US Praises Saudi Leadership In Syria, But Docs Reveal Collaboration In Creation Of ISIS

Saudi Arabia is joining a call from the U.S. to intensify the attack on ISIS in the wake of a mass murder at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando. Meanwhile, the Gulf kingdom continues to oppress LGBT people and promote the very same extremist ideology that leads to terrorism.  June 20, 2016   Saudi Arabia Foreign…

Pakistan and Syria: Centers of the Great Game

Chinese port of Gwadar, Baluchistan, Pakistan by  Sajjad Shaukat, June 19, 2016 Hans J. Morgenthau opines, “The true nature of the policy is concealed by ideological justifications and rationalization. Therefore, the ideology provides a mask behind which the ulterior motives are concealed…there is a close relationship between interest and ideology…the annexation of the backward states…

Russian defense minister meets Assad, inspects Khmeimim airbase in Syria

Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and Syrian President Bashar Assad @mod_russia / Twitter Russia’s Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has visited Syria where he met with President Bashar Assad and inspected the Khmeimim air base, the Russian military said on Saturday. Shoigu and Assad discussed military cooperation and fight against terrorism. Shoigu has met with the…

US Syria Memo Threatens to ‘Plunge the Whole Region Into Complete Chaos

  Ideas aired in the US State Department that Washington should carry out military strikes on Assad forces “make no sense at all,” foreign policy analyst Daniel Wagner told Radio Sputnik. On Friday the New York Times revealed a leaked internal memo, in which dozens of US diplomats expressed disagreement with US President Barack Obama’s policy in Syria. [soundcloud…