The U.S. has never hesitated to use those it calls terrorists as a means for its own ends. From The Cradle’s Iraq Correspondent at thecradle.co:
Is it a coincidence that the world’s foremost terror organization is being revived just as the US struggles under a multi-front assault on its hegemony in West Asia? More curiously, both ISIS and Washington’s targets are exactly the same.
Reviving ISIS: A US weapon against the Resistance Axis, by The Cradle’s Iraq Correspondent
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Editor’s note: This story contains graphic descriptions of violence.
Confidential documents obtained by NPR provide new details about one of the most celebrated U.S. military operations in recent history — and reveal flaws in the Pentagon’s claim that deadly airstrikes did not hit civilians.
Pentagon files reveal flaws in U.S. claims about Syrian casualties in Baghdadi raid
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Two people were killed and 12 injured Sunday by bombardment of a church as it was being inaugurated in Syria’s central province of Hama, the official SANA news agency reported.
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Sunday’s attack came two days after bombardment killed seven people including four children in the rebel-held Idlib region.
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Around half of Idlib province as well as parts of Aleppo, Hama and Latakia provinces are controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the former franchise in Syria of al-Qaeda.
Attack on Syria church gathering kills 2
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According to Muhammad al-Khidr, a Syrian writer and journalist, the U.S. operation came to save face for the U.S.-led coalition forces on Syrian soil after a resounding slap they received two weeks ago when dozens of IS militants stormed the Kurdish-controlled Sina’a prison in the northeastern province of Hasaka despite the presence of U.S. forces in the area.
He noted that the U.S. had already known the whereabouts of the IS leader when IS militants began clashes at the prison, which later revealed that he had been in contact with IS inmates who started the riot at the Sina’a prison as their comrades outside attempted to storm the facility.
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