Syria is demanding the UN take action after it says French war planes killed more than 120 civilians during airstrikes on Tuesday near the Turkish-Syrian border. The deaths came just a day after US air assaults killed a further 20 people in Manbij. The Syrian Foreign Ministry sent letters to the UN secretary general and…
In the previous article, we examined the history of the concept of Takfir, Muslims who engage in excommunication of other Muslims. We also examined the history of the first great split within Islam. In this part we will examine the second surge of Takfir, one that originated in the Arabian Peninsula during the 18th century….
Remember “We’re fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here”? That was the justification for the worldwide war on terrorism the Bush administration trumpeted in the early days of the post-9/11 era. Keeping in mind that the American people don’t really care about what goes on thousands of miles away,…
Tupolev Tu-22M3 strategic bomber. Six Tupolev Tu-22M3 strategic bombers have delivered massive airstrikes against a major Islamic State camp and ammunition depots in Syria, Russia’s Defense Ministry says. The aircraft flew from Russia and returned home after the operation. The bombers, based at one of Russian’s southern air bases, took off on Tuesday morning, passed…
From the border with Turkey, there is a curse which has yet to leave Aleppo since the beginning of the proxy war with Syria. It has long been Erdogan’s dream to annex Aleppo for Turkey. Exactly like his predecessor of the Ottoman occupation stole a part of Syrian land known as Iskenderun. Today, July 9,…
CIA’s Jordan partnership with Saudi Arabia has wiped out Obama’s “New Syrian Army” as well. The Russian Defense Ministry announced in a statement that the ISIL terrorist group has shot down a Russian-made military helicopter near the ancient city of Palmyra (Tadmur) by an American TOW anti-tank missile. “The helicopter was attacking ISIL’s defense lines…
