The Obama administration has covertly deployed hundreds of US troops to Somalia to wage a secret war in the impoverished East African country alongside private contractors and soldiers from African allied states, a New York Times article revealed Sunday. Under the pretext of protecting US and African troops from terrorists in the al-Shabaab Islamist militia,…
Yesterday, Russia’s flagship, and only aircraft carrier — the Admiral Kuznetsov — left the port of Severomorsk en route to the eastern Mediterranean – off the Syrian coast, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense. The carrier will bolster the Russian anti-terror campaign in Syria and serve as a hedge against U.S. aggression, and is…
Last Thursday, after two consecutive missile attacks on the US Navy ship USS Mason, which allegedly were launched by Houthi rebel forces in Yemen, the US entered its latest military engagement in the middle east, when the USS Nitze launched several Tomahawk cruise missiles aimed at radar installations located by the Bab el-Mandab straight, and…
A recommendable New York Times piece looks at the mostly hidden way the U.S. is now waging wars. The example is Somalia, where the U.S. has been at war with the people of that country for over 25 years. But, as the authors note, the same modus operandi applies elsewhere. The Obama administration has intensified…
These images capture the diversity of the human race, reminding us that we live on a planet where sad and happy coexist. Some of these images are beautiful while others are touching. The images below are just a few of the many amazing images that we see on a daily basis. “I’m fed up to…
A series of deadly mortar attacks rocked the government-controlled areas of Aleppo on Sunday, killing at least three people and injuring 23 others. RT spoke with survivors as rescuers dug through rubble to recover the body of a 13-year-old girl. https://cdn.rt.com/files/2016.10/580431d0c46188be518b4693.mp4 It took a total of six hours to recover the body of the young…
