Tag: Syria

NOVANEWS By Peter Hitchins Peter Hitchens's Blog Note to readers: please click the share buttons above   You may recall the fuss Theresa May made about getting rid of the Islamist preacher Abu Qatada.  In the end it took 11 years of legal wrangling to get this fanatic, with his very nasty opinions, out of the country.  Without her personal intervention at the end, he would probably still be here. Why, then, is the British Government seriously considering welcoming into this country an unknown number of men who have been – I put this at its mildest – closely associated for several years with an armed faction linked to Al Qaeda, or with others perhaps even worse? Was all the fuss about Abu Qatada just a public relations front? Or does the right hand just not know what the left hand ...

NOVANEWS By:  Jim W. Dean Four Free Syrian army commanders run away to Israel …from Southfront [ Editor’s Note: This story is not something all of us did not already know. The only story left to tell is why corporate media rolls over on not reporting the countries that have backed the terror proxy wars in Syria, Iraq and Yemen, and why the UN has not moved to amend the charter to throw out all those involved in terrorism, or maybe just “observer status”. It is the story of our time and instead of the perfect storm that is should generate, what we have is a perfect stand down. Nobody running for president would have taken this on, including Bernie. He would have carried the Liberal banner, but supported Israel terrorism in the region by not saying a word about it. Mass media did n...

NOVANEWS 90% OF DER’AH LIBERATED; HUNDREDS OF FOREIGN SPEC OPS OFFICERS SMUGGLED TO JORDAN; ZIONIST ATTACK ON MISYAF BASE FLOPS Ziad Fadel The Syrian flag is hoisted over the town of Naseeb as the Syrian government opens up the Naseeb Crossing for business. The MSM is eating crow.  The New York Times, now having promoted a war of terrorism on the Syrian people, must taste the humble pie all losers eventually sit down to devour.  Grudgingly, the WP and the WSJ have predicted the downfall of the terrorist campaign which they enthusiastically championed with orotund analyses, reports and editorials for the last seven years only to find themselves in a swamp of lies, half-truths and propaganda.  Without any doubt, this is the lowest point to which the Western Media has reached. The Der’ah ...

NOVANEWS By: South Front Syrian government forces have cleared over 5,200km2 of the Deir Ezzor desert of ISIS cells, the Syrian General Command said on June 27. The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allies launched a military operation in the area on June 20. The rapid progress in the desert can be explained by the lack of resistance from the ISIS cells, which had mostly withdrawn towards the Homs desert. The SAA and the Tiger Forces liberated the villages of Mulayha al-Sharqiyah, Mulayha al-Gharbiyah, Nahitah and Samma al-Hneidat in the eastern part of Daraa province from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra) and its allies and entered the village of al-Hirak. According to reports, 450 members of the Free Syrian Army also surrendered to the SAA amid the government adv...

NOVANEWS By Stephen Gowans what's left   The United States, the European Union, the Arab League, Turkey, Canada and Australia have collectively taken measures since 2011, and the United States since 1979, to destroy Syria’s economy. The measures are illegal under international law, which prohibits states from using economic pressure, outside the framework of the UN Security Council, to coerce other states. With Syrians fleeing sanctions-induced economic collapse, joblessness, crumbling infrastructure and a public health care system in tatters, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Syria has spoken out. But is anyone listening? Washington’s long war on Syria comprises three major elements: a proxy war waged by Islamist insurgents; an occupation of almost one-third of Syria by US and alli...

NOVANEWS By South Front   Syrian government forces have launched a military operation against ISIS cells in eastern al-Suwayda and have already established control of the village of Ashrfya and the area of Beir Aura. Battle tanks, artillery units and warplanes actively supported the advance. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), 15 soldiers and officers of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and 9 ISIS members were killed in the clashes. However, this number of casualties allegedly includes results of the SAA-ISIS clashes near the T2 pumping station near the border with Iraq. A source in the 9th Division of the SAA told SouthFront that ISIS members in eastern al-Suwayda are poorly armed. So, no serious ISIS resistance is expected there. The US-backed Syrian Democ...

NOVANEWS By: South Front   On June 3, Syrian government forces repelled an ISIS attack on their positions east of the town of Hasrat in southeastern Deir Ezzor. According to reports, ISIS used small boats to cross the Euphrates to its western bank and then carried out the attack. Taking into account the fact that the terrorists had come from the Euphrates bank controlled by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), some pro-Damascus sources once again accused the US-led coalition of encouraging ISIS activity against pro-government forces in eastern Syria. At the same time local sources revealed that the SDF, i.e. Kurdish YPG/YPJ militias dominating the group, and the Syrian government have reached an oil sharing agreement over the Omar oil field. Video: Syrian Army Cle...

NOVANEWS By Andrew Korybko Global Research Syria recently announced that it has handed over to its Russian and Iranian Astana partners a list of experts to participate in the upcoming UN-supervised “constitutional commission”. This is an important milestone in the peace process because it proves that President Assad was sincere when he told his Russian counterpart in Sochi last month about his intention to participate in this still-unscheduled gathering as soon as possible. Damascus had hitherto been dragging its heels in this respect as part of what can only be presumed was a strategic gamble to lessen the amount of “compromises” that it would inevitably have to make, though that policy backfired after it inadvertently led to Israel perceiving it as a pro-Iranian ploy to indef...