Monthly Archives: August 2021

2021-08-31: News Headlines

Anonymous007 (2021-08-31). Military Situation In Syria On August 31, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On August 31, Russian warplanes attacked Sham Legion military camp in the Iskan village | On August 31, clashes and shelling between SAA and former rebels continued in southern Daraa | On August 31, clashes and shelling between SDF and Turkish-backed forces were reported near Ain Issa | On August 30, two SDF member were killed by unknown gunmen in Jadida Akidat | On August 30, artillery of Turkish-backed forces shelled SDF positions near Tal Tamar | MORE ON THE TOPIC…

Editor2 (2021-08-31). 'Let Them Stop us if They Dare' — Why Hezbollah is Bringing Iranian Fuel to Lebanon. orinocotribune.com By Radwan Mortada — Aug 24, 2021 | As Lebanon's economic crisis deepens amidst an effective US embargo, Hezbollah begins to supply the Lebanese population. | The chokehold on Lebanon has grown even tighter, thanks to the embargo imposed against it by the United States and its Arab allies in the Persian Gulf. This comes at the lowest point of Lebanon's two-year-old economic crisis, a catastrophe the World Bank calls the worst the world has seen since 1850. The country's sudden-but-deliberate fuel shortage, vital to essential daily activity and life-saving medical services, has accelerated this alarm. Today, b…

Anonymous103 (2021-08-31). Failed State Tactical Analysis. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by Steve Brown. | Empire has historically failed to appreciate the resolve of indigenous people who fight to enforce their right to self-determination. Now, empire has devised a subversive means to suppress that right, by the west's established policy of creating failed states to divide and exploit. The prototype US failed state plan began with the destruction of Nahr al Bared camp, Lebanon, in 2007. The policy was developed by Elliott Abrams and the Office of Special Plans after the US's 2…

Steven Sahiounie (2021-08-30). Macron Orchestrates Baghdad Summit Excluding Syria. globalresearch.ca

Sen. Richard Black (2021-08-30). "Who Is Our Friend, Syria . . . or al-Qaeda?", Retired Virginia State Senator Richard Black Asks. globalresearch.ca

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2021-08-30: News Headlines

Steven Sahiounie (2021-08-30). Macron Orchestrates Baghdad Summit Excluding Syria. globalresearch.ca

Sen. Richard Black (2021-08-30). "Who Is Our Friend, Syria . . . or al-Qaeda?", Retired Virginia State Senator Richard Black Asks. globalresearch.ca

Juan Cole (2021-08-29). Biden got 117,000 Afghans Out: Contrast that Time Trump Abruptly Withdrew Troops from Syria and refused to Help Kurdish Allies. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Richard N. Ojeda, an Army vet and former West Virginia state representative tweeted out an observation that I would like to reinforce: I don't remember Donald Trump flying one Kurd to safety. He let Turkey slaughter them. They were our allies that served side by side with our troops. Where …

_____ (2021-08-29). Contrasting US Withdrawal From Afghanistan With Trump's Abrupt Departure From Syria. commondreams.org Raj Patel's new film follows one Malawian activist's efforts to bring the immediacy of climate change to the U.S.

Anonymous669 (2021-08-29). Russian Warplanes Attack Militant Positions In Greater Idlib For Tenth Day In Row (Photos). southfront.org FILE PHOTO: Sukhoi Su-24 attack aircraft before departing for its permanent base in Russia from Khmeimim Air Base in Syria. © Vadim Grishankin / Sputnik | For the tenth day in a row, warplanes of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) carried out a series of airstrikes on the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib. | The airstrikes, which took place in the morning of August 29, targeted the outskirts of the towns of al-Bara and Kansafra in the al-Zawiya Mount in the southern countryside of Idlib. Al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay'

Anonymous669 (2021-08-29). Syrian Army Intensifies Strikes On Wanted Gunmen In Daraa Al-Balad (Videos). southfront.org Illustrative image, source: Sputnik. | On August 29, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) intensified its strikes on the remaining gunmen in Daraa al-Balad, the southern part of Daraa city. | The army's elite 4th Division targeted Daraa al-Balad with battle tanks, heavy machine guns and dozens of improvised rocket-assisted munitions in what appears to be an attempt to subdue the gunmen and force them to leave the area. Heavy clashes were also reported on the main entrance of the area. | In the morning, a Syrian poli…

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