Congressional Letter Urges Trump to Keep US Troops in Syria
• https://news.antiwar.com, Jason DitzLawmakers call on Trump to 'increase pressure on Iran and Russia'
ON AIR NOW
Click to Play
Lawmakers call on Trump to 'increase pressure on Iran and Russia'
It has been about a week since the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media (WGSPM) published a leaked internal document from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) investigation into an alleged chemical attack in Douma,
Syria
Syria
Syria - The chemical watchdog group is mandated "to implement the provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention…to achieve…a world…free of" CWs.
Syria - Time and again throughout years of US aggression in Syria, its ISIS, al-Nusra, and other jihadist foot soldiers staged CW attacks, falsely blamed on Damascus.
On April 7 2018 Syrian 'rebels' claimed that the Syrian government used chlorine gas and Sarin in an attack on the besieged Douma suburb near the Syrian capital Damascus. They published a series of videos which showed dead bodies of mainly women and
Syria - Lies, damn lies, and Big Lies are NYT specialties, notably on geopolitical issues, especially about US adversaries -- Syria one of many targeted countries.
At a moment the Persian Gulf is heating up given the highest tensions and exchange of threats in years between the US and Iran, Tehran is running the high risk gambit of restarting its crude transfers to Syria.
In April of 2013, Britain and France informed the United Nations that there was credible evidence that Syria used chemical weapons against rebel forces. Only two months later, in June of 2013, the United States concluded that the Syrian government di
Syria
Throughout the last months the military situation in west Syria was more or less stable. That is about to change.
Officials say territory 'not a bad situation'
"Coalition forces razed Raqqa, but they cannot erase the truth."
The deep irony of the tragic Syria war is that after seven years of massive bloodshed, as the government has emerged victorious, it is only now with relative stability and ensuing calm over most of the country that an "economic siege" has hit the pop
Earlier this morning, the Israeli Air Force launched several airstrikes on the key Syrian city of Masyaf in the Hama Governorate. According to a military source near the scene of the airstrikes, the Israeli warplanes hit a number of sites near the Ma
Earlier this morning, the Israeli Air Force launched several airstrikes on the key Syrian city of Masyaf in the Hama Governorate. According to a military source near the scene of the airstrikes, the Israeli warplanes hit a number of sites near the Ma
It's a neocon nightmare come true: for the first time in modern history Iran is set establish a Mediterranean port on the Syrian coast.
Syria
Goal is to have 1,000 troops in Syria by May
The secret services of France and Belgium are plotting to stage a false flag chemical attack in Syria to frame Moscow, the Russian Defense Ministry said. Agents of the two countries are cooperating with terrorist leaders in Idlib.
Syria's UN ambassador has suggested the US hand "a couple" of its own states over to Israel instead of flouting international law and selling others' land for favors with the Israeli lobby, like it did with the Golan Heights.
President Trump's point man for Syria has said that the defeat of ISIS will not result in a US withdrawal from its illegal occupation of Syrian territory. In fact, he said, the US would continue to support the anti-Assad "vetted Syrian opposition" fi
ISIS
The bumbling US foreign policy establishment accidentally helps its arch-enemy
Syria
The United States will recognize Israeli control of the Golan Height. President Trump announced his intent to recognize Israeli control
As controversy rages over the alleged April 2018 Douma "chemical weapon attacks" that signaled the end of Jaish Al Islam's occupation, life in the Syrian city gradually returns to peace and stability.
US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joe Dunford issued a statement Monday denying weekend media reports that the US plans to leave around 1,000 troops in Syria, saying the reports are "factually incorrect."
The president has backpedaled yet again. Instead of seeing American troops return home from Syria "very soon," as President Trump promised, his neocon advisors have made sure that it's not going to happen.