in northern Syria to open talks with Bashar al-Assad’s regime, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday. Addressing a press conference with his Kazakh counterpart on Thursday, Lavrov argued there needed to be a dialogue between the central government in Damascus and the representatives of the Kurdish communities within northern Syria. “After the exchange of statements which took place between Washington and Ankara, we contacted the Kurdish community and the government of Syria, and it…

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IT’S WAR: TURKEY LAUNCHES ‘OPERATION PEACE SPRING’ WITH BLISTERING MILITARY OFFENSIVE INTO NORTHERN SYRIA AS AIR STRIKES TARGET CIVILIAN AREAS

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IT’S WAR: TURKEY LAUNCHES ‘OPERATION PEACE SPRING’ WITH BLISTERING MILITARY OFFENSIVE INTO NORTHERN SYRIA AS AIR STRIKES TARGET CIVILIAN AREAS by Geoffrey Grider Now The End Begins Erdogan tweeted today that his armed forces along with the Syrian National Army had launched ‘Operation Peace Spring’ to ‘prevent the creation of a terror corridor’ along the Turkish border.    He added the aim to is to eliminate threats from the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and the Islamic State militants, and enable the return of Syrian refugees in Turkey after the formation of a…

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