August 8, 2016 Osama Al Sharif Jordan’s pundits reacted swiftly to statements made by US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter on July 26 that the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State (IS) is planning to open a new front in southern Syria in addition to its ongoing offensive in the north of the war-torn country. Most Jordanian analysts…
Kiev has turned to the “practice of terrorism” instead of trying to peacefully resolve Ukraine’s crisis, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in commenting on an FSB report that it had foiled terrorist attacks in Crimea plotted by Ukrainian intelligence. Ukraine is “playing a dangerous game,” the Russian leader said when talking to reporters on Wednesday,…
© Abdalrhman Ismail / Reuters Published time: 10 Aug, 2016 Nearly 7,000 heavy armored terrorists have taken positions southeast of the key Syrian city of Aleppo, the Russian Defense Ministry says. The build-up comes as Moscow brokers a three-hour daily truce for the embattled city. “The most alarming situation has unfolded in the…
Tu-22M3 long-range strategic and maritime strike bomber. © Evgeny Biyatov / Sputnik Published: 8 Aug, 2016 Six long-range bombers took off from Russia and carried out successful airstrikes against Islamic State targets near the Syrian city of Palmyra, the Russian Defense Ministry has said. “On August 8, 2016, six Tu-22M3 long-range bombers, coming from Russian territory,…
Former acting director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Michael Morell during a televised interview with American talk show host Charlie Rose, openly conspired to commit a raft of war crimes in Syria, suggesting that the US should take measures to “covertly” kill Russians and Iranians through armed proxies on the ground. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ3fTFHQ0KA]…
Supporters of Slobodan Milosevic wait in line to pay their respect at the former president’s grave in Pozarevac March 10, 2007. © Marko Djurica / Reuters Published time: 2 Aug, 2016 The ICTY’s exoneration of the late Slobodan Milosevic, the former President of Yugoslavia, for war crimes committed in the Bosnia war, proves again we should…
