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Saudi Arabia Accepts U.S. Request To Provide Bases For Anti-ISIS Operations

Matt Vespa Today, Saudi Arabia has agreed to provide bases to train anti-ISIS forces at the request of the United States. This comes prior to Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to Saudi Arabia tomorrow as he plans to meet with Turkish, Iraqi, Egyptian, Jordanian, and Lebanese officials on how to combat the growing threat emanating from […] Read More →

U.N. says chemical arms report on Syria attack ‘indisputable’

The United Nations on Wednesday defended a report by U.N. chemical weapons experts that Russia has criticized as “one-sided,” saying its conclusion that rockets loaded with sarin gas were used in an August 21 attack should not be questioned. “The findings in that report are indisputable,” U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters. “They speak for […] Read More →

German intelligence: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ordered a poison gas attack

A Hezbollah official has said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ordered a poison gas attack last month and that it considered the move a mistake which showed he was losing his grip, according to German intelligence. Participants at a confidential meeting of German lawmakers on Monday said the head of the BND foreign intelligence agency told […] Read More →

Arab states urge action against Syrian government

Arab states on Sunday urged the international community to take action against the Syrian government over a chemical gas attack that killed hundreds of civilians. The final resolution passed by an Arab League meeting in Cairo urged the United Nations and international community to “take the deterrent and necessary measures against the culprits of this […] Read More →

Assad’s Syrian Army Hacks Washington Post Website

Taylor Colwell Things got a little strange in the world of major newspaper websites this week, starting with the New York Times‘s website shutdown after their expose on the Clinton Foundation. Things got even weirder when visitors to the Washington Post‘s website were redirected to a sight belonging to Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian army. […] Read More →

Iran to send 4,000 troops to aid President Assad forces in Syria

US urges UK and France to join in supplying arms to Syrian rebels as MPs fear that UK will be drawn into growing conflict Washington’s decision to arm Syria’s Sunni Muslim rebels has plunged America into the great Sunni-Shia conflict of the Islamic Middle East, entering a struggle that now dwarfs the Arab revolutions which […] Read More →

Man Behind Syrian �Chemical Weapons� Claim Is Fiction Writer Who Ran Benghazi Cover-Up

White House makes miraculous discovery to distract from domestic scandals Ben Rhodes, the White House national security advisor behind the claim that President Bashar Al-Assad used chemical weapons in Syria, is a fiction writer with zero educational background in government, diplomacy or national security who also played a key role in covering up the truth […] Read More →

How Obama crossed his own line on Syria after months of debate

President Obama’s decision to arm Syrian rebels for the first time follows an intense, nearly two-year debate within the White House in which the president and his closest advisers consistently expressed skepticism about U.S. intervention in a Middle East civil war, current and former officials said. The two deciding factors in the decision to change […] Read More →