Syria

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered nuclear forces in Russia, including 10 regiments of Strategic Missile Forces (SMF), to be on their “highest alert” after revelations emerged that the Obama administration are planning on unleashing a false flag chemical weapons strike in Syria, in order to justify an invasion.  The MoD say that they have received intelligence that shows troops belonging to the US Army’s Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USAMRICD) and Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) arrived in Syria’s northern province of Hasakah, armed with 524 tons of ch

Military Times reports:

U.S. special operations troops have reportedly taken over an airfield in northeastern Syria, potentially clearing the way to flow more American military support to friendly militias fighting the Islamic State group.

 

A small team of U.S. troops is setting up a base camp at Rmeilan Air Base in the Syrian Kurdish region near Syria’s Iraqi and Turkish borders, according to local reports.

 

Submitted by Robert Parry via ConsortiumNews.com,

A curious reality about Official Washington is that to have “credibility” you must accept the dominant “group thinks” whether they have any truth to them or not, a rule that applies to both the mainstream news media and the political world, even to people who deviate from the pack on other topics.

The U.S. government have been secretly colluding with Saudi Arabia who have funded the CIA’s “black op” programs in Syria.  A New York Times investigation has found that President Obama authorised the CIA to arm Syrian rebels in 2013 with money and weapons from the brutal Saudi Arabian regime. Thefreethoughtsproject.com reports: Code-named Timber Sycamore, the clandestine operation initially authorized the CIA to provide nonlethal assistance and training to the rebels but not weapons.

As those who follow Syria’s seemingly intractable civil war are no doubt aware, Washington is a big part of why the conflict is now going into its sixth year.

What began as a plan to destabilize the Alawite government by “playing on Sunni fears of Iranian influence” (to quote a leaked diplomatic cable from then-Deputy Chief of Mission in Syria William Roebuck) gradually metamorphosed into a overt and at times absurd effort to arm and train a series of rebel groups in an attempt to bring about regime change in Damascus.