Timber Sycamore: Untold Story of CIA Covert Operation in Syria

Timber Sycamore: Untold Story of CIA Covert Operation in Syria

The US involvement in Syria comes in “two main flavors”: one is an overt military operation which aims to defeat Daesh (ISIL/ISIS), while the other is a CIA-led clandestine program to support the Syrian rebels which are seeking to topple Bashar al-Assad. Although US efforts to supply rebels in Syria have repeatedly resulted in American weapons finding their…

France to deploy aircraft carrier against ISIS, will supply Iraqi forces with heavy weapons

France to deploy aircraft carrier against ISIS, will supply Iraqi forces with heavy weapons

France’s Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier will assist airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, French President Francois Hollande has said. Hollande was speaking after a Defense Council meeting in the Elysee Palace in the French capital. The carrier will be deployed at the end of September this year, according to the French…

Civilian Death Toll From Coalition Airstrikes in Syria Could Be Single Largest in U.S. Led War on ISIS

Scores of civilians trapped in Islamic State-controlled territory in northern Syria were reportedly killed Tuesday by airstrikes from Western coalition aircraft. The reported death toll, potentially the highest ever to result from a coalition bombing in the international campaign against ISIS, continued to climb as The Intercept reached out to monitoring groups tracking operations in…

$6B Spent Fighting ISIS, 50,000 Bombs Dropped In Iraq & Syria, And Still No End In Sight

In this picture taken on Saturday, April 18, 2015, a car passes in an area that was destroyed during the U.S. bombing campaign in Kobani, north Syria. (AP Photo/Mehmet Shakir) ‘The U.S. taxpayers will pay once to blow the place up and then pay again to build it back up,’ wrote one analyst of the…

Syrian Nightmare: United States-led Coalition Supports Child Beheaders And Shells Civilians

By Alice Donovan for Veterans Today The U.S.-led coalition keeps on horrifying the international community with its actions in Syria. A video circulating on social media on Tuesday depicts rebel fighters beheading a boy identified as “Abdullah Issa” after capturing him north of Syria’s second city Aleppo. The men, part of a militia which has…

The IS of Iraq and the Levant: A genocidal campaign- Part 3: The Wahhabi mission spreads globally
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The IS of Iraq and the Levant: A genocidal campaign- Part 3: The Wahhabi mission spreads globally

In the previous articles, we explored the origins of the sectarian ideology in the early days of Islam, the Khawarij. We also examined surge of the Wahhabi mission, a similar Takfiri ideology that originated in the 18th century, one that continues to live until this day through the support of different imperial powers, the British…