Syria
Tuesday 30 May 2023
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The Biden administration has terminated a U.S. oil contractor’s license to operate in Syria and says U.S. troops are there only to fight the Islamic State.
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A Wagner defector tells a story of deception and violence. The mercenary group is notorious for executing recruits.
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“…the report lacks scientific and objective evidence, and no sane person or specialist can reach such misleading conclusions.”
Despite years of denials and distortions from Syria and its ally, Russia, the chemical weapons watchdog offers overwhelming evidence Syrian government forces carried out the attack. -
“IRGC is the biggest and most successful anti-terrorist entity.”
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has a record of sponsoring terrorism abroad and brutal repression at home. -
“Despite the ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention, the United States is the only country in the world that still has not completed getting rid of them.”
Moscow knows the U.S. is nearly finished destroying its chemical weapons. It’s Russia and ally Syria who’ve kept stocks and used them. -
“The contested publications contain false information that the plaintiff [Yevgeny Prigozhin] is affiliated with the Wagner Group, finances it, and that the Wagner Group belongs to him.”
Prigozhin has now confirmed control of the private military outfit known as Wagner. -
“[America’s] frequent military interventions in Syria have caused great civilian casualties and inestimable economic loss, and displaced more than 12 million people.”
Russian and Syrian government forces’ brutality against civilians has been the overwhelming driver of colossal humanitarian harm in Syria. -
“U.S. troops should leave this area. This is the first point. And they should stop looting the Syrian state, the Syrian people, taking their oil illegally.”
In fact, U.S. forces are helping make sure that Islamic State terrorists don’t regain control of oil fields in northern Syria. -
"The picture, which our Western counterparts are trying to present, that Russia is allegedly against the mechanism of cross-border aid and is against the extension of this mechanism are [sic] absolutely false.”
Russia wants to use international humanitarian aid to strengthen President Basar al-Assad’s control over Syrian territories. -
“We are going through one of the toughest economic, financial, political and social crises in the world … which means Lebanon cannot handle this burden [refugees] anymore 11 years after the Syrian crisis.”
Refugees need help, to be sure, but the biggest problem for Lebanon’s economy has been systemic corruption. -
“The so-called evidence of mass death of local civilians emerged only after agents of the Ukrainian security service SBU entered the city. Isn’t this reminiscent of the White Helmets’ faked chemical attacks in Syria’s Douma …?”
Independent investigators and media reports have proved that the Douma chemical attack did take place. -
“Private sources confirmed to Sputnik that 87 militants had left for Ukraine … all of the 87 used to be affiliated with Daesh [Arabic for Islamic State] before they merged into new groups.”
State-owned Sputnik cited no public evidence. Meantime, Russia is reportedly sending mercenary troops to Ukraine.