Tag: Ahrar al-Sham

America’s Neo-Nazi bedfellows in Ukraine are latest in long line of odious allies Washington has used against Russia

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

By Tony Cox, a US journalist who has written and edited for Bloomberg and several major daily newspapers.

From pogrom-mongers to Hitlerites to radical Islamists, the US has collaborated with repugnant partners for more than a century

America’s Neo-Nazi bedfellows in Ukraine are latest in long line of odious allies Washington has used against Russia (Alternative source)

Did the Syrian Revolution Have Popular Support?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

by William Van Wagenen | Aug 3, 2022

In the mainstream view, the armed groups fighting the Syrian government since 2011, collectively known as the Free Syrian Army (FSA), were part of a Syrian revolution that represented the Syrian people. At the same time, the Syrian government, or Assad regime, allegedly represented only a small number of loyalists, in particular from President Assad’s minority Alawite community. Such a view undergirded demands by Western and Gulf-funded think tank scholars, who claimed that the Syrian people wished for FSA groups to be armed, and even for Western military intervention on behalf of the FSA, whose fighters they sympathetically described as rebels.

Did the Syrian Revolution Have Popular Support?

Attack on Syria church gathering kills 2

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

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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[2017] The Intercept Withheld NSA Doc That May Have Altered Course Of Syrian War

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

If this document had been published sooner, it could have dramatically changed the course of the war by exposing the true face of the “moderate rebels” — and potentially saved tens of thousands of lives. That didn’t happen, and no reason has been given by the Intercept for its delay.

The Intercept Withheld NSA Doc That May Have Altered Course Of Syrian War by Whitney Webb

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