March 13, 2017 – Astute News

March 13, 2017

Pakistan Sends Combat Troops to Saudi Southern Border

Brigade deploys to shore up border against Houthi reprisal attacks from Yemen, but sources tell MEE it will ‘not be used beyond Saudi borders’ The Pakistan army is sending a brigade of combat troops to shore up Saudi Arabia’s vulnerable southern border from reprisal attacks mounted by the Houthis in Yemen, according to senior security sources. The brigade will be...

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March 13, 2017

Syria – Preparing for the Big Move on Idlib

During the last week significant moves in Syria have taken place east of Aleppo. But the situation there will likely soon calm down. The next intense phase of the war may well be a Syrian army attack on al-Qaeda’s position in Idlib governate in the north-west of the country. One objective of the Syrian Arab Army move east of Aleppo...

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March 13, 2017

A CIA Cyber False Flag

New revelations from Wikileaks’ ‘Vault 7’ leak shed a disturbing light on the safeguarding of privacy. Something already known and largely suspected has now become documented by Wikileaks. It seems evident that the CIA is now a state within a state, an entity out of control that has even arrived at the point of creating its own hacking network in order to...

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March 13, 2017

Situation Escalates in Southern Lebanon

The situation escalates in southern Lebanon as Hezbollah and Israel step up the already harsh rhetorics against each other. On February 16, pro-Hezbollah media released a video showing a list of Israeli targets which could be destroyed in case of a new war. The list included 9 targets: The Negev Nuclear Research Center (a nuclear instalation located in the Negev desert, about south-east...

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March 13, 2017

Why Trump Should Stay Out of Yemen

The Trump administration is making its first radical policy change in the Middle East by escalating American involvement in the civil war in Yemen. Wrecked by years of conflict, the unfortunate country will supposedly be the place where the US will start to confront and roll back Iranian influence in the region as a whole. To this end, the US...

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March 13, 2017

All Out War is “On the Table”: U.S. Considers First-Strike Attack against North Korea

The publication called Business Insider is carrying a story promoting a US first-strike attack on North Korea. The article includes a quote from the Wall Street Journal that reads, “An internal White House review of strategy on North Korea includes the possibility of military force or regime change to blunt the country’s nuclear-weapons threat, people familiar with the process said, a prospect that has...

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March 13, 2017

Korean Crisis Ahead? A Growing Tinderbox in the South

As the first military hardware associated with the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, commonly called THAAD, arrives in the southern region of the Korean Peninsula, the tensions around and within the region seem to be escalating. A number of ongoing crises in South Korea are starting to take their toll, and could have regional and global implications. The most prominent...

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March 13, 2017

High Comedy and the Fall of Raqqah

Writing about upcoming battles, making predictions is a dangerous thing. Saddam and his “mother of all battles” is a case in point. However, the complex situation in Northern Syria in the 2nd week of March, 2017 has all the earmarks of a wartime comedy farce. The battle for Raqqah against whoever is there claiming to be “ISIS” is going to...

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Daily Archive: March 13, 2017

Pakistan Sends Combat Troops to Saudi Southern Border

Syria – Preparing for the Big Move on Idlib

A CIA Cyber False Flag

Situation Escalates in Southern Lebanon

Why Trump Should Stay Out of Yemen

All Out War is “On the Table”: U.S. Considers First-Strike Attack against North Korea

Korean Crisis Ahead? A Growing Tinderbox in the South

High Comedy and the Fall of Raqqah