Major EU Countries Denounce Trump Decision on Golan Heights

In a fierce reactive mode, five major European countries that sit on the UN Security Council on Tuesday denounced US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize the Golan as Israeli territory and voiced concern the move could have broad consequences.

These countries included Belgium, Britain, France, Germany and Poland. The countries reiterated that the European position had not changed and that the Golan remained Israeli-occupied Syrian territory, in line with international law enshrined in UN resolutions.

“We do not recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the territories occupied by Israel since June 1967, including the Golan Heights, and we do not consider them to be part of the territory of the state of Israel,” Belgian Ambassador Marc Pesteen de Buytswerve told reporters.

It may be recalled that Three UN Security Council resolutions call on Israel to withdraw from the Golan, which it seized from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War and annexed in 1981, in a move that was never recognised internationally.

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Seymour Hersh: USA Joint Chiefs of Staff indirectly supported Assad to help him defeat jihadists

While much is said about the ISIS and its heinous crimes against humanity and USA apparently trying to undo Assad's government in Syria, here is yet another revelation by none other than Pulitzer-winning veteran journalist Seymour Hersh who says the USA's Joint Chiefs of Staff has indirectly supported Bashar al-Assad in an effort to help him defeat jihadist groups.

According to Hersh the Joint Chiefs sent intelligence via Russia, Germany and Israel on the understanding it would be transmitted to help Assad push back Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State. 

What is more interesting is that the military even undermined a U.S. effort to arm Syrian rebels in a bid to prove it was serious about helping Assad fight their common enemies.

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Russia accuses US of cover-up over ISIS oil smuggling to Turkey

Yahoo News reports quoting Russia's defence ministry on Saturday that the United States is turning a blind eye to the trafficking of oil into Turkey from Syrian areas under Islamic State control, after Washington called the amounts involved insignificant.

"When US officials say they don't see how the terrorists' oil is smuggled to Turkey... it smells badly of a desire to cover up these acts," the report adds.

It may be added for the information that US special envoy and coordinator for international energy affairs, Amos Hochstein, on Friday said the amount of oil smuggled into Turkey from areas of Syria controlled by the Islamic State group is "of no significance from a volume perspective -- both volume of oil and volume of revenue".

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Britain bombs ISIS strongholds in Syria

After Russia and Turkey, Britain too has joined the war against ISIS as its Tornado jets bombed ISIS strongholds in Syria. The bombing came just 57 minutes after MPs vote.

RAF Tornado GR4s, which carry a range of munitions including Paveway IV guided bombs and precision guided Brimstone missiles, based at the Akrotiri base in Cyprus carried out the first sorties against the extremists.

However, despite majority decision inside the parliament, hundreds of people protested against military action, including one woman who lay down under a lorry bringing Westminster traffic to a standstill outside the Houses of Parliament. 

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Shot down Russian SU-24 pilots shot dead as they parachuted

News just coming in show that the two Russian pilots of the shot down SU-24 fighter aircraft were shot down by Syrian rebels as they parachuted from their burning warplane.

Body of one of the two Russian pilots

A video appeared to show forces shooting at the pilots with machine guns after they had ejected from the Sukhoi Su-24, which had been shot down by two Turkish F-16 jets for violating the country’s airspace. Gunfire can be heard as one of the rebels cries: ‘Don’t shoot, let’s capture them as hostages.’

Watch the video showing Syrian rebels firing at the parachuting Russian pilots:

Another footage also emerged of rebels firing the anti-tank missile at one of the two Russian helicopters sent to rescue the pilots.

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Turkey shoots down Russian SU-24 violating Turkish airspace

Turkey is reported to have shot down a Russian SU-24 aircraft allegedly violating its air space. The shooting has been done by an F-16 of the Turkish army near the Syrian border.

Sources close to president confirm nationality of flaming Su-24 fighter seen spiralling into the ground in Syria.

The Turkish army claims that the jet violated Turkish airspace and ignored warnings. The two pilots ejected from plane, which went down on the Syrian side.

Watch the video of the shot Russian aircraft falling down in a ball of fire:

However, Russia's Ministry of Defence claims the jet was in Syrian airspace, and was shot down from the ground.

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ISIL Enemy of France - not Asad, Says Hollande

In the aftermath of the Paris massacre, sanity seems to be prevailing in the world leaders and President Francois Holland has said that the Islamic State is his country's biggest enemy, not Syrian president Bashar Assad.

Hollande has been quoted as saying during the emergency meeting of the French parliament: "In Syria, we're looking for the political solution to the problem, which is not Bashar Assad. Our enemy in Syria is ISIL." 

It may be added for information that on Friday the 13th November, eight extremists armed with automatic weapons and wearing explosive belts perpetrated seven attacks at restaurants, the Bataclan concert hall and in the vicinity of the Stade de France stadium across Paris, killing some 130 people.

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Has Turkey shot down a Russian war plane that violated its airspace?

Unconfirmed reports claim that a Turkey has shot down a Russian warplane that violated its airspace.

The reports quotes eyewitnesses who saw an explosion in Huraytan, northern Syria, not far from the Turkish border, while three fighter planes were seen overhead. It may be added that in view of Russian violations of Turkish airspace, NATO had previously warned of the 'extreme danger' of such incursions.

Rumours of a jet being shot out of the sky come amid heightening tensions between Russian president Vladimir Putin and the West. The downed plane may be a MiG-29 of the Russian Air Force.

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Drowned migrant child’s photo saddens countless around the world

A recent shared image and video of a dead child on the Turkish beach has saddened countless around the world. 

The photo carries tales of miseries being faced by the migrants fleeing Syria where a brutal war is being waged. 

Aid agencies estimate that, over the past month, about 2,000 people a day have been making the short crossing to Greece’s eastern islands on rubber dinghies.

UNHCR estimates that approximately 2,500 people have died trying to cross the Mediterranean this year.

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British jihadist blows himself up to free Syrian rebels

A British  jihadist Abu Suleiman al-Britani is claimed to have blew himself up outside Aleppo jail by ramming a truck packed with explosives into prison gates.

Abu Suleiman al-Britani is believed to have died after blowing himself up in a suicide attack on Aleppo prison in Syria. Above, smoke rises from the jail following a reported air strike by government forces

UK fighters confirmed death, texting: 'Lol yes... the first British brother!' If true, Britain will be eighth Briton killed fighting in Syria during civil war.

The attacking truck was accompanied by hundreds of rebels who then stormed the jail - freeing up to 300 inmates.

The number of foreign  jihadists, specially from Britain and France in Syria is on the increase lately. Notorious 'hate-preacher' Anjem Choudary (left) claims the number of Britons fighting in Syria is 'in the thousands', while Francois Hollande (right) said about 700 Frenchmen are suspected of fighting in the country.

The silence by the British government is an indicative of the fact that the respective governments are backing the rebels and the  jihadists - something that otherwise negate their claims of growing Islamic fundamentalism. They support  jihadists when it suits their plans and condemn when it happens against them.

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Geneva II: Iran left out of first round of nations for UN Syria peace talks

While Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has began sending out invitations for the Geneva II talks on the Syrian conflict on Monday, a UN spokesman says that Iran is not among them.

However, the invitations to the talks are subject to approval by the “initiating states,” Russia and the United States.

The Independent has reported that the United States and Russia have not yet agreed on Iran's role in the talks. But the UN spokesman  says the United Nations hopes that can be resolved at a 13 January meeting between US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

The US has objected to Iran's participation because it hasn't publicly endorsed the principles from an earlier peace conference that called for a transitional government in Syria, and is backing militias, including the Iranian-allied Lebanese Hezbollah group that has aided the troops of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

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US backs off from attacking Syria as Russian diplomacy works

Geneva news conference announcing US' backing off from attacking Syria

In a major development, US has finally decided to back off from its intended attack on Syria.

This time it was Russia that sounded strong which compelled Obama from realzing its war plans over Syria.

In the meantime, US and Russian diplomats say the two sides are edging closer to a deal on Syria's chemical arsenal, as talks in Geneva entered a third day.

Earlier, the US had threatened military action against Mr Assad's regime, accusing the military of killing more than 1,400 people in the 21 August attack.

The call off was largely due to Russia's stepping in and coming out with a more plausibe solution to the Syrian crisis rather than blood thirsty American plans to bomb Syria. The Russian plan envisages placing of Syria's chemical weapons under international control and have them destroyed.

Syria has agreed to the plan and has sent documents to the UN to sign up to the Chemical Weapons Convention, which outlaws the production and use of the weapons.

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British PM forced to put Syria airstrike on hold

While British PM readies for strike - majority in Britain are opposed to it

In the midst of Syrian unrest and US and its ally Britain getting ready for an air strike on Syria, British PM David Cameron was forced to delay plans for immediate military strikes on Syria last night after being warned he faced losing a Commons vote.

At the behest of USA, Cameron battled desperately to get a consensus for a missile attack, but was forced by Ed Miliband and Tory rebels to allow UN inspectors time to report on last week’s chemical weapons atrocity. 

Sanity seem to prevail in Britian as the proposed air strikes will not now be carried out until ‘every effort’ has been made to secure a UN agreement, and even then, direct British involvement would require a second Commons vote.

In the meantime, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged the West to ‘give peace a chance’, saying inspectors in Syria needed more time. However, government sources in Britain last night said Mr Cameron was still determined to get approval for a retaliatory strike on Syria within days.

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Syrian Governemnt regains Strategic Qusair region

It has been reported by official Syrian sources that Syrian army has regained control of strategic town of Qusair on the border with Lebanon.

“Our heroic armed forces have returned security and stability to all of the town of Qusair,” a televised statement said.

The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed to FRANCE 24 that the Syrian army had recaptured the centre of Qusair, where hundreds of wounded civilians have been trapped by weeks of fighting.

The Syrian rebels have also acknowledged that they withdrew overnight following an onslaught by the Syrian army – allied with Hezbollah fighters from Lebanon – that left hundreds of people dead.

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Syria's Assad warns Israel on air strikes

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has warned Israel that it will respond aggressively to any future air strikes.

The Syrian president's warning comes after Israel said that it would regard the Russian missiles as a serious threat to its security.

In an interview with a Lebanese TV channel, he said there was "popular pressure" to open a military front against Israel in the Golan Heights.

He also hinted that Syria may have received the first shipment of an advanced Russian air defence system.

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Israel airstrike target Iranian missiles shipment in Syrian capital

It has been just reported by an an intelligence official in the Middle East that Israel has launched an airstrike in the Syrian capital on Sunday targeting a shipment of extremely accurate guided Iranian-made missiles believed to be on their way to Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group.

The attack, the second in three days, signaled a sharp escalation of Israel's involvement in Syria's bloody civil war.

The confirmation came hours after Syria's state media reported that Israeli missiles struck a research center near the Syrian capital, setting off explosions and causing casualties.

The official told the Associated Press that, as with Friday's strike, the target was Fatah 110 missiles, which have very precise guidance systems with better aim than anything Hezbollah has in its arsenal.

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Breaking News: Israeli war planes bomb 'suspected' chemical weapons site in Syria

In the on going unrest and guerrilla war in Syria, Israel also jumps in with its war planes bombing 'suspected' chemical weapons site in Syria.

The strike occurred overnight Thursday into Friday, the officials told The Associated Press. It did not appear that a chemical weapons site was targeted, they said, and one official said the strike appeared to have hit a warehouse.

The attack with its uncertainty about the target is the repetition of the American poundings in Iraq before the Iraqi invasion on suspected Atomic site which later turned out to be a biscuit factory.

However, Israeli Embassy spokesman Aaron Sagui would not comment Friday night specifically on the report of an Israeli strike into Syria.

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Approximately 500 Europeans Reported Fighting with Syria Rebels

The European Union's counter-terrorism co-ordinator has warned that hundreds of Europeans are now fighting with rebel forces in Syria against Bashar al-Assad's regime.

Gilles de Kerchove estimated the number in Syria at about 500 - including fighters from Ireland the United Kingdom and France.

Intelligence agencies are concerned some could join groups linked to Al-Qaeda and later return to Europe to launch terrorist attacks.

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Powerful blast strikes central Damascus

A powerful blast is reported to have struck central Damascus on Thursday, shattering windows and sending a cloud of smoke above the capital as sirens raced to the scene.

There was no immediate word on casualties from the morning explosion.

The blast occurred near the headquarters of the ruling Baath party and the Russian embassy, the Associated Press reported.

It was not immediately clear what caused the blast in the tightly guarded capital, which has been hit by periodic car bombs and other strikes. Some early reports indicated that a car bomb exploded at a government checkpoint but that several blasts may have have occurred. Security checkpoints now are ubiquitous in the Syrian capital. 

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Syria reacts to Israel air strike

Syria threatened Thursday to retaliate for an Israeli air strike, and its ally Iran said the Jewish state would regret the attack.

Syria sent a letter to the U.N. secretary-general stressing the country's "right to defend itself, its territory and sovereignty" and holding Israel and its supporters accountable.

It may be added that U.S. officials have confirmed that Israel launched a rare air strike inside Syria on Wednesday targeting a convoy carrying antiaircraft weapons bound for Hezbollah, the powerful Lebanese militant group allied with Syria and Iran.

A U.S. official said the air strike targeted trucks containing sophisticated Russian-made SA-17 antiaircraft missiles. The trucks were next to the military research facility identified by the Syrians, and the strike hit both the trucks and the facility, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about the operation.

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