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Here's what Russians are saying about Moscow's airstrikes in Syria
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s surprise decision to launch airstrikes in Syria on Wednesday left little doubt that his country has plans for its embattled Middle Eastern ally.It’s still a mystery...
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Syrian rebel commander: Russian airstrikes will cause 2 things
A prominent Syrian rebel commander said on Thursday that Russian air strikes in support of President Bashar Assad would make the four-year-long war go on even longer and urged Arab states to provide...
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Why Russia is bombing Syria
Global news media are buzzing with reports about Russia's first official airstrikes in Syria and the U.S. response to them. To understand the impact of these actions, however, we need to explore...
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Erdogan is destabilizing Turkey in his quest for more power
Russian airstrikes are not the only complicating factor as the Obama administration continues to search for a Syria strategy.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appeared ready to join with the...
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EXCLUSIVE: Assad allies, including Iranians, are preparing a ground attack in...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hundreds of Iranian troops have arrived in Syria in the last 10 days and will soon join government forces and their Lebanese Hezbollah allies in a major ground offensive backed by...
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Russia: We are going after ISIS and a 'list' of Syrian rebel groups
Russian jets carried out a second day of strikes in Syria Thursday, and some activists claimed that the targets included rebels backed by the United States.Russian Defense Ministry Igor Konashenkov...
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'Musa the Sniper': Meet the man who got into the heads of ISIS fighters
One man got inside the heads of ISIS fighters, literally and figuratively, throughout the months-long siege of Kobani. He was called Heval Hardem, aka: “Musa the Sniper.”“No matter how brutal war is,...
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Syrian rebel commander: Russian air strikes hit CIA-trained rebels
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Two Russian air strikes in Syria on Thursday hit a training camp operated by rebel group that received military training from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Qatar and...
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5 charts which show why Russia can't afford its Syrian bombing campaign
Russia has begun a bombing campaign in Syria. But whatever their true intentions are, all has not been right with the Russian economy since Western sanctions began to bite.So here’s five things to...
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Putin's spokesman explained the Syria bombing campaign in a sentence
Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman has given an explanation for how the government is deciding where it conducts airstrikes in Syria.Dmitry Peskov said Russia was targeting ISIS and "other...
View ArticleDonald Trump on Syrian refugees: 'If I win they're going back'
During a speech in New Hampshire, Donald Trump said that if he becomes president, Syrian refugees that enter the country would immediately go back.He further said that the possible Syrian migration...
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Russia just released its first gun camera footage from airstrikes in Syria
Russia's defence ministry said Russian jets launched a second day of air strikes in Syria on Thursday (October 1).Russia said it had launched eight air strikes with Sukhoi warplanes overnight, hitting...
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REALITY CHECK: Russian bombing in Syria is actually helping ISIS
Russia began carrying out unilateral airstrikes in Syria on Wednesday against targets it said were Islamic State-affiliated rebels.In reality, the rebels Russia targeted were among various movements...
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Jeb Bush had a heartbreaking exchange with a Syrian-American whose family...
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) engaged in an emotional exchange Wednesday night with a Syrian-American woman who said her family had recently fled the four-plus-year-old civil war in the country.The...
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The map of Russian airstrikes in Syria say a lot about Putin's intentions
An area of over six square kilometers ignited all of a sudden. The whole region was ablaze in seconds.Kafranbel-based Raed Fares said he has seen the town being bombed by the Syrian regime before.“But...
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Russia's moves in Syria have the Obama administration confused
Now, 1,506 days since the Obama administration first declared that Syrian President Bashar Assad's "days are numbered," he's still there, and a convergence of Western trepidation and Russian resolve...
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Jabhat al-Nusra jihadists show off weapons allegedly seized from-US trained...
Militants from al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadist group Jabhat al Nusra have posted pictures online showing off weapons allegedly surrendered to them by moderate Syrian rebels from the US-trained Division...
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Trump wants to send back all Syrian refugees because he thinks they could be...
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said Wednesday that if he's elected president he would send back Syrian refugees taken in by the U.S. because they may be Islamic State militants in...
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Obama is making a habit of getting 'caught off guard'
“Caught off guard.”Those three words have come to define the Obama presidency.We were “caught off guard” by the Taliban takeover of Kunduz, says The New York Times.We were “caught off guard” by...
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Oil prices are rising as fighting in Syria intensifies
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Crude prices rose on Friday as fighting in Syria intensified, but remained on course to end the week largely unchanged as a hurricane was seen as less likely to affect U.S. oil...
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