2021-11-15: News Headlines

WSWS (2021-11-15). Whistleblowers expose US mass murder of women, children in Syria. wsws.org For nearly three years, the US government has covered up calls by military officials for war crimes investigations of a US bombing that killed at least 80 people in 2019.

Staff (2021-11-14). US military covered up its 'war crime' in Syria — NYT. rt.com The US military tried to cover up a deadly attack on Syrian civilians that killed as many as 80 people, claiming that women and children could have been terrorist fighters, according to a New York Times investigation. | On March 18, 2019, a US F-15E fighter jet dropped a bomb on "a large crowd of women and children huddled against a river bank" near the town of Baghuz and then proceeded to drop several more, killing survivors, according to a New York Times The attack…

Nadda Osman (2021-11-14). Earthquakes, floods, wildfires and a scorpion plague: The Middle East's weekend of climate chaos. middleeasteye.net Earthquakes, floods, wildfires and a scorpion plague: The Middle East's weekend of climate chaos | Region hit by extreme conditions, as scorpions wash up in people's homes and cars are covered in ash
| Sun, 11/14/2021 – 15: 03 | Wildfires rage across Lebanon's Beit Meri, a village close to the country's capital, on 15 November 2021 (Screengrab/Twitter) | People in several Middle Eastern countries wer…

Anonymous669 (2021-11-14). Syrian Army Strikes HTS Police Station In Eastern Idlib With Laser-Guided Artillery Rounds (Video). southfront.org Illustrative image. | Late on November 14, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) shelled a police station of al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in the town of Taftanaz in the eastern part of the Greater Idlib region. | The station was reportedly targeted with a number of Russian-made 2K25 Krasnopol laser-guided 155 mm artillery rounds. | According to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, three of the station's personnel were wounded in the artillery strike. | #ÿ™ŸÅÿ™&Y…

Anonymous669 (2021-11-14). Russian State-Of-The-Art Electronic Warfare System Spotted In Syria's Tartus Base (Video). southfront.org The Krasukha-4 in Tartus Naval Base as seen in Sputnik's video. | The Russian military has deployed its state-of-the-art Krasukha-4 electronic warfare (EW) system in Tartus Naval Base on the Syrian coast. | The system appeared in a video from the base that was released by Sputnik on November 12. The video documents defensive drills which were recently held by Russian forces and the Syrian Arab Army at the base. | The Krasukha-4, which is based on a BAZ-6910-022 four-axle-chassis, was developed by the KRET corporation to…

Anonymous669 (2021-11-14). 13 Tribal Pro-Government Fighters Ambushed, Killed By ISIS Terrorists In Syria's Deir Ezzor. southfront.org Illustrative image. | On November 13, at least 13 fighters of a tribal pro-government formation known as "Usud al-Sharqiyah" [the Lions of the East] were killed in an ambush set by ISIS terrorists near the town of al-Masrab in the northwestern Deir Ezzor countryside, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). | The victims were reportedly conducting a combing operation around a salt mine near al-Masrab when they came under attack. | While some sources said that the ambush involved direct shooting by ISIS te…

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